[pgkdan]

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,594,000 [VIEWERS] FOXNEWS GRETA 2,534,000 FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 2,275,000

I don't know how Fox keeps it's prime time audience. O'Reilly's show is unwatchable because he's such a pompous ass, Hannity and Colmes is generally a food fight and Greta is all (fill in the blank with whatever the overworked, overhyped news story of the day is) all the time!

I pleaded with my cable supplier to bring us FOX and now I can only bear to watch Brit Hume...hands down the best evening news program on TV, Cavuto and the Beltway Boys.

[crispy78]

Same here, O'Reilly is annoying, H&C seems to have lost it's focus as a political show and I never watched Greta much anyway. Once Shep goes off (my fiance has a crush on him for some reason), the TV goes to a movie or gets turned off altogether.

[toddlintown]

"I don't know how Fox keeps it's prime time audience. O'Reilly's show is unwatchable because he's such a pompous ass, Hannity and Colmes is generally a food fight and Greta is all (fill in the blank with whatever the overworked, overhyped news story of the day is) all the time!
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I can only bear to watch Brit Hume...hands down the best evening news program on TV."

Exactly. But the moment Wesley Clark comes on, I'm watching something else.

[Capn TrVth]

I don't know how Fox keeps it's prime time audience.

I call it the "Bob Saget syndrome" -more on that in a bit.

O'Reilly's show is unwatchable because he's such a pompous ass

I call this the "Dr. Smith Factor" ('Oh the pain')

Hannity and Colmes is generally a food fight and Greta is all (fill in the blank with whatever the overworked, overhyped news story of the day is) all the time!

I pleaded with my cable supplier to bring us FOX and now I can only bear to watch Brit Hume...hands down the best evening news program on TV, Cavuto and the Beltway Boys

O.k. I'll take a shot at this. Do you remember Bob Saget? Funniest Home Videos? -Well, in his time, his show was one of the most wildly popular in rating, HE was truly one of America's biggest, most beloved celebrities, in the Country.

Yet I couldn't bear one WORD of his trite drivel and would only watch the video clips, I couldn't STAND him, and I didn't know anyone who could.

AT the peak of that shows popularity I sat back and thought, -we are truly a Nation of tards.

When our mass media has to be dumbed this far down to be palatable to the average Joe, we STAY dumbed down.

FOX is popular -unfortunately- for many of the reasons you pointed out, you watch O'Reilly, you get the indignation and bombast, -when it comes from a guy with so much makeup on, that he looks like a drag queen it's even better.

Hannity, yes. We love our food fights, who could imagine anything better than a "Fair & Balanced" show that pits a Conservative pitbull against the proverbial 98Lb Liberul weakling.

So, I too sit there and watch FOX, but I roll my eyes at O'reilly, Hannity or Colmes is never really provocative or inspiring, same menu every night. But I watch.

You were right about Hume and Cavuto, but the dumbed down public isn't capable of mindlocking with them.

[nutmeg]

I pleaded with my cable supplier to bring us FOX and now I can only bear to watch Brit Hume...hands down the best evening news program on TV, Cavuto and the Beltway Boys.

I'm with you... and I run FR's FoxFan ping list! Other than Brit, Cavuto, the Beltway Boys, the Fox News Watch, Cal Thomas' show on Saturday night and a couple of other shows, I'm not finding much on FNC to be a fan about lately...

[McGavin999]

It's worth the extra money just to get Brit's show, and sometimes Cavuto and Beltway Boys. The others I can live without, although when something important is happening I do love to watch H&C, and Sean does a lot of good for the troops and their families.

If Rupert would open the wallet a little wider, we might just get some decent news from Iraq.