Showing posts with label The Five. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Five. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Obama Gets a Pass From Most Comedians
The only strategy for watching Fox News' The Five is the to immediately grab the remote and change the channel when they pass it to the nauseating Bob Beckel.
In a recent episode, Greg Gutfeld expounds upon how comedians, most of whom are members in good standing of the Democrat-Entertainment Complex, inexplicably find it so hard to come up jokes about the incumbent president.
In a recent episode, Greg Gutfeld expounds upon how comedians, most of whom are members in good standing of the Democrat-Entertainment Complex, inexplicably find it so hard to come up jokes about the incumbent president.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Obamas Fly Separately to Hawaii for Christmas
Last summer, Daily News columnist and The Five co-host Andrea Tantaros referred to Michelle Obama as a "Modern Day Marie Antoinette" for among other things her lavish vacation in Spain partially on the taxpayer's dime.
Since then, nothing has changed, despite a presidential executive order about avoiding unnecessary federal travel costs. In this video, hapless White House spokesman Jay Carney, a former "journalist," lamely tries to justify the First Lady separately flying to Hawaii on a taxpayer-funded military jet on the family "annual holiday trip" instead of waiting for the president to join her on the same plane.
According to the Hawaii Reporter, "Mrs. Obama’s early flight to Hawaii costs about $63,000 (White House Dossier), but add security and personnel for a total of about $100,000," while the the total cost of the family trip is at least $4 million.
The Daily Mail asks: "With thousands of families struggling to raise funds for Christmas, you would think the Obamas might manage a little thriftiness."
On the subject of vacations, Keith Koffler of the aforementioned White House Dossier blog wrote the following back in August:
Since then, nothing has changed, despite a presidential executive order about avoiding unnecessary federal travel costs. In this video, hapless White House spokesman Jay Carney, a former "journalist," lamely tries to justify the First Lady separately flying to Hawaii on a taxpayer-funded military jet on the family "annual holiday trip" instead of waiting for the president to join her on the same plane.
According to the Hawaii Reporter, "Mrs. Obama’s early flight to Hawaii costs about $63,000 (White House Dossier), but add security and personnel for a total of about $100,000," while the the total cost of the family trip is at least $4 million.
The Daily Mail asks: "With thousands of families struggling to raise funds for Christmas, you would think the Obamas might manage a little thriftiness."
On the subject of vacations, Keith Koffler of the aforementioned White House Dossier blog wrote the following back in August:
First Lady Michelle Obama over the last year has spent a total of 42 days on vacation, or a little more than one out of every nine days, according to a White House Dossier analysis of her travel.
Her vacations, the cost of which are mostly borne by taxpayers, include trips to Panama City, Fla., Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, South Africa, Latin America, Vail, Colo., and her visit this week to her brother in Corvallis, Ore.
The total does not include a nine day sojourn in Martha’s Vineyard that the Obamas will enjoy this month. Nor does it include a trip she made to Ireland and Great Britain in May, which I’m counting as official travel...
Mrs. Obama’s extensive vacation travel comes while many America citizens find themselves out of work or having trouble making ends meet as the economic recovery stalls.
Taxpayers pick up most of the cost of transporting the first lady and her extensive entourage – including Secret Service and her staff – to her various destinations. While she may in some cases pay some of the tab for her personal expenses and travel, the amount is dwarfed by the overall cost to the public.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Heckle and Beckel: The Five Should be Renamed the Three
Fox News Channel's The Five (i.e., five panelists at 5 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Friday) was apparently meant as a summer placeholder in Glen Beck's former time slot, but ratings have been so good so it may become a permanent part of the schedule.
If Fox producers are reading, isn't it time for one of the regular panelists, the disruptively clownish Bob Beckel, to go back to D.C. to "spend more time with his family"? Admittedly Beckel--a failed Democrat political consultant--at times can be funny and unpredictable and provide insight on the inner workings of a political campaign, but his hectoring/heckling and/or pouting against virtually all things non-liberal (along with an inability unlike his favorite president to read a teleprompter) is getting really tired.
All you really need to know about Beckel is his claim that "Barack Obama is the greatest economic president in my lifetime." FNC replaced Beck with Beckel, and now it's time to replace Beckel.
Apart from tired liberal propaganda, much of his other on-air input consists of personal attacks on the other panelists and political figures with whom he disagrees.
His lame complaints that he's politically "outnumbered" on the show ring hollow when you consider the equivalent roundtables on ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN and so forth. The fact that the other hosts seem to find it necessary to pander to him or try to mollify him as a result is annoying.
Beckel also recently made a borderline racial slur against Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Can you imagine the outcry had a similar statement been made by a right-of-center commentator? Beckel's overbearing participation on the show does serve, however, to give a peek behind the curtain as to what liberals are really thinking about matters of race and ethnicity; as the iconic talk radio host Bob Grant used to say, "liberals are the ultimate hypocrites."
So, Fox producers, how about renaming the show The Three--minus Beckel and Eric Bolling? The regular lineup should then include the stunning Kimberly Guilfoyle, the libertarian "everyman" Greg Gutfeld, and former White House spokesperson and equally stunning Dana Perino (with able backup support from Andrea Tantaros and Monica Crowley as necessary). Bolling already has a full plate on the Fox Business Channel and doesn't really add much to the show.
Although her preening for the camera is somewhat off-putting, Guilfoyle--a former model, prosecutor, and "first lady of San Francisco"--has a quick, sassy sense of humor. Her clever one-liners are often lost in the crosstalk so a smaller panel would be an upgrade in this regard. Gutfeld, the Red Eye host, doesn't take himself too seriously or claim to be a political pundit but also has an irreverent, creative world view. Perino functions well as the more grounded voice of reason.
So the recipe boils down to less Beckel and more Guilfoyle.
In general, it's a watchable show but The Five could benefit by avoiding a rehash of some of the same boring stories that all the other cable network shows are covering. And how about agreeing on one host rather than rotating that function after each commercial?
If Fox producers are reading, isn't it time for one of the regular panelists, the disruptively clownish Bob Beckel, to go back to D.C. to "spend more time with his family"? Admittedly Beckel--a failed Democrat political consultant--at times can be funny and unpredictable and provide insight on the inner workings of a political campaign, but his hectoring/heckling and/or pouting against virtually all things non-liberal (along with an inability unlike his favorite president to read a teleprompter) is getting really tired.
All you really need to know about Beckel is his claim that "Barack Obama is the greatest economic president in my lifetime." FNC replaced Beck with Beckel, and now it's time to replace Beckel.
Apart from tired liberal propaganda, much of his other on-air input consists of personal attacks on the other panelists and political figures with whom he disagrees.
His lame complaints that he's politically "outnumbered" on the show ring hollow when you consider the equivalent roundtables on ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN and so forth. The fact that the other hosts seem to find it necessary to pander to him or try to mollify him as a result is annoying.
Beckel also recently made a borderline racial slur against Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Can you imagine the outcry had a similar statement been made by a right-of-center commentator? Beckel's overbearing participation on the show does serve, however, to give a peek behind the curtain as to what liberals are really thinking about matters of race and ethnicity; as the iconic talk radio host Bob Grant used to say, "liberals are the ultimate hypocrites."
So, Fox producers, how about renaming the show The Three--minus Beckel and Eric Bolling? The regular lineup should then include the stunning Kimberly Guilfoyle, the libertarian "everyman" Greg Gutfeld, and former White House spokesperson and equally stunning Dana Perino (with able backup support from Andrea Tantaros and Monica Crowley as necessary). Bolling already has a full plate on the Fox Business Channel and doesn't really add much to the show.
Although her preening for the camera is somewhat off-putting, Guilfoyle--a former model, prosecutor, and "first lady of San Francisco"--has a quick, sassy sense of humor. Her clever one-liners are often lost in the crosstalk so a smaller panel would be an upgrade in this regard. Gutfeld, the Red Eye host, doesn't take himself too seriously or claim to be a political pundit but also has an irreverent, creative world view. Perino functions well as the more grounded voice of reason.
So the recipe boils down to less Beckel and more Guilfoyle.
In general, it's a watchable show but The Five could benefit by avoiding a rehash of some of the same boring stories that all the other cable network shows are covering. And how about agreeing on one host rather than rotating that function after each commercial?
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