What pundit do you dislike the most, and why?

[LBJDemocrat]

I thought this would be an interesting idea for a thread. Try to focus on actual well-known pundits and not simply conservative TV and radio personalities like Limbaugh, Coulter, and O'Reilly.

I'll start by saying that no pundit disgusts me like Thomas Friedman. The man is an opportunist and a bandwagoner. He married his way into billionairedom and then has the gall to ask American workers to consider globalization as a positive development. Friedman is the chief propagandist for the cultureless, anti-labor, neoliberal world order.

Among his more repulsive quotes are the following:
"If NATO’s only strength is that it can bomb forever, then it has to get every ounce out of that. Let’s at least have a real air war. The idea that people are still holding rock concerts in Belgrade, or going out for Sunday merry-go-round rides, while their fellow Serbs are ‘cleansing’ Kosovo, is outrageous. It should be lights out in Belgrade: every power grid, water pipe, bridge, road and war-related factory has to be targeted." - It's easy to take war so lightly in your mansion thousands of miles away.

"McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the U.S. Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps." - I'm sure our veterans would love to hear that.

"It's time we Americans came to terms with something: France is not just our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becoming our enemy." - This went beyond even the standard right-wing France-bashing of 2003. Now he's anti-war. Big surprise.

Friedman also has been a key supporter of "alternative fuels" such as ethanol, effectively promoting policies that lead to the starvation of millions.

He is a disgusting human being. Students at Brown recently disrupted a guest lecture of his (I wonder how much the scumbag charges) by throwing pies at him. While I applaud the students who pied him, I believe a more fitting punishment would be to have him eat dirt patties like the Haitians are forced to do.

[w8liftinglady]

1. Limbaugh-because so many of the right wing hang on to every word he says

Overheard a converasation at work..
"Rush says...blah,blah,blah Obama"
"I like Rush,he says it like it is"
"yeah,I like Rush,too".

[blondeatlast]

2. Lou Fucking Dobbs because he thinks he's America's daddy.

He's a mother f****r, but he's no father...

[joeybee12]

3. Tim Russert...he's a rw hack who has a reputation as being objective...

...most others are at least called out at one time or another, but Timmy gets away with doing more damage because of his so-called reputation.

[DAGDA56]

4. Joe Scarborough...he tries to come across as a "fair conservative", but

I get a sense that he really hates people, especially women. His unwarrented sense of self worth is also irritating. He is dead certain he is always the smartest guy in the room, and can't help smirking.

[chknltl]

5. Sean Hannity, it's his hair.

(as if I don't hit mute when he appears on my TV)

[chknltl]

6. Neal Boortz...

because he can go toe to toe with Tom Hartmann and still get kool-aid drinkers and (some)college kids to believe in his free-market snake-oil.

[notesdev]

7. That Kristol guy

Every time I see him smile I can't help but imagine myself swinging a 2x4 at his face.

[Skittles]

17. ditto

that smarmy piece of chickenhawk warmongering SHIT needs a SERIOUS ass-kicking

[greenbriar]

8. I hate first hannity then rush then oriely

in that order


hannity reminds me of a smarmy used car salesman

[chknltl]

9. Bill Oriely: I had to through away a....

...perfectly good loofah thanks to him! :grr:

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. I Hate Mike Malloy, Thom Hartman, Sam Seder and Randi Rhodes

not getting any air time on the TV.

[chknltl]

12. Yeah but what about that Colbert guy????

Why doesn't he get even MORE air time??? :grr:

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Jon Stewart and Colbert!!!

Need to be on 5, not 4 times a week!!

[chknltl]

16. EXACTLY!!!

Damned ELITISTS!

[chknltl]

11. Ann Coulter: This guy just creeps me out!

:popcorn:

[sallyseven]

13. I nominate Chris Matthews

and David brooks

[blondeatlast]

14. All of them--including the precious few :liberal: ones. I don't like being told how to think. nt

[Initech]

19. Thank god I'm not the only one!

[Initech]

18. I nominate Neil Cavuto

I hate all punditry in general but he's the topper. That little corporate ass kisser (really, he has defended the ridiculous gas prices at some points) is the definition of all that is soulless and wrong with this country.

[nashville_brook]

20. i don't dislike him "most" -- but i'm the most troubled by James H. Kunstler...here's why:

He's one of the few talking about the BIG picture -- whatever that is (post-capitalism?). And, seeing him on Colbert left me cold (turned off the b/f, too). JK was oddly unlikeable. He had that "too late now, jokes on you fucker" swagger that is wholly understandable, but seems cheap. Seems strangely predatory to talk about rapid cultural change in one breath and completely dismiss our ability to address it in the next.

Surely he's doing this on purpose, this PJ O'Rourk schtick. Who, by the way, totally qualifies for a pundit I "dislike most."