Meet the Fox Team: 101 Days of FNC Idiocracy

Welcome! If you skipped the introduction, this is the 101 Days of Fox News Idiocracy. This is a long list, and I warn it will be like watching a train wreck. For convenience I’ve have divided the list into 7 sections. Pick your poison.

101 Days of Fox News Idiocracy Introduction
Day 1 to Day 16: Meet the Fox News Team
Day 17 to Day 27: Meet the Fox Guests
Day 28 to Day 44: Things Fox News Does
Day 45 to Day 63: What the Fuck Fox!
Day 64 to Day 75: The Obama Era
Day 76 to Day 87: Fox around the World
Day 88 to Day 101: Conclusion: Fox News Broadcaster to the Idiocracy

This first part introduces members of the Fox News cast and alumni.

Day 1: October 28 2004
Bill O’Reilly we know – he has been with Fox News since the beginning. Before that, he worked for the tabloid show “Inside Edition,” but we all know how things went downhill there. Here is a report on why Falafels will never be the same.

• CBS: O’Reilly Settles Sex Harass Suit
• The Smoking Gun: O’Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit

Day 2: January 5 2008
O’Reilly earns roughly near $12 million a year. It’s because his journalism is unlike any other news anchor’s. Fox resigned him in 2008 for 4 more years.

• Forbes.com: Forbes Top 100
• NY Daily News: Bill O’Reilly signs contract for four more years on Fox News Channel
• ABC News: O’Reilly Tangles With Obama Staffer

Day 3: September 1 2000
Another member of the Fox team, John Gibson, was hired on this day. His show “The Big Story” never won a Peabody award during it’s time on air.

Fox News: Talent – John Gibson
• Official Peabody Awards Website
• Wikipedia: The Big Story Entry

Day 4: April 21 2004
On this day, Jon Stewart interviewed John Gibson to help plug the book “Hating America the New World Sport.” Jon lets him off easy. However, years later on Day 5: August 14 2007, John Gibson interrupted a really bad “does America need to be attacked again” conversation on Fox radio to play a tape of Jon Stewart crying after 9/11/01. So we can only conclude that John Gibson is so twisted that he wishes for another 9/11, just so he can laugh at Jon Stewart.

• Media Matters: Gibson and radio producer mocked Jon Stewart’s “sobbing”
• The Daily Show: April 21, 2004 John Gibson Interview

Day 6: September 13 2006
It was on this day Jon Stewart renamed the question mark to “the Cavuto” in honor of Fox News team member Neil Cavuto.

Fox has figured out that by simply putting a question mark at the end of something, you can say f**king anything

• The Daily Show: September 13 2006: The Question Mark
• Newshouds: Jon Stewart Explains the ‘Cavuto Mark’

Day 7: January 16 2002
Meet Geraldo! With Fox News since just after 9/11, he went to Afghanistan and got caught making up war stories.

• The Daily Show – January 16 2002 – Extremist Reporters
• The Telegraph UK – Gun-toting Geraldo under fire for the story that never was
• The Berkeley Daily Planet – Geraldo Rivera to be Fox News’ war correspondent
• TheBigStory.org – Coup de Geraldo

Day 8: February 6 2001
We don’t know much about Fox News alumni member Jon Du Pre, but it was on this day he was suspended for not being “celebratory” enough during Ronald Reagan’s birthday coverage. Du Pre is no longer with Fox News, so he was able to share his tale.

• IMDB – OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
• OutFoxed.org – Reviews

Day 9: August 24 2008
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins apparently did his job correctly when he walked into the middle of this protest and shouted “Don’t you believe in Freedom.” Some would say it looked like he was trying to incite a riot.

• Fox News Radio – Griff Jenkins Profile
• Think Progress – Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins tasked with ‘causing trouble’ at Democratic convention.

Day 10: November 4 2000
The first time Fox News flexed their muscles was election night 2000, when Fox News team member John Ellis, Bush’s first cousin, went against all the facts and called the election for George W Bush. We all know what confusion this caused. Ten days later Jon Stewart reports.

• The Daily Show – November 14 2000: Sunshine Wait
• Journalism.org – One More Embarrassment for the Press

Day 11: April 22 2009
Sean Hannity is another Fox News original. While defending waterboarding, of all things, he agreed to have it done to him – for charity, for the troops. He has yet to be waterboarded.

• The Young Turks
• Huffington Post – Hannity Offers to be Waterboarded
• Fox News – Hannity, Grodin go One-on-One on Waterboarding
• Politico.com – Olbermann Challenges Hannity to be Waterboarded

Day 12: December 3 2003
Sean Hannity and his counterpart Alan Colmes were guests on The Daily Show and you get a really good idea of what their shtick was all about. Colmes, the only liberal on Fox News is a weak little squirrely boy who, even on The Daily, show looks all uncomfortable. Hannity, the strong over-confident conservative, basically whips him around. Four days after a liberal won the presidency, Day 13: November 24 2008, Alan Colmes announced he was leaving Fox News.

• The Daily Show – December 3 2003: Hannity and Colmes
• Media Bistro – Alan Colmes Leaving Fox News
• Crooksandliars.com – Jon Stewart says goodbye to Alan Colmes

Day 14: April 1 2009
Just in case the Fox News viewer doesn’t know what a liberal is like, they spell it out it for you with this “joke” presented by the only liberal viewers have ever met, Alan Colmes.

Day 15: February 18 2007
Speaking of funny, Fox News thought it would be great to have a conservative comedy program. The 1/2 News Hour was added to the Fox lineup – it was short lived, but gave a few conservatives wet dreams with sketches like this. For the most part it was simply unfunny, some might say sad.

• Wikipedia – 1/2 Hour News Hour
• The AV Club – It’s Never Too Late To Make A Marion Barry Joke

Day 16: January 19 2009
And, finally, the newest member of the Fox News team, Glenn Beck. To quote Stephen Colbert “Beck turns up the crazy and throws away the knob.”

• SuperNews
• Wikipedia – Glenn Beck Program

Now that we’ve met the team, follow along to Part 2 and meet the infamous Fox News guests.