Hey Ken, would you object to me sharing this on X? I understand if you do, but also, if I can, I can hide your name etc.?? I think this is the best thing I've read lately, and I have a few friends on X that would love to read this.
I've never forgiven Glenn Beck for 2016, or Mark Levin for his frequent joining in on attacks against Trump while acting as a Sunshine Trumper in between, and I'm undecided about Tucker Carlson. I've rarely listened to Glenn Beck since he decided that Hillary Clinton would be his second choice after Ted Cruz in 2016 (I'm not so much angry with him as that I consider him to be logically irrelevant), and it seemed that Mark Levin was always looking for reasons to attack Trump during his first term. As for Tucker Carlson, it seemed to me that he attacked Trump during the 2020 election because he felt that he needed to ingratiate himself with his Fox employers, and since he got fired anyhow, he's back on board, but I question his genuineness. He didn't go as far to the left as Glenn Beck, but I suspect that his career is his only genuine concern. Since being fired from Fox, he's been doing well with his current audience and saying what they expect him to say. He says it well, so I listen to him sometimes but question his sincerity. As for Megyn Kelly, she lost her audience after her performance as an attack dog against Trump during a 2016 election debate, where she was worse even than the ABC moderators. Because she lost her audience, although her Fox employers probably encouraged her attacks on Trump, she departed ways with Fox, couldn't find an audience from the leftists on NBC, so - like Tucker - she went out on her own, but as a staunch pro-Trumper, which gained her an audience. However, unlike Glenn Beck, who has tried to explain his opposition to a Trump presidency in 2016 several times, and Mark Levin and Tucker Carlson, who, to my understanding, never even addressed it, Megyn Kelly does a pretty good job explaining her change in thinking. I'm inclined to accept it, although it doesn't say a lot for her political acuity.
I don't have an opinion of Megan Kelly one way or another. I can't stand Tucker Carlson and have never been able to watch him for any length of time. He's just not credible and I have never understood his appeal, even when he was primetime Fox.
I used to watch CNBC Market Watch daily when the kids were little. The 'talking heads' were just that, but it did not occur to me that they were reading a teleprompter incessantly. Levin, Kelly, Carlson were too when working for FOX or whomever. Glen Beck comes up for air enough that I thought he was talking off the cuff. I LIKE Tucker Carlson now. Not sure who writes his copy now that he is on his own but I think he has substantial input. He's been having some big time personal issues to deal with and still keeps going. I must say that all the young people Trump is picking for his posts are making all the swamp starting to circle the wagons. May make for some good news stories.
People are saying that for the sake of being outlandish. But I can see how the conversation about crazies might bring his name up Regarding Megyn Kelly...she got her start being the anti-O'Reilly. He was the obnoxious ogre and she was the petite female who stood up to him. I never felt there was any substance to her.
I'm not a fan of hers, and you hit the nail on the head, it's not I dislike her, it's the lack of substance
I heard that blowhard for the first time since he left Fox today as I drove to Bangor. I only listened to a few minutes of him though, before I moved on to something else. He was ranting about Trump's cabinet choices. I think he's on Glenn Beck's network, or whatever you might call the nowhere land he's in.
I had no idea he was still on the air. He was popular at one point. It's funny how we love our shiny new objects.
I was aware that he was on the same part of the airwaves as Glenn Beck because my wife sometimes listens to Beck while driving, but I don't think any of our local radio stations carry him, although one of them carries Beck's show. Today, he may have been on Beck's show; I didn't stay long enough to find out.