Anian

The "commentator" types on tv generally don't, Glenn Beck has pretty much admitted it. They know there is a market for what they say and they are happy to make a pretty penny from it while it gives an advantage to their political side. Bill O'Reilly calmed down remarkably when the Republicans started screwing up the economy - it may have been coincidence but I suspect that he couldn't wholehearted support them when he knew they were making it all go wrong.

zargof

It's interesting that the only two Senators that appear to have heard of the 4th Amendment are Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul.

Steerpike

Brianna Keilar CNN Profiles - Brianna Keilar - Senior political correspondent - CNN.com is the only news anchor I can think of that takes my breath away (visually) every time I see her. She has a refreshing lack of excess makeup and 'hairdo' ... she looks like she just might actually look like that at home without hours of prep. Actually, the other one that I find attractive is Erin Burnett CNN Profiles - Erin Burnett - Host - CNN.com . But by far the best 'serious' anchor is Christiane Amanpour CNN Profiles - Christiane Amanpour - Anchor and Chief International Correspondent - CNN.com ... she and Fareed Zakaria are the two I always sit up and listen to.

In Scottsdale, they have this 'Barbie Doll' lookalike anchor who looks so 'fake' that I can't take anything she says seriously ... Stephanie Hockridge Stephanie Hockridge - ABC15 Arizona . She's a shoe-in for Fox News at some point in the future ...

FlaviusAetius

I'm not taking a side here, but do have an anthropological question: if anyone knows, are semitic peoples currently considered part of the caucasoid branch of the human race by anthropologists? I understand that in the 19th century they classified humans as belonging to the caucasoid, negroid and mongoloid branches, with a possible fourth being australoid.

I further understand that the caucasoid peoples can range from blonde, blue-eyed, pale-skinned surfer-dudes in Scandinavia, to olive-skinned Mediterraneans, to very dark-skinned people in southern Egypt and points south and east, back to pale-faces in Iran.

Of course the answer to that question - if they are - doesn't tell us what colour Jesus' skin was, and neither does any book in the New Testament. Megyn was careless, forgot to be PC for a moment, and, I understand, was trying to reassure kids (whose parents were presumably all Fox News viewers) about that mythical figure Santa; and somehow He got dragged into the discussion by her.

SultanOfSwing

Anthropologically speaking, I believe they are, or at least were at one point. It could have been redefined along the way.

Either way, Jesus (if he even existed, which is doubtful as it is) may have been 'caucasoid' and he almost certainly wouldn't have been black, not even the Egyptians were, but he certainly would be a lot more swarthy than the pale, Italian looking bloke who is normally depicted in religious art.

He, if he was around now, would probably be able to get a decent gig playing bad guys in 24 or Homeland type shows.

FlaviusAetius

Agreed. I've followed Christiane since the first Gulf War. I think Fox's stable of blonde, leggy, fit-looking Aryan-type girls is essential to their brand and probably the result of some sort of GMO experiment. It spells success.

zargof

I'm not sure it does. Given Fox News' audience consists mainly of men over the age of 70, don't they run the risk of killing them all off by getting their hearts racing too much. Plus the fact that old people use most of the healthcare in this country, killing them off will reduce healthcare costs and make it look like Obamacare is working. A double whammy.

Giantaxe

A veritable "Fox News Death Panel"...

kimilseung

Any links to Beck admitting it?

I was looking at a Forbes list of the, as we say in America, earningest, celebrities. Limbaugh, Hannity make quite a lot of money out of peddling their hate, better than being a preacher. And so many of them move from entertainment to pseudo-politics.

#11 Rush Limbaugh $79 M
#89 Sean Hannity $29 M

The World's Highest-Paid Celebrities List - Forbes

FlaviusAetius

Great stuff, guys! Serious and funny thinking, all at the same time. Best of British Expats.

sir_eccles

Put it this way, there are people who don't realise that the "Stephen Colbert" on the "Colbert Report" is an act.

RoadWarriorFromLP

FIFY.

kimilseung

How to watch debate without cable? Any one got a dodgy link?

MMcD

Here ya go....ticket to the freak show :

http://www.livenewschat.eu/the-repub...s-live-stream/

kimilseung

Thanks.

I think they made a big mistake by not having relegation/promotion in these debates.