Quick note: This is a “media” list which means they have to be gainfully employed or a regular contributor to a source that could be considered part of the mainstream discourse. Yes, OAN should be buried alive in a shallow grave, but they don’t make the cut here and neither do other self-proclaimed right-wing “journalists,” your Cernoviches, your Andy Ngos, your Candace Owenses. While they should also self-yeet into a volcano, they’re not media personalities outside of racist grandpa Facebook.
1 (emeritus). Jim “Herb” Spanfeller
1a. Clay Travis
2. Dave Portnoy
3. Tucker Carlson
4. Colin Cowherd
5. Sean Hannity
6. Bill Maher
7. Laura Ingraham
8. Jason Whitlock
9. Rush Limbaugh
10. Mollie Hemingway
11. Bret Stephens
12. Bethany Mandel
13. Karl Rove
14. Sean Davis
15. Skip Bayless
16. Jesse Singal
17. Maureen Dowd
18. Will Cain
19. Lou Dobbs
20. Mark Levin
21. Doug Gottlieb
22. Caitlin Flanagan
23. Ross Levinsohn
24. John Solomon
25. Boris Epshteyn
26. Maggie Haberman
27. Matt Drudge
28. Andrew Sullivan
29. Sober Jeanine Pirro
30. Joe Scarborough
31. Glenn Greenwald
32. Darren Rovell
33. Mike Wilbon
34. Chuck Todd
35. Chris Cuomo
36. David Brooks
37. Jim Rome
38. John Kass
39. Rob Parker
40. Michael Goodwin
41. John McCain’s Daughter’s Husband
42. Jonah Goldberg
43. Victor David Hansen
44. Phil Mushnick
45. Megyn Kelly
46. David Frum
47. Drunk Jeanine Pirro
48. Ben Shapiro (too short to reach any higher on this list)
49. Getting hit by an ESPN bus
50. Bari Weiss, again, from whatever her next job is
Honestly, I don’t recognize even half the names on this list. Which is probably why I haven’t appeared on the national news.
“Mr. Butcher, tell us what happened after you’d heard that John McCain’s Daughter’s Husband said that poor people just need to work harder.”
“That’s when I killed him, Your Honor.”
I went deep, but sadly, I could probably scare up 50 more without breaking too heavy of a sweat. I dunno if that means there’s a lot of horrible people in the media or my brain is terminally internet poisoned (or both).
Pretty good list but how could you not have Rich Lowry? He is the worst & needs to jump off a cliff. To have Wilbon & not Kornheiser is a travisty, they are both awful & one doesn’t even watch the sports he yells about. Jim Rome just makes me smile when I think of this…
I detest Wilbon far more than Kornheiser, but he could be on this list too, no doubt.
I skipped most of the third-rate thinkers over at WSJ (and WSJ-adjacent) because they’re just boringly Republican, but Lowry is especially terrible.
Chris Clizza or Lizard.
That’s a good one. Oversight on my part; he is like a top-20 odious media member.
you know what i like best about your list?
ive only had the displeasure of knowing about maybe 5 people on it
europe has its perks
Don’t get too cocky. Both Piers Morgan and Andrew Neil were *extremely* in contention for this.
well..i thought piers morgan was in america nowadays
ill give you andrew neil tho
tho.. tbh..i had to google him
recognized the face but that was about it
anyhoo…im not getting cocky…just counting me blessings i dont know most of your racist fuck heads
after all…i live in the country of black pete
Good ole Piers was in America for a while but he was kind of thrown out. When you’re too much for American media…
He now co-hosts Good Morning Britain and has a regular column in, where else, The Daily Mail.
Speaking of douchebags…
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/507663-chuck-woolery-deletes-twitter-account-after-announcing-his-son-has-coronavirus
“I meet women on TV with the help of Chuck Woolery….”
Amazing what a personal experience with a virus will do. What an ass-hat.
Y U NO Michelle Malkin?
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3s8gdh
I’ll never forgive Cowherd for implying that Sean Taylor deserved to be murdered.
Fuck him now and forever.
Don’t forget the editors who should join Bennet formerly of the NY Times:
Dean Baquet, chief news editor, NY Times
Patrick Healy, top politics editor, NY Times
Elisabeth Bumiller, top DC editor, NY Times
Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor, Washington Post
Kelly McBride, public editor, NPR
Shirley Henry, chief DC editor, NPR
Nancy Barnes, top news editor, NPR
Every editor at Fox News except whoever edits Chris Wallace
Brooke Bower, politics editor, CNN
Whoever at CBS News hired Catherine Herridge
Mark Murray, senior political editor, NBC News
Jeffrey Goldberg, chief editor, The Atlantic
Pre-covid, I was on a work trip that was unexpectedly extended. So I got my own hotel room. Went out, picked up a six-pack after dinner, and decided to see what sort of stuff was interesting to watch on TV.
I haven’t lived with a TV in something like ~15 years, so I don’t know if how remotes work has drastically changed, or what…
Picked up the remote, pointed it at the TV, pressed the power button, and on comes Tucker Carlson, screaming about whatever, at max volume. change channel doesn’t work, mute doesn’t work, volume buttons don’t work, even the power button doesn’t work. So I unplug the TV.
Can’t get it back on after that, but as long as I don’t have to be subjected to Tucker Carlson’s rage of bewilderment, I’ll consider it a win…