Well, if you frame it that way, I'll ease up a little on arguing the point. I honestly have never paid enough attention to Hannity to know whether or not he's got the brainpower to handle a job like Jeopardy...though I'd be willing to concede the point that he ought to be reasonably intelligent to have parlayed his on-screen persona into the its current juggernaut position. I've rarely been able to listen to one of his rants for longer than a couple of minutes before I have to turn him off.
But if you're saying you're not basing your position on ideological bias, I can certainly accept that...you're a better man than I am, in that case. 🙂 Doug Fields Tampa, FL ________________________________ From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com <tvornottv@googlegroups.com> on behalf of PGage <pga...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 1:38 PM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com <tvornottv@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Stephanopoulos pushed to seek post-Alex J! job I am going to push back on that. I’m sure there are lots of hyper conservatives who see Hannity as a hero and KO as a villain. That supports the assertion that both are too polarizing for the job, a claim I am willing to concede. But it is objectively true that KO is more qualified for the job of hosting Jeopardy than Hannity; the fact that some people could not see or admit that does not make it any less true. I am pretty sure my position on this is not due to ideological bias. I can think of people Whose views I despise as much as I do Hannity who I think might be qualified for the job (even if, like KO, they would be too polarizing). Bill O’Reilly, who like KO may not have the temperament, does have the intellectual heft and, when he wants to turn it on, charm, for the job (will overlook for now his sexual harassing/assaulting issues). On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 8:12 AM Doug Fields <d...@flids.net<mailto:d...@flids.net>> wrote: With all due respect, a sentence like "whatever you think of Keith, he does not belong in the same sentence as Hannity" is completely dependent on your personal perspective and political leanings. I have several conservative acquaintances who would say that exact same sentence, reversing Olbermann's and Hannity's names, and they wouldn't be the least bit sarcastic or ironic when they say it. Personally, I think they're bat-shit crazy, but that doesn't change the level of sincerity of their beliefs. Doug Fields Tampa, FL ________________________________ From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com<mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com> <tvornottv@googlegroups.com<mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com>> on behalf of PGage <pga...@gmail.com<mailto:pga...@gmail.com>> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 8:33 AM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com<mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com> <tvornottv@googlegroups.com<mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com>> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Stephanopoulos pushed to seek post-Alex J! job I’m not really on a campaign to get KO the gig (in fact I recently unfollowed him on Twitter because I just could not take another: “They’re going to kill Bob tomorrow at dawn unless you adopt him” tweet). But come on, whatever you think of Keith, he does not belong in the same sentence as Hannity. There may be a reason or too why Olbermann won’t and maybe shouldn’t get the job, but there are dozens of reasons Hannity won’t get it, and being too smart and too brittle for the room are not in his top ten. Yes, both may alienate too big a portion of the opposite ideological spectrum to make sense as the host of a show aiming for a universal audience, but only one of them would actually be good at the job is that were not a factor. On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:25 PM JW <redbu...@gmail.com<mailto:redbu...@gmail.com>> wrote: This was Harry Friedman's last season. https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/news-events/jeopardy-look-back-harry-friedmans-legacy As far as the next host, it's not going to be Olbermann for the same reason it's not going to be, say, Sean Hannity: too much baggage. 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