One thing that is clear is that I am not a better man than you are. Was going to use KO’s former GF as an example of someone who has the talent to do the job, but I threw up a lot in my mouth and couldn’t make the argument...
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:40 AM Doug Fields <[email protected]> wrote: > 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:* [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf > of PGage <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2020 1:38 PM > > *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *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 <[email protected]> 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:* [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf > of PGage <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2020 8:33 AM > *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *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 <[email protected]> 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. I don't > know if there's the same sort of pool now of generic game show hosts that > there was when Merv chose Trebek for the syndicated version, but it would > be easy to imagine the producers wanting to go in that direction. 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