I’ve called the show The Beltway Bores for the longest time and it seems finally Roger Ailes agreed. According to TV Newser The Beltway Boys is no more.
No huge surprise. Co-hosts Mort and Fred aren’t really the Fox News types (though they’ll be retained as bit players). They’re the traditional conservatives my dad and I [...]
The Beltway Boys to a degree follows the standard Fox News formula. There’s a definite lack of political diversity in the program. Mort is allegedly liberal but here he calls himself a “little d Democrat” which I translate to mean a right-leaning moderate at best. Where they depart from the typical Fox News fare is [...]
Obama’s the man! Fox & Friends please curb your enthusiasm.
Watching Gretchen, Steve, and Brian during the 8 am hour I almost felt sorry for them. You know it must be really tough for such dyed-in-the-wool Republican partisans to show up following a dismal Republican election day performance.
Grabbing at conservative straws, particularly Al Franken’s [...]
On the 9/23/06 edition of the Beltway Boys, Mort Kondrake, a supposed liberal, in a rare instance of disagreement with conservative Fred Barnes, gets worked up about the tax/deficit issue.
You go girl!
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In this clip, conservative Fred Barnes parrots a popular right-wing smear, “Defeatocrats”. Notice how proud Fred looks when he uses the term. He’s as proud as a 2-year-old who just pooped in his pants and wants to show mom.
I hate to burst Fred’s bubble but his name-calling is hardly original. He’s just parroting official RNC [...]
In doing my rounds of Fox News programming – and its related conservative bias – I always knew eventually I’d get to the dreaded topic of The Beltway Boys. I’m sure the program has its conservative fans who enjoy the comfortable conservative womb co-hosts Mort Kondracke and Fred Barnes have constructed but for everyone else [...]