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Monday, April 09, 2007

Fox News' Red Eye - it's a trip

I live mostly a nocturnal lifestyle. That's what happens when you work 2 - 11pm, however I seem to naturally gravitate to these hours.

If you are like me or a total insomniac, then you might want to flip on Fox News and watch Red Eye. This is the network's overnight show which is truly bizarre. It's hard to look away.

Slate has a review:
The two-month-old show is a tabloid gabfest and a dumbfounding frat party—a production so light and crude that it seems to have been adapted from the margins of a spiral-bound notebook, right down to its hair-metal-indebted logo and that indifferent w-slash.

The most direct antecedents of Red Eye are the sloppy salon of The View, the fluffy hindparts of such chat shows as Scarborough Country and Tucker, and the jollier rants of local cable-access programs. Indeed, in his on-air manner, Gutfeld sometimes suggests a Joe Scarborough without the dignity, and sometimes a Tucker Carlson without the education or the breeding or the absolute priggishness. Last week, riffing on the topic of The View, the host joked that its fans should be put to death.

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