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(Photo: Getty Images) Host, MSNBC's Hardball Matthews got his comeuppance in April's devastating New York Times Magazine profile of him, though associates, past and present, can't resist piling on. "His boorishness is borne out of a deep-seated insecurity, and everyone knows it," groans a producer at MSNBC. "You kind of just have to put up and deal and let him do his thing." Another former MSNBC colleague takes umbrage with his professional demeanor: "He's always running around the office with M&Ms and his diabetes medication stuffed in his blazer, amped up on sugar. He's totally self-centered and has absolutely no self-control." And his penchant for sexism—most evident in his manhandling of Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, but present almost every time a comely female makes an appearance on his show—is confirmed by the lady guests who have dared pay his studio a visit. "He's always got that one slot for a chick—I call it the 'vagina stool' now," laughs one frequent female guest. "And it's like he just tries to make whoever is on the vagina stool squirm. If he reads you as heterosexual and attractive, it's really uncomfortable. You really have to be ready for anything." (For the record, a colleague insisted that we mention the following moderate defense of Matthews: "Yes, he can be a shallow, nasty person. But he's also kind of big-hearted in a way. If you can get past the exterior—and a lot of people clearly can't—you'll find a warmth of personality that mostly goes unnoticed.")
Host, Special Report With Brit Hume Hume, who will step down as host of Special Report after the election, but will stay on as managing editor of Fox News, has a reputation for being the most understated personality on a roster stuffed with loudmouths. Unfortunately, to many in the industry, his quiet patina masks a nasty streak. "He drips with sarcasm and self-importance," claims a former senior producer at Larry King Live who dealt with Hume in the past. "He used to be a class act, but he got toxic real fast after drinking too much of the Fox Kool-Aid." And while Hume is a model of restraint on air (some might call him smug), frequent outbursts behind the scenes have done little to endear him to his younger staffers. "There was one meeting a few years back when he got so pissed off he threw a full carton of orange juice across the room," says a onetime researcher who is now out of the business altogether. "He can be incredibly snippy and dismissive if you don't do things his way." 
No major surprises here, except for Sean Hannity who I'm still convinced is a dick in real life as well. Posted by: sailor on July 21, 2008 12:19 PM Glad to hear Rachel Maddow is really nice, but what' with "Even a female producer at CNN, . . . is impressed." What's with the "even a female producer"? what's the source of surprise that a female producer would be impressed? huh? Posted by: suep on July 22, 2008 3:51 PM Laura Ingraham's program was only scheduled to last 5 weeks. So it's not gone because of failure; it was a trial run between Election HQ on Fox. Get your FDS in check, asswipes. Posted by: MsUnderestimated on July 22, 2008 11:23 PM Neel - Come on! David Gregory a nice guy? Did you miss the "David Gregory is a giant douche and asshole" series that Jossip ran a couple months ago? Lots of good stuff about him yelling at waiters, orchestrating hit jobs on other anchors, hamstringing colleagues... Posted by: Holden on July 23, 2008 12:52 PM Advertisement You might want to ask the 77 y/o pedestrian that Robert Novak ran down today in his black Corvette whether he thinks of him as a "nice guy". Posted by: HalJordan on July 23, 2008 11:40 PM call me "big guy", everyone, i demand it!....and hal i heard that guy was just 66, so it's ok...novak would never hit a 70 year old...hell, why didn't he just run over himself?....Call Me Big Guy!!!! Posted by: younger23 on July 24, 2008 1:28 AM Hey Big Guy! You're right...66 y/o... 10 years younger than Bob is, so the snot-nosed punk was probably asking for it. Posted by: HalJordan on July 24, 2008 11:00 AM Why do I get the feeling that the entire point of this blog post was to bash Keith Olberman? You are going to tell me that Keith is more hated than Ann or BillO? Give me a break. Of course you need to put him in the center and mention him first. I've never til this day seen keith yelling and shouting at anybody like BillO has and I've never seen him yelling the absurd obscenities that regurgitate from Ann Coulter's mouth. And what about that pill popping radio host pig Rush Limbaugh. Face it, conservative pundits are the most obnoxious and ridiculous clowns on TV and radio, it is just a fact. Liberal anchors have a lot more class than they do. Conservative pigs need to shout, scream and yell obscenities in order to get noticed or else nobody will listen to them. Faux News and The NY post are similar to the enquirer and star magazine. The pundits in those media outlets are similar to Britney and Paris Hilton, nobody can stand them, yet people still want to watch. Posted by: chr1s on July 25, 2008 4:20 PM Do It Live!!! Posted by: younger23 on July 25, 2008 10:12 PM I can't help but to agree with Chris. There is no way that people find Olberman any where near as offensive as blow hard Limbaugh or Coulter. I am most offended by the ongoing hypocrysy of the so called "conservatives". Posted by: Shellythe1 on July 26, 2008 2:23 PM they do it live though, can't fault them for not-editing their sex tapes....saw one with ingraham and an audiologist who kept wanting to finish her in non-classic porn star fashion, but miss laura would have none of it Posted by: younger23 on July 27, 2008 2:50 AM Keith was hated by everyone at ESPN during his tenure there. His asshole behavior cost him a full-time gig at CNN prior to landing (again) at MSNBC. And when he thought he was in danger of losing THAT job he decided the perfect way to save himself was to turn himself into the liberal version of Bill O'Reilly. It worked. Now if anything bad is printed about him, like this TRUTH presented here, then his defenders say, "it's because Keith is a liberal". No it's not. Once an asshole, always an asshole. But I gotta give him props for figuring out a way to save his job and deflect the truth about just what a douche is truly is. Posted by: MoeMoney on July 28, 2008 9:11 PM Yes, Keith is hated amongst the TV insider crowd. If he isn't quite as despised by the public at large, it's only because no one outside of Daily Kos readers even know who he is. Posted by: Holden on July 29, 2008 2:58 PM This actually showed a human side to Laura Ingraham. I think that she behaved rather well. There were no rants.Remember, when a person is on the the air and the staff has screwed up, the public only sees the failures of the on-air person and never knows what caused them. I am politically the opposite of Laura Ingraham, but, in this case, she is neither a fool nor a villain. Posted by: tram44 on August 3, 2008 7:51 AM < BACK TO Features |
    
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