Are there any right wing pundits you can tolerate?

[terrya]

Someone whom even though you can disagree with them, nevertheless you can respect them? Someone who doesn't make you leap for the remote control when they show up on television?

I can tolerate Andrew Sullivan when he's talking about gay issues, particularly gay marriage.

[skypilot]

1. I'll let you know if I encounter one...

...but don't hold your breath.

[gWbush is Mabus]

2. Peter Jennings, Jim Lehrer, WH correspond Moran

[otohara]

3. Tucker

I like to watch him come unglued by Begala or Carville...

Novak is the worst, mean old fart

[liberalitch]

5. Tucker not in choke and slap category...

for me either.... Novak.... I want to trip that old man.

[THUNDER HANDS]

29. Tucker is annoying

Novak can be funny and I think he's smarter than Carlson so I like him a little better.

My tolerable RW pundits:

Pat Buchanan
Robert Novak
Joe Scarborough (I don't watch his show but I remember him covering the Dem primary and he sounded intelligent and suprisingly fair)


There isn't a pundit I hate more than Tony Blankly though. I want to punch my tv whenever he comes on Sunday morning.

[beyurslf]

11. I enjoy watching Tucker too.

[XNASA]

4. Pat Buchanan

I disagree with Pat on a lot of issues.

But I feel he's an honest man.

Plus, he really hates the BFEE.

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. I gotta agree there

he also appears to have a sense of humor, a RARE trait on the right.

[Shopaholic]

15. Another vote for Pat B

He seems to be at least able to balance the rhetoric with a little humor every once in a while.

[AP]

17. The isolationism he advocates is just as dangerous for democracy as

the version of imperialism the neocons want for America, and it's not without precedent either. Pat Buchanan would have been right at home in the 1920s trying to stand in the way of Wilson's league of nations, and he would have been right at home scapegoating immigrants.

[AlCzervik]

6. John Mclaughlin

of the Mclaughlin Group, my guilty pleasure on Friday night, i laugh my ass of watching that show, he's a riot. I think John my be a plain old skool republican that has a white hot hate for neo-cons.

[AP]

7. Kevin Phillips and David Brock and John Dean.

I find Buchanan and Sullivan to be subtle propagandists. Their long term goals are still extremely conservative, even if they seem to be giving Bush a hard time now.

I also read in the Twilight of Equality and analysis of Sullivan that is really scathing. It really tears apart his argument about how the world works and makes it hard to respect him.

I think Phillips, Brock and Dean acutally care about Democracy and progress.

[buycitgo]

8. Ann Coulter

when he's not riding the linen equine

[AlCzervik]

10. Phillips is excellent

and you hardly ever see him on TV, i think it's because he speaks the truth that his fellow cons don't want to hear. I like David Brock, his book Blinded by the right was one of the first political books i read. Phillips book American dynasty is an excellent read.

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. Pat Buchanan

As long as he talks about the Neocons and NAFTA.

[freetobegay]

13. no! n/t

[Sporadicus]

14. No

next question?

[ArkDem]

16. Dan Rather

[rniel]

18. I'd have to say Lou Dobbs

He counts doesn't he.

[On the Road]

19. Bill Buckley Cracks Me Up

he's gotten a little senile, but he never seems to take the issues he debates too seriously. He came up as the conservative maverick at Yale when everyone was a socialist, so he accepts being out of his element. I've heard him debate Jesse Jackson, Paul Krugman, and others on a variety of issues, and it was alway entertaining.

He's kind impish and comes up with some real bombshells in a debate. I see his imperiousness as kind of theater -- an act that he puts on. It doesn't bother me the way it does with some people.

[rniel]

20. how about Lou Dobbs

he counts right?

[Dorian Gray]

24. I kind of don't mind....

John McCain.

Ack, there are a couple of conservatives that I listen to/read. Ann Coulter is PURE comedic genius. Well, her columns WOULD BE great satire, if it were meant satirically.

[playahata1]

21. Patrick Buchanan, unless he's talking about immigration and the "culture

wars." Other than that, he is dead on about neo-conservatism and the need for America to stay the hell out of other sovereign nations' affairs.

I have yet to watch "Buchanan and Press," but Buchanan has been more than solid on "The McLaughlin Group." Like Buchanan, John McLaughlin is old-school conservative, and makes excellent points. Tony Blankley, though, is a real jerk, a straight-up RW apologist.

I don't agree with 99 percent of what Ken Hamblin -- a black conservative from out West -- says, but I am with him when he calls for the legalization of drugs. The so-called "War On Drugs" is the reason behind the all the damage the African American community has incurred in the last 20 years.

[theboss]

22. George Will and David Brooks

They are conservatives with principles and both can write like Hell.

[theboss]

23. Does PJ O'Rourke count?

He's not really a pundit, but I own a lot of his books.

[The Blue Knight]

25. Tucker/Dobbs

[Kid_A]

26. I kinda like Joe Scarborough...

he's an R.E.M. fan, and that says a lot.

[DaveSZ]

27. Peter Jennings, Jim Lehrer, WH correspond Moran

Those guys aren't conservative pundits.

At the least they try to stay neutral.

I'd have to say David Brooks even though he's a neocon, because he doesn't shriek at the top of his lungs like Hannity or those idiots.

I can't stand most of the RW talk radio and Fox News personalities though.

[evil_orange_cat]

30. yeah Scarborough doesn't seem like an extremist...

and quite frankly, I think he tries to pander to the christian right, but isn't quite one of them. It seems as if he is pretending to be a righty at times. I think he may be much more of a moderate.

[LTR]

33. Scumborough is evil incarnate

I loathe him more than most of them.

I pick Lou Dobbs. He's real. No bullshit.

[soleft]

28. I liked Ariana Huffington

I like her a lot better now

[evil_orange_cat]

31. yeah, she's turned into a liberal populist...

it was definitely evident during her run for California's governor.

[Bandit]

32. David Gergen and Mort Zuckerman

Only two I know who are at least balanced.

[LTR]

34. Gergen's good

And he is one of the few Clinton guys who haven't pissed all over him.

And he's a conservative. Go figure.

At least more cred than Dick Morris. He's scum.

[Hubert Flottz]

35. NO!

I hit the mute button!