Have you ever been watching the news and found yourself scratching your head at their choice of experts or contributors? For example, if you want to do a segment on the relative merits of smaller government, is there any more natural choice than ... Kid Rock?
To his credit, Fox News's choice to have him on perplexed even the Kid himself, who told anchor Megyn Kelly "I have no idea why I'm here," before describing his personal "nightmare" that includes everyone "getting health insurance." We know, we know -- the horror!
Kid's not the only odd choice Fox News has made. After the jump, check out our list of Unqualified Fox News Contributors.
First, though, check out this clip from Kid Rock's "America Live" interview, in which he continues to wisely warn anyone against listening to anything he has to say:
Ted Nugent, Economist: The Nuge is known to your parents as the hard-rockin' wildman behind "Cat Scratch Fever," but you probably know him as the world's most famous gun nut / hunting enthusiast. Apparently, someone at Fox News also thought Ted had the prescription for what ails our tanking economy.
Dennis Miller, Comedy Archaeologist: Miller used to be as topical as a fungal rash, but since his 9/11-fueled conversion to conservatism, his pop-culture references have become equally resistant to progress. Viewers could be forgiven if they thought this clip was from a 1993 HBO special, but it's from five weeks ago.
Sarah Palin, Campaign Strategist: It should've been fairly obvious that the most famous loser in campaign history would make a lousy strategist for Barack Obama's re-election effort, but if you have any doubt, just listen to the advice she gives. Promise some tax cuts? Kiss more babies? Nah, start a freakin' war!
Dr. David Samadi, Patient Advocate: Dr. Samadi holds the cool, yet contradictory title of "Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery" (who wants a minimally invasive robot?), but in this clip he explains that millions of uninsured people are a good thing, because they free up doctors to take care of the non-deadbeats. I guess it's easy to "first do no harm" if they never get into your office.
Janine Driver and Tonya Reiman, Body Language Experts: We often find ourselves wondering "What does that frown-y look mean?" or "What's she going to do with that reared-back, face-level open palm?" and wish we had a body language expert handy. Fox News isn't taking any chances. They've got two.
First, there's Tonya Reiman, who explains in all seriousness to Bill O'Reilly that Hillary Clinton is laughing because she's sad, and hates her job because she looked up.
Our favorite, though, is Janine Driver, who at least seems to be in on the joke. We also love this clip because she's deconstructing the gesticulations of our favorite weatherman, Jim Kosek.


























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Friday 05 March
By SherriJane
For one thing the rating squares did not register - probably because I wasn't logged in. I think the whole article is just plain bias politics. Rather wasteful space and certainly not very newsworthy. Your dislike of the contributors on Fox doesn't necessarily mean a damn thing.
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Friday 05 March
By Gary
Interesting that he seems to believe that Fox, who was breaking with the normal lefty views of the network media, should use Olberman to man their news desk. You end up wondering what liberals use to reason with. Certainly isn't a brain....
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Tuesday 08 June
By funny gal
Are you serious? You know who much $$$ is collected off of paychecks for health insurance, and is not even all used!!! So, what if it goes to help someone else? It's better than all the money going into the pockets of some fat billionaire ceo, who btw, are filthy immoral money whores! Health insurance now is thievery. Insurance may be working for you, but not for me. I've worked for 30 years and never been sick. Of course, now that I am unemployed and sick, guess what? No, insurance!!!! That is evil. What about all those years of my money put into insurance huh? It has to change now!!!
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Friday 05 March
By Al
Interesting comment on the most watched and admired news show ever aired in the history of news casting... Tell me again about your loneliness.
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Friday 05 March
By Pat
Al, I couldn't have said it better myself. Fox News is the most watched (and enjoyed)news channel ever. Their anchors have personalty.I love the last line of your comment,very clever sarcasm !!
Friday 05 March
By mark turner
I heard the interview with him, and it was refreshing to hear a musician.who is NOT kissing the Big O's butt. I think alot of His supporters in the music world do so for 2 reasons: (1) being on the bandwagon boosts popularity w/the trust-fund hippie and dewy-eyed young MTV set who will roll over for their favorite fab celebs and (2) I believe that any band or musician who dares speak out AGAINST the Liberal bleeding-heart mindset risks a backlash of boycotting. Kinda like Whole Foods. Which is the reason I started shopping there in the first place!
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Friday 05 March
By ranne
what a silly article..........Why not have some entertaining people on opinion and/or fun shows like RedEye.
Why didn't this article include Larry King's guest on his show?
Get it? HIS show!
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Friday 05 March
By kidcat24
Yeah, and when they were trying to implement medicare the Republiicans were telling everyone "you will lose your freedom" Right out of the RNC playbook of FEAR.
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Friday 05 March
By anne
Don't forget the dnc's favourite boogyman, globulwarming.
Friday 05 March
By james
How about all the unqualified commentators as pmsnbc, I guess thats the whole channel!!
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Friday 05 March
By on paaleezzzz
oh my God, you can write this article when the democrats roll out their political "experts", fools like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Barbara Striesand, Madonna, Sean Penn, Tina Fey, Alex Baldwin, Susan Serandin etc etc etc. And, before you liberal #holes jump on me for being a republican, or uneducated, backwoods, and a poor speller. I am a firm independant that made a horrendous regretful mistake by voting for Obummer, and I could give a flip if I misspell a celebrity name, I turn off the TV when I see any of the above in the credits, so how would I know how to spell their names.
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Friday 05 March
By ken johnson
Now, prove to me that aol DOESN'T have a liberal bias by printing and article like this about MSNBC's "expert" contributors! And, while you're at, tell me why the recent Senate victory in MA DIDN't merit being one of your featured stories that night!
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Friday 05 March
By bob
TOMMY GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE BARRY FLAVORED KOOL-AID
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Friday 05 March
By Victoria
By your own obviously skewed opinions Tommy, Al Franken, is certainly unqualfied for his office. I mean, since an entertainer is "unqualified" to be a news contributor, certainly one would be unqualified to hold office. But I bet you think he is. You just can't stand Fox. But they can live with that.
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Sunday 07 March
By dougas2
By this logic Regan wasn't qualified either.
Friday 05 March
By robert
I appreciate your honesty in admitting your mistake of voting for the worst president ever--Obama. And I too am independent, and think Bush ended up being pretty horrid too in running the nationall debt from the 5 trillion range to the 10 trillion range.
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Friday 05 March
By MobyMom
Please set my mind at ease and tell me you haven't had to use any pregnancy health benefits.
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Friday 05 March
By 2lazy2p
I scratch my head as to why AOL uses people like Tommy Christopher as news reporters.
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Friday 05 March
By docmacs
And Obama was qualified to be president how????
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Friday 05 March
By Bill
All the frenzied comments making fun or complaining about Fox News doesn't bother us long time fans of Fox News and Fox Business News all it shows is the so called main stream media, (in reality they should be called the "Frenzied Leftie Losers"), are content to be out of touch of the Real Americans. Maybe they should be worried about us since we are God fearing, honest, gun owning and toting real mainstream American citizens. We are ready to help our fellow men, but will fight to the death to not be forced by government to help slackers.
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