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 kenny
what would tommy christopher submit that would deem any news contributor unqualified?
tommy christopher is an annoyed academo elitist who is jealous of those who has reached a higher focal point than he,
so here he sits typing anti-fox blogs for aol.
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Friday 05 March
By SKI
USA Today news team -- YOU ONLY WISH YOU WERE LIKE FOX NEWS.
Compared to FOX the rest of the media better get on the ball
because the American people do not like getting taken by the lies
and bull that the Chicago dirty politican brought to the White
House. It's to bad that USA News department can't see the
writing on the wall. You are losing us. I only read your Sports
and Charles Krauthamer. Get Smart and see the Light.
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Friday 05 March
By Jim Matheny
why do you publish such garbage and attack the Fox News Network? What about the other alleged news networks?
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Friday 05 March
By joninthecreek
Sad part is that I find most of these contributors more credible than most academic liberals!
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Friday 05 March
By ironhorn
In your dreams libquestrian.Typical moron brobamaphite liberal coolaid simpleton bungholio puke-a-fruit goose stepping uneducated welfare baby from utopia!!! You wouldn't know the truth or recognize reality if your wus panzy mentalist commie heroes shoved a grenade down your panty waiste of a gutless socialistic self.You are truly nothing but a bad word on a milk cartoon!!!
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Friday 05 March
By June
the commentators may not have the experience that you feel is necessary, but.. the president and his "merry men" do not have the experience that I feel is necessary. they are up there flying by the seat of their pants, and it ain't working out for the country. I would much rather have commentators that are inexperienced, than to have our country run by a bunch of; on the job training cohorts.
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Friday 05 March
By David
Yes, far be it from a network to include anyone unqualified to talk about politics. After all, an ag school educated sportscaster is an authority, right?(Olbermann)But maybe i'm wrong. How about a stand up comedian?(Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart, Joy Behar, Bill Maher)I've frequently noticed that whenever somebody is considered ill-informed, that it is always a non liberal voice. John Stuart Mill was an elitist ass, by the way, and Margaret Sanger, an icon in the feminist movement, was a racist who suggested abortion as a way to control minority population. Know what you are talking about. Liberal celebs aren't any more well informed than Conservative ones, and that means you too, 90% of Hollywood.
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Saturday 06 March
By SkyBlue
David, those other people you mention do not pretend to be on news programs. They are commentators on the news, just like O'Reilly, Beck, and Hannity. Those programs are not news programs. It's all opinion. People who watch the Fox commentators need to keep that in mind, and use their brains a little bit to understand what's being said to them and why.
Friday 05 March
By ironhorn
What do we expect? Afterall the story came from the Always On Liberal step aol asylum section which means what it says!!!From the mental asylum of libs socialist-communist lunatic fringe left wing-nut radical whack jobs we see every day on every network telling us how ignorant and uninformed we are.I say let the revolution begin!!! And come that time shoot them first!!!
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Friday 05 March
By Esnes Nomac
Little Tommy Christopher writes like a spoiled child that has been neglected recdently.
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Friday 05 March
By Ian
Hey, they don't call it FAUX News for nothing!
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Friday 05 March
By kathy
Meme, what is wrong with you? People work as hard as you do, their whole life. Then they get sick. Lose their job, lose their health care. Even if they can get some form of health care, they end up in bankruptcy. Are you better than these people? You probably think that you are.... Karma
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Friday 05 March
By jonas
Yes really what we need is some more of those like Michael Moore to give their opinions, they have much more credibility. BULL $HIT
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Friday 05 March
By Hellohere
ROT IN HELL PHAUX NEWS. ALL TV NEWS its all controlled by the Bush/Cheney/Obama/Clinton MOB. Wake up. PrisonPlanet.com
Infowars.com Everyone's waking up and TV is on the way OUT.
Well maybe not in the HOOD or the TRAILER PARK or NURSING HOMES.
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Friday 05 March
By Tim
Slow news day? No earthquakes or tsunamis? AOL has less credibility than the contributors to FOX!
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Friday 05 March
By Dan
Faux News-They Lie!
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Friday 05 March
By Donny
I wonder why the goons at AOL chose to use Fox News Channel? I mean really, there are bigger kooks on CNN and MSNBC all the time. Oh yeah, that's right, slander the powerful that intimidate you and your S-P agenda. What was I thinking??? LOL
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Friday 05 March
By Herb Offerle
What a broad spectrum of people that you think are not worthy of appearing as guests on Fox. I've never heard of you..so are you worthy. These people are all Americans and are entitled to be heard even if you don't agree with them. I think most would agree with this a prefer to make their own judgments.
By the way, why don't you prepare a page that highlights Al Franken, the Minnesota Senator...whose only claim to know anything is that he is a former "comedian"..quotes are for emphasis, not a validation.
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Friday 05 March
By Pete Hudson
Who the fuck is Tommy Christopher? What an insignificant bug.
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Friday 05 March
By BPerry
It's all about ratings, not news. Fox isn't a news network, it's infotainment. People tune in to have someone, anyone, justify their predispositions. Other's just like to see Beck, Hannity, O'Reily, etc. go beserk uttering their inane commentary. They've never let a fact get in their way or failed to use their craft like creative editing to "prove" their point of view. As soon as they start to lose a logical debate, they just scream louder drowning out their guest. It's like watching a live version of a looney toon.
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