Not sure if they’re the worst. I don’t find Charlemagne very engaging. Leslie had that interview with the NYTimes(?) guy that had that viral clip about Trump leading in the polls which I couldn’t stand as the biggest piece of Doomer bait I’ve seen in a while.
I’m so sick of this response. At best it’s obtuse at worst it’s totally disingenuous. Hasan is not Jerry Seinfeld or Anthony Jeselnick. He is not changing details to an innocuous story for the sake of a bigger punchline. The audience believing the story is integral to its impact. Hasan himself clearly believes this or he would have been more upfront from the beginning of his shows about the sources of his stories. If you were watching the Daily Show, you’d expect a few one-liners and sarcastic jokes, but you’d also fully expect the substance of the pieces to be accurate and truthful. The audience seeing Hasan knows him from that type of media so they’d reasonably expect the same. Some of the exaggerations aren’t a big deal IMO and Maybe Hasan sincerely felt like the audience understood these were not fully true stories, but he at least made a mistake in not being upfront about that in his live shows.
This is teetering into conspiracy land, and I seriously doubt it. Obviously there’s going to be some pro-Hasan bias on this sub, and I think that in full context the substance of the article is t as bad as presented BUT there are still legit ethics questions to the way Hasan presented his stories. The journalist who wrote the article I’ve followed for a long time and she’s legit, she’s not some hack out to do Bill Masher’s or anyone else’s bidding.
The producers are enjoying the press and don’t want to pay for a regular host.