Michael L. Umphrey

Writer and photographer. Nonfiction: The Power of Community-Centered Teaching: Books of poetry: The Lit Window and The Breaking Edge

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

The Five was surprisingly interesting today, with neither @JesseBWatters nor @greggutfeld on. FoxNews has a terminal case of the clown factor.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

Fox News has some classy pundits, but no show with @Gutfeldfox can maintain any class--which I suspect makes him proud. Yelling "in your face!" is not comic brilliance. I didn't mind him on Red Eye, but he's ruined Fox News for me. I taught middle school--he would fit in.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

The Five comes on at about the time I come inside to sit for a while, and it would be nice to find out the day's news. Unfortunately, it's pretty much unwatchable if @JesseBWatters and @Gutfeldfox are on. I wish FN would model calm civic argument rather than red meat hatred.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

I would like to find a conservative or moderate panel discussion of politics without the clown factor: @Gutfeldfox and @KennedyNation

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

On the Five, Harold Ford tried to make a simple point about working together. @Gutfeldfox kept interrupting, proving that all jackassery doesn't come from the left.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

@tom_wheeling @Gutfeldfox I don't like them yelling over her and switching to personal comments. I disagree with her, and I think they should disagree with her. But Gutfeld, especially, is a boor.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

The Five was interesting today--both @Gutfeldfox and #JesseBWatters were missing, which permitted various opinions. I'm more conservative than either of those guys but they are SO offensive.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

@Gutfeldfox apparently thinks witless rudeness is funny. Tiresome. FoxNews has few shows left that aren't ruined by the clown factor.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

@JesseBWatters Watters is always looking for some little rule to follow--socks must match pants or something. Not very manly.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

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[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

I'm more conservative by a lot than @JesseBWatters or @Gutfeldfox--and I wish they would let Jessica speak. They act like toddlers with diarrhea . . .

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

Geeze Fox. @Gutfeldfox is way out of his depth trying to explain Kirk.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

Do we need a male Karen? Why does @IngrahamAngle provide a platform for a daily trivial whine? I change the channel when @RaymondArroyo shows up.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

@JesseBWatters and @Gutfeldfox make the Five unwatchable yet again. It would be nice to have a conservative news program sans the raunchy right's libertarian blah. . . .

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

The only pileated woodpecker I've ever seen in my yard. It's a spectacular bird--the largest forest bird in North America. I think it's a female--I could be more certain if it turned a little more toward me.

The elderberries are doing well. We get heavy clusters of fruit at the

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

What about all that smoke from unmanaged fires?

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Republicans are dragging us back to the days of coal and lung cancer.

Meanwhile, California gets 2/3 of our power from renewable and zero-carbon sources — the largest economy on Earth to achieve this.

It's time for America to follow the Golden State's lead into the future.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

When @JesseBWatters and @Gutfeldfox start yelling over the democrat on the Five, I turn it off. I don't usually agree with Jessica, but worse is the scornful, mocking tone of Watters and Gutfeld.

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

@Gutfeld thinks it's funny to yell "In your face" to Harold Ford. It's even dumber than Jackie Gleason's "And away we go. . . ." He seems to think middle school poop and sex references are brilliant, but the shock value is long gone and they're just tasteless, annoying

[Michael L. Umphrey @umphrey]

It would be nice if Fox News maintained standards as high as CNN or MSNBC (or ABC, CBS, NBC) when it comes to profanity and obscenity. @Gutfeld (and Tyrus and Kennedy) revel in vulgarity and sophomoric, scatalogical "edginess" that I don't find funny. More class: Perino, Baier