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I've got to agree with all your comments on this thread so far. Ben is great and he is my fave guest host. Even better when he is on with Cenk. However, I do have to say though that he does get a little carried away with the wild tangents. Cenk seems to keep him on track an steer the conversation back after a little while, but I do see a problem with the show's chemistry when it is just Ben and Ana. Ana, you need to be a little more assertive and tell Ben to STFU every now and again because he totally derails your flow! I doubt it is intentional, I think Ben just loves to talk and can't help himself sometimes.

Wes is a very close second to Ben. I also enjoyed Richard Eskow and am enjoying him more and more as I feel like he is loosening up a bit and getting more comfortable coming on the show.

As far as Jackie goes.....from what I've seen 95% of the time she is pretty much just smiling and nodding and agreeing with Cenk with a "yeah" or something similar to that. She really doesn't seem to bring anything to the table. She seems like a really nice person (and yes she is hot too) who may be great in a different show but appears to be totally out of her element on TYT.

To kurd55: You seem to have access to the internet. If the most important thing to you is hot chicks to look at, I promise you there are countless other places on the internet that can give you more hot women than you could ever imagine. Trust me, I've been to some of those places before. I'm not trying to be a dick and suggest that you should forsake TYT. I am just suggesting that maybe a parade of hot chicks for the sake of itself is not exactly the overall mission statement of TYT. Personally that is not what I want or expect from TYT and I think most of the show's viewers and listeners would agree. Also, from a marketing standpoint (and at the risk of sounding creepy) Ana is all the eye candy the show needs. Plus, its not like eye candy is the ONLY or even the main thing she brings to the show (unlike Jackie). Ana has things to say and doesn't just nod and smile when Cenk makes a point. I could be wrong, but hey that is what this forum is for. I'm sure we'll see soon who agrees and disagrees with me on this one.

Michael Shure is a suitable stand in for Cenk and I still enjoy TYT when he is on, just not as much as Cenk or anyone else I've previously mentioned as favorites. The other guest hosts mentioned here don't destroy the show for me but aren't really my cup of tea either.

Other people mentioned Jayar, Ana, and Jesus as guest hosts. I don't really consider them guest hosts myself. They are already part of the show and we already get to hear from them. I definitely wouldn't mind hearing from them more often every show though.

by marklar1 on 03/19/2010 10:29:20 PM EST

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Ana was the same (none / 0)

Ms. Kasparian was much the same for her first 3-6 months on the show. I think Jackie is just nervous. Perhaps she's no Rhodes Scholar, but to say that she brings nothing to the table is both a cynical assumption and needlessly unkind.

by RedPossum on 03/20/2010 11:14:03 AM EST

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Obviously I disagree (none / 0)

If I thought it was needlessly unkind, I wouldn't have said it. I'm not the kind of person that says stuff to people for the sake of being unkind. In fact I think I went out of my way to give her the benefit of the doubt. If it seemed unnecessarily unkind, I apologize to Jackie and to Jackie only. My intention was honesty, not malice.

Also, I think you've read a little too much into what I wrote. I did not make a single comment about Jackie's intelligence or her being a Rhodes scholar. You don't have to be stupid to be out of your element. Einstein was a genius, but he'd be out of his element on TYT as well. I love Cenk and his enthusiasm for evolution, but he seems to be out of his element on science. Not every user name you see that isn't a forum regular is a sock puppet or a troll.

What you say about Ana may or may not be true, couldn't say. I've only been following the show for a little under 2 years. I'll have to take your word for it as I don't think you have any reason to lie about that.

by marklar1 on 03/20/2010 03:45:03 PM EST

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After rereading some posts from other people, I find it amazing you singled mine out as being unnecessarily unkind. If you think you have to protect everyone's feelings here I ask you this: Is Ben not a human being with feelings? If you prick him, does he not bleed? If you tickle him, does he not laugh? So on and so forth.

by marklar1 on 03/20/2010 03:52:49 PM EST

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: LOL, no (none / 0)

Whoa, calm down.
My decision to reply to your post and not another was purely arbitrary; yours caught my interest enough to make me want to reply.
by RedPossum on 03/20/2010 08:52:24 PM EST

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right on (none / 0)

This is pretty spot on.

As a host Ben is the best, he rise to the role of tackling the issue as a whole. Unger and Anna is more sidekicks and is the ones that should stay in the TYT loop.

Sorry but Jackie gotta go. If she needs practice as someone suggested she can't do it on my primetime. And because she's hot? Jeez, this aint a weather forecast, it's the number one progressive show, don't you forget it...

by bhenriksson on 03/22/2010 07:00:59 AM EST

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