History Main / NeoconNewscaster

You all know the type: the talking head whose views tend toward socially and fiscally conservative, Christian fundamentalist, and fiercely nationalist often to the point of Type II {{Eagleland}} (even if he isn't actually American). A gadfly to any form of political compromise with what he sees as socialist causes.

This is one of the newer political tropes, one which seems to have come to prominence in TheEighties and TheNineties with a rise in prominence of right-wing punditry in American media. It's frequently intended as a parody or satire of the fringier elements of said movement.

Sometimes part of a StrawmanNewsMedia. Compare and contrast MalcolmXerox, which is a similar StrawCharacter type whose cause du jour is black rights and racism. Also compare BlondeRepublicanSexKitten and contrast FoxNewsLiberal.
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* {{Superman}} had Dirk Armstrong, a character that existed for a few years in the late nineties. A conservative columnist that was basically meant to be an Expy of RushLimbaugh, same political views, same build and general appearance. At first an annoying unsympathetic character.
* In-universe right-wing talk show host Lewis Prothero in ''Film/VForVendetta'', who staunchly supported the ruling regime, and called out its opponents with a lot of macho bluster.

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* In-universe right-wing talk show host Lewis Prothero in ''Film/VForVendetta'', who staunchly supported the ruling regime, and called out its opponents with a lot of macho bluster.
* The film ''Film/{{Moon}}'' had a talk radio host who sounded a lot like Radio/RushLimbaugh at the very end ([[spoiler: after Sam returns to Earth in an ore hopper, and supposedly tells the world what happened to him up there]]), who ridicules [[spoiler: Sam's story]] thusly:
--> You know what, he's one of two things. He's a whacko or an illegal immigrant. Either way, they need to lock him up. Line two!
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* ''Literature/LittleGreenMen'' has John Oliver Banion, who starts worrying his sponsors when he starts talking about having been [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]] (which is half true).
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* One episode of ''Series/BlueBloods'' features one of these with a side of anti-immigrant, borderline white supremacist rhetoric. Frank Reagan's plotline for the episode deals with the ToBeLawfulOrGood dilemma of ensuring the man's constitutionally protected right to be heard in spite of his disdain for his message (not to mention the absolute disgust of his black mayor and a MalcolmXerox from a previous episode). [[spoiler:He ends up foiling the mayor's attempt at BotheringByTheBook to shut down the theater where the host is making a live broadcast, then placing the man's police protection ''inside'' the theater and staffing it entirely with non-white officers led by a [[ScaryBlackMan VERY large black sergeant]].]]
* ''Series/TheGoodWife'' Episode 1x11 "Infamy": Duke Roscoe was a caricature of Radio/GlennBeck that continued to goad people into believing that a woman had murdered her missing baby until she killed herself out of grief and he said on television that he was glad she had done that. He makes the following trial for wrongful death a very hard process by continuously defending his First Amendment rights and anything related (like how he got his info). At the end of the episode the baby girl was found alive, plus evidence that he was misinformed about the dead mother by a (slightly) LoonyFan comes to light.
* Suzanne Fulcrum, the host of the ShowWithinAShow ''American Crime'' on the 2006 series ''Series/{{Justice}}'' constantly called the Accused Person Of The Week guilty. The twist was that 1) sometimes the Accused Of The Week ''was'' guilty (but the audience didn't learn that until the episode's end), and 2) some of her continuous badgering about said accused person being guilty was because she had a grudge with lawyer firm TNT&G (and Ron Trott specially) and their continuous use of spin doctoring for the defense's sake.
* In ''Series/TheColbertReport'' host Stephen Colbert plays a parody of this. The show was literally pitched to Creator/ComedyCentral as "Stephen Colbert parodies [[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]]".
* On ''Series/TheWestWing'' President Barlett gives Dr. Jenna Jacobs (an expy of Dr. Laura Schelssinger) a verbal beat down. After she tells him that homosexuality is "an abomination unto the Lord" he pretends to agree with her, then [[QuoteToQuoteCombat goes into detail about a bunch of other stuff from the same passage in the Bible that that's from. "How much should I charge when I sell my daughter into slavery?" and such.]]
** This was based on [[http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html an actual letter]] that was addressed to Schlessinger, asking, among other things, why Americans aren't allowed to enslave Canadians.
* In the mid-'90s, {{MTV}} had an outspoken conservative VJ named Kennedy. On ''Series/MurphyBrown'' Lansing decides to shake things up at ''[[ShowWithinAShow FYI]]'' by hiring the outspoken conservative MTV VJ [=McGovern=] (though it is eventually revealed he was under the influence of Demerol prior to his triple bypass surgery).
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* Richard Bastion from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', host of the Richard Bastion Show on WKTT, is written as a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody of Radio/RushLimbaugh.
* The ''Xtended Terran Conflict'' [[GameMod mod]] for ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3: Terran Conflict]]'' adds news services for each race. The Terran version, Terran Morning News, is a satire of {{Fox News|Channel}} as a whole and Glenn Beck's and Alex Jones's shows in particular, what with rampant paranoia, conspiracy theories, and subtle or not-so-subtle discrimination (Muslims in post-9/11 Fox News have been replaced by [[LostColony Aldrinites]] in Terran Morning News, for example).
* One mod for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' adds a radio station hosted by "Glen Morgan," a racist, pro-gun, right-wing Enclave supporter.
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' has a cross between this trope and Creator/MarvelComics' [[Franchise/SpiderMan J. Jonah Jameson.]] in the form of G. Gordon Godfrey. While he isn't overtly right wing, he is the human or Earth equivalent of a Nationalist, and ''deeply'' distrust the {{Justice League|OfAmerica}} for their secrecy (which he isn't completely unfounded on) and disdainfully refers to members like Superman and the Martian Manhunter as "aliens". He uses his talk show as a soapbox and borders on yellow journalism and outright fear-mongering a lot of the time, and when [[AlienInvasion the Reach]] show up he lavishes them with praise because of their [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good PR]]. In an interesting reversal, he actually turns on the Reach once their lies begin to get exposed, and in the finale [[spoiler:it's heavily implied that like his comics counterpart he himself is an alien from Apokolips]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' J. Jonah has a television show which essentially makes him one of these.
** He's given a unique twist, though. He's NICE to MJ, when she makes a pro-Spiderman video. In fact, he's one of the only two views she GOT.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** One-shot character and Limbaugh caricature Birch Barlow segued a debate question about budgets into a description about robbers entering houses at night and hog-tying the people within for shock value.
** The loudmouthed host of the talk show that appears on "Bart Mangled Banner". He continues asking the Simpsons if they hate America (and what specific part of it, as well) by yelling in their faces until Marge snaps.
** Homer Simpson himself became one after a video of one of his rants went viral and was hired by a news channel. He became so popular he convinced people to wear gravy boats on their heads and almost endorsed Music/TedNugent for president.
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This is one of the newer political tropes, one which seems to have come to prominence in TheEighties and TheNineties with the [[UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies neoconservative movement]] within the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem Republican Party]]. It's frequently intended as a parody or satire of the fringier elements of said movement.

* On ''Series/TheWestWing'' President Barlett gives Dr. Laura Schelssinger carbon-copy Dr. Jenna Jacobs a verbal beat down. After she tells him that homosexuality is "an abomination unto the Lord" he pretends to agree with her, then [[QuoteToQuoteCombat goes into detail about a bunch of other stuff from the same passage in the Bible that that's from. "How much should I charge when I sell my daughter into slavery?" and such.]]
* In the mid-90s {{MTV}} had an outspoken conservative VJ named Kennedy. On ''Series/MurphyBrown'' Lansing decides to shake things up at ''[[ShowWithinAShow FYI]]'' by hiring the outspoken conservative MTV VJ [=McGovern=] (though it is eventually revealed he was under the influence of Demerol prior to his triple bypass surgery).

* In the mid-90s {{MTV}} had an outspoken conservative VJ named Kennedy. On ''Series/MurphyBrown'' a meddling executive decides to shake things up at ''[[ShowWithinAShow FYI]]'' by hiring the outspoken conservative MTV VJ [=McGovern=].

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' has a cross between this trope and Creator/MarvelComics' [[Franchise/SpiderMan J. Jonah Jameson.]] in the form of G. Gordon Godfrey. While he isn't overtly right wing, he is the human or Earth equivalent of a Nationalist, and ''deeply'' distrust the {{Justice League|OfAmerica}} for their secrecy (which he isn't completely unfounded on). He uses his talk show as a soapbox and borders on yellow journalism and outright fear-mongering a lot of the time, and when [[AlienInvasion the Reach]] show up he lavishes them with praise because of their [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good PR]]. In an interesting reversal, he actually turns on the Reach once their lies begin to get exposed, and in the finale [[spoiler:it's heavily implied that like his comics counterpart he himself is an alien from Apokolips]].

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' has a cross between this trope and Creator/MarvelComics' [[Franchise/SpiderMan J. Jonah Jameson.]] in the form of G. Gordon Godfrey. While he isn't overtly right wing, he is the human or Earth equivalent of a Nationalist, and ''deeply'' distrust the {{Justice League|OfAmerica}} for their secrecy (which he isn't completely unfounded on). He uses his talk show as a soapbox and borders on yellow journalism and outright fear-mongering a lot of the time, and when [[AlienInvasion the Reach]] show up he lavishes them with praise because of their [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good PR]]. In an interesting reversal, he actually turns on the Reach once their lies begin to get exposed.

This is one of the newer political tropes, one which seems to have come to prominence in TheEighties and TheNineties with the neoconservative movement within the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem Republican Party]]. It's frequently intended as a parody or satire of the fringier elements of said movement.

** Homer Simpson himself became one after a video of one of his rants went viral and was hired by a news channel. He became so popular he convinced people to wear gravy boats on their heads and almost endorsed Music/ToddRundgren for president.

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* The ''Xtended Terran Conflict'' mod for ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3: Terran Conflict]]'' adds news services for each race. The Terran version, Terran Morning News, is a satire of {{Fox News|Channel}} as a whole and Glenn Beck's and Alex Jones's shows in particular, what with rampant paranoia, conspiracy theories, and subtle or not-so-subtle discrimination (Muslims in post-9/11 Fox News have been replaced by [[LostColony Aldrinites]] in Terran Morning News, for example).
* One mod for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' adds an radio station hosted by "Glen Morgan," a racist, pro-gun, right-wing Enclave supporter.