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->''I could not dig, I dared not rob\\
Therefore I lied to please the mob.''
-->-- '''Creator/RudyardKipling''', "A Dead Statesman"

A loudmouthed political talking head whose views tend toward radical right-wing (or, less commonly, left-wing) political positions often to the point of the Boorish style of {{Eagleland}} (even if he isn't actually American). A gadfly to any form of political compromise with what he sees as socialist or libertarian causes.

This is one of the newer political tropes, one which seems to have come to prominence in TheEighties and TheNineties after a combination of the FCC scrapping the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine Fairness Doctrine]], and the increasing popularity of cable television, which isn't beholden to FCC rules, led to a rise in prominence of right-wing punditry in American media. It's usually a parody or satire of these types, and the right-wing version is probably more common. Many examples are explicit parodies of specific figures, like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Alex Jones. The TropeMaker was Creator/{{ABC}}'s coverage of the 1968 US presidential elections, when ABC executives wanted a [[NoBudget low-cost way]] to stand out from conventional election coverage -- in this case, the hiring of political polar opposites Creator/GoreVidal and William F. Buckley, Jr. to take part in a series of debates. The relationship between Vidal and Buckley was covered in-depth in the documentary ''Best of Enemies''.

Sometimes part of StrawmanNewsMedia. Compare and contrast MalcolmXerox, which is a similar StrawCharacter type whose cause du jour is black rights and racism. Also compare BlondeRepublicanSexKitten and FoxNewsLiberal.

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Heavily used in Creator/FrankMiller's later work, such as ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' and ''especially'' ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.
* ''ComicBook/LeavesOnTheWind'': The ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' sequel comic opens with a pair of pundits arguing about the ''Serenity'' crew's broadcast that the Reavers were a result of an Alliance social engineering experiment GoneHorriblyWrong. A balding male pundit pompously calls BS on the whole thing, saying it's a hoax to discredit the Alliance, while the female one thinks the accusations should be investigated. In particular, the pro-Alliance pundit resorts to {{ad hominem}}s against Mr. Universe (using his {{Robosexual}}ity to paint him as a pervert) to discredit the message (Mr. Universe was already dead by the Alliance's hand when the message was sent; Mal just used his equipment).
* ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Glorious Godfrey is this for Franchise/TheDCU as a whole. He works for Darkseid spreading propaganda that incites people to serve his purposes on Earth.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** DependingOnTheWriter, J. Jonah Jameson.
*** In most storylines, about 99% of Jameson's rants, editor's messages, and TV shows are anti-Spider-Man bile, with at least one story having him hating on ComicBook/TheAvengers as well, if not the entire Marvel superhero community, for the sake of variation. About the only super he actually ''likes'' (most of the time) is ComicBook/JessicaJones, [[MoralMyopia who rescued his adopted daughter when she went missing]] in ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}''. Though to all his bluster, Jameson prides himself on being the last honest man in the news. When shown evidence of fake pictures of Spider-Man in one of the movies, his immediate concern is that he will have to print a retraction, and he hasn't done that in decades. Sure, he wants to ruin Spider-Man, but he isn't about to use information he ''knows'' is fake to do that.
*** To expand: that one story mentioned above has [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark himself]] coming to Jameson and offering a ''massive'' amount of money with the explicit condition: "By the way, Spidey's an Avenger now, can I ask you to lay down the bile, if only a little?". Jameson ''took'' the money... and the day afterwards he ran a rant hating on ''all of the Avengers'' that essentially started as "You are not the boss of me." Take note that this was [[CharacterizationMarchesOn done a long time before Stark would have answered to that with]] him summoning a literal ArmyOfLawyers to sue for libel and potential breach of agreement, so the Avengers can only go "our arms are tied."
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', Jameson initially backs a political campaign of a man who is tied to known mobster Wilson Fisk because the candidate is anti-Spider-Man. When the candidate loses it after one question in a softball interview (any answer other than threatening the reporter and destroying the recording device would have satisfied), Jameson pulls his support immediately.
* ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'': The ANaziByAnyOtherName supervillain Commando X started out as one of these. He was a MalcolmXerox with a public access television show attacking "the Man" and blaming {{Greedy Jew}}s for black people's struggles, but after his show got ScrewedByTheNetwork he descended into domestic terrorism.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Dirk Armstrong, a character that existed for a few years in the late 1990s. A conservative columnist that was basically meant to be an Expy of Radio/RushLimbaugh, same political views, same build and general appearance. At first an annoying unsympathetic character.
** Morgan Edge, is about equally likely to be portrayed as this trope or a shady media executive.
* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': DoubleSubverted. It's supposed that "FATE", the computer that controls every single aspect of England, is capable of talking (has its own radio program, "The voice of FATE"). It's a trick, the voice is from GeneralRipper Lewis Prothero. That the government has managed to trick England's population tells us what a CrapsackWorld it is.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'', NBC host Creator/NicolleWallace is presented as this, as she's shown giving negative commentary on President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump before reminding the viewers that she was part of the UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush administration and "[[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror lied the country into a war that killed at least 100,000 people]]" in an attempt to invoke EvenEvilHasStandards.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** J. Jonah Jameson in the Raimi ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who prides himself on being the last honest man in the news. When shown evidence of fake pictures of Spider-Man in ''Film/SpiderMan3'', his immediate concern is that he will have to print a retraction, and he hasn't done that in decades. Sure, he wants to ruin Spider-Man, but he isn't about to use information he ''knows'' is fake to do that. In ''Film/SpiderMan2'' he has a HeelRealization after the city goes to hell without Spider-Man around, but [[IgnoredEpiphany immediately goes back to his old ways after catching him stealing his suit back from him]].
** Jameson in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is essentially the same as the Raimi version (with Creator/JKSimmons reprising his role once more), but with added influence from Alex Jones as he's shown shilling his personal brand of supplements during a broadcast in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. He's also shown to be far less scrupulous than any other incarnation of JJ, being willing to ruin the life of Peter Parker (rather than just Spider-Man) and having no concern about whether he promotes fake information.
* 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}}'' has a talk radio host who sounds 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:
-->'''Radio Host:''' 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!
* Howard Beale in ''Film/{{Network}}'' is a more heroic example, though he's still pompous and quite possibly insane. His politics aren't explicitly left- or right-wing, instead being a broader "mad as hell" populism.
* In ''Film/AFaceInTheCrowd'', Lonesome Rhodes is already well-established as a pompous TV entertainer when he decides to use his popularity to bolster a Senator's ailing political campaign.
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': "They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say let 'em crash."
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In the "Advise and Consent" series by Alan Drury, Walter Dobius embodies this trope, with assistance on the TV front from Our Anchorman Frankly Unctuous (that is the name actually used.) Note that Walter is not, repeat, NOT Walter Lippman.
* In L. Neil Smith's ''The Venus Belt'', this role is taken by the Creator/WalterCronkite {{Expy}} "Voltaire Malaise", whose catchphrase is "That's the way it looks."
* ''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).
* ''Literature/VenusPrime'' has Sir Randolph Mays, a pundit who's hell-bent on exposing the Free Spirit.
* In Rex Stout's 1949 Literature/NeroWolfe mystery, ''The Second Confession'', there's a rabidly anti-Communist radio commentator who Wolfe finds so repulsive that he makes firing him part of his fee.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The ''Series/BlueBloods'' episode "Inside Jobs" features Curtis Swint, who is one of these with a side of anti-immigrant, borderline white supremacist rhetoric. When Swint announces that he's going to be doing a live show in a New York City theatre, Commissioner Frank Reagan must face the ToBeLawfulOrGood dilemma of ensuring Swint's constitutionally protected freedom of speech rights in spite of his own disdain for Swint's message, not to mention the absolute disgust of Mayor Carter Poole and [[MalcolmXerox Reverend Potter]] (both of whom are black). [[spoiler:He ends up foiling Mayor Poole's attempt at BotheringByTheBook to shut down the theater where the host is making a live broadcast (due to the discovery that the theatre's boiler is overdue for an inspection), then places Swint's police protection ''inside'' the theater and arranges for it to be comprised entirely of non-white officers led by a [[ScaryBlackMan beefy black sergeant]]. The kicker? Said sergeant is from the same state as Swint.]]
* ''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 badgerings about said accused person being guilty was because she had a grudge with lawyer firm TNT&G (and Ron Trott especially) 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]]".
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' had Martha Cobb, a haughty BlondeRepublicanSexKitten and Ann Coulter {{expy}} who's beaten and violated with a picket sign handle during a protest that devolved into a riot. At one point Benson reassures her that they'll find the man responsible ([[NoEnding they don't]]) while [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality going out of her way to tell her she "hates everything she stands for" with little provocation]]. After their prosecution attempt falls through, the episode ends with Cobb deciding to start [[HonorBeforeReason hanging out at her rapist's place of work to spite him]] while he quietly seethes at her.
* ''Series/TheNewWKRPInCincinnati'': The radio station starts broadcasting Lash Rambo, and has to deal with the fallout of extreme broadcasting.
* ''Series/ThePunisher2017'': Senator Stan Ori is a liberal stereotype whose desire for gun control is depicted as hypocritical (he hires Billy Russo's [[PrivateMilitaryContractors company]] ANVIL to protect him because he is a DirtyCoward, which every single other character lampshades, not to mention it's obvious he's all about the money and political power), naive (he pretty much preaches that everybody with access to a gun is a potential maniac), opportunistic (exploits the Lewis Wilson bombings to talk fire and brimstone and lead people to give him pity votes) and dangerous (he pisses off the aforementioned Wilson, who is a pretty resourceful RightWingMilitiaFanatic -- if not for Frank Castle literally jumping in and TakingTheBullet, Ori have been unceremoniously shot).
* On ''Series/TheWestWing'', President Barlett gives Dr. Jenna Jacobs (an expy of Dr. Laura Schlessinger) a verbal beatdown. 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. The thing that prompts his rant? When he enters the room...she is LITERALLY the only person who does not stand to greet the President, showcasing a complete and utter disrespect for him personally and his office. So he proceeds to show her none as well.
* In the mid-'90s, Creator/{{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 before his triple bypass surgery).
** Kennedy now participates in political discussions on Fox News.
* Creator/HenryWinkler played one in the shortlived 90s SitCom ''Series/{{Monty|1994}}'', which was cancelled after five episodes.
* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' has an AlternateUniverse where America lost the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Revolutionary War]], and the Sheriff of San Francisco (who just happens to be an alternate version of one of our main characters, see picture above) becomes a colonial British version this trope.
* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' season four finale "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E22TheDeconstructionOfFallingStars The Deconstruction of Falling Stars]]" has a trio of them attacking John Sheridan's motives in creating the Interstellar Alliance, describing him as a megalomaniac who was mostly in it to glorify himself (which nonetheless had overall good results). [[spoiler:They're completely upstaged by a surprise appearance by Delenn, who calls Sheridan a good man and gives them a nasty WhatTheHellHero.]]
* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' has as its season six antagonist Brett O'Keefe, an analog for Alex Jones and James O'Keefe.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Ashley America's a [[EvilReactionary reactionary]] with her [[KentBrockmanNews own news show]] who seems to be what happens when someone reads Stephen Colbert's book ''Literature/IAmAmericaAndSoCanYou'' and takes it seriously.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* Sam the Eagle is sometimes portrayed as this in ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' productions, often interrupting the show to make a speech about the wholesome values that these weirdos totally fail to live up to. In [[Film/TheMuppets2011 the 2011 movie]], he has a show on a FOX News parody station called ''Everything Stinks''.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' has quite a few of these on [[Radio/GTARadio its assorted in-game radio stations]].
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has ''I Say/You Say'' on West Coast Talk Radio, which is hosted by the husband-and-wife team of Peyton and Mary Phillips, who are respectively based on James Carville and Mary Matalin. Peyton is a liberal caricature, Mary a conservative one, and the two of them spend the show getting into heated political arguments. For example, when one caller talks about killing illegal immigrants, Peyton suggests [[OrganTheft donating their organs]] and [[WeCare composting the bodies]], while Mary sees it as an opportunity for [[CorruptCorporateExecutive tax evasion]].
** Richard Bastion from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', host of the eponymous show on WKTT, is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody of Radio/RushLimbaugh (right down to him having [[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/warrants-detail-rush-limbaughs-drug-use an addiction to painkillers]]), promoting an exaggerated version of [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush-era]] foreign and domestic policy.
** "John Smith", from WKTT in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned Episodes from]] [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony Liberty City]]'', is a parody of Alex Jones, a right-wing/libertarian ConspiracyTheorist who indulges in [[ConspiracyKitchenSink every single crazy conspiracy theory]] and bit of general paranoia and racism his listeners phone in with. From what we hear of said callers, it's implied that a staggering number of them are [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazis]].
* 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 as a whole and Glenn Beck's and Alex Jones' 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 "Alan Morgan," a racist right-wing Enclave supporter.
%%** Which definitely falls into WriterOnBoard because EverythingIsTryingToKillYou in the Mojave and you'd be an idiot to be unarmed against Powder Gangers, Deathclaws, and the Legion.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' features Hunter Hellquist of the "[[MegaCorp Hyperion]] Truth Network", whose "news" reports are [[BlatantLies nothing of the sort]].
* ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' featured a radio show called ''Talk Bullet'', featuring an obnoxious pundit named Brett Steed who interrogates guests and then cuts them off before they can answer any of his questions. In a later chapter, he gets his comeuppance when he tries to pull his schtick on Saman, who refuses to play along.
* ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' has Bob Barbas of Raptor News Network, a thinly-veiled parody of Bill O'Reilly and the Fox News Network. He's actually one of [[BigBad Mundus']] minions who specifically spews propaganda that put their enemies (such as Dante) in a bad light.
* One of the radio stations in ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' stars Timothy Browning, a right-wing talk radio parody who blames everything on liberals.
-->"Where are the Democrats on this matter? What have they done to make this country safe? What really needs to be done here is the Democrats allowing the GOP to take charge in this time of crisis so no more lives will be spent needlessly!"
* ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' has Remy Duvall, the host of the talk radio show ''Native Son'' on WBYU, where he rails against the [[NewAgeRetroHippie counterculture]], the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, and all the other social changes of TheSixties. He's also the leader of the [[TheKlan Southern Union]] and an associate of [[TheMafia Mafia]] boss Sal Marcano, using his radio show to promote legalizing gambling (Marcano's big plan is to open a casino) as an alternative to funding a football stadium. He has a full-fledged VillainousBreakdown on-air when Lincoln starts coming after his criminal racket.
* ''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'' has Alan James, an Alex Jones {{expy}} whose EstablishingCharacterMoment is him promoting his book called "Alan James Is Always Right". To his credit, he's one of the first to speak out when the country begins to backslide into a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. [[spoiler:Later on, he becomes the spokesman for LaResistance after a JerkassRealization, but his efforts to do right by his countrymen lead to him becoming a WellIntentionedExtremist.]]
* ''VideoGame/RoadKill'' has Stu Pickles, the host of PICK 96.3. In between celebrating murder and violence for their own sake and blaming the Democrats and the liberals for ThePlague and the [[AfterTheEnd resulting apocalypse]], he seems to have transitioned quite nicely into becoming a [[PropagandaMachine propaganda mouthpiece]] for the local warlord [[BigBad Axl]], promoting his enslaving people as a "work-study program" that gives people direction in life.
* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' has J. Jonah Jameson running a podcast where he dedicates his time to attacking Spider-Man and blaming him for everything wrong in the city. Unlike other examples, he does [[JerkassHasAPoint occasionally make good points]] about things such as how certain things the city and police are doing would count as civil liberty violations or how supervillains need to be kept under tighter security while imprisoned and later on when the city goes to hell he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold stops the fearmongering and tries to help the New Yorkers]]. After Spider-Man saves the city in the end he does [[PetTheDog briefly praise him]] before returning to his regular schedule of harassing him in later broadcasts.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': Dr. Mac is a "progressive" version, embodying the worst stereotypes of left-wing pundits: he's HolierThanThou, thinks that the west is an evil imperialist patriarchy, has SelectiveObliviousness towards violent behavior perpetrated by Islamists, and is a KnowNothingKnowItAll on topics such as gun legislation.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The News Dude from ''WebVideo/SomeMoreNews'' tend to go in this direction while talking about his (least) favourite subject, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot teleporting radioactive boar who have infiltrated the world's governments]]. Most of Some More News' videos tend to be researched and sourced, and espouse more left-wing, anti-establishment viewpoints by picking apart and deconstructing the current news. The boar episodes... [[ParodyEpisode Generally are not]], and go whole hog into MediaScaremongering mode with LargeHam announcing and using all of the rhetorical devices ''Some More News'' tends to make fun of.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' has a Rush Limbaugh-type in Gus Baker, who invites the boys as guests on his talk show due to a misunderstanding (they called in thinking his disapproval of music videos was because the videos sucked, not a moral objection like Baker actually said). This bites him in the ass in a major way, as Beavis and Butthead end up alienating Baker's audience, gets his show cancelled after Beavis moons the camera and ruins his grass-roots presidential campaign.
* ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'' has Tuck Buckerson, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' and ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' had Will Harangue, a HateSink anchorman who outright hates Ben and declares him a menace on television, besmirching his name on every turn and actually tried to kill him once. Later on, he becomes TheQuisling for the Incurseans during their AlienInvasion of Earth simply because they defeated Ben which destroys his reputation.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' 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 ComicBook/JusticeLeague 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]] shows 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/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', 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–Spider-Man video. In fact, he's one of the only two views she GOT.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' features "Glorious" Gordon Godfrey in the episode "Eclipsed", who accuses the League of exploiting their fame for personal gain. Mind, after the latest world-saving feat from the League, his popularity nosedives and he's bumped to a 4 AM timeslot, just after the farm report.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The loudmouthed host of the talk show that appears on "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E21BartMangledBanner 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.
** Recurring character and Limbaugh caricature Birch Barlow.
--->'''Birch Barlow:''' Mayor Quimby, you are well-known sir, for your ''lenient'' stance on crime, but suppose for a second that ''your'' house was ransacked by thugs, ''your'' family tied up in the basement, with ''socks'' in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's ''too much blood on the knob''--\\
'''Mayor Quimby:''' What is your ah, question?\\
'''Birch Barlow:''' My question's about the budget, sir.
* Cartman becomes this, modeled after Radio/GlennBeck, in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E13DancesWithSmurfs Dances with Smurfs]]."
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