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Eric Bolling

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The Resume

    (March 2, 1963- )
    Born in Chicago, Illinois
    Birth name was Eric Thomas Bolling
    Fox News Channel political pundit, host, and analyst
    Trader, board member of the New York Mercantile Exchange; former superstar oil/commodities trader
    Frequent guest-host for The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity (2010-2014), Fox & Friends (2012-2014), Your World w/ Neil Cavuto (2010-2014), and The Glenn Beck Show (2009-2011)
    Co-host of Fox News Channel's early evening talk show, The Five (2011 - )
    Hosted the Fox News hour-long special, 'Paying at the Pump' focused on strategies and solutions for reducing high gas and oil prices (April, 2012)
    Host of the Fox Business Channel news program Cashin' In (2013 - )

Why he might be annoying:

    His nickname is 'The Admiral.'
    His last name sounds like 'bowling.'
    He has an ego to rival Sean 'Vanity' Hannity's.
    He's the self-appointed round-table leader of Fox's answer to The View (making him their Barbara Walters, basically).
    He came under fire for several racially charged comments made about President Obama, Ali Bongo Ondimba, and Common being 'hoods in the hizzy' (2011).
    He pissed off the entire blogosphere by offering a fairly disingenuous critique of the Obama Presidency: 'America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time' (self explanatory...)
    He displayed his personal phone number on-the-air, begging the President to reach out to him for his solutions on reducing the price of gasoline (2012).
    He ignited controversy by jokingly asking if the mission of Maj. Mariam al-Mansouri, a female pilot from the United Arab Emirates who led attacks against ISIS in Syria, qualified as 'boobs on the ground' (2014).
    He backed up Donald Trump after he advanced a disputed claim to have watched Muslims cheering after the fall of the Twin Towers on television, saying 'who cares if it’s a thousand or a handful?’
    He and 'Five' buddy Greg Gutfeld waged a public, one-sided feud with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart who satirized Fox regularly (bizarrely counting themselves as his 'frenemies' when he announced he was leaving the show).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He regularly gets under Geraldo Rivera's skin (salutes and kudos to The Admiral!)
    He lost both his mother and sister to forms of cancer.
    He was a close personal friend of the late blogger Andrew Breitbart.
    He made Loyola Academy's Hall of Fame as an All-Catholic-League shortstop (1980).
    He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates, until a shoulder injury ended a promising MLB career.
    He was awarded a fellowship to Duke University's School of Public Policy in 1984.
    He gave 'Five' table nemesis, Bob Beckel, the Heimlich maneuver, after Beckel starting choking on a large shrimp during a Fox party in 2011. By Beckel's own admittance, Bolling saved his life.
    He did make one coherent argument when he pointed out that the Daily Show thrived on zeroing in on throwaway gaffes made by people on live television; whereas Stewart's show was carefully rehearsed and pre-taped ('Jon, try and do your show live, my man!')
    He revealed his 'secret plan' to lower gas prices on his 'Paying at the Pump' special: 'Raise Energy Trading Margin Requirements!'
    He apologized for his 'boobs on the ground' remarks, saying that he 'got the look' from his wife after his comments were aired, prompting him to issue a public apology.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 21 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 12 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 69 Votes: 50.72% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 106 Votes: 52.83% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 130 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 272 Votes: 61.76% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 26 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying