I was a Fox News watcher every morning from the day Fox News went on the air until I finally dumped cable in 2011. So that was from October of 1996 until April of 2011. It was more likely in those years I would have Fox News on or the Weather Channel.
Especially in the morning, I preferred at the time the Fox & Friends Comfy Couch format best for having on while getting up and ready for work It was like that for most of those years, until the time candidate Barack Hussein Obama arrived on the scene.
When he came along and got in the news that was when I noticed that Donald Trump started getting more and more appearances and air time on Fox & Friends.
That soured me.
I could not stand him and they loved having him on.
I had liked having them on in the mornings because they were more benign in my opinion than the other morning coffee klatch formats.
That and they were always coming on with some OMG David and Goliath tale of the home owner taking on the HOA over displaying their American Flag. Or some OMG, David and Goliath tale, of the kid with his/her lemonade stand or his/her cupcake stand and the evil Permit Police shutting them down. They had fun and crazy benign water cooler fodder.
But their avalanche, so heavily, into American politicks when that damned Kenyan Usurper ran and won the Presidency really ruined them. Politics was why I watched at the time Hannity and Colmes, and O’Reilly Factor. There were others, long gone. I didn’t want hard get you all keyed up stuff before work. After work was fine for that, it was all instantly forgotten when my head would hit the pillow if not sooner if I was watching TV with the wife. We would watch PBS nature shows, or cooking shows, or anything but politicks and the news.
Of course that time, from 1996 until 2009, was back when I was still a happily Registered Republican and a Fiscal Conservative (I am still a Fiscal Conservative) and before the Republican Party just royally veered hard Right until the point in December of 2016 that I have been LEFT completely out of the party, abandoned, shunted aside, called an enemy.
Many a Right Wing poster on the old Hannity Board helped a lot in shoving me out of the Republican Party on a more personal level. Fortunately they were immensely helpful in instructing me how to be all I could be in my new found LEFTNESS!
Couldn’t have done it without you guys! (You know who you are, take a bow!)
Sorry, I digressed, but back to the OP, and how Doucey and Kilmeade plus the current Blondette on the Comfy Couch went from chasing lemonade stand injustice to being policy setting mouths for our President is a story that needs to be made into a serious docudrama mini series.