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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

news, at it's VERY best

that is if you're a steamin' pile of scheist. anti-women, anti-truth, anti-intelligence. yup, you guessed it, that's OUR faux 'news'

Sexy Fox Anchorettes Don't Want to Wear Pants on the Air
By Jessica Wakeman, Huffington Post.
We watch a lot of FoxNews here at the Huffington Post.
Not because some of us want to, but because we need to in order to do our jobs. Thus, all day long, our remotes switch back and forth between the mainstream news networks -- CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. Oh, FoxNews. It's mostly inoffensive as a mute background visual. But out of the corner of my eye, I can still see the sorority of always giggling, liberally lip-glossed, buxom TV anchor-esses. Doubtlessly hired for their Columbia Journalism School degrees and hardnosed critical analysis, right?
As a (prickly feminist) young woman in journalism who wants to be taken seriously for my tenacity and reportage, that's frustrating to watch. To say the least.
And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse...
If you haven't watched
this video, you simply must: On Sunday's Fox & Friends, a male anchor hands the broadcast over to a female anchor, cracks a joke about pants suits (gee, who do we think they were talking about?) and asks her, "Have you ever worn a pantsuit? Are you a pantsuit woman?"
A strange thing to ask a colleague, but innocuous enough.
But then Ainsley Earhardt -- the anchor-ess -- tucks her hair behind her ears and replies, "I have! But, see, here at Fox we like to be feminine,
so we don't wear the pants." Off in the distance, we hear a wolf whistle.
And then Earhardt coyly continues, "Would you like us to wear pants, Brian?" "No, no!" Brian exclaims. (She does have great legs, I admit.) "It's very hard to please Brian," a second female anchor jokes. And then Brian, who sounds like a great guy, announces,
"If I were to run for office, I would run on a pro-skirt platform. I am firmly behind the skirts." Another male anchor adds, "You're firmly behind the skirts? Is that what you just said?"
At this point, the second female anchor interjects, a bit sternly, "I think you should stop now."
Uhhhh...yeah............

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rupert Murdoch has organized fundraisers for Hillary and has donated the maximum amount allowed to her campaign.

I guess she's okay with faux news'

Unknown said...

we have giant flat screen tvs all over the walls at work. i swear if they were on faux i'd take the pipe (as my father would say). they're not on the BEST channel (cnn) but at least it's NOT faux