Fox News definitely goes for the hottest news anchors/commentators it can find, but as far as I can tell these women also come with damned good resumes. They’re certainly not bimbos.
For example (links to hot pics below!):
Megyn Kelly. She has a B.A. in political science from Syracuse and a J.D. from Albany Law School. She was editor of the Albany law review and graduated with honors. She was a practicing lawyer for 9 years.
Patti Ann Browne. She’s as hot as they come, but she also has a B.A. from Fordham where she was editor of Fordham’s literary magazine, and an M.A. from New York Institute of Technology, where she had a 4.0 GPA.
Andrea Tantaros: She attended the Sorbonne and has a degree from Lehigh, and founded a crisis management company that she ran for years before joining Fox. She is fluent in four different languages.
Kimberly Guilfoyle: graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. She practiced law for years and was a deputy district attorney and then an assistant district attorney in San Franscisco.
Jenna Lee. She has a B.A. from UC Santa Barbara and a Masters in journalism from Columbia.
These are people with resumes better than average for television news personalities, male or female. The real question is how Ailes seems to be able to scoop them up before the other networks get to them.
There’s a few more on Fox that have good but not fantastic resumes. For example, Courtney Friel only has a B.A. in Political Science from UC San Diego. But given that she is one of the most beautiful women I’ve seen, she’s forgiven. (More evidence)
I guess I didn’t make myself clear. Bill O’Reilly is not especially attractive. But if you watch him with the sound off he is engaging.
As for Fox’s on-air female hires, Joe Muto implies that some have worked out better than others, IIRC. But he liked Megyn Kelly: [INDENT]Megyn Kelly… was refreshingly free of diva-like behavior: She took the subway or hailed a cab to the office instead of demanding the company pay for a car service; she suggested good story ideas and did her own research; and instead of heading straight home after the show, she’d come to the bar with us, sometimes outlasting some of the diehards.
There was a sense that Megyn was a rising star at the network… a few years after I worked with her, she was imported to New York for good and was given a two-hour daytime block, for which she adopted a highly aggressive archconservative persona. My first thought on seeing her in action was She’s faking it. And my second thought was She’s a genius. Creating a new persona for herself was somewhat cynical but overall a brilliant career move. She was smart, talented, and beautiful, but that would only get you so far at Fox-- Ailes wanted to see a point of view as well. So Megyn started to act a little less smart and a lot more Republican when she was on-air, and suddenly there was chatter in the hallways… [/INDENT] Incidentally, she developed a somewhat milder persona (relatively speaking, this is Fox News after all) after she returned from pregnancy leave, and has continued to rise in the ranks since. John Stewart described one version as, “The meanest sorority girl ever,” and the other as, “Acquiring postpartum compassion.”
I agree with her on almost all areas where she differs with the Republicans. I’d describe her as being temperamentally of the right, but she makes up her own mind issue by issue, and she also asks hard questions simply because I think she’s trying to be an actual journalist.
I’m starting to wonder what’s Fox News’ future. Now that the polls have shown Trump 1, Fox 0, in a huge bout, will Fox play fair with him or try to backstab him again? I suspect they’ll try to railroad him again, but clearly, this guy knows how to play the media very well. There’s probably a ton of division within the network.
Its not good for Fox when Rush is opposite Fox. Rush is the voice of the GOP base; his support for Trump is paramount. I’m starting to think Trump may not fare so badly in a GE if he’s this good at defying the media.
Megyn Kelly may be smart, she may have impressive credentials, and she was certainly in the right in the Trump fracas. But let’s not forget that she has some issues with race. Yes, it’s so important to keep in mind that Santa is white.
So she wants to be a respected journalist. Fine. Maybe she should get a job with a reputable news network. One that doesn’t have a leg cam on its sets.
Yeah, anyone who does 45 segments on the New Black Panther Party should have the sense to realize that she’s not even trying to be a journalist, but rather another stoker of the Right-Wing Fear Machine. Oogabooga, scary Black men coming to get you!
