I don't know if Roger Ailes is a fan of ZZ Top; but it's apparent that he sure does love female anchor's legs and "knows how to use them." As Gabriel Sherman reports in his new book about Roger Ailes, "The Loudest Voice in the Room," Ailes is obsessed with displaying the legs of Fox female anchors. Sherman confirms the existence of the "leg chair" on "The Five." (While Andrea Tantaros was slated for this piece of furniture, former Victoria's Secret model Kimberly Guilfoyle seems to be the primary occupant.) This obsession with legs might have also been confirmed by Gretchen Carlson who admitted that pants were not allowed on Fox & Friends where the curvy couch provides maximum exposure for shapely "gams." And now that Gretch has her own show, she's still not wearing pants!
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That’s true, and every news outfit that has the money to throw around does it, most definitely including CNN. MSNBC is on a different track and doesn’t care as much for their main people, but they’ve insisted on gussying up Maddow to the point where her on-air apppearance is wildly different from her normal appearance.
CNN has gotten rid of almost all of the wonderful, super-competent, mostly middle-aged, mostly non-spokesmodel types that used to populate their broadcasts except for Candy Crowley. Every single new female hire they’ve made to replace them over the last 7 or 8 years or more has been model gorgeous, and glammed up by the hair and make-up people to the max.
This is maybe triply true of local TV news. And then they wonder why there are so few women with enough “gravitas” to plausibly be major news anchors. Duh. They’ve stuffed the pipeline with models who can read a teleprompter, not news talent.
Seriously- Say what you will about Carlson’s show, or how she looks now, but judging her onair value on her appearance, then saying every woman who was her age in 1989 must have been ugly for her to be Miss America is a level of sexism that boggles the mind. That’s the kind of comment you’d read on J$, not something a top-flight CEO and former political consultant would allow to slip out.
Back in the days of true news journalist like Walter Cronkite and many others from his generation, news divisions rarely made a profit and were not designed to. They were looked upon as a public service where the networks hoped to break even with the ads it did sell while promoting the networks programming for that evening.
One thing I do wonder about the allegations that Ailes offered producer Randi Harrison an additional $100 each week if she would agree to have sex with him is I wonder how many in the past and today have taken him up on his offer. Payments adjusted for inflation of course. If this is true it’s hard to accept that was the only time he attempted this, failed, and never tried again.
The reason for the Fox “News” ban on women’s slacks is for marketing purposes. Short skirts on these Barbies attracts the middle-age male viewers. The Nixon trainee, being a man himself, knows what men like to see. If it weren’t for this “marketing” ploy, Fox “News” would not be in the top spot in the ratings. To put it bluntly, sex sells. Ruthless Rupy knows this first hand.
These Barbies subject themselves as being used as sex toys, but they don’t care as long as the checks come in. The only difference between them and a street prostitute is the money. Yeah, we said it.
Wretchen Gretchen, Lizzy, Barbie Kelly, The Tortous, the Underwear Model, and the rest of the Ailes harem have no decency or ethics. Want to talk about war on women? Look at the Nixon trainee’s use of his female employees.
Using female employees as sex toys to attract male viewers to a newscast is unethical. Of course, the Nixon trainee knows nothing about ethics.
Dave, the message this clown Ailes is sending is sexism. This fraudulent “news” organization has been sued for gender discrimination by their own employees. This is not a work-friendly environment. There is more going on behind-the-scenes inside this horrid skyscraper. You, and the rest of the masses, will see for yourselves in the coming days.
NOTE TO AILES
Since you call yourself a “Roman Catholic” we decided to go this route.
Every time we see your fat face it reminds us of Revelation 13:1 – 13:18.
To refresh your memory:
“And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”
I see your point, but what bothers me, as a woman, is this- you won’t see an unattractive woman on Fox ever. No Rachel Maddow, no Candy Crowley, etc. It sends the message that a woman is only of value if she is beautiful.
I see plenty of fb posts by my right wing men friends that boast that their women (conservative) are so much hotter than our women (liberal). As if that matters.
OK, you may be thinking that Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter’s appearances on Fox disprove my first statement. Not sure I can explain that, but neither of them will have a show on Fox.
I just thought about Greta Van Susteren. Maybe I don’t have a point after all..
NBC doesn’t want him in a T-shirt and shorts doing the news.
This is show biz, folks. In this case, part of the biz is having good looking women wearing nice clothes. And, since the camera angles are part of the bit here, they will wear dresses that show off their legs. Ms. Carlson knew this going in and she seems fine with it.
I’d worry more about the content than how the message is delivered. The latter is playing right into Ailes’ hands.