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Sorry blonde-news-reader-no-had-heard-of ..they have a blonde-news-reader-people-HAVE-heard-of (Original Post) underpants Jul 2013 OP
Is she on ''The View''? Octafish Jul 2013 #1
Gretchen Carlson riverwalker Jul 2013 #2
bubbled headed bleach blondes........ madrchsod Jul 2013 #3
Gretchen Carlson is far more intelligent than most people recognize. . . Journeyman Jul 2013 #4
they beat the crap out of her on the view madrchsod Jul 2013 #5
Put up with it? burnodo Jul 2013 #10
Is Carlson leaving, or will they both be on? BainsBane Jul 2013 #6
Carlson is being dumped into the afternoon void underpants Jul 2013 #8
because naturally they couldn't have more than one woman on a show BainsBane Jul 2013 #11
Do we really have to make it about their appearance? NuclearDem Jul 2013 #7
Uh that is the purpose of women on Fox News underpants Jul 2013 #9

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
2. Gretchen Carlson
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 09:53 PM
Jul 2013

from a nearby suburb of Anoka Minnesota, former beauty pageant contestant. Her parents own a car GM dealership that GM was going to close, She accused Obama of doing it for political reasons.
So teabag crazy, she makes Michelle Bachmann sound like Eleanor Roosevelt.

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)
4. Gretchen Carlson is far more intelligent than most people recognize. . .
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 10:25 PM
Jul 2013

She graduated cum laude from Stanford, studied abroad at Oxford, and is a classical violinist.

But she certainly knows who her audience is at Fox and how to play to it.

Here's John Stewart's take on how Carlson "dumbs it down" for the hoi polloi.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-8-2009/gretchen-carlson-dumbs-down

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
5. they beat the crap out of her on the view
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 10:27 PM
Jul 2013

she must have a great contract to put up with it. she`s a perfect fox girl..blonde and dumb

 

burnodo

(2,017 posts)
10. Put up with it?
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 07:06 AM
Jul 2013

5 days a week on a nationally televised tv show? I'm sure she didn't care as long as she was there.

underpants

(182,830 posts)
8. Carlson is being dumped into the afternoon void
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 07:02 AM
Jul 2013

Hasselbeck is the new centerpiece on the morning get-out-the-door-with-misinformation show

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
7. Do we really have to make it about their appearance?
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 11:43 PM
Jul 2013

I mean, is there no other reason we can criticize these two?

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