Are there any ugly females working on-air at FOX News???

Andrea Tantaros

Ainsley Earhardt

“…We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry…”

–lyrics from the song, “Dirty Laundry”, by Don Henley

So I was watching the early news this past Tuesday, May 21, specifically the tornado aftermath in a community of Oklahoma which, at that point, had already taken the lives of at least 51 people. The show I had tuned into was FOX and Friends First, on the FOX News channel and the thing that stuck out to me – more than anything else on that broadcast — were the two female co-hosts and what they were wearing that morning.

The two co-hosts of this episode were Ainsley Earhardt and Heather Childers, both extremely attractive young blondes sitting on bar stools wearing fluorescent sun dresses of different shades of green that came up to about six inches from their crotch areas, and high heel stilettos — I can only assume that this is the standard “work uniform” for all the on-air women of this show. Simply put, these women seemed more suited to be going to a Hawaiian bar after the show, ordering a few Mai Tai’s and hoping to get “hit on” by a couple of wild and crazy guys.

To slightly paraphrase the old cliché, “their actions (or wardrobe) were so loud that I couldn’t hear the words they were speaking.” Don’t get me wrong, I love watching beautiful, voluptuous, rather scantily-clad women like these on TV – but for a seemingly serious and competitive news reporting outlet like FOX, this was extremely inappropriate attire when covering a national disaster of this magnitude. Would these women, for example, wear these particular clothing items to the funeral of their own parent(s) – I don’t think so.

Can you imagine if Walter Cronkite, back in ’63, reported on his national CBS News broadcast the assassination and subsequent death of then-President John F. Kennedy wearing just a tank top and Bermuda shorts? Truth be told, Cronkite, who was ALWAYS the consummate professional, had too much class and integrity to lower himself to that level.

FOX News’ motto, incidentally, is “We Report You Decide”, well, after watching both Earhardt and Childers do their “reporting” for several minutes, I almost “decided” to cruise the streets of nearby Lowell, Mass., to take care of some of my physical needs, if you know what I mean.

In defense of Earhardt and Childers, they’re certainly not the only two on-air females at FOX News exploiting their sexy physical assets for, I assume, in the name of higher TV ratings. FOX and Friends First is followed every weekday morning by, FOX and Friends, which features Gretchen Carlson, a former Miss America recipient several years ago.

If I were a gambling man, I’d bet the farm that at least 90 percent of the female on-air personalities at FOX News has had some experience in either beauty pageants, modeling, or cheer leading – they seem to be all cut from that same cloth. It also calls into question, do ugly females, specifically the ones who are overweight or wearing eyeglasses even apply for an on-air jobs at FOX News? I can sort of understand how a place like Hooter’s restaurants would discriminate on hiring a female waitress who doesn’t fit their physical criteria, but when the heck did it become a REQUIREMENT that a female reporting or analyzing the news on TV had to be “sexy”? I’m sure there are plenty of overweight women that wear glasses who can report or analyze the news just as well as their sexy counterparts.

Another interesting show on FOX, which airs weekdays at 5 p.m., is, The Five. It features a panel of five individuals sitting at a table with either Andrea Tantaros or Kimberly Guilfoyle at the far left end of the table. As you might’ve already guessed, both Tantaros and Guilfoyle have gorgeous traffic-stopping legs and bodies that just won’t quit. Both of these women ALWAYS wear the dresses that are inches shy from their crotch areas and high heel stilettos, which you really can’t miss before and after each commercial break. Also, if I were a gambling man, I’d also bet the farm that the FOX News weekday shows I’ve mentioned thus far have considerable more MALE viewers than FEMALE viewers, for obvious reasons.

I guess if I were a FOX News zealot, I would bring up Greta Van Susteren in an effort to squelch my whole argument here. Van Susteren is arguably the best on-air female at FOX News, from a professional standpoint, and she definitely has the best time slot (weeknights at 10 p.m.) with her On the Record show. But what Van Susteren has in professional savvy, she lacks in physical attractiveness. In all fairness to Van Susteren, I definitely wouldn’t consider her fat or ugly, but she does sport the “Plain Jane” look. Personally, I wouldn’t mind dating Van Susteren and I’d feel very fortunate if she’d go out with somebody like me. But unlike the vast majority of female on-air personalities at FOX News, the producers don’t have the cameramen focus on her “physical attributes” while the show’s going on. I think most people, if they’re honest, would agree with me that Van Susteren is the EXCEPTION – definitely not the NORM – when it comes to physically attractive on-air females working at FOX News.

BOTTOM LINE: So why do I still watch FOX News? In spite of all the aforementioned, it’s still the most objective news reporting on TV. Barack Obama is DEFINITELY not God, and I certainly want to hear “the other side” of President Obama, which the other major news outlets choose not to broadcast. As for the male on-air personalities at FOX News, they appear to be in good shape, dress well, and have no thinning hair problems. Whatever the FOX News men are lacking, it’s certainly not adversely affecting that network’s ratings.