Saturday, March 31, 2007
Fox's new blonde
Let me begin by saying I'm a fan of Fox News. And that I love Brian Kilmeade's mild insanities on weekday Fox & Friends. And that I'm all for mixing humor with almost anything. I don't hate pretty young blond women. And I love that Fox's deliverers talk without stepfordesque intoning, mechanical smiles and mono-idea-atic stories like many other channels. BUT the oh-so-cute-new-blond girl is too much.
Wouldn't you think they could have found someone just as pretty who actually had a whole entire brain to which her mouth was connected? Sometimes she asks a question or reads a whole statement and then sits up with a "there, I did it" look at the camera, and sometimes she actually tosses her hair and looks at the monitor. Really. I'm not kidding. She's that amateurish and embarrassing. When she reads from the teleprompter, sometimes she flips words, then laughs a little and sometimes says "oops". This morning she was in the middle of a piece on the pet food problem and began a sentence with the words "Some people think . . . " and just stopped talking. A pause and brief chuckle later, Kelly Wright saved the moment, consummate professional that he is. Look, I admit she's pretty but so are lots of people and she's not a smart enough journalist even of the T&A variety that Fox prefers, most of whom have brains as well as other accoutrements. And even though he drooled when he talked about her on YouTube, I am grateful that, today, Greg Kelly didn't lean on her chair arm and leer.
Best of all, in a truly onomatopoeic moment, Courtney led off the last story of the morning on a book called "Faking it" which suggests you can "fake it to make it". It's an amusing idea, by the way, and some people (who? who??) actually live it to the teeth.
Wouldn't you think they could have found someone just as pretty who actually had a whole entire brain to which her mouth was connected? Sometimes she asks a question or reads a whole statement and then sits up with a "there, I did it" look at the camera, and sometimes she actually tosses her hair and looks at the monitor. Really. I'm not kidding. She's that amateurish and embarrassing. When she reads from the teleprompter, sometimes she flips words, then laughs a little and sometimes says "oops". This morning she was in the middle of a piece on the pet food problem and began a sentence with the words "Some people think . . . " and just stopped talking. A pause and brief chuckle later, Kelly Wright saved the moment, consummate professional that he is. Look, I admit she's pretty but so are lots of people and she's not a smart enough journalist even of the T&A variety that Fox prefers, most of whom have brains as well as other accoutrements. And even though he drooled when he talked about her on YouTube, I am grateful that, today, Greg Kelly didn't lean on her chair arm and leer.
Best of all, in a truly onomatopoeic moment, Courtney led off the last story of the morning on a book called "Faking it" which suggests you can "fake it to make it". It's an amusing idea, by the way, and some people (who? who??) actually live it to the teeth.
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