June 26, 2010 6:45 AM

Blonde ambition...with a side of hubris and a lack of common sense

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

(apologies to Keith Olbermann)

Gretchen Carlson

Could a Fox News host who has admitted she had to Google terms like “czar” and “ignoramus” actually be qualified to be President of the United States? Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson suggested Wednesday that the president’s job was “just like” her job as a co-host of Fox & Friends …. “This is what being president of the United States is all about. It’s these tough, huge monumental decisions. It’s not about how you run a campaign. It’s not about whether or not you’re popular. It’s not about whether or not you’re a celebrity, good looking, tall or short. It’s in the time of crisis making these executive decisions,” Carlson began…. “It’s just like our job,” she told co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy.

Amazing, unexplainable factoid of the day: GRETCHEN CARLSON GRADUATED FROM STANFORD WITH HONORS. Go figure. Perhaps that Stanford edumication ain’t worth what it used to be, eh? I mean, if Ms. Blonde Ambition can graduate with honors, and she appears to have the IQ and common sense of a ripe melon, how tough can it be??

I don’t know that I’ve ever watched Fox & Friends. I don’t know that I ever would, unless I was drugged and unconscious and/or held at gunpoint. Frankly, watching anything on Fox Noise Channel is to me the aural equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. Throw in the obvious Right-wing bias and the cheap, simplistic, and over-sensationalized “analysis”, and what you have is hardly worthy of being called news. And don’t even get me started on Glenn Beck and Bill-O the Clown, both of whom have managed to turn hatred and rampant, aggressive ignorance into a lucrative cottage industry. Their business is giving the drooling, ignorant, sycophants what they want- demonization of Libruls…and business is GOOD.

Ah, but I digress…. Today’s heroine is Carlson, the woman on whom “Blonde Ambition” appears to have been based…and if not, it should have been. The miracle of Carlson is that she is somehow able to string complete sentences together, if not complete thoughts. That she could with a straight face equate her job as a happy-talk morning show bimbo to that of the President of the United States is absolutely just about the most jaw-droppingly stupid thing imaginable. Then again, it’s not the first time Carlson has allowed her double-digit IQ off the leash…with predictably hilarious results.

What continues to amaze me is that Carlson, despite all of her brain-dead ditziness and obvious lack of intellectual agility, still has a job. Then again, this is Fox Noise Channel we’re talking about here, where ideological fealty always trumps competence, relevance, and native intelligence.

And how in the Hell did Carlson make it through Stanford, anyway??

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