Bill O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson made Fox News history this week by experiencing a brief tandem bout of decency. Both hosts came very close to saying that the federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, should be renewed. And Fox News fans are taking it so well!
“If we’re not safe in our own churches, then where are we safe?” Pop quiz: Was the preceding sentence uttered by, a. One of the grieving congregants at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina? Or b. Elizabeth Hasselbeck of Fox and Friends, making the Charleston shooting into “an attack on faith” rather than a…
Gretchen Carlson has released a new memoir called Getting Real (note that she has chosen the type of memoir title favored by politicians and celebrities: vague and boringly cheeky, as her Fox News show is called The Real Story) and to promote it, she’s doing all the talk shows. What they end up asking her about is her…
Fox News sure is determined to fight this War on Christmas, huh? Currently on the front lines, we have Gretchen Carlson who is just furious about a Festivus pole that's on display at the Florida State Capitol (as someone whose non-religious family never really celebrated Christmas when I was growing up, I am thrilled…
Calling it a "cable news first," Gretchen Carlson hosted a segment of her Fox News show The Real Story completely "sans makeup" on Friday. Carlson used her raw face as a teachable moment for all those young girls out there who were definitely at home watching at 2 pm EST on a weekday about the importance of valuing…
Apparently, if you're a female host of Fox & Friends, you're not supposed to wear pants. That's according to Gretchen Carlson, who has been newly crowned with her own primetime show on Fox News but spent years in the trenches of the network with a regular class of brilliants who did get to wear pants. But is Fox…
Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends co-host, heteronormative and mysogynist cheerleader and generally crepuscular example of human bigotry, has done it again. Yesterday on Kilmeade & Friends, in response to a caller's compliment to weekend co-host Alisyn Camerota, Kilmeade joked on-air that Fox hires female co-hosts by…
A Fox & Friends "interview" that quickly turned into a reverse-engineered mutation of Between Two Ferns has highlighted a notable, if obvious, shortcoming with the Fox News network: it isn't big on what elitist intellectuals from the Northeast would call "research," but what the producers at Fox call "uggggggghhhhh."
You know what isn't hilarious? Boring-ass jokes that have been beaten to death, revived, and then beaten to death again, ad infinitum, over the course of decades. And it's extra not-hilarious when the joke teller thinks he's the funniest, most interesting, most spectacular orgasm of awesomeness to walk the face of…
As hard as they might try to bend the facts (or just plain make them up), sometimes even Fox News anchors must contend with the harsh reality that not everyone thinks Barack Obama is an evil socialist. But somebody forgot to tell Gretchen Carlson that, and she got the shock of a lifetime when she learned that a poll…
Friend of Fox Michele Bachmann appeared on Fox & Friends with two angry dudes and one shouting woman this morning to gnaw on her r sounds and promote her new book. During the interview, it was revealed that Bachmann worked as a babysitter when she was a teenager, and that one of her charges was none other than…
Does it matter why Laura Ingraham and Gretchen Carlson did this on FNC earlier this week? No; what matters is that it happened. And it was gruesome. (Bill O'Reilly prefers to think of it as "patriotic.") White woman's overbite, indeed.
This morning on Fox And Friends, the crew quizzed Miss Oklahoma about whether known Arab Rima Fakih won Miss USA fair and square. Hint: some people wonder if she didn't! To her credit, Morgan Woolard didn't take the bait.
Fox News has been accused of cynically playing up populism despite being run by, well, Eastern elites. But as The Daily Show pointed out last night, Gretchen Carlson's adding a "dumb blonde" schtick does Everyman one better, reality be damned.
Bill O'Reilly, Fox & Friends' dead-eyed, soulless Gretchen Carlson and Juliet Huddy got together yesterday to muse thoughtfully about the intersection of celebrity, death, sexuality, race and hagiography. Just kidding: they just wanted to know what's up with black people!
Speaking of Prejean (the younger), the pageant contestant will be guest-hosting Fox & Friends for anchor (and 1989 Miss America) Gretchen Carlson on May 27th. You knew that was coming. [US News & World Report]
Last night saw the series premiere of TLC's Miss America: Countdown to the Crown, an effort to both attract the much-desired younger female demo and create interest in the beleaguered beauty pageant.
