How much of the anti-Megyn Kelly stuff is due to her being physically attractive?
She's pretty. Does that hurt her among DUers?
I saw the Jones interview. She was very hard on him, made him look like a fool. I realize that to some extent, that's the way NBC decided to edit the interview. That happens all the time in these taped pieces. Unless you as the interviewee insist on a live interview shown in its entirety, you are at the mercy of the producer editing the piece how he will. But Kelly let the interview air as edited.
Kelly is a lawyer by training and credentials. She isn't just another blond woman put on TV as eye candy. Normally, DUers would be championing a woman with Kelly's credentials making it in a man's world. Sure, she has said some stupid things, and she did toe the Faux News line for years, but is it too much to believe that maybe she had enough of that and wants to turn over a new, more-serious leaf?
I get the feeling that the underlying narrative here is that pretty people can't be taken seriously. No one is asking anyone to take Kelly more seriously than someone else with her background and training, but we shouldn't denigrate her abilities and talent based on her looks.
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It's the Faux News stench. That's all.
It always seemed to me that Maddow was uncomfortable in her signature jacket, no visible blouse look on her show.
She always dressed something like this before MSNBC show:
On air for her show the neckline always plunges. The first month or so of her show it was really obvious how uncomfortable she felt. But now it is sort of her signature look. (pic below is not showing her uncomfortable but the neckline for her broadcasts)
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Greta isn't even worth commenting on. No matter how she dresses, her time at FOXNEWS showed her to be anything but a professional journalist.
Geez, why would you think DUer's have a bias one way or the other about a person's looks. Yes, it probably was commented on that she was part of the bevy of attractive women hired by FOX, but that was more referring to their frat boy mentality. I personally don't like women being referred to as whores, skanks, bimbo's etc., it's demeaning, insulting and juvenile. I'd like to think educated, adult, compassionate, liberal Democrats wouldn't skink to that level of frat boy, Republican idiocy. You must think your fellow DUer's are a pretty shallow bunch if we judge people based on their attractiveness. 
I seem to recall none of us were overjoyed that Greta was hired by msnbc either.
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...with being physically attractive, but she promotes her physical attributes. For example, some of the promo pictures for the Putin interview had her in what looked like a dress you'd wear out specifically to attract a sexual partner... sleeveless, low-cut, snug fitting. The black party dress had a slit up to "there" in the front. The high heels pushed her figure out in the right places. Hair and make-up perfect. She dressed for nightclubbing, not professional journalism. At FOX, she played the game - tight mini-skirts, stools, glass tables, crotch level couches... plus she assured us Santa Claus was White.
the fact that she's legitimizing Alec Jones merely by the fact of interviewing him on a national network, OR with the fact she is building her career on the backs of dead six-year-olds and their grieving parents who begged her not to do what she did.
None of that has anything to do with it. It's just her looks.
The more anti-Megyn Kelly stuff I see, the more physically attractive she becomes.
