I feel terrible! I always thought you had to be stupid to be an on air personality on Fox News. But I misjudged, and fell into a stereotype. Apparently you don’t. You just have to act dumb. Jon Stewart has shown me just how unfair I was being.
Apparently Gretchen Carlson, a Fox on air personality who, at times, seems like she must be the inspiration for every dumb blod joke ever told, isn’t as dumb as she wants us to believe. She was valedictorian of her high school class! She got her undergraduate degree at Stanford and studied abroad at Oxford. Jon outed her on national television. That wasn’t nice. Maybe it’s a tough place for a woman to work. Maybe she has to dumb it down to not be threatening and keep her job. I mean, look who she works with.

By the way, that was not a bad piece of fiddling she did in the beauty pageant talent competition. Yes, I know it was a challenging piece of classical music, but remember, she’s got an image to maintain! Fox anchors who want to present themselves the simple, down home, girl who has to look up “czar” can’t be violin virtuosos.