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2 years, 5 months ago

Is Gretchen Carlson dumbing herself down to connect with the Fox News audience?

Jon Stewart was interested in why Carlson acts like she has a weak intelligence on Fox and Friends. He found out that she was a valedictorian in high school, graduated from Stanford and attended Oxford (the European one) - And she won Miss America thanks to her classical violining. Watch the Clip here to see what he's talking about.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-8-2009/gretchen-carlson-dumbs-down

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/4177265414/

What do you think, is she playing dumb? If so why?
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krag | 2 years, 5 months ago
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The problem with Fox news is that it's changed from reporting news to commenting on news, so to call it news anymore changes the definition of news as I've known it (ex. Walter Cronkite).

It seems to me that this lady is smart but is really just playing a "role" or "character" on her program. I doubt she's as ignorant as she claims. I don't know if she came up with this character or if the Fox producers told her to act this way.

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albanian | 2 years, 5 months ago
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Fox has been clearly catering to the uneducated, uninformed, and prejudiced for some time. Its audience would not like to hear from anyone suspected of being intellectual.

But, it may not be just trying to fit her market. Many conservatives, bible thumpers, etc. have decent college educations (although most of the voting block doesn't) and what seems to be happening is that their education is limited in scope. They seem to block out what they know whenever it contradicts one of their emotionally held biases. Also, note that Carlson did not get her Stanford degree in anything, but instead put together her own choice of courses. She only learned what she wanted to learn and probably has self imposed blinders on.

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randync | 2 years, 5 months ago
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Perhaps she does not want to appear to be a smart woman and that is it rather than just dumbing down for us uneducated conservatives. I mean dumb sounding woman works for "The View".

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