OK, so Inside Cable beat me to the story of Rudi Bakhtiar's departure from FNC. Oh well.
The Cable Gamer was never a big fan of hers, either when she was at CNN or when she was at FNC, but she sure had a lot of fans out there, that's for sure. Not that this girl is jealous or anything!
What kind of fans? It seemed to lean heavily toward horny males, who weren't much interested in her journalism. Instead, they were interested in, well, her... her Bakhtiars. These were the sort of horndogs who who posted items, like this, from Free Republic back in 2003, with headlines such as: "Rudi Bakhtiar's See-Through Blouse on Headline News NOW!"
Other fans have told me--not that I would ever notice!--that of all the female anchors out there, she always seemed to be one of the most suggestive. Schwing!
It's a subtle business, of course, and there's nothing wrong with being sexy, and even using It on the air, but it has been interesting to see Bakhtiar building a cult following that way, over the past few years, such as this "shrine" site, here. (If you scroll down a ways, you'll see some excellently lascivious lip curling moves of hers--pretty hot stuff for TV!)
Sorry guys. Rudi may be gone from FNC, but she will surely turn up somewhere else in the cable world. Maybe back to CNN? Nah, their "gimmick" is, uh, hard news these days. MSNBC? Nah, their gimmick is Bush-bashing. Or maybe straight to the Playboy Channel?
