The National Journal's William Powers (his cultural hero shown left,) trying to be funny in his "Off Message" column, writes that Fox News Channel's current female correspondents are bimbos and idiots, and suggests utilizing brown paper bags to interview smart women as replacements:
....It appears to be dawning on the geniuses of TV journalism that the way they used to do news at the nets -- send scads of reporters all over the world, spend big dough to maintain bureaus where news is actually breaking -- was kinda smart. It gets you to thinking about other stuff that cutting-edge media outlets could borrow from the past:
Fox to Choose Female Anchors for Brains, Not Looks.
NEW YORK CITY -- Fox News, America's first choice in news, will begin hiring female anchors based entirely on intelligence. Beginning this week, the network will be on the lookout for smart, news-savvy women with extensive journalistic experience. "Given the intense competition for cable audiences, we wanted something special to draw viewers, something they can't get elsewhere," Fox News Vice President David Pixelbot said. "Since many Fox viewers have better-than-average IQs, it hit us that 'showing a little brain' could be just as compelling as 'showing a little leg.' Also, we studied headshots of Edward R. Murrow and concluded that he was not exactly eye candy." Henceforth, female anchors will be selected through a "looks-blind" process in which candidates will be issued identical brown paper bags to wear over their heads during interviews and test videos.
Where, oh where, to begin dissecting Powers' unsubtle implication that pretty women must be stupid and that smart women should wear brown paper bags over their heads? Powers has achieved a level of brutal misogyny with an effortlessness that would make Al Bundy jealous. Powers is so offensive, so insulting, so revoltingly stupid on so many levels it's difficult to pick a starting point. But a different starting point is clear: National Journal should issue an apology to women in general for publishing such a gross excuse for satire and Powers should apologize to every female employee of Fox News.
Powers is treading dangerously close to becoming the honorary MSM representative of the Taliban. They hate women too.
