{"id":657,"date":"2023-04-29T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:12:34","slug":"fox-ratings-way-down-after-hiring-non-blonde-anchor-with-no-cleavage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"FOX ratings way down after hiring non-blonde Anchor with no cleavage."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HAHA. To replace Tucker (apropos this <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2023\/04\/fox-news-fires-the-only-reason-people-watch-fox-news.html\">BB: &#8220;Fox News Fires The Only Reason People Watch Fox News&#8221;<\/a> in Wednesday Folly)? It should be FOX Business channel &#8211; when it started up only hired know-nothing blondes with yards of cleavage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This from the BB News Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/fox-news-ratings-plunge-after-hiring-non-blonde-anchor-with-no-cleavage\">NEW YORK, NY \u2014 The reign of cable news giant Fox News may have come to an end after top brass made a possibly-disastrous hiring decision, causing ratings for the nation&#8217;s most popular news channel to plummet with the hiring of a non-blonde anchor with no cleavage.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e202b6852f316e200d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12358\" title=\"FOX blondes gone!\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e202b6852f316e200d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e202b6852f316e200d-500wi-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Are you from the makeup team?&#8221; a confused Bret Baier asked his new, non-blonde co-anchor during the opening segment of <em>Special Report with Bret Baier<\/em>. &#8220;If you&#8217;re from snacks, I need more mustard pretzels.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being introduced to the odd new TV anchor, Fox News&#8217; Dana Perino reacted with a low hiss and her ears flattened back in a threatening manner. Staffers quickly separated the two with snare poles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An executive for the now-failing news channel insisted this hiring decision was no mistake, but was an effort to add more diversity to the news anchor lineup. &#8220;We are fully staffed with busty blondes and stiff white guys, so we felt it necessary to add some real diversity to our list of personalities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the executive saw MSNBC reaching more viewers than Fox News, he quickly replaced the bustless, non-blonde anchor with a Pamela Anderson look-alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At publishing time, CNN had climbed to the top of cable news ratings after forcing all male news anchors to transition to female and wear blonde wigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAHA. To replace Tucker (apropos this BB: &#8220;Fox News Fires The Only Reason People Watch Fox News&#8221; in Wednesday Folly)? It should be FOX Business channel &#8211; when it started up only hired know-nothing blondes with yards of cleavage. This from the BB News Service NEW YORK, NY \u2014 The reign of cable news giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12359,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}