OPINION: Lipstick on our TVs: The righter their views, the hotter their looks
This may not be politically correct, but it’s politically intriguing: Increasingly on television, the more conservative women are in their views, the more liberal they are in flaunting their sexuality.
Television favors attractive people, both women and men, regardless of their politics — that’s a given. But when it comes to female hosts and commentators, there is an unmistakable difference between the way conservatives dress and are shown on camera as compared to their liberal counterparts.
The numerous examples include Kimberly Guilfoyle, the severely made-up, short-skirted analyst on Fox News Channel, and Andrea Tantaros, her equally provocative co-host on the political talk show “The Five.” When MSNBC launched a competing program called “The Cycle” a few weeks ago, it hired as its lone conservative S. E. Cupp, the articulate Cornell graduate who, in her previous role at Fox, was known for delivering commentaries with her legs propped salaciously on the anchor desk.