Sexual Hypocrisy Complaint: “Fox News Porn”

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Robert Greenwald, the man behind the film “Outfoxed,” has produced a montage of some of the sexually explicit footage that Fox News has shown while promoting a “family values” agenda:

If you didn’t know that Fox News uses sex to get you to keep watching, you haven’t been paying attention. I’m reminded of a great Slate slide show by Jack Shafer about “TV’s Aryan Sisterhood.” The last slide is a discussion of “what people inside the industry call ‘Fox lips.'”:

They are worn by Fox’s Laurie Dhue, Fox’s Gretchen Carlson, and MSNBC’s Rita Cosby, three top blondes. Achieved in the makeup room in a procedure that sounds one step this side of cosmetic surgery, I’m told that powder, pencil, and paint can turn even the weakest mouth into a juicy vagina dentata.

Now that’s family values.

Via Larry Lessig.

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