FOX and GOP Selling Sex: Monica Crowley Fawns over Scott Brown, Brown Shops His Daughters

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On an appearance with Don Imus, Monica Crowley made salient the Republican measuring stick for political aptitude: physical attractiveness. Her admiration for Scott Brown apparently had much to do with how she thinks the former centerfold "is smokin'." She then went on to posit the core of GOP values, asking, "Have you ever noticed that Republicans, generally speaking, are hot? We've got Scott Brown, we've got Mitt Romney, we've got John Thune...and we've got Sarah Palin."

Noticeably self-identifying as part of the group, Crowley fails to mention that only half of those four politicians mentioned actually holds office at present. Crowley goes on to berate the Democrats, calling Nancy Pelosi "a raptor from Jurassic Park" and suggesting Harry Reid looks like "Skeletor." Taking cheap shots at powerful Democrats still in office, Crowley shied away from making parallel comments about GOP equivalents like perpetually tanned John Boehner or Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and steered clear of the Glenn Becks and Rush Limbaughs of the world.

Brown, for his part, also had his sights set on only the most important matters at hand once he took office, like trying to pawn off his daughters onto voters. Brown took a strange turn during his victory speech after thanking his family for their support, telling viewers, "And just in case anybody who's watching throughout the country , yes, they're both available." Ayla Brown goes over to her father and audibly tells him that Arianna is not, in fact, available, to which father Scott replies by continuing, "Only kidding, only kidding. Arianna definitely is not available, but Ayla is." He then specified each one to the crowd and to the cameras.

Immediately afterward, Greta Van Susteren's critical analysis of Brown's attempt to turn a political speech into The Bachelorette included only a line about how "his wife is probably going to kill him when he gets home about the jokes about his daughters." A worthwhile member of the press would probably explore the perils of using the national stage as a chance to shop off your daughters and what that says about Brown's priorities and effects on gender roles, but despite van Susteren's protests, she has no credibility in terms of serious news, even at her own network.
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so now we and his daughters know him

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1. I believe that was Brown's way of introducing his

family to give them face time and prepare for his 2012 presidential run. He predicts people will be more familiar with their faces because the clip will be shown over and over now. Very akward. Repugs have no shame, no morality, no class.