I had it on tv but my laptop open to facebook and twitter.  The twitter-verse has some seriously FUNNY quips....keeps me from getting too worked up over the debate.

Yes, I agree Candy really helped BO out.  She doesn't strike me as the type of female who wants to wait around on the uh-uh-uh...so she just helped him along. 

When I was in broadcasting there was an pretty solid rule about "the window."  If you weren't picked up nationally by about the age of 28-30 (tops) you were relegated to local reporting (which many people prefer anyway...more stable, hometown etc,).  However, even the local window of working in front of the camera wouldn't be long enough (as a general rule) from which you might retire.  Of course you can retire from the business behind the camera, and many local reporters move "up" to news director, production manager, etc.....if that makes sense.

The only places that seem to be the exception to this rule, are small communities who grow comfortable seeing the same face everyday and where competition (fierce in bigger markets) isn't really an issue.

For instance, I received my first reporting gig in North Dakota.  I finished my undergraduate degree there and it transitioned into a reporting job.  While the caliber of people in that great state is outstanding imo, you can look at the smaller town news agencies, like the one in which I started, more specifically at the reporters/anchors and understand they do not follow the "window."  Most times it's because they can't get quality "pretty" people to take the positions.  As a general rule, these over 30-somethings couldn't get hired cold in another place no matter their experience.  So they're kinda stuck in that particular region.  (Which again, may be exactly where they are happy to be.)

All that to say, when you see a woman that looks like Candy...you can bet your bottom dollar she's been in the business a LONG time.  And by the nature of the beast, has many many years of looking at things from the liberal perspective.  Why?  Because no news agency, not even FOX news, will make a habit of hiring ugly old conservative FEMALES.

If Barbara Walters tried to start her career now, if magically ALL of her skills were in place, all her experience transformed and inherent, no go.  Too old.  Same with Candy. 

It sounds fairly shallow, but if people only wanted the Who, what, why, where, when, and how, they could get it from the radio, from a single news agency.  But Americans, I'd argue people in general, want another kind of connection as well. 

Wow...didn't mean to write a book....just some thoughts....lol

Yeah me too.  I've grown so accustomed to pretty people filling journalist's roles, that when a real woman, age and all shows up...it's stunning, almost a taboo, and worthy of comment.

She IS pretty.

Who?  Candy?

Well, you too.

But yes.

Well I didn't think you were talking about me Jyth..haha.

But ok.  You think she's attractive.  Different strokes

I'm not sure you understand what I'm getting at.

lol Yeah, you're right....I can be a little thick sometimes

In a day where looks are what's stressed in the media, it damages women's confidence, which is sad to me.  Do we really want to lash out at the looks of the woman who got in without looking like a model?  How many little girls are scarred early because of that attitude?  It makes me very sad.

Come on Tova, you're not playing the game. You're supposed to be outraged about Mitt's plan to take away women's reproductive rights, staying in your bedroom, but not paying for what you do in there, and of course repealing your right to equal pay. That was all you (well your demographic target) were supposed to take away from that debate.

Reproductive rights aren't even in my top five.  lol  If you're old enough and responsible enough to have sex....you should be old enough and responsible enough to pay for contraception.

Any woman that makes this her flagship issue in voting for pres....well, it takes all kinds I guess...but I don't respect it.  I think it's a fairly shallow pov.

It's as insulting as saying a guy only thinks with his d*ck.

Oh, wait...

I've always wondered how Barbara Walters managed to break into that industry with such a bad speech impediment. Its not nearly as bad now as it was back in the day. When SNL was actually a funny program they did a skit on Walters, I think it was Gilda Radner who would come on as "Baba Wawa". Those skits were hilarious and probably would be seen as too mean spirited by today's politically correct standards... unless its Sarah Palin, then anything goes.