It’s Normal For Serious TV Journalists To Be Orange Now
17 July 2008, 9:00 AM. By Guanabee Staff
Fake tans, long a scourge on our nation’s whites, have made naturally brown people laugh for ages. But now they’ve reached a point of legitimacy so widely accepted that serious television journalists are starting to resemble your common Strong Island ho. In fact, we’ve noticed a definite link between the more high profile anchors and the propensity to orange-out. After the jump, see which of your faves looks like a fruit roll up when we list The Top 20 Orangest Television Journalists In America.
Without question, CNN is the most consistent offender with regards to the orange reporter thing. Which leads us to believe it’s a lighting or makeup issue. Still, if CNN is the broadcast news trendsetter that we think they are, they have a responsibility to not hire lighting or makeup people who studied at John Casablancas.
Anderson Cooper
Larry King
Lou Dobbs
Paula Zahn
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf’s orange contrasts nicely with his white facial hair.
Rob Marciano
Ali Velshi
Carol Costello
Christine Romans
Linda Stouffer
Heidi Collins
Monica Lloyd
The only orange black person we’ve ever seen.
Anyone On “Fox & Friends”
Perhaps the first “news” show to feature tanning beds in their anchors’ dressing rooms.
Bill O’Reilly
ABC’s John Stossel
Barbara Walters
Univision’s Jorge Ramos
Primer Impacto’s -Francisco Urreiztieta- Fernando Del Rincón…
And Barbara Bermudo
CBS’ Katie Couric
It was near impossible to rank the others, but Katie Couric comes in as #1 as far as we’re concerned. She’s been orange since her husband died back during her Today Show days.
If all these people look normal to you, that’s not surprising. The progression has been so slow and so relentless that we’ve all kind of gotten used to it. And what once was reserved for the Jersey Shore is now the standard amongst the rich and famous. So, just for reference. here’s a non-orange anchor person:
We rest our case.
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To quote one of my faves, Margaret Cho: “That motherfucker be ORANGE. I’m not against people of color…. but that’s a fucked-up color.”
it’s well known that Regis and Kelly will be the last show converted to HD because, quite frankly, we will all utter the phrase, ” I see dead people,” when that camera catches Regis’ wrinkled face.
and i saw babs last year at her Hollywood Walk of Fame unveiling and let me just say there must be voodoo involved to make her look good on tv. and you know she’s just ‘okay’ looking.
There is no rhyme for “orange.”
I’m just sayin’…
it’s fernando del rincón, wtf guanabee get it right NOT Francisco Urre..
Well i wouldn’t say that Heidi is all that orange. And come on now, Primer Impacto has been the go-to show for the oompa loompa look for years now.
the trend has been going on for some time, but it’s taken me a while to realize it. I actually noticed it back when Jenny McCarthy was on Larry King a few months ago. Larry was the same color as Jenny and I was like WTF? And as for Heidi, I was really inspired by that smaller pic of her in the collage up top.
I never understood why anyone would want to be tan. I am part Asian and I just step out in the sun during the Summer and I get tan, then all the Northern European genes kick in and I have to put on Norwegian grade sunblock. Nothing I can do can stop it.
So all summer, I have people coming up to me speaking in rapid fire Spanish on the street and subway. Given the fact that I am about as Hispanic as the average resident of Iceland, and speak about as much Spanish as they do, I find this quite annoying.
I know some people who live in some evolving neighbourhoods, so it is in someways good that I have a bit of cammo to outfox the oppo. I guess the Hispanics don’t have something similar to Gaydar for identifying their own kind. Life would be a tad easier if they did.