Gretchen Carlson

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name = Gretchen Carlson
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caption = During an interview on "Fox and Friends"
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birth_place = Anoka, Minnesota
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occupation = Co-host of "Fox & Friends"
(Fox News Channel)
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spouse = Casey Close [http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/features/263256.html Going Deep: Casey Close] , Alan Schwarz, baseballamerica.com, February 9, 2007]
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website = [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164751,00.html Biography on FoxNews.com]
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Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (born June 21, 1966) is a former Miss America and U.S. television personality.

History

Carlson was raised in Anoka, Minnesota and graduated from Anoka-Hennepin School District 11's Anoka High School in 1984. Carlson is also a former beauty queen. She won the title Miss Minnesota, and then in 1989 [http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1980/1989.aspx Miss America :: History - 1989] , January 11, 2007] became the third woman from that state to win Miss America. For the talent competition, Carlson played the violin, which she still practices regularly.

Carlson graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1990 with a self-designed degree in Organizational Behavior. While a student at Stanford, she studied abroad at Oxford University. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164751,00.html]

Career

Carlson was previously the co-anchor, with Russ Mitchell, of the Saturday Early Show on CBS. She joined CBS News as a correspondent in 2000, and began working on the Early Show in 2002. Before her tenure at CBS, Carlson served as a weekend anchor and reporter for KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas, was an anchor and reporter at WOIO-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, and for WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. She began her television career in Richmond, Virginia as a political reporter for WRIC-TV. She was never a political reporter. She started doing a franchise called Neighborhood News and then had a highly publicized affiar (National Enquirer and Hard Copy TV show) with WRIC-TVs male anchor Kevin McGraw. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164751,00.html Gretchen Carlson Bio] , FOXNEWS.COM, update as of Friday, September 22, 2006]

Carlson was moved to "Fox & Friends" initially as a weekend substitute host, but on September 25, 2006, a shift of anchors, which included E. D. Hill moving to the 10 A.M. hour of "Fox News Live," reportedly to help her raise her family, created a vacancy on "Fox & Friends" which Carlson filled.

Carlson is a national celebrity spokesperson for the March of Dimes.

Personal life

Carlson is married to agent Casey Close, whose clientele includes the likes of Ryan Howard, Derek Jeter and Josh Hamilton.Carlson is of Swedish descent.

Controversies

On "Fox & Friends", during an interview with Dan Bartlett, Counselor to the President, Carlson labeled Democratic US Senator Ted Kennedy a "hostile enemy" against the United States "right here on the home front." Bartlett replied "Well, we don't view Ted Kennedy as a hostile enemy. We do view him to be an open and often critic of the war. He has been from the very outset. I don't think that's anything new." ["Fox & Friends", January 10, 2007] Keith Olbermann chose her as that day's "Worst Person in the World" on that night's broadcast of his show "Countdown" ["Countdown with Keith Olbermann", January 10, 2007] while Howard Kurtz of the "Washington Post" called it "the Fox News exchange of the day" and asked "Doesn't the Constitution allow for dissent?" [Howard Kurtz, "One Last Surge?", "Washington Post", January 11, 2007] Commentators on CNN's "Reliable Sources" called it "over the line...a stupid thing" and "that's par for the course in kind of right-wing talk radio...You don't necessarily expect that on cable news, even if it is on Fox." ["Reliable Sources", CNN, January 14, 2007]

References

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