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This Exists: Right Wing News Lists 20 Hottest Conservative Women

by Tommy Christopher | 11:32 am, June 4th, 2010

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In what seems to have become an annual rite, there’s a new list out counting down the top 20 conservative hotties (new media edition), and while I have great appreciation for conservative new media hotties, and I love Countdown, I’m not a big fan of this effort.

Judged by a panel that includes luminaries such as the LA Times‘ Andrew Malcolm and Jonah Goldberg from the National Review, the list delivers on its meager promise. So who’s on the list, and what’s wrong with it?

Here’s Right Wing News’ 20 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media: (linkbait accomplished!)

20) Elizabeth Blackney from Media Lizzy & Friends

20) Skye from Midnight Blue Says

19) Michelle Malkin

17) Courtney Messerschmidt from GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD

17) Kerrie from The Liberal Heretics

15) Michelle Oddis from Human Events

15) Shelly Roche from ByteStyle.Tv

13) Lori Ziganto from Snark and Boobs

13) Ann Coulter

12) S.E. Cupp from Red S.E. Cupp

11) Liz Stephans from The B-Cast

10) Sharon from The Liberal Heretics

7) Tabitha Hale

7) Freeman Hunt

7) Laura Ingraham

6) Columnist Orit Sklar

5) Hannah Giles

4) Mary Katharine Ham from the The Weekly Standard

3) Ashley Herzog from Herzogian

2) Lila Rose

1) Dana Loesch from The Dana Show

Today marks exactly one year since my firing by Politics Daily’s Melinda Henneberger over Playboy’s list of “Top 10 Women I’d Like to Hate F***,” (I wrote an article denouncing it, and Henneberger deleted the story, then deleted me) which is what made me realize that ranking conservative hotties must be a seasonal thing. This year finds a much milder fleshfest, judged by a panel of doughy bloggers for the website Right Wing News. I’m going to have a problem with any list that includes Elizabeth “Media Lizzy” Blackney at any rank other than #1. I have several with this one.

Now, I’m not one of those people who think it’s never acceptable to notice that a beautiful woman is beautiful, and I understand the lure of easy linkbaiting (hence the headline). But there are ways, and there are ways.

In the modern media landscape, sex appeal is certainly a relevant factor to consider. What Right Wing News’ 20 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media misses out on is that it’s not the only factor.

Their list consists of just that, a list and a photograph. No biographical info, no descriptions of their accomplishments, or critiques of their work. Just a picture and a link. There’s nothing there that would make anyone want to read anything these women write. Lest you doubt the level of the pig factor here, there’s this from one of the judges, James Joyner:

I would note that it would be useful to break the contest down into age brackets, as it’s a bit silly to have 20-somethings pitted against 50-somethings.

Maybe they ought to bring in a livestock scale, too, and break it down into weight classes.

My perspective on this list is influenced by the fact that I know a lot of the women on it. Aside from the fact that if I went up to Mary Katherine Ham and said “You’re hot!” she’d probably punch me in the arm, it’s just not an adequate measure of her worth as a human being. Sure, she has a beautiful smile that lights up a room, but she also pounds the pavement with an old-timey reporter’s notebook, noticing things that escape me.

And what about Michelle Malkin? You mean to tell me that a panel of 8 right-wing bloggers couldn’t crank out a paragraph about Michelle Malkin?

Which brings me to Lizzy. Like everyone on this list, I couldn’t disagree more with her politics, nor she with mine. However, she’s been a loyal friend and fan since before anyone had ever heard of me. She’s a Gold Star Wife, widowed at the age of 25, and mother of a now-14 year-old daughter. Much to my shock, she and I share many common views on parenting.

When I got into trouble for denouncing that Playboy article, Lizzy risked, and ultimately lost, a very beneficial relationship with AOL in order to do the right thing, not just out of loyalty to me, but to her own closely-held values. While we don’t get to gab nearly often enough on her radio show, she’s always in my heart.

I don’t expect a link-baiting top 20 list to be able to take the full measure of Lizzy, or Tabitha Hale, who does huge work for Freedomworks, or Lori Ziganto, whose tweets will make you laugh out loud. But this list doesn’t even try.

According to Lizzy, who was thrilled to be on the list, the women get their turn next. Dr. Melissa Clouthier is putting together a list of Hottest Men in New Media, and Lizzy is one of the judges. I’ll be interested to see if they manage to get any further below skin-depth.

taxed

No Elizabeth Hasselbeck?
http://www.abramsresearch.com/ Dan Abrams

Who knew that there could be such a thorough and academic analysis of how a list of “hotties” could have been more substantive!
AmericanCowboy

Liberialism makes you ugly
roxsteady

Yes because when it comes to conservative women, how they look is all that matters. Being a brain dead moron with Stockholm syndrome doesn’t matter at all as long as it keeps them off the Supreme Court bench. How’s that workin for ya ladies?
roxsteady

Ann Coulter? Looks like an Afghan – The Dog, not the people
Laura Ingraham? Has a horse face and is as curvy as Coulter
Michelle Malkin? Her bugg eyes on the sides of her head. Too far apart.
Hannah Giles? Really? Seriously?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kam-Fet/572005492 Kam Fet

I cant believe Sarah is missing!
PureFreedom

It would be hard to make a list of the hottest Liberals…. must have arm pit hair…. must bath very little and have a very loud mouth and when they cant win on facts, she must yell louder and scream racist to everyone that disagrees with her.
Oh yeah here is the top of the list Joy Bahur , Rosie O’Donnell, and those homeless protester women I see on TV all the time,
Averreauxii

Mary Kathering Ham (#4)and Ann Coulter (#13 – how fitting?)are hot? Hahaha….What exactly is the definition of hot in this case?
tjl

PureFreedom: what’s it like to have never been with a woman? Just curious…
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

@Tommy: The fact that there isn’t a paragraph telling us anything about the women is worthy of a calling out and the site’s linkbait needs are certainly served by the fact that your republish doesn’t include photos because I’m sorry, but I know nothing about the majority of these women.

Though with that said, I also have to say that I actually considered taking my own blog off of its temporary hiatus (while I finish work on another project) to comment on something which bothered me somewhat, when I followed one of your links over to a piece you wrote for an AOL site that I had never heard of before, which coincided with your recent Henneberger tear.

In the past, I’ve referenced Glynnis’ takedown of the Pirelli calendar and like-minded posts and I’ve commented on CBSNews.com posting the titillating video from one of their reports without overlaying the pesky reporter’s voice.

What struck me after viewing the humorous video you had embedded was the #top post at that time was a big compendium of links that mostly pointed toward things like the “Hottest Hockey Girlfriends” or “Hottest Athlete Relatives” and though most of them pointed toward men’s magazines and sports sites, a surprising number of them bragged about having a relationship with mainstream, ‘legitimate’ media companies.

So, not only do we have websites like the one you cite and the Huffington Post employing such tactics, but my two links call into question the judgment of a major newspaper and a major network news operation, plus AOL and by virtue of the relationships discovered when guys like me follow through its clicks, pretty much everyone in media at all levels.

IOW: It’s no surprise that sex sells, but the least someone could do is disguise their blatant clickbaiting with some kind of analysis or keeping to something that may be justifiable, rather than just a link to pics of sixteen models dressed as ‘cops’.
Rusty Shackelford

What about the rest of the women on Fox News? Patty Ann Browne,Juliet Huddy,Molly Line and on and on.

I dont think anyone has ever published “The Hottest Liberal Women.” Might be like trying to find a unicorn.
Do you think Debbie Wasserman Schultz would make that list or Maddow.Scary.
stoogedudes

It seems like people judge people as hot or not on here based on their own ideologies and those whose looks they are judging. If your a liberal…OH those conservatives are ugly! If conservative…OH they must be hairy and disgusting and EWWWWW!!!

For the record, many of them are very attractive. I wouldn’t dare MARRY them though…I value my sanity. (Que the cons to respond, “What sanity?!”)
zepfan81

As much as it pains me to say, conservative women tend to be hotter than liberal women. I think because Lib women want to downplay their looks so they’ll be “respected for their minds”……..no comment lol
JohnSimpson

There are no attractive female lib media people.
Jackie_Treehorn

zepfan81 says:
June 4, 2010 at 2:22 pm

As much as it pains me to say, conservative women tend to be hotter than liberal women. I think because Lib women want to downplay their looks so they’ll be “respected for their minds”……..no comment lol

Yeah because the vast majority of Hollywood is ugly……

I mean yeah if you want to compare Megyn Kelly to Nancy Pelosi. But don’t dumb it down like the conservatives do….
JohnSimpson

tjl says:
June 4, 2010 at 12:43 pm

PureFreedom: what’s it like to have never been with a woman? Just curious…”

Why don’t you tell us, tjl?
Puter Boi

Rox needs a hug again….
lazzzlo

Playboy’s list of “Top 10 Women I’d Like to Hate F***,”

I never got past that. Tommy, I know you were not pleased.

Does any of this really matter?
lazzzlo

Are only certain women open to be subjugated based upon their looks?

You can’t have it both ways.
lazzzlo

What if people are less concerned with who is delivering information rather than what information is being delivered?
PureFreedom

tjl, lol
Your right
I dont have an idea about being with what you think are hot liberal woman…
loud mouth,
hygiene deficient,
butt ugly,
Fish concert attendees.

Why am I stuck with my educated hot conservative wife when there are a vast number of Rosie O’Donnell look alikes on your side? hmmmmm
AmericanCowboy

Liberal white women have hair on their legs and arm pits, wear cat eye shaped lenses, have greasy unwashed hair and have granola breath. They also have a hard time smiling for fear someone might see the female pubic hair in their teeth. They usually have a bitter cold look on their face because they are truly miserable people.
tjl

Oh, I highly doubt the degree to which you describe your wife, PureFreedumb. But I’m sure she’s nice, anyway. I often why you are stuck with your lousy grammar, simple mind, and lack of intellect. Sorry, my friend.

And yes, all liberal women are loud mouth, hygiene deficient, butt ugly, Fish (sic) concert attendees. Old man, you are precious!

You surely pegged the likes of Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Rachel Leigh Cook, on and on and on … At least you’ll always have John Voight! And all the tea bagging women! They are precious looking.

PureFreedumb, you make me proud to be an American! Same goes for JohnSimpson and his “I know you are but what am I” comment. Hilarious!! Simple minds, make for simple jokes. Smooches!
tjl

Again, AmericanCowboy, what is it like never having been with a woman? And what do you do while in your trailer all day long? You seem to not leave the house often if that’s your perspective of women. I also gather that you are old as dirt. Liberal woman aren’t like that “anymore” — if they ever were (you’ll have to tell me, I’ll probably young enough to be you grandson!)

P.S. you are cordially invited to New York City to join me and the finest looking (liberal) women you’ll ever see in your life. Let’s put it this way — these are the women you wish you were with — the ones you search for on the Internet late at night. The ones you pay for access to see online. Trust me, we have room for your ilk here in the Big Apple. Though I do know it’s a big scary world out there and it’s much cozier in your trailer. Get back to me on that, OK. I promise you this will be nothing like you’ve ever seen!
bobofthemtns

Ann Coulter? Wouldn’t hit it with yours…
TROLLING4LIBS

TjI,

You pimp daddy you! Once again the topic is prominent liberal woman in the media and public office. NOT some bimbo air- headed crusty voice NY chick your see in downtown Time Square with her pencil neck boyfriend. Ask any one of those chicks anything about politics and the answers
you get are mind- blowing.
TCinAZ

roxsteady wrote: Ann Coulter? Looks like an Afghan – The Dog, not the people
Laura Ingraham? Has a horse face and is as curvy as Coulter
Michelle Malkin? Her bugg eyes on the sides of her head. Too far apart.
Hannah Giles? Really? Seriously
>>>>>>

Helen Thomas. Lebanezer Scrooge’s milkshake brings ALL the Progressive Boys to the WH Press Room.
Michelle Obama The Bodybuilder @ http://funnypoliticalpics.blogspot.com/
The Late Andrea Dworkin? Really? Seriously!?
Naomi “Alex Forrest” Wolf and her equally wacakadoo fraternal twin-sister, Caroline Heldman.

Those crazy-eyed, man-hating, pseudo-intellectual uh… “chatterboxes”, that should be kept away from adolescent and teen boys And sharp objects at All Cost for fear of their “Oprahfying” Them, both figuratively, And Literally, because Wolf’s a Hasbeen, but Still a dangerous one, and Heldman’s another Debra Lafave In-Training. Pretty hot on the Outside, but all FITH on the Inside…

Trying to control boys Minds and then blame our Daddy and Alpha Male Society for her having eventually Banged them. Just like Any standard-issue Lib Freak would. Bush’s fault.

Oh Yeah, and there’s the Ballerina Girl, Rahmona Emanuel, who gets the bug-eyed “Guys” in your party, like Moulitsas, all hot and bothered And then, of course, there’s Also Garafalo, who you can at Least Smell before you Ever have to See Or Hear. So you’re Lucky in That respect, as she’s an All-In-One, walking signal flare. RLH! It’s Garfy! Incoming!

Quite the Roster you’ve got there, Rox. And a deep Bench Too.
AmericanCowboy

OK you need some personal info:

tjl says: June 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm: “Again, AmericanCowboy, what is it like never having been with a woman? ”

Married 16 wonderful years to a beautiful women who still looks as young and as beautiful as the day I met her 20 years ago

tjl says:June 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm: “And what do you do while in your trailer all day long?”

We have a gorgeous little ranch in Santa Inez, CA where we raise horses and grow grapes.

tjl says: June 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm: “You seem to not leave the house often if that’s your perspective of women.”

I have traveled the United States many times over competing in the PRCA for many years. I have seen it all. I have been to every state, even Alaska for a fishing trip.

tjl says: June 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm: “I also gather that you are old as dirt.”

Going to be 44 years old in Oct. But it ain’t the years, it’s the miles.

tjl says: June 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm: “Liberal woman aren’t like that “anymore” — if they ever were (you’ll have to tell me, I’ll probably young enough to be you grandson!)”

Sounds like you are the one that needs to get out more. NYC is not the real world. It is NYC and there is no other place like it in America and I don’t mean that in a good way. It is a nice place to visit, but I would never live there. Try the Club Macanudo sometime,. It’s on the Upper East Side. They have a great steak and a nice cigar selection. But even in NYC you can find those scary libs like Janeane Garofalo and Rosie O’Donnald.

tjl says: June 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm: “P.S. you are cordially invited to New York City to join me and the finest looking (liberal) women you’ll ever see in your life. Let’s put it this way — these are the women you wish you were with — the ones you search for on the Internet late at night. The ones you pay for access to see online.”

Just being liberal Dems make them ugly inside and out. I don’t have to search the internet for the girl of my dreams because I married her. It is so sad that is where you think you find women. Can’t you meet a nice conservative girl in college with morals, ethics and values?

tjl says: June 4, 2010 at 6:09 pm: “Trust me, we have room for your ilk here in the Big Apple. Though I do know it’s a big scary world out there and it’s much cozier in your trailer.”

I have spent my life avoiding NYC degenerates. You might try the trailer line on someone other than a Conservative Libertarian. You see we believe in personal responsibility and Capitalism. You get out there and work hard for what you want. If you didn’t work for it you don’t deserve it. You won’t find many Conservative Libertarians in the trailer park. But I am sure you can throw a single stone in a trailer park and hit 3 or 4 Obama voters.

Well we are meeting some folks for a nice dinner and a few glasses of wine, so I have to cut out. I am sure we will have a good laugh at your expense.
Rusty Shackelford

Bravo Cowboy…..Bravo.
TROLLING4LIBS

American Cowboy , that’s how it’s done good sir .
http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

HA HA HA, Looks like somebody got punked…. By the Way I think Patti Ann Browne is the Hottest Womon in the media…. http://www.facebook.com/people/Alisyn-Camerota/1373332063#!/PattiAnnBrowne?v=info
http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

Whoops that was my second favorite Heres Patti

http://www.facebook.com/people/Alisyn-Camerota/1373332063#!/PattiAnnBrowne?v=info
http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

You really should be able to edit your post here… LOL

http://www.facebook.com/PattiAnnBrowne?v=info
AmericanCowboy

I must have stumped tjl (aka Man of the World). I had a great dinner and smoked a Tatuaje T110, wow, what a great smoke. We laughed at the boy who thought I lived in a trailer park.
http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

Whats wrong with Trailer parks AC? Damn rich bastard you. LOL
m

Hopefully they marry liberal men (because most women switch to their husband’s ideologies when they get married).
AmericanCowboy

Burnnotice says:
June 6, 2010 at 9:57 am
Whats wrong with Trailer parks AC? Damn rich bastard you. LOL

Trailer parks are great if you are an unmotivated, chemically dependent, uneducated, welfare receiving, Obama supporter. lol
lonestar77

Tommy, it’s a list that is put together for & out of “fun”. I think you’re taking it WAAAAAAAAYYYY too seriously. Don’t hate just because a top 20 list of liberals would include Helen Thomas.
DUMBGUYNEOCON_

always thought michelle malkin was hawt.
writer

They left out Megyn Kelly??
torgman

So, the right attracts vain bitches. What else is new?
chicagoflygirls

It is amazing that a woman would consent to live her whole life as a 1 dimensional pundit. Anything for fame… how self serving can you get! There is no concern here among these women for our country or it’s people. Ignorance speaking to ignorance. Playing the game. How can we get progressives to vote so that this tidal wave of punditry can be set asside?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Elliot/1397506919 Derek Elliot

I second “writer’s” choice — Megyn Kelly should be number one.