Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt Profiled in Elle Magazine: ‘The Left Wants to Destroy Fox News’

Elle Magazine released a big splashy profile of Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday, taking a look at the ascendant career of the host of President Donald Trump‘s favorite morning show, Fox & Friends.

The interview delves into the success of Fox & Friends, tracing Earhardt’s South Carolina beginnings through to her joining Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on the “curvy couch.”

When asked about tough interviews on the show, Earhardt said she thinks the left side of the political aisle in America is out to quash Fox News.

“It does weigh on me, that one side wants to destroy the other so much,” she told Elle’s Molly Langmuir. “I feel like the left wants to destroy Fox News.”

Further, when she interviews people on the show with whom she disagrees, she said she wants to hug them and tell them, “Just because I don’t agree doesn’t mean I don’t care about you and I can’t see your side.”

In a similar vein, she said she doesn’t want to sabotage the left in the same way that the left seems to want to sabotage the place she works. “I think that makes America wonderful, that we have different opinions,” she told Langmuir, who asked if partisan shows like Fox & Friends might lead to more “polarization.”

“I don’t feel like that,” she said. “You can choose what channel you want to watch.”

On political issues, Langmuir notes: “When I ask about outcomes, she responds about intentions.” For example, on immigration, Earhardt simply said: “It’s hard, because we have a long list of people who want to come in, and they’re doing it the right way. I just want to be safe.”

“What I realize later is that Earhardt and I were operating under different assumptions,” Langmuir muses in her piece. “I’d interviewed her like she was a political figure. She thinks of herself as a morning-show host.”

Langmuir went on to ask Earhardt about Trump’s “rambling” call into Fox & Friends in April.

“That’s not for me to judge,” Earhardt said of Langmuir’s description. “I just ask questions.”

“Afterward, we learned that was the number one trending thing in the world. I thought, ‘In the world? And God, you gave me this job?’ I’m just a normal person.” Earhardt said. “That’s what I’d tell that girl in New Jersey. Anything can happen. This is America. I think it’s just a good, all-American story.”

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