gretchen carlson american television host

Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson born June 21, 1966 is an American television host, and former Miss America, who currently hosts the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, along with co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Controversy
3 References
4 External links
Early life
Carlson was born to Lee and Karen Hyllengren Carlson. She has one sister named Kristin and two brothers named Mark and William. She grew up in Anoka, Minnesota and graduated from Anoka-Hennepin School District 11's Anoka High School, where she was the 1984 class valedictorian. One of her childhood nannies was Michele Bachmann, the future Republican congresswoman. is a beauty pageant winner: she won the title "Miss Minnesota" in 1989 [5] and became the third woman from Minnesota to win the "Miss America" title. For the talent competition, Carlson played Zigeunerweisen, the violin composition of Sarasate.
Carlson graduated cum laude from Stanford University in 1990, with a degree in sociology (organizational behavior). While at Stanford University, she studied abroad at Oxford University.
On October 4, 1997, Carlson married sports agent Casey Close, whose clientele includes Ryan Howard, Derek Jeter and formerly Josh Hamilton.They have two children.
Career
Carlson was previously the co-anchor of the Saturday Early Show, on CBS, along with Russ Mitchell. 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 began her media career in a franchise called Neighborhood News.
Carlson was moved to Fox & Friends initially as a weekend substitute host. But on September 25, 2006, a shifting of anchors, which included E.D. Hill moving to the 10 a.m. hour of Fox News Live opened a weekday slot on Fox & Friends, which Carlson filled. She co-hosts the show with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.
Carlson is a national celebrity spokesperson for the March of Dimes.
She announced on Fox & Friends on June 9, 2009 (also repeated on Glenn Beck's Fox News television program the same day) that her parents' car dealership had been selected for closing as part of the General Motors reorganization and bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. The dealership, Lee Carlson's Main Motors, has been operating since 1919, and is still open.
Controversy
On Fox & Friends, during a January 10, 2007 interview with Dan Bartlett, Counselor to then President George W. Bush, Carlson labeled Democratic U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy a "hostile enemy" of 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." Keith Olbermann chose her as that day's "Worst Person in the World" on that night's broadcast of his show Countdown,[14] 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?"
In response to several on-air instances in which Carlson stated that she had googled the meanings of certain words (including "czar", "ignoramus", and "double-dip recession"), comedian Jon Stewart pointed out during a December 2009 episode of The Daily Show that Carlson had an accomplished academic background and accused her of deliberately playing down her intelligence to her audience.