Please see Post 43.

"It's not like she's naked"? Well, all the camera has to do is zoom in a little, and...

"Modest" is HARDLY the word for it.

The patronizing can stop. RIGHT NOW. Thank you very much.

Me, too, gordianot.

A mere few minutes ago, I said to my husband, "shit, can't believe I'm actually agreeing with Bob Corker."

Much love to you, hamsterjill, and many hugs.

Thank you for sharing this personal agony - we need to hear these stories because you're absolutely right - we need to fight for decent affordable healthcare! For EVERYONE!

We ALL MUST make sure that your sister did NOT die in vain. And that your sorrow will NOT go unheard and ignored.

This is one for that jerk Raul Labrador, R-ID, who had the gall to declare at a town hall meeting awhile back that "no one dies if they don't have healthcare." Oh yeah? Hey, Raul, why don't you ask hamsterjill about that sometime?

She's in-studio, in the anchor chair, and all you see is bare skin from the chest up.

She's wearing one of those drop-shoulder tops that looks like a beach cover-up. Those tops are fashionable right now and look great if you're after the come-hither look at a cocktail party or some such big night out. That is flatly NOT appropriate attire for a news anchor. And on a Sunday morning, to beat.

No one will win any points for calling me a prude, okay? But FOR PETE'S SAKE! That is the most massively inappropriate on-camera outfit I think I've ever seen! Worse even than what's paraded all day long, every day, year-round, on Pox Noise.

Just wondering here - are you male, by any chance?

"Sexy" for a NEWS ANCHOR????

Uh-uh, says THIS now-retired news anchor. That's not the point of a NEWS ANCHOR, okay? A NEWS ANCHOR is selling facts. NOT flagrant sex. And this is a NEWSCAST. NOT a peep show.

I noticed that immediately. SHAME on her! I tweeted about that to her.

@AlexWitt Dear God, Alex, would you mind PUTTING SOME CLOTHES ON? PLEASE?? Horribly inappropriate on-camera outfit for a news anchor!

@AlexWitt Who OK'd your "anchoring" the news with all that bare skin showing? HORRIBLY inappropriate! Credibility, NOT semi-nudity! @msnbc

SHAME on her. Jodymarie aimee, you're absolutely right. You wear stuff like that to the beach. NOT to the news set. Unless, I suppose, if it's the Playboy Channel or some such thing.

I'm very uneasy about all that "look how my clothes are almost falling off!" fashion that's so pervasive right now. All those bare-shoulder tops that are okay if it's a cocktail party or an awards night or a heavy date that is deliberately planned to end in the bedroom. I WAS a news anchor when I was younger. Even on radio, I understood how important it was to dress for credibility. When I was working, women were just starting to gain entree - not only into the newsroom but actually on the air. That was back when the only female on the news set was the weather girl or some other professional cutie-pie who did the feature story or the kicker at the end of the news cast, and even then, said cutie-pie dressed at least somewhat appropriately. Back then, your credibility was all you had - ESPECIALLY for women trying to break through that particular glass ceiling. When I started, straight out of college radio in the mid-'70s, there were almost NO women in any significant positions. My first several jobs were because they had no women, at all, and needed one to be able to "check that box". Back then, a woman NEVER dressed like that - unless, of course, she wanted the boss's couch instead of the anchor chair.

Shit - I remember going to radio conventions where I was the only female wearing a blazer. Most of the other women there were dressed like Alex Witt chose to dress, for on-air, this morning. DISGRACEFUL!!!

I hope women all over America are tweeting to her about how slutty and inappropriate she's "dressed", while purporting to anchor the news. GOD, why didn't she just go on, wearing a bikini forcryingoutloud!

Welcome to DU, krakfiend.

Glad you're here on this thread. It's proof of how truly great DU can be. We sure can yell and scream and fight and bicker. But you're seeing the absolute best of us here.

I remember when my mom had her first major heart attack, I wore green every day.

I didn't own a lot of green clothing, but by Jove I dug around and wore whatever I could find. A scarf maybe? AHA! Yeah, there's some green in it! Okay! Jewelry counts, too, btw, if you've got a ring or something with a green stone. I bought a couple of shirts in green, too. Anything I could find.

Superstition? Sure. But it was calming for me. Gave me something to focus on. A reminder of sorts. As kind of a "hippie-dippy" weirdo type, I've always appreciated the symbology of color, and what green is believed to connote. It made me feel like I was doing SOMETHING, because otherwise, I just felt so damn helpless. Knew there was NOTHING I could do, concretely, that would make any difference because I've had no medical training or experience whatsoever, outside of the standard Red Cross workshop here and there. Even visiting her in CCU didn't seem sufficient. So I wore green. At home in the evening, I'd light a green candle. Just little superficial things, with no guarantees involved. But she pulled through, and lived another 17 years. For whatever that's worth.