Ten Hottest Women of Cable News

Remember the Playboy magazine pictorial spreads... ten page photo stories like "Girls of the Big Ten" featuring nubile co-eds in various states of undress? These photo cavalcades may still go on within the glossy pages of Hugh Hefner's magazine but my obsession leans towards the covered up beauties of cable news.

Here they are-- "The Women Newscasters of Cable News." Ted Turner may have instigated the movement towards the serious sexiness of today's news anchors and I'll pay homage to Ted by starting with the women of CNN:

CNN
1) Fredericka Whitfield-- a healthy woman with a beautiful face though mature in her career, CNN babes only have a limited  on-camera window. Fredericka comes by her gracious demeanor honestly-- Her father, Marvelous Mal Whitfield, was a great Olympian and one of the Tuskegee Airmen.

2) Brooke Baldwin-- a babe, reminds me of the high school girls who always dated older guys. Kind of makes you feel inferior to admire Brooke, always knowing you just don't qualify for that kind of woman.

3) Carol Costello-- a bit older, has a gossipy edge to her presentation reminiscent of another high school type-- the rumor starter, it's like she's seducing you with one scandal after another. Has a tricky Mrs. Robinson quality, and you're a young and confused Dustin Hoffman.

4) Christina Amanpour-- you meet her in a Parisian cafe. She's decked out in black leather pants, drinking Pernod and puffs clove cigarettes to beat the band. And she has war stories, no I mean literal war stories. You cannot help but consider the crazy lovemaking techniques she has mastered.

MSNBC
5) Tamron Hall-- very clean cut girl, seems youthful and idealistic like she really cares about some of the daily litany of tragedies coming across her desk. Tamron has a modest quality, unusual in the newscasting business, and we used to call woman like her "the marrying kind."

6) Andrea Mitchell-- a matron of the news with unusually wide set eyes and a very broad mouth. She's always referred to as a "veteran reporter" and features a Lauren Bacall sultriness, the type Humphrey Bogart always meets at a corner table in a dimly lit bar in New York. You, not so much.

CNBC
7) Savannah Guthrie-- with an Australian background, adds a nice bit of raciness with her good looks and carefully considered outfits. Business men like nothing better than walking in a woman with a babe like Savannah poised on the arm.

8) Melissa Lee-- even saucier than Savannah, she plays well with boys. However, she might be the type that lets you down due to the failures of your portfolio unless you can make her laugh. She's got a great laugh.

9) Maria Bartiromo-- the original money-honey, she has great lips and a musical Italian last name, almost an aphrodisiac in itself.  Has been a respected reporter for so long not likely to give you the time of day at a cocktail party if your net worth is less than Portugal.

CNN, MSNBC and CNBC
10) Erin Burnett-- has starred in every format and network, despite a tomboy demeanor and physiognomy. She downplays her sexuality, except for the electric blue color in her eyes, and seems not to have a mean bone in her Peter Pan body.