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Parents Furious over Pole Dancer at ‘Family-Friendly’ Colorado State Fair
Todd Starnes/KWAM ^ | 1 September 2025 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 09/02/2025 9:06:01 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701

Parents want to know who was responsible for installing a stripper pole at the family-friendly Colorado State Fair. Click here to see the video. It shows an obese woman writhing on the pole as stunned spectators watched in either disbelief or horror.

Organisers of the state fair released a statement to television station KRDO explaining that a third-party vendor had booked the plus-sized performance.

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“The events that took place Friday, August 29, on one of our free entertainment stages at the Colorado State Fairgrounds are unfortunate and do not reflect the Fair’s commitment to family-friendly entertainment.

This was part of a series of performances booked by a third-party stage production vendor. The performance’s content was not transparently disclosed before the performance began.

However, the Colorado State Fair takes full responsibility for the performance and for allowing it to continue. We apologise to all who have been impacted.” -----------

Peacock Pole Art, which advertises itself as Southern Colorado’s premier pole dancing studio, defended the performance and said it was entirely family-friendly.

“I want to clarify that our performers at the Colorado State Fair was part of an artistic, athletic, and fully age-appropriate pole performance. Pole is often misunderstood, but it is a legitimate sport and art form—recognized worldwide—with strength, flexibility, musicality, and storytelling at its core,” the studio wrote in a statement.

“We take great pride in curating routines that are empowering, tasteful, and suitable for a family-friendly audience. This was not a nightclub act, nor was it intended to be ‘inappropriate,” the studio wrote in a statement. “It was a celebration of movement, creativity, and culture—just like the other dance and acrobatic acts at the fair.”

And many online observers saluted the plus-sized dancer’s technique.

“Folks are commenting on how strong the pole must be,” said one woman. “I’m coming on here to comment how strong she is: Physically strong, mentally and emotionally strong. Wow!”

Another wrote: “She, herself, would have to be at least twice as strong as the average pole dancer. She pulled it off well for her weight. It is odd to be at a state fair, but least it was done tastefully, not X rated.”

Many of our readers, however, commended the red-blooded American steelworkers who crafted the stripper pole.

“I don’t know which is stronger, that weld or her confidence,” one observer noted.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: aerialperformances; colorado; statefair

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It seems pole dancing, aerial performances, lyra, et al, are being accepted everywhere -- even churches and state fairs have seen them. What is next?
1 posted on 09/02/2025 9:06:01 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Miss Lewinski’s feeling were likely hurt.


2 posted on 09/02/2025 9:08:07 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701
Click here to see the video.

NO.

It shows an obese woman writhing on the pole

Why do you want me to see that?

3 posted on 09/02/2025 9:08:10 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Pole dancer? Wasn’t she doing the mazurka?


4 posted on 09/02/2025 9:08:14 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

I would have thrown my drink or corndog at that disgusting blob and loudly insulted her kids and mother.


5 posted on 09/02/2025 9:08:22 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

6 posted on 09/02/2025 9:09:32 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

“Parents Furious over Pole Dancer at ‘Family-Friendly’ Colorado State Fair”

Parents Furious over SATAN’s Pole Dancer at ‘Family-Friendly’ Colorado State Fair

There, fixed it


7 posted on 09/02/2025 9:10:02 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Vote Democrat, what do you get?


8 posted on 09/02/2025 9:10:04 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: NorthMountain

Mr. Starnes was presenting “Exhibit A” as in a court of law to explain his case the performance was inappropriate for the Colorado State Fair.


9 posted on 09/02/2025 9:10:26 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Civilization is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.


10 posted on 09/02/2025 9:11:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701
“Folks are commenting on how strong the pole must be,”

Lol

11 posted on 09/02/2025 9:12:50 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I think that throwing corndogs at fat people is now considered a hate-crime in CO.


12 posted on 09/02/2025 9:13:17 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: gundog

Pole-ish dancers?


13 posted on 09/02/2025 9:14:45 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump is back.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701
Pole is often misunderstood

ROFL!!! No, you skank ... it's understood entirely too well.

She pulled it off well for her weight. It is odd to be at a state fair,

Fattened livestock at a state fair? That's actually normal ... are you going to put her up for auction, like the other prize-winning animals?

14 posted on 09/02/2025 9:15:56 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Is the pole okay?


15 posted on 09/02/2025 9:16:20 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: NorthMountain

Try the video here, instead:

Wannabe influencer facing 5 years in prison for Turkish flag pole dancing stunt
By Patrick Reilly
Published Aug. 26, 2025, 12:05 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/world-news/wannabe-influencer-facing-jail-time-for-stunt-dancing-on-turkish-flag/


16 posted on 09/02/2025 9:16:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: gundog

Bardzo dobrze!


17 posted on 09/02/2025 9:16:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Wannabe influencer facing 5 years in prison for Turkish flag pole dancing stunt


She’d better take The Midnight Express.


18 posted on 09/02/2025 9:17:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

19 posted on 09/02/2025 9:18:00 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

This type of crap in CO might be part of the reason Trump is moving Space Force out of Colorado.


20 posted on 09/02/2025 9:18:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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