Posted on 12/21/2006 7:52:28 AM PST by SmithL
DONALD TRUMP has figured out that America is addicted to addiction stories. With Tara Conner, the current Miss USA, you see the pattern with red-white-and-blue efficiency: Young hottie works hard, makes it, parties too hard, is seen bouncing half-naked on Fox News every 20 minutes, middle-aged male solons on same network tut-tut young babe's immorality, and when that gets old even for middle-aged men, she enters rehab.
Yes, this is the age of the short- attention span scandal. Over-achievers hit rock bottom before they're 21.
And what a story, with the possibility that Trump could utter his signature "you're fired" phrase. Thus, Miss USA's story was exported to media around the globe. O joy to the world.
Shame as a spectator sport? To believe that, you have to believe that Trump has moral standards, although I suppose one can believe that The Donald has moral standards for other people. You also have to believe that Conner is truly ashamed, not pretend shamed, of stories that have garnered more press coverage than her coronation. (A Nexis check of news stories on Conner showed 94 stories this week, compared to 10 when she won her tiara.)
You don't have to be a cynical New Yorker to figure that people don't care about beauty pageants as they did 40 years ago, but if Trump Inc. can throw in some silicone and scandal, maybe pageants could make a comeback. Here's a fitting slogan: Miss USA, she's not wholesome any more.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Yeah, I'm hoping that next year's Miss USA pageant is decided by a nude oil-wrestling match between Pam Anderson and Anna Nicole Smith.
Ripped her a new one? I thought he'd sicced his attack lawyers on her.
heh heh heh
Rosie couldn't win Miss PORK USA............
Woops I mean Miss USA pagent.
In the meantime, the morale is, if you're a very pretty girl with friends in high places, immoral activity and broken laws don't matter. Like the judge who let the teacher in Florida who raped a boy off becuase "she was too pretty to put in jail", the Toupee'd Trump has deceded beauty is more important than law or morality.
Pictures?
I'll check back later.
:->
You never made a mistake.
Mistake? Look at the pictures linked in the above post. Those are the kinds of mistakes Paris Hilton makes every night.
Grow up! Never made a mistake?
Lord no, mistakes are what my life has basically been all about. But my posting wasn't intended as a snarky comment. I'd LOVE to see the Miss USA pageant come down to a nude oil-wrestling match between Pam Anderson and Anna Nicole Smith.
Yeah, would like to see that myself, maybe not on the Miss America show but a full one hour feature, maybe on cable. I mean it seriously!!!! Pam would win.
Not if Anna starts to gain that weight back...LOL
Yes, she could!
"I've never made a mistake. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."
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