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SAUNDERS: Christmas in rehab
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/21/6 | Debra J. Saunders

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: rehab; trumped
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1 posted on 12/21/2006 7:52:32 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
Miss USA, she's not wholesome any more.

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.

2 posted on 12/21/2006 7:56:41 AM PST by Kenton
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To: SmithL
Rosie O made a remark on the View about how Donald should talk with some of his past (which I won't repeat) and The Donald really ripped her a new one. Her remark was due to the recent Miss America who he gave a second chance. He belted Rosie good. Hooray for the Trump!
3 posted on 12/21/2006 7:59:33 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Logical me

Ripped her a new one? I thought he'd sicced his attack lawyers on her.

heh heh heh


4 posted on 12/21/2006 8:05:07 AM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: SmithL

Rosie couldn't win Miss PORK USA............


5 posted on 12/21/2006 8:07:26 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: Logical me

Woops I mean Miss USA pagent.


6 posted on 12/21/2006 8:09:32 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: SmithL
Geee.. and his giving her a second chance on live TV has nothing to do with the new TV Game show he's about to put on called "Second Chance"...

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.

7 posted on 12/21/2006 8:11:19 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: SmithL

Pictures?

I'll check back later.

:->


8 posted on 12/21/2006 8:15:33 AM PST by Scourge of God (Remember, liberals, 'baaa' means NO!)
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To: Kenton

You never made a mistake.


9 posted on 12/21/2006 8:17:13 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Logical me
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.

11 posted on 12/21/2006 8:19:50 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Grow up! Never made a mistake?


12 posted on 12/21/2006 8:21:11 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Logical me
You 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.

13 posted on 12/21/2006 8:23:44 AM PST by Kenton
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To: SmithL
Anyone who has seen Conner's bikini strut -- and if you watch TV news, you've seen it -- should be clear on Conner's image. She was not about "world peace" -- unless you spell it p-i-e-c-e. Her presentation was a celebration of youth and sex appeal.


14 posted on 12/21/2006 8:25:26 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Fake but Accurate": NY Times)
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To: Red Badger
Ignorant Liberal Lesbian Porker Award


15 posted on 12/21/2006 8:30:04 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Kenton
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.

16 posted on 12/21/2006 8:36:32 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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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

17 posted on 12/21/2006 8:41:31 AM PST by Kenton
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To: SmithL

Are you Tara Connor?

;o)
18 posted on 12/21/2006 8:47:05 AM PST by LIConFem (Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")
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To: Red Badger

Yes, she could!


19 posted on 12/21/2006 8:52:34 AM PST by jimmyo57
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To: Logical me
Lucy, in Peanuts, once said:

"I've never made a mistake. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."

20 posted on 12/21/2006 8:53:57 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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