Posted on 01/26/2009 1:23:20 PM PST by Zakeet
The Miss America contest is stupid and dated and we crowned a new winner in Vegas on Saturday night.
One of the big surprises to me the last couple of years has been the relocation of the Miss America pageant to Vegas. Why would you bring this antiquated event -- an Atlantic City tradition that had seemingly run its course there -- to Vegas? Vegas aspires not only to be hipper than Atlantic City, but also wants to be a city with a relevance to the 21st century. (And anyway, swimsuit competitions made much more sense near an ocean.)
Miss America is even sexist in a dated way; try comparing the contestants' stage outfits to the cocktail servers' uniforms at host resort Planet Hollywood. I know that Miss America is a scholarship organization, but there has to be a better way to grant money to young ladies to go to school. Besides, leading scholarship drives is not why Vegas hosts events.
Regardless, each year now the Miss America contestants descend on Vegas with their chaperons and rules out of another era. Prospective Miss America contestants don't party, the winner this year thinks President Obama needs to quit smoking at once, and certainly the contestants don't drink or gamble, and generally their handlers speak rather condescendingly of all the major pastimes that keep the lights on in Vegas. So we promote Vegas with a contest that wants to project an image that has nothing to do with the business of Las Vegas?
(Excerpt) Read more at vegasblog.latimes.com ...
Some years ago there was a "Mrs. America" contest. Perhaps it still exists.
More importantly, how did Mario Lopez becomethe host?
Oh Geesh! Who cares? If you don’t like it don’t watch it! Why is it that some people think they can dictate what should be enjoyable to everyone else?
Why does the LA Times still exist?
I think they dumped the song entirely with the move to Vegas.
They did a show last year on the “retraining” of the contestants as they’re trying to get away from the old silent movie dresses and “I’d give everyone a puppy” Q&As and make the show more appealing to a modern audience. The show itself was kind of interesting, but I think it was too late in the process as the pageant itself was the same old stuff. At least it got me to watch last year’s. Not this year’s though. Pageant’s just aren’t that interesting.
She thinks, therefore, she is.
The home of Elvis impersonation? Ri-ight..
I checked, the Mrs. America pageant still exists. Enjoy: “ http://www.mrsamerica.com/ “
Is Miss Rhode Island still in contention?
Hmmm leggy.
If a girl from Indiana wins the Miss America pageant, can an Indiana University win in the Rose Bowl be far behind?
Yes, it can be far behind, to answer my own question.
KRAMER: If you were Miss America, and the U.S. was on the brink of a nuclear war, and the only way the conflict could be averted was if you agreed to sleep with the enemy’s leader, what would you do?
Exactly. While I may think these Beauty contests are dumb and booring what difference does that make? If the folks that sponsor, judge, participate in them isn’t that pretty much their business.
“The Miss America contest is stupid and dated and we crowned a new winner in Vegas on Saturday night.”
Is this the sort of writing that ends up in “news” papers these days?
Does that mean the Wall Street Journal will finally print my searing “Obama is Stupid and Dorky” essay?
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