There she is... Miss Americaaaa!

[underpants]

Kirsten Haglund celebrates after being crowned Miss America 2008 during the Miss America Pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008.
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)




Miss Michigan, Kirsten Haglund performs during the Miss America Pageant






SHOUT OUT to Miss Virginia


Miss Virginia Hannah Kiefer competes in a swimsuit contest during the preliminary competition for the Miss America Pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino in Las Vegas , Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

[stuntcat]

1. My friend watched

He said Miss Virginia should have won. I wanted Miss NC to win, because of NC of course, but also she was Lumbee Indian like my husband. But she was like 5th or something in the end, my friend told me the result. He said the winner had an awful dress for the evening gown part.

[Book Lover]

2. they may be a little old, but I like these pictures better

[Midlodemocrat]

3. She's very pretty. Miss VA should have won.

Next year, it'll be TM on that runway. :hide:

[sasquatch]

5. And her lecherous 40 something boyfriend from Boston in audience

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:D

[Midlodemocrat]

6. helping to skew the votes.

:rofl:

Seriously, she has a friend who did pageants in TX and she wants TM to do them with her. :eyes:

We'll see how it turns out. If there is serious 'scholarship' money, that is one thing because I'm not investing another penny in that kid. She's way over budget as it is.

[1gobluedem]

4. Yay for Michigan!

Nice to have some positive press for a change even if it from a beauty pageant.

[NightWatcher]

7. a little too skinny for my liking. she looks rather generic to me as well

[Whisp]

22. pretty yes, but very cookie cutter - agreed.

is that one of Cher's gowns she got at the thrift store? ;)

[KansDem]

8. Great satire about beauty pageants...

Smile (1975)

[mitchum]

16. I second that

what a great movie

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. It's also a clever indictment of the organizations that put them on

I was in the Jaycees for 10 years and worked on two Junior Miss pageants, and let me tell you — it's every bit as silly as portrayed in "Smile." Either director Michael Ritchie or writer Jerry Belson must've been in the organization, because they freakin' nailed it, right down to the "exhausted rooster" ceremony.

In the second of the two pageants I worked on, at one point the chairperson was outside a mall, literally asking girls passing by, "Hey, y'wanna be in the Junior Miss pageant?"

It was... embarrassing.

[LibDemAlways]

9. Looks like staid old Miss America has taken a cue

from Trump's Miss USA t and a fest. Looks like they dumped not only Atlantic City but the pretense that the contestants are really vying for college scholarships.

[Dangerously Amused]

10. .

by Kirsten Anerberg

"Women's Body Esteem is big business. Billions of dollars are spent on the "weight loss industry" yearly. That industry is solely dependent on women's self-hatred. Women are reduced to size, told to be less, told to shed big chunks of themselves for acceptance. Likewise, the "beauty industry" has convinced millions of women that chemical crap on their faces, and plucked eyebrows that are drawn back on, is "beauty." ... May I suggest the very radical political action of robbing these industries of your body hatred dollars?

I first became aware of the women's body esteem movement in 1983, in Santa Cruz, California. Ann Simonton (www.mediawatch.com), a former cover model for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, Cosmo, Covergirl, etc., turned her attentions to body activism shortly after a revelation in a dressing room with other models. She was getting ready for a photo shoot with other famous models and they were all complaining about different parts of their bodies. Their necks, their thighs, their stomachs, their eyes...And it hit Ann that these models were the pinnacle of beauty that society was holding up as every woman's ideal, yet it still was not good enough. Their photos from the shoot would be airbrushed. Ann realized the modeling industry was promoting an unattainable standard of beauty for women."

...

Care to be a compassionate, reality-based and and enlightened being? More here: http://eatthestate.org/07-22/RadicalBodyPolitics.htm

[billyskank]

11. I can't believe they still do this shit.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I was about to say something similar

When a mainstream "beauty pageant" features women 5' 4" and 155 pounds with 42-inch hips, I'll support it.

But I'd rather these things just go away altogether.

[Jack Sprat]

26. Why? Some of us letches still like the darned things.

Don't take away our joy. It's what we live for.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. *pssst*

You're on the internets. There's porn.

:7

[jpljr77]

12. Awesome venue for the event

"...Miss America Pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino in Las Vegas"

That may be the most apropos thing I've ever read.

She's cute, no doubt; literally oozing with apple pie and well-wishes for "the troops."

[LisaM]

13. Yay for Michigan!

I didn't know it was on, but saw it on the news. I guess her grandmother was also Miss America.

Her "platform" is eating disorders. I just read a book that said that this is so rampant in sororities that plumbers are constantly being called to clear the vomit out of the pipes.

[RedStateShame]

14. Where is it, Miss America's center of gravity?

That first swimsuit shot of her looks like she's teetering over to one side, like in the "Smooth Criminal" video. Do Michigan residents really lean that far to the right?

[kwassa]

18. well, it's called the Detroit Lean.

It is done to look cool while "Woodwarding", which is the art of cruising this fine major avenue in Detroit, looking both casual and cool.

[suninvited]

15. That next to the last picture

reminds me of the little girl in Little Miss Sunshine watching the beauty pageants and copying the winner slapping her hands on her face and screaming like that.

[applegrove]

20. I thought the woman who was a soldier was going to win.

[underpants]

21. *I* never saw any Sgt. that looked like that

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4195165&page=1

http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_8083739

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. Styx flashack

:spank: :spank: :spank:

Miss Virginia is yummy.

[Jack Sprat]

24. Did not even know it was held, but

from the pics you have just shown, Miss Virginia looks purr-fecto. I vote for Miss Virginia. What do you mean it's too late? Fixed! I object! This contest was fixed! Do over! Annul the whole contest. Do over, I say! I demand a do over! What a shapely body. They weren,t toned like that in my day. Just as pretty, but not nearly as toned. Wow!

[One_Life_To_Give]

25. How is she at Astrophysics?

Looks is nice but give me a shuttle commander any day.

[Bucky]

28. She looks great in a bikini. Let's give her a scholarship to college.

If these contests had any intellectual integrity, the winner would be sacrified to appease the volcano gods.