In a seeming coincidence, the City of Las Vegas has just announced that, in addition to being site of the first annual Yearly Kos Festival, the self styled City of Sin has also been awarded exclusive rights to host the 10th Annual Hooters Swimsuit Pageant, apparently for the 10th year in a row.
According to the Hard Rock Hotel Sports Book, Maryscott O’Connor has been installed as the early 6-9 betting favorite to sweep all awards at both the Kos Festival and the Hooter’s Pageant.
It was not immediately known whether Ms. O’Connor’s film-crew-in-tow will be allowed into the swimsuit competition. However, according to the producers of the highly popular “Liberals Gone Wild” series, videos of both events will soon be available on all major late night cable TV outlets for only $6.66.
All proceeds from sales of the videos will be donated to help fund John Kerry in the principled, valiant struggle to change his own mind about supporting the War in Iraq.
Stay tuned to this diary for further reports…You will NOT see this story anywhere else, not on FNC, CNN, AP or OUI.
Bet on it.
Lets send a clear message to our leadership in Las Vegas.
You sure you’re not falling victim to Ms O’Connor’s (self-) publicity machine?
fallen head over heels, brotha.
Well, I’m not at all clear what your message is?
You don’t like Mary Scott O’Connor?
You like her boobs?
You don’t like uppity women?
You like uppity women with good boobs?
You feel the best way to attack strong, opinionated women is to discuss them as sexual objects?
What is you message? Please clarify. I seem to have missed it all together.
For the record:
Curiously, while I dont recall a single boob reference in my diary, your post seems to be replete with them.
As the late great Rodney Dangerfield put it best:
I must be an “ass man” because everywhere I go people tell me “You’re an ass, man!”
Does that help?
I didnt think so.
Thanks for commenting.
Well, as I said, I missed your point(s) all together.
You probably made them, but I missed them.
Thanks for the clarification.
so, not even a weak chuckle???
Uhhh…you’re making fun of ME!!!???
Who you talkin’ to?
You talkin’ to ME!!!???
In thirteenth place?
I’m insulted.
Don’t you know that I suffer from triskaidekaboobia?
Fear of the thirteenth breast of God?
PLEASE!!!
Great diary.
AG
actually you tied for thirteenth
Oh.
Thank GOD!!!
Now Oui will have to face the triskawhateverthefuck music.
WHEW!!!
AG
Forgot to add also the “$6.66” reference was a jibe at the media hype surrounding last Monday being designated 06/06/06 on some peoples calendars….
Dont I get any love for so many jibes cmpacted into such a short diary?
Oh well, now that youve tricked me into deconstructing myself I dont find any of it that funny either…
Did you really miss the point of this post?
It’s not about Maryscott O’Connor.
It’s about the sad irony of a so-called leftwing blog…now the blog of record as far as the mainstream media are concerned…holding its very first convention in the tits and ass, “What happens here stays here”, tee-hee-hee ain’t we dirty little boys and girls, sexism capital of the world.
Mayscott’s image just happens to be the one that is available. And yes…she has quite consciously USED her good looks to get a message across. That…and ONLY that…is WHY her image is available.
So what?
Could you REALLY miss something this plain?
Unbelievable.
AG
No tip, no flame and no recommend.
I understand that some might expect me, a card carrying lesbian, to be in favor of a “Hooters-type” swim suit contest. However, I am not.
I would only be interested in a Vegas swim suit contest that focused on BOTH male and female bodily charms. (I think I read something about Boos collection of speedos.)
Perhaps a contest for a title like the “Sexiest Progressive on Planet Earth”?
I am not making this up! Hooters really IS having their 10th annual swimsuit competition in Las Vegas.
This has nothing to do with my sexual preferences….and I truly dont care about yours, either.
But thanks for sharing.
I was aware of the Hooters contest there now, and simply stated my own suggestion for another KIND of contest for our folks out there.. that would include a focus on BOTH women and mens bodies, for a refreshing change.
My reference to my own sexuality was simply meant as a humorous comment, nothing more, and was certainly not comnected with you or yours. However, I got the underlying message, which appears to be “shut up”.
I may or I may not.
NOT AT ALL. Please speak up. I did see the humor, altho thought the lesbian reference merely detracted from your punchline instead of giving it “punch.”
Maybe MSOCs film crew will capture some video of Boo poolside in his Speedo…I will be among the first straight males in the blosphere to give you my honest “gut” reaction if it is posted here.
BTW, the reason men really wear Speedos is because the low cut downplays the horizontal spread of our love handles instead of accentuating them like the more traditional waist high trunks…
I forget sometimes, how distracting it can be to others to read my casual references to being a lesbian: to me it’s just like saying I have white hair and wear glasses, no big deal. It probably got inserted here because I’d just had a recent discussion with some other gay women, about how we feel about contests like Hooters, and things like this that DO more or less reduce women’s attributes mostly to certain body parts.
I just feel if we, (as a culture, I mean) are going to sexualize and objectify people by focusing on specific body parts, it ought to be an equal opportunity venture, with men being sexualized and objectified to the same degree as women are, thats all. 🙂 Plus, good bodies of both genders are nice to look at and we all like to “oogle” a bit.
I didn’t KNOW that about why men wear speedos! See? Stereotypes. I thought they wore them to accentuate thier packages! Somehow, I find comfort in the fact men worry about their love handles too!
I spend most of the time I’m in swim trunks trying to avoid people ogling my balls. This speedo allegation of Chris’s is a calumnious slander.
Oh now I must tell this story. You see, I may be female, but I DO know how it feels to haver to ifght to keep people from oogling someone ELSES balls!
It was a developpmentally delayed cleent of mine, a 40 year old guy with the innocence of a three year old, who loved to wear shorts like the other guys in the summer. However, he was over blessed, and I mean abundantly so, with “male attributes”. I mean even bermuda lenghth shorts didn’t quite do it. (Tighty whities underneath were not his thing, either) We finally convinced him it was “cool” to wear a big beach towel tied aruund his waist, over his shorts, thus avoided his getting arrented for indecent exposure.
This is not to imply you are struggiling with this same problem, Boo…just trying to express some empathy. 🙂
They’re not called budgie smugglers for nothing, Boo!
Perhaps you are an aquasexual?
See, discussions of body parts CAN be meaningful, even educational, within the proper context of course.
If you really dont know, men are FAR more worried about their looks and body parts than are women. We obsess about our own at least as much as we obsess about yours and there is nothing can be done about it….unless you ban mirrors from the homes of all geeky adolescent males…
BTW, my prediction is that MSOC will be the first blogger to leap from cyberspace to TV talk fame and fortune. While it is true Moulitsas invented the internets, he is just an average looking guy after all, and TV requires a certain physical attractiveness…
I say good for her! and him!
Oh for sure these discussion can be wonderfully useful..as you say, in context. I had a lot of wonderful experiences presenting topic of human sexuality in my work as a nurse in health care settings. (And got run out on a rail, practically, in some settings, primarily owned by church organizations) where anything to DO with human sexuality..was “verboten”. Its amazing how many of those who care for the developmentally delayed, the disabled, the elderly, etc..assume that they don’t even HAVE any normal sexual needs or resonses. HA!
To be honest, I was introduced to lesbianism as a young man when my first uppity, ex wife decided she was a lesbian (through no fault of MINE, of course).
I used to hang out with the two of them in lesbian bars and gay bars all over Boston. This was 1979-1982 time period when many of my male friends, co workers and roommates were or knew others who were beginning to succumb one at a time to some strange new unnamed disease that nobody understood, except it seemed like too many victims were gay men for it to be coincidental. It was a time of great despair, fear and tragedy.
Anyway, lesbianism must have been more a lifestyle choice then genetic for my ex wife, because she has been happily remarried for about 15 years, to a dude, of all things.
It sucks to find out it was you after all. Alas, the truth everyone who gets divorced must face sooner or later….our ex wasn’t against marriage, our gender or anything other than just against us.
This is an excellent comment, mainly because I have no idea to whom your pronouns refer.
Which “you” is who? Who are “our” ex?
Just bad writing. I didn’t want to use the pompous “one” as in “one’s ex wasn’t against marriage….” so I just threw pronouns in as the mood hit me, using you rather than “one” and using us to indicate that Ive been through it.
All of us who are divorced must face the fact that our exes wanted to get one particular flesh and blood human being out of their life…namely us.
Oh, if you meant to say that I, donkeytale, am also Arthur Gilroy…is that what youre saying?
HAHA. If I was AG I would be highly insulted.
He’s much more celebrated a blooger than I.
And as an added bonus, he can explain my positions far better and with more humor and eloquence than I myself can.
Maybe I should take your post as a warning/suggestion and just let him become me from now on….
Whattya think?
AG? Whats it worth to ya? I’ll sell you title to the entire “donkeytale” ouevre, unlimited rights to the name, plus unlimited rights to the complete works/names of two more classic, yet underappreciated diarists : “illusions of magicians” and “pete richards.”
{All three have been nominated for the 2006 Brandy Alexander Award, named for the great pitcher (played in the movie by President Reagan) who stumbled out of the bullpen blind drunk as Odysseus after two pints of Thunderbird to strike out the side with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, 1926 world series on the road in Yanqui Stadium, Bronx Cheers, NY NY.
Ruth. Gehrig. Lazzeri.
Steeerike 3! Yur all outta there!
Cardinals win!Cardinals win!}
—Three classic blooger identities all yours for just the one low price of $6.66, plus shipping and handling.
No.
Thanks.
I’m already too busy trying to deal with my “Armando” persona over at the law firm.
AG