Bravo to the New Jersey Pageant Board for standing by Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo and the attempt by some goons to blackmail her about some "racy" Facebook photos.
The blackmail, in addition to being blackmail, was outrageous and ridiculous for a bunch of reasons. The photos aren't that racy - no nudity - just what you see everywhere on Facebook. College students having a little fun. And the Miss America Pageant, in which Ms. Polumbo will now be able to participate, is decided at least in part by how contestants look walking around in bathing suits - more revealing than what Ms. Palumbo was wearing in those pictures.
Pageant spokesman Mark Soifer said the Board not only supported Ms. Palumbo, but decried the self-appointed "Committee to Save Miss America" for its blackmail.
Good for New Jersey. Maybe America is finally beginning to grow up, and learning to resist the vigilantes who would dictate what we can see and hear in our media and our pageants.
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Now, isn't that ironic?
It was ironic - not it's good ...
:) I meant - now it's good...
I'm glad they didn't rake this girl over the coals. I'm also glad Rosie O'Donnell didn't get into it. Have a great weekend Paul, watch Meadowland and think Mirrors
:) you too, Dawn ... (I'm mirrors looking at mirrors)...
Hey, great post! I agree, she is in less during the contest than in those photos. And I did have the thought while watching all this unfold, that I was more inclined to tell her to get out of the pageant business--that that is more problematic than facebook photos. With that said, the age of pantiless celebutantes has gone a little too far. This one is actually a step back, thank God!
Well said, kathie - thanks for coming by!
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