Beautiful? You Decide.
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 02:44PM 
It has been well documented that I am not often rendered speechless.
However.
When it was brought to my attention this morning that People has published a new 100-Most-Beautiful list and two names (and faces) in particular are on it, I couldn't think of a thing to say for, like, fifteen whole seconds. The silence was deafening.
Happily, I recovered.
People (and People) ... Turbo-Tax Tim Geithner and First Malady Michelle Obama? On a list of booful peoples? My retinae are burning! In what lobotomized society would this fly one inch off the ground?
Of all the terms of language we've been forced to redefine, a beautiful word like "beautiful" is now one of them?
Help me. I think I've died and gone to where I know I'll never go.
Folks. Look.
Beautiful black woman:
Beautiful black woman:
Not a beautiful black woman:
Beautiful white man:
Whoa! Let's do that again!
Beautiful white man:
Beautiful white man:
Not a beautiful white man:
And y'all, it has nothing to do with politics, or even airbrushing. It has everything to do with facial features.
The world has become an insane asylum. Not just the Spanish Main, luv ... the entire world! The derelict denizens of the Oblahma-crazed mainstream media are the wardens. I think it's time for my lithium.
They're coming to take me away. Thanks for listening.
Reader Comments (17)
Are you kidding me??
M-Obama and Turbo Tax?????!
I can *SOMEWHAT* understand Mrs. Finally-Proud-of-Her-Country, simply because of the drool factor akin to the buckets her hubby has had dumped on him from day one...
But Turbo Tax Timmy? Are the pickings really that slim this year that they had to dig down THAT far in the barrel????
Girl, on MO's best day she is perhaps what would be called a "handsome" woman ... but that is a far, far cry from "beautiful" -- a special word for a special concept -- in the eye of any beholder except, perhaps (I hope), Barky himself ... who is not exactly eye candy either. I'm shocked HE didn't make the list! He's easier to look at than she is, but unfortunately that's not saying much!
Geithner? He looks like a goon. I have to shield my eyes from his forehead because it scares me. The world has gone completely insane ... aaaaaiiiieeeeeeee ... *takes off running*
OH MY SOUL! I cannot believe my eyes and what you just wrote! That's it...the world HAS officially gone completely insane. I don't even know how to respond to this.
I've got no reply to this - I don't get it either. I did enjoy your picks though!
@ Audrey ... it does strain credulity, at that ...
@ Mari ... my guess is that Cary Grant, dead 22+ years, looks better at this moment than TurboTax Tim ever has or will! And Johnny ... well, Johnny's just fun to look at. Nuff sed.
Hahaha..."handsome" is the perfect description for MO.
But wait, you mean you're not slobbering all over yourself looking at her "toned arms" like the rest of the media????
Jenny, I'm surprised. Really.
@ Angi ... well, I wouldn't mind having her arms ... and her shopping budget! But I wouldn't want her face. No, huh-uh ...
Michelle Obama scares me. If she had a black eye and wore less expensive clothing, she'd be the spitting image of the woman who asked me for $5 yesterday at the pharmacy. (And I'd hardly call that woman "beautiful.")
I say this in all seriousness: Compared to the photo of Halle Berry, Michelle Obama looks like like someone who has been beaten her with a very ugly stick.
Okay, that last sentence of mine made no sense. How about a do over?
Compared to the photo of Halle Berry, Michelle Obama looks like someone who has been beaten with a very ugly stick.
There. Much better.
Kev, I do believe an ugly stick would run as fast as it could away from Michelle Obama.
Frankly, I've never put much credence in such lists, especially when they come from discredited magazines like People, Time, Newsweek, etc, two of the latter former journalism sources now little more than boot-licking sycophants to a socialist administration. People has always been a joke in political correctness. Your best response? Don't buy or read 'em. Waste of money, time and brain use.
@ SF ... as always, spot on. I couldn't agree more with all of your comment, but especially the part about not wasting $$ or brain cells on mags that clearly know how to put a finger up, test the wind, and figure out how to get at the cash stash of herd-mentality dumbed-down Americans.
Oh, my goodness, that made me laugh out loud! Yeah, that beautiful white man you have listed in first and second place would get my vote.
Jay, somehow I knew you'd be transfixed ... in a good way! You know beauty when you see it.
BWAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I heard that one on Fox News. I was taken aback...and affront! Boy...wish I could comment on those marked with "Comments Off." Understandable, though, as to why I can't. Hadn't seen the KTrio one but had received the Obama Man one.
BTW...I creusered myself silly this weekend. Hope to have lots to show for it.
@ Joonie ... aback and affront! I love that! Wish I'd thought of it! And I KNOW your flowers will be beautiful! They always are.