MSNBC anchor David Shuster, in watching Miss California Carrie Prejean and Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump hold a news conference to say that Ms. Prejean can keep her crown, was just sickened by the shallowness and superficiality of it all. Apparently literally, because he asked his co-anchors if he could vomit in response to The Donald and Ms. Prejean's words. Mr. Shuster is nothing if not polite to his co-hosts.
Shape that in your mind: A beauty pageant winner is being called out for superficiality by a man who reads a TelePrompTer for a living. Mr. Shuster did win a regional Emmy for reporting about a housing scandal in Arkansas, but let's not pretend that he would have a seat on a national newscast of any kind if he lisped, or had a skin condition, or didn't test well with promo audiences. For all I know, Mr. Shuster is right about the shallowness of Ms. Prejean (The Donald's superficiality goes without question) and of beauty pageants in general. But before he climbs all the way to the top of Mt. Dudgeon about what kind of damage that superficiality does to our culture, he might check out the mirror...
Never mind. I forgot he has to do that before he goes on the air anyway.
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