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Foxy Nation asks: "What About Miss RI's Racy Photos?"

May 11, 2009 5:49 pm ET by Media Matters staff

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Media Matters has documented numerous examples of Fox News' pattern of exploiting any opportunity to show scantily clad women, regardless of the seriousness of the issue being covered.

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    • Author by mjh (May 11, 2009 6:20 pm ET)
         
      Hm, lemme guess: Miss Rhode Island leans left -- that's why Fox Notion wants to smear her . . .

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    • Author by nerzog (May 11, 2009 6:34 pm ET)
         
      Looks like Miss Fakeboobs California has discovered her gravy train. She's apparently showing up on Evangelical Nutbag shows like Focus on the Family and claiming that God told her how to answer that Gay Marriage question. Praise Jeeeezzzzzzuuuussssss! Send money!

      I wonder... did God tell her to get falsies?

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      • Author by worrierking (May 11, 2009 7:12 pm ET)
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        I'm really surprised that some Christians aren't offended about all of the dimwits that God chooses to speak to.

        I mean, if I were God, I might want to talk to Stephen Hawking becasue he's about the only one who could hold his own conversationwise with a deity.

        But the only time you hear of God speaking to anyone, it's some religious charlatan like Pat Robertson, a dimwit president or an ungrateful beauty pageant contestant who wasn't happy with what God gave her.
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      • Author by wookie (May 12, 2009 10:54 am ET)
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        I would have thought God could come up with a more articulate answer.
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    • Author by breno3414301 (May 11, 2009 6:47 pm ET)
         
      As I understand it, the controversy over Miss California's title stems from an internal rule of the Miss California Pageant barring contestants in that particular pageant from posing nude or semi-nude. Has it occurred to Fox to check to see if the Miss Rhode Island Pageant even has the same sort of rule? If the RI pageant doesn't then there is no "controversy" whatsoever. It's doubtful that Fox News checked to see what the rules were in RI, and even more doubtful that they even would have cared.
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (May 12, 2009 3:07 am ET)
           
        Wasn't Miss California a minor when she posed nude or semi-nude?

        High school girls are getting arrested all the time for 'sexting' these kind of pictures. So where's the right wingers on this one? They'd go nuts if a liberal actor were found with photos like hers.
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        • Author by LuvLuLu (May 12, 2009 11:39 am ET)
             
          She claimed she was a minor. Reality looks like she was 18, and it was after she had implants.
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    • Author by ZIRGAR (May 11, 2009 7:54 pm ET)
         
      Gee, FOX, do you think it might have something to do with your girl being portrayed as a victim of godless insensitivity and her posing as a completely virtuous woman? FOX, when you do that kind of thing, think Gary Hart, and set yourself up as a paragon of goodness and squeaky clean American virtues, you are also setting yourself up, rightly so, as a target. Hypocrisy on her part, I think it might be called.
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    • Author by magnolialover (May 11, 2009 10:12 pm ET)
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      I'm also not remembering the part where Ms. RI was prattling on and on about being a good Christian woman, and how Jesus told her how to answer her questions, and things like that. Only to be once again, be seen as a lying hypocrite of the religious right, as in, it's OK to pose nude, and get fake breasts, but apparently being gay, totally going to burn and all. Another item allegedly plucked from the Bible to enforce hatred of gay people. At least from Ms. California's side of things, far as I can tell.

      Look, if you're going to live your life by the Bible, then by all means, do it. But don't pick and choose what or how you want to live by it. Either you accept it all, or nothing. Isn't that how it is supposed to be?

      Religion is a sham anyway. Every single day I grow closer and closer to Atheism. Nah, actually, I'm already there.
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    • Author by dimes (May 12, 2009 12:30 am ET)
         
      The difference between these contestants is that Miss RI informed the pageant organizers that she had posed for photos, which they subsequently OK'd.

      Miss California denied on her application that she'd taken any nude or semi-nude (ie, topless) photos, then when they came to light used the "I was only 17" excuse (which actually makes it worse). Now, the photographer who took the photos is calling shenanigans on her again, claiming that the photos were taken only a couple of months ago.

      Put simply, Miss California is a liar. And a bad one, at that.
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    • Author by roninkannushi1711 (May 12, 2009 12:32 am ET)
         
      All media has a problem with women. So they look good, I like that. Women are still subjugated! Men fear confident women. It is O.K. so long as they behave the way men expect them to. That is, so last century. The ladies at Fox have to play along, as much as any woman, in any other job. Even if they are the boss. Women bosses have it harder. It is not because they can not do the job, better than men. Men automatically gather, in their minds, to control access. Women know it, so do men. Men have controlled using violence, and now status. If mediamatters.org, or any other male occupied location, think differently, you are wrong. Get in line, take a number, and have a seat! We have a long way to go. Let us work together for a good future.
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      • Author by pete592 (May 12, 2009 1:18 am ET)
           
        Interesting. Not really sure what that has to do with beauty pageant contestants though.

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    • Author by dimes (May 12, 2009 2:18 am ET)
         
      TMZ, that bastion of trash culture, has published yet another set of semi-nude shots of Miss California that she evidently forgot to mention on her application.

      They're a bit more revealing.

      What's next, a sex tape?
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (May 12, 2009 3:12 am ET)
           
        Alrighhht... California here I come !

        One problem though. Those aren't fake, which means they were taken long ago-- and--truth be told-- it doesn't look much like her-- it looks like thousands of other girls, really.
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    • Author by mk3872 (May 12, 2009 2:26 am ET)
         
      Just another excuse for Fox to plaster more hot & steamy chic pix.

      They had these photos on the home page of FoxNews.com earlier today, too.
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    • Author by Jurgan (May 13, 2009 1:26 pm ET)
         
      Can we all just agree that anyone obsessing over the answer a beauty pageant contestant gave, pro or con, is wasting their time? Can we drop the subject? (Note: That's not condemning the content of this article, which is about Fox's sensationalism rather than Miss California's answer)
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