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Apr. 30th, 2008 08:58 pmOne of my favorite blogs, Crooks and Liars rightfully slammed Brian Williams's NBC Nightly News for ignoring real news to run a lengthy piece on Miley Cyrus's suggestive photo shoot.
I personally don't care what Miley Cyrus does, but I was struck by a comment in the Crooks and Liars post:
"I think the ones who look at that picture as sexual are the ones we should be concerned about."
Look, I know it's fun to slam conservative types who want to make this Miley Cyrus thing into one of their patented Won't-Somebody-Please-Think-Of-The-Children! scandals, but let's face it -- a photo of a girl sporting nothing but a loosely-draped sheet, fuck-tousled hair and a faceful of vampish makeup is not meant to be anything but sexual. What the fuck else could it possibly be? Uh...a charming portrait of fresh-scrubbed youth? Annie Liebowitz knew exactly what she was going for with those photos, and I suspect Miley and her dad and her management knew it too. Let's just call it what it is -- high-gloss kiddie porn.
I personally don't care what Miley Cyrus does, but I was struck by a comment in the Crooks and Liars post:
"I think the ones who look at that picture as sexual are the ones we should be concerned about."
Look, I know it's fun to slam conservative types who want to make this Miley Cyrus thing into one of their patented Won't-Somebody-Please-Think-Of-The-Children! scandals, but let's face it -- a photo of a girl sporting nothing but a loosely-draped sheet, fuck-tousled hair and a faceful of vampish makeup is not meant to be anything but sexual. What the fuck else could it possibly be? Uh...a charming portrait of fresh-scrubbed youth? Annie Liebowitz knew exactly what she was going for with those photos, and I suspect Miley and her dad and her management knew it too. Let's just call it what it is -- high-gloss kiddie porn.