Fox News leads the charge in first slander of Miss USA, Rima Fakih

[Barack_America]

I've been watching Fox affiliates pick this up over the course of the morning, and now the main site has done so.

Miss USA Rima Fakih stripping contest photos emerge

Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih was a contestant in a stripping contest sponsored by a Detroit radio station, MyFOXDC.com is reporting. Fakih appears in several photos on Mojointhemorning.com, a morning show on Detroit's Channel 955. Two of the photos are from a strip tease contest held in 2007, and show Fakih performing on a stripper pole in front of an audience of women dressed in their underwear.

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The judges were strippers, and awarded Fakih first prize. The prizes included jewelry, gift cards, adult toys and a stripper pole for home use, according to the website.

The event was attended by women only, and Rima never removed her clothing at the event, the radio station said in a statement.

The photos are the latest provocative pictures of the contestant. The first were lingerie photos posted by the Miss USA pageant itself, which were first reported exclusively by Fox411.com's Pop Tarts column.

In those, Fakih and the other contestants were photographed in lacy lingerie, fishnets, smudged black eyeliner, knee-high boots, ample cleavage and plenty of bare skin, all while positioned in seductive poses on a large bed.

In 2009, Miss California Carrie Prejean was roundly criticized for posing in photographs that in some cases exposed her beasts. She said the shots were from a fashion shoot and that the "topless" photos were due to the wind, and never meant for publication.

Link (warning, it's FoxNews):
http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/17/miss-usa-rima-fakih-stripping-contest-photos-emerge/


The right-wing really seems determined to slap her down. And including the martyrdom of St. Prejean? Pathetic.

[brooklynite]

1. Sorry, any Miss USA with this in her closet would get this treatment...

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Including that anti gay twit in California?

There were nekkid pictures of her, IIRC. Did Fox criticize her?? I don't remember that.

[Barack_America]

9. In her closet?

What in particular is wrong with dancing in a tank top and shorts in front of other women? These pictures are far less racy than the photos taken by the pageant of all the contestants.

And note how Fox attempts to smear Fakih, whilst defending Prejean. You feel that is "neutral" reporting?

[brooklynite]

19. From my perspective, none...

...from the perspective of someone who enters a beauty pageant with the hopes of winning and becoming something of a celebrity, the revelation should have been expected. If she doesn't care about the response, I don't either.

[Egnever]

15. OOPS

I didnt look at the photo before posting...please ignore my comment.

[arcadian]

2. I guess we're really not a melting pot after all.

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[theoldman]

4. Many years ago a beauty contest consisted of bathing suits.

First it was one piece suits and then two piece suits. I don't things have changed very much during the beauty contests. What has changed is the things the contestants do before and after the beauty contest. Maybe the contestants need to be vetted.

[dkf]

5. Well look where Vanessa Williams is now.

Controversy might be the best thing that ever happens to this woman. Do I know anything about last years Miss USA? Nope. But I've seen a pic of this years.

[Contrary1]

6. "Miss USA Rima Fakih stripping contest" and "Rima never removed her clothing at the event"

Only on Faux.

[petronius]

10. Is it actually stripping or striptease if you don't take any clothes off?

:shrug:

[Barack_America]

12. I think that according to Fox "displays of female sexuality" = "whore"

Unless, you hate the gays, of course.

[Quantess]

24. Unless you are a fox "news" anchor dressed slutty.

[Scurrilous]

11. But it's OK for Scott Brown to pose nude for Cosmo.

Hypocrites.

[HopeHoops]

13. Yeah, now THERE's a shock.

:eyes:

[NeedleCast]

14. Faux fails to see the hypocracy in Prejeans' case

With the former Miss USA, it wasn't that she had appeard topless (and, apparently, in a sex tape) but her crusade for social conservatism.

[Barack_America]

18. And in the Prejean case, her topless photos and sex tape were only interesting...

...in light of her claims that she had been discriminated against by the pageant for being such a devout Christian woman.

Fox seems to be missing layers of hypocrisy here, as usual.

[Ian David]

16. If she wants to keep her crown, she'll need a "private meeting" with The Donald.

Just like the LAST Miss USA had to do.

Maybe Carrie Prejean can give her some pointers on what The Donald likes.

[Ian David]

17. Yay! More FoxPorn! n/t

[mainer]

20. Sounds more like a "dancing in underwear" contest, not stripping

And the audience for that was all women.

How does this possibly compare with Prejean, who bared her breasts, and then taped herself masturbating?

[Bitwit1234]

21. Carrie PreJean was disqualified after the pageant because

she wouldn't show up for personal appearances and interviews. They said something about the photo shoots but that wasn't the reason. She broke her contract by picking and choosing who she wanted to talk to as Miss USA.

[Quezacoatl]

22. You mean Miss California

[lies and propaganda]

23. ITS UNAMERICAN TO CRITICIZE MISS USA IN TIMES OF WAR!

I couldn't resist ;p

[sinkingfeeling]

25. This is best they can do? Of the 2 pictures, this is the 'raciest' one.