Mess America

American men love beautiful women. Well, except for the baseball perverts. ;-) I love beautiful women. I have a Blogger site devoted to beautiful women, or at least women I find beautiful. What American men don't love so much anymore is beautiful women strutting down a cheesy runway in even cheesier evening gowns and singing show tunes or doing ventriloquist acts. Which explains the plight of the Miss America pageant.

Country Music Television, the cable channel that picked up the pageant when ABC dropped it in 2004, itself dropped the pageant after ratings for the reinvented annual event failed to improve, or at least failed to meet CMT's expectations. The Miss America pageant's directors did everything they could to modernize the event - even moving it to Las Vegas! - and bring it into the twenty-first century, although that doesn't explain why they'd allow it to be shown on a cable channel watched by folks who enjoy Larry the Cable Guy. And yet it still can't make it.

My advice to Art McMaster, the dude who runs this show - call it a day. ( So long already, Artie!) No one likes beauty pageants anymore, at least not the ones run by people less savvy than Donald Trump. The Miss America pageant is as dated as chrome-trimmed kitchen tables and auto tailfins. Bert Parks is dead, and the Miss America crown should rest in peace with him. If you're so hot on continuing this production, Art, your best bet is to run it on public access television in Enid, Oklahoma. Hey, Miss Oklahoma keeps winning these days anyway.