February 28, 2007
There is a sign at the National World War II Memorial that reads as follows: "Please Respect The Memorial - No Wading - No Coins"
You wouldn't think that a sign like this would be necessary, but apparently it is. Apparently, there are those folks who would seriously consider using a memorial to our veterans as a swimming pool.
Now, like most red-blooded American males, I generally have no problem with a hot young girl frolicking around in a fountain in a white t-shirt. (In fact, I might even go so far as to say I'm generally in favor of that sort of thing.)
I do, however, have a problem when the fountain in question is a memorial to our nation's fallen heroes.
If the young lady splashing about in our National World War II Memorial in these pictures is American Idol's Antonella Barba, I'd say she has some explaining to do.
UPDATE : The original post gave the benefit of a little doubt as to whether it really was the memorial fountain in the pictures. As Good Lt. notes, there really isn't any doubt as to whether it is the memorial fountain, so I changed the post to reflect that.
UPDATE by Rusty: I've been to the WWII Memorial only once. I described it in this post:
Cried as I found my grandfather's name at the new WWII memorial.Those tears, by the way, were shared with my mom, who I called as soon as I found her father's name. My mom never knew her father. He was killed fighting the Japanese when she was just a toddler.
The Japanese not only robbed my grandfather of his life, they robbed my mother and myself the chance to ever get to know him.
Just thought I'd throw that in there. I am someone who has little problem blaspheming that which is held as sacred, but which isn't. But if there is such a thing as a place that is sacred, then the WWII Memorial surely is one of those places. The blood of my grandfather, if it is worth anything, has made it so.
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But that is indeed the National WWII memorial, and she does need to explain herself.
It isn't the local shoppingmall fountain.
Posted by: Good Lt at February 28, 2007 01:17 PM (D0TMh)
Posted by: TXEric at February 28, 2007 01:18 PM (0+Yl+)
Posted by: Osama Bin Laden at February 28, 2007 03:05 PM (Q5fOm)
Same thought occurred to me directly I saw the pics (which I viewed strictly as a matter of fair investigation into the allegations).
Disrespectful in the extreme, enough so that it took all the fun out of that part of the investigation.
Posted by: novaculus at February 28, 2007 03:21 PM (PCCn+)
Wade on Hottie, Wade on.
Posted by: QC at February 28, 2007 03:29 PM (PX+vn)
Stripping and doing a wet-tshirt photo shoot on a war memorial is "honoring" it? Despite the fact that she blatantly ignored the signs, doesn't doing a spread on the official memorial of our grandparents irk you a bit?
What if your family members were among the honored ?
Posted by: Good Lt at February 28, 2007 04:30 PM (D0TMh)
This chick looks good in some pics, but has way too much upper gum line and toothiness. Plus, she let herself get photographed chomping on some guy with a small d. That's just pathetic.
Posted by: wooga at February 28, 2007 04:50 PM (t9sT5)
"Uncovered" meathead! What an idiot! I bet she didn't even think about it much. A worthwhile use of cheescake to draw traffic yet make a point! Well done on Ragnar's part. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at February 28, 2007 05:16 PM (2OHpj)
Posted by: QC at February 28, 2007 05:27 PM (PX+vn)
Posted by: QC at February 28, 2007 05:29 PM (PX+vn)
As an artist who works with photographers on press kits from time to time (An old, ugly, male artist, though: She is indeed cute as all get out), I can tell you from first hand experience that the photographer and manager make virtually all of the location decisions. THEY are the ones with some explaining to do, as this causes BAD PUBLICITY for their client (But then, the old "There is no such thing as BAD publicity" axiom may have come into play here; the manager may have done this purposefully hoping for just this sort of outcome).
Posted by: Hucbald at February 28, 2007 06:22 PM (Nxezv)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2007 10:36 PM (kuCYZ)
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 01, 2007 02:41 AM (2OHpj)
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 01, 2007 02:45 AM (2OHpj)
Yes, I wrote "extremely crappy." I sneer at anyone dorky enough to watch it.
She's not even very hot. She has a chipmunk overbite and narrow boy-hips. Attractive, but nothing special.
I guess any narcissistic tramp from "American Idol" should be able to piss off whomever she wants. After all, she's "famous" (trying to be anyway,) and fame trumps all else. You're nothing unless you're famous. Being on TV makes you a better person.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at March 01, 2007 09:57 PM (Dt3sl)
I guess any narcissistic tramp from "American Idol" should be able to piss off whomever she wants.
Considering that the entire reason that this memorial exists is that American men of staggering courage and valor gave their lives to ensure that Americans like Antonella Barba would live in a nation where freedom and democracy existed and would ensure her right to do things and express opinions that you and I might disagree with. So the answer would indisputably be Yes, since that is precisely why the memorial exists in the first place.
Sorry Ragnar the memorial doesn’t exist because your grandfather shed his blood, it exist to remind us of how much your grandfather valued freedom. Antonella Barba’s actions in that fountain are in fact exactly the freedoms your grandfather valued so much that he laid down his life to protect. Your disgust at her actions are far more dishonoring to the memorial which exists to remind future generation of the price we have paid and the value we as a nation place on freedom then her frolicking in a fountain could ever do.
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834
Posted by: doriangrey at March 03, 2007 02:54 PM (av5r1)
"Considering that the entire reason that this memorial exists is that American men of staggering courage and valor gave their lives to ensure that Americans like Antonella Barba would live in a nation where freedom and democracy existed and would ensure her right to do things and express opinions that you and I might disagree with. So the answer would indisputably be Yes, since that is precisely why the memorial exists in the first place."
Wrong. The memorial was built to honor the men who fought in WWII, not what they fought for.
Spare me the laftard rhetoric. You should know better. Contempt for Barba isn't more heinous than her vainglorious self promotion at the expense of WWII veterans.
They died for their friends and country, not talentless pigs competing on America's gayest TV show.
America is not based on vicious self interest, and desecrating monuments is not patriotic.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at March 04, 2007 02:27 AM (Dt3sl)
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