Wednesday, March 26, 2008

O-Girl

I didn't care much for Obama Girl when she made her debut with "I Got A Crush...On Obama", a viral video love letter which expressed her love and poor use of grammar for Democratic candidate. So imagine how much less I care about the follow up "Hillary! Stop The Attacks! Love, Obama Girl".

That's got to be the worst title ever. Worse than "No More Iraq War! Let's Kiss!". Worse than "Eat Your Vegetables! AIDS Prevention Now!". And worse than "Kiddie Porn White Slave Trade! Federal Rebate Checks Are Coming!"

The asinine and irritating name is so painful, it even makes it hard to watch the 24 year old girl having trouble restraining her cleavage. Amber Lee Ettinger considers herself a model and actress as well as a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology - with plans to start her own clothing line in the future! According to her
MySpace, Facebook, and modeling profile - all which also include a slew of provocative photos and YouTube videos - her appearances in popular magazines like FHM and Maxim are just the tip of her one-dimensional, typical iceberg. Her talents and skills include, voice over talent, dance, music, and performance, but not, however, singing.

What? You mean she actually lip-synchs her videos? Yep.

Obama Girl is really the creation of 21 year old Philadelphian Leah Kauffman, who with a couple of her friends decided to write an R&B parody/tribute to Kauffman's favorite political candidate. Ettinger is just the window dressing. Which makes it more insufferable that such a big deal is made of Ettinger.

But what is most difficult to accept is that MSN included Ettinger's O-Girl as one of the most influential women of 2007. Ladies, if you're not mad about that, check again - one of those X chromosomes may be an Y. Hillary Clinton, J.K. Rowling, Benazir Bhutto...and O-Girl? Even Hannah Montana Cyrus has a legit reason to be on that list, but a wannabe starlet in a YouTube video? I know America has poor standards for entertainment, humor and taste (Two And A Half Men, I'm looking at you, you trifecta of suck), but really...

And for coming this far, here's your punishment.



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