Medusa in Furs, or GOP Calendar Girls: Loathly Hags in a Monthly Roster of Infamy

by Teh Nutroots | I haven't had the stomach to deal with this visual roster of conservative females, so offensive to decency and reason it actually burns. 

 PSP comments on the Photoshop resources required to create these multiple visions of the apocalypse and the Nightmare-Life-in-Death.

Lots of people have written about the new ghastly calendar which features conservative gals swathed glamorously in fur...Well, finally, ABC News put the whole thing on their photo page so that we can cringe at the entire rogues gallery of shrill commentators, lobbyists, ideologues and oil industry shills. And what a nightmare it is! One thing I noticed is that most of the shots are sweetened up with Photoshop used by a very heavy hand. Features are smoothed over and generalized to the point of looking totally unreal. My favorite is the shot above. That's plucky Sandy Liddy (as in G. Gordon's daughter) Bourne, one of the most egregious global-warming deniers/oil industry cheerleaders. She's been transformed into some kind of other-worldly, Kabuki-masked beauty school demonstration mannequin....[click here]

As he says, it took some drastic photoshopping to create the "glamour"---which I use provisionally in the sense of a ruse or false face.

TBogg, who knows something about production values, says:

I am appalled by the Pretty In Mink glamour shots. 

Honestly, I'm not offended by the use of fur so much as the sheer crapitude of the make-up artistry and photography. Don't even get me started on the poses. I realize you have to photograph the conservative women you have, not the conservative women you wish you had, but Sweet f/Stop Jesus, these are just awful. They could have improved the quality and saved some money by having the make-up done  for free at a MAC store and then wandered down the mall to a Glamour Shots. Worst of all is realizing that these were the best of the best.

To be fair there are a few good shots as evidenced by the fact that Ann Coulter came in third in our Guess the Transvestite! poll. A glass half-full moment if there ever was one...

Watertiger at Firedoglake wondered, as I do, why K-Lo wasn't included.  With all that photoshopping....oh never mind. 

Larisa Alexandrovna has what I'd call the definitive extended treatment of this collection of "Shock and Awe Barbie dolls", as she calls them, complete with contrasting photoshopped and real bios.

I am sure you will have no problem locating Fascist Barbie, Idiot Barbie, and any other true identity of each starlet on display in this warped homage to extremism, nicely wrapped in fur, but not much truth.

I suppose it's a fitting valedictory to these beasts in other beasts' clothing as they sink into irrelevance.

On of her commenters speaks for me.

Good night, ladies.  We're going to leave you now.

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