Fugly Underwood

We generally don’t make a habit of off-topic posts like this, but it’s Election Day, and we’ve been planning to poll you like crazy. So we’re going to do things a little differently today — mixed in with your regularly scheduled fuggings, of course — and solicit the vote on a few vital issues of the day. Like, say, stuff that comes out of Carrie Underwood’s mouth. VITAL.

It seems that Carrie Underwood up there (it’s an old photo; don’t worry, she did not trot out the polterwangian pantsuit again) got cranky to TV Guide about the spectre of celebrities throwing public support behind one candidate:

“I lose all respect for celebrities when they back a candidate…. It’s saying that the American public isn’t smart enough to make
their own decisions.”

So I guess she’s saying celebrities, by dint of being famous, should shut their mouths and clam up and not choose to be activists if there’s anything they believe in, JUST because their fame might imply that America is too dumb to have an opinion without them? That seems extreme. Maybe she needs to go back to telling us all how long it’s been since she talked to Tony Romo. And yet at the same time, I’ve rolled my eyes plenty when CERTAIN celebrities start talking about politics. Like, for instance, I know she’s a person, too, but I can’t bring myself to care what Paris Hilton thinks about the state of the world. I just can’t. Ditto Heidi Montag.