InstaPundit points out how Greta Van Susteran's cosmetic surgery has prompted the usual bevy of "It's terrible how women are judged on their looks" gobbledygook.
Aside from that, did anyone notice that these same folks are often the very same folks who, a little over a year ago, were the people belittling Katherine Harris over her makeup and appearance when she was doing her duty?
Aren't these often the same folks who wax enthusiastic over Hillary Clinton and Barbra Streisand, calling them beautiful, etc.?
The problem is not that some of these folks are fixated on looks, but rather that they are hypocrits when confronted with that simple fact that they are fixated on looks. This subculture of lookists like to believe that they are deep and serious thinkers (some members: Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Bill Clinton), but their first and foremost counterargument tends to be along the lines "That person's viewpoints cannot be correct; they are not pretty enough!" -- as they ripped off into the ether with ad hominen attacks on GW Bush, Laura Bush, Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, etc. etc.
I think part of the reason that Ronald and Nacy Reagan are truly hated by this crowd comes from teh fact that President and Mrs. Reagan are member of the "Beautiful People" set, and they dared to counter the intellectual hypocrisy and falsity of the Hollywood left.
Oh, that brings up another point -- why does the same crowd that hangs on Barbra Sterisand's every pronouncement also dismiss Ronald Reagan as "just an actor"?
President Reagan did so much more good for the world that some singer ever will... and he was a better actor...
