Trash Journalists and Accidental Politicians : Stay off Jackie’s Back

Trash Journalists and Accidental Politicians: Stay off Jackie’s Back
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Yesterday, the earth trembled under the feet of the Lebanese. No citizen was left safe from being concerned about these pictures. A Lebanese champion is skiing, naked, except for a fig leaf. The fractured Lebanese Republic is hanging on to Jackie’s breasts. A journalist was transformed into a preacher, calling for the protection of “what remains of Lebanon’s reputation in international sporting events.” Some feminists threw a stone at her, rejecting the commodification of women’s bodies. The minister of youth and sports ordered immediate investigations “to protect Lebanon’s reputation.”

Excuse me? Lebanon’s reputation?

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Jackie had no option but to apologize on her page for a wrong she did not commit. “Lebanon is a conservative country and this picture does not reflect our culture,” she wrote. Without doubt, she heard this from Tony Khalife.

But where do people get this idea? The non-conservative current in Lebanon transcends the sects, regions, and political trenches. If the electoral laws in Lebanon were fair, it would have a bigger bloc in parliament than the Future Movement.

Trash Journalists and Accidental Politicians: Stay off Jackie’s Back
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Jackie Chamoun reacts after the women’s slalom first run at the World Ski Championships on February 14, 2009 in Val d’Isere, French Alps. (Photo: AFP-Jacques Demarthon) #Jackie_Chamoun reacts after the women’s slalom first run at the World Ski Championships on February 14, 2009 in Val d’Isere, French Alps. (Photo: AFP-Jacques Demarthon)

This is what was missing in #Lebanon, the land of milk and incense, rival communities, crumbling institutions, and degraded human dignity. This is what we needed in between two bombings, in the midst of the government’s tragicomedy, security and economic nightmares, and bleak future. Someone dug up old nude pictures of a skier in the mountains of Faraya, took them out of context, created a (...)

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