Posted on 05/11/2014 12:10:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst, popularly known as “the bearded lady,” won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with the James Bond-theme-like ballad “Rise Like a Phoenix”, before a global TV audience of about 180 million people in 45 countries.
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I have no idea what that was about but for some reason I feel better now. ;-)
Once again, I find myself agreeing with the Russians:
But her victory caused outrage with some with one hardline Russian politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, even told national TV stations that her win meant ‘the end of Europe’. He added: ‘They don’t have men and women any more. They have “it”.
‘Fifty years ago the Soviet army occupied Austria. We made a mistake in freeing Austria. We should have stayed.’
And hundreds of Russian men posted pictures on Twitter of themselves shaving off their beards in protest.
Dana International, who won for Israel in 1998, is a transsexual and was widely opposed by Israeli conservatives.
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