Dueling Sex Watch: HuffPo and Daily Beast Battle over Bikinis

by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:33 am, July 13th, 2009

slide_1613_22282_large I’ve been seeing a lot of Phoebe Cates‘ breasts lately and it took me some time to figure out why. However, as I was tooling around the Internets this morning looking to what was what in the media world and it suddenly became clear, I was not in fact seeing double, HuffPo and The Daily Beast are both featuring strangely similar bikini slide shows on their home pages.

And by similar we mean practically identical. Halle Berry? Check. Princess Leia? Check. Bo Derek? Check. Is it possible to plagiarize iconic bikini shots?

According to the time stamps The Daily Beast’s slide show went up last Friday whilst HuffPo’s, which comes with a poll, no less(!), posted yesterday. Except not really.

A quick glance through my computer’s cache (see! bikini bait does work!) reveals that HuffPo has gone this bikini route before. Back in May just prior to the Memorial Day weekend they ran an almost identical slide show. Only this go-round they’ve switched out Farrah Fawcett, Borat, and Barack Obama and stocked up on the likes of Angelina Jolie, and Kate Bosworth, whilst the Beast has remained co-ed. Phoebe Cates remains in both; highschool fantasies apparently never grow old.

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Jelperman says:

July 13, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Any excuse to show Phoebe Cates in that red bikini is OK with me!

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