What a week in the industry. First we hear that Nepal Airlines  sacrificed goats to the Sky God in order to get their planes flying. Now today, the saga of the Southwest Airlines’ fashion police and the Hooters waitress, Kyla Ebbert  is taking center stage.

Ya know, if this woman was so humiliated, then why did she wait two months to alert the press to her “pain and suffering?”

I mean, as her own mother told a columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, “My daughter is young, tall, blond and beautiful. She is both envied and complimented on her appearance. She dresses provocatively, as do 99 percent of 23-year-old girls who can. But they were out of line.”

So apparently a Southwest Airlines’ flight attendant asked her to “cover herself up a bit more” before letting her sit back down in her seat on a flight from San Diego to Tucson.

And for this, the woman is now on the “Today Show” and has hired an attorney?

Pahleez. And how long before we hear about the contract with Playboy? A week?

One of you wrote me a note this morning after watching Ms. Ebbert on the show and said, “Holly, you’ve got to see the video of this. The woman is sitting there in a skirt so short you can see right up her dress. And here she is, going on about how she was treated so badly?”

I haven’t seen the video yet — but am about to go find it.

I do know Media Bistro noted in its blog today, “At one point in the sit-down interview Matt asks Kyla to stand up to show what she is wearing. It’s the same outfit that nearly got her bumped from the flight. As she sat back down on the couch, her skirt rode up, revealing what was probably going to get her kicked off the flight in the first place. An astute TVNewser reader noticed when he watched the Today show in the central time zone, that editors had digitized Kyla’s privates (in all honestly, it was just a glimpse of her panties.) What’s more, the interview re-aired on the third hour of Today at 9:09ET. This time, the interview was fixed in editing, and her sit-down was covered completely with a cut-away shot of Matt.”

Oh, and apparently her MySpace site is full of Ms. Ebbert in revealing photos. An emailer to Media Bistro reported that after other morning shows did their homework on Ms. Ebbert’s background — they chose to pass.

One thing I do know. I think the whole story actually sheds more light on how inane and superficial the “Today Show” has become, more than anything else. I was stunned when a commercial appeared last night during the football game on NBC promoting her appearance on the show this morning.

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