Teenage beauty pageants are obscene
As this video clearly shows.
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Comments (18)
In her defense...she's very cute.
Posted by Tom Civiletti | August 25, 2007 5:33 PM
W.T.F.
Let me guess, she didn't win.
Posted by Hula | August 25, 2007 6:29 PM
Sadder still, the comments posted on YouTube. She gets to remember these all her life. Yeah, I laughed, too. But the commentary is very mean and uncivilized. Poor kid.
Posted by Alexander | August 25, 2007 6:41 PM
Ok.. but is good in bed?
Posted by dman | August 25, 2007 7:00 PM
OMG. I think my brain just threw up in my mouth just a little.
Posted by Samuel John Klein | August 25, 2007 7:42 PM
I didn't even look at the YouTube comments. And I won't.
Posted by Jack Bog | August 25, 2007 8:06 PM
Hey, she took third place overall! I personally believe that some US Americans such as you all just can't see a winner when you see one. Maybe if you had access to some good quality maps you'd be able to build up our future instead of just tearing it down.
Posted by zeke | August 25, 2007 10:32 PM
I love the fact that when I view this, the first YouTube video teaser that comes up when the video ends is, "laser gun burning a cockroach."
I'm not sure why I think that's funny...but somehow it seems appropriate...
Posted by metroknow | August 26, 2007 12:23 AM
Apparently, she's another product of our shoddy education system. I can't believe how stupid she sounded.
Posted by al | August 26, 2007 6:25 AM
As a native South Carolinian, all I can say is, thank God for Mississippi!
Posted by Murray | August 26, 2007 8:26 AM
The operative factor isn't beauty pageants. It's teenage. You take most high schoolers and stick them up there and ask them a question like that cold, and you'll get something similar.
Posted by Zeb Quinn | August 26, 2007 9:22 AM
Sad. But I feel for the kid--an answer that rambling and incoherent probably is more a function of nerves than of lack of intelligence.
Posted by teacherrefpoet | August 26, 2007 10:03 AM
We witnessed our worst nightmare acted out for all the world - which might be our stage if we screw up in public as well. Compassion and a public speaking class? You go girl!
Posted by genop | August 26, 2007 10:28 AM
What I Learned From the Video
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* a lot of people don't have maps.
* we need to help South Africa.
* the Apocalypse is near.
Posted by ecohuman.com | August 26, 2007 3:29 PM
Kind of reminds me of a friend's daughter I met a few years back. She had just graduated with a business degree and was selling for a pharmaceutical firm. A person in the group commented that he had been in the peace corp in Ghana.
"Where's that?", she asked.
"In Africa," he responded.
"Oh wow," she said. "I thought, like, Africa was like, one big country."
Posted by Dave Lister | August 27, 2007 2:02 PM
Sadder still, the comments posted on YouTube. She gets to remember these all her life. Yeah, I laughed, too. But the commentary is very mean and uncivilized. Poor kid.
Sometimes there is a price to pay for that 15 minutes of fame...
Besides, the way this country works, after this she will probably end up hosting a reality show on Fox.
Posted by Jon | August 28, 2007 7:21 AM
You nailed it Jon. Already her comeback and explanation have elevated her. I assume through the workings of an agent, but whatever - I'm glad she is confronting the issue and trying to redeem herself. There are lots of public figures who have spoken more coherently and intentionally lied. They deserve the negativity. Not her. Really pathetic to hear Randi Rhodes using thid gal's soundbites on the radio this evening. In the manner of her having been elected to a Republican office. Cheap shots if you ask me and I am certainly left of center.
Posted by Alexander | August 28, 2007 7:14 PM
She appeared on -Today- and redeemed herself. Her principal remembers a smart student in honors courses. I stand by my hypothesis that it was nerves, not stupidity.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003858112_missteen29.html
Posted by teacherrefpoet | August 29, 2007 9:54 PM