Posted on 12/21/2015 2:35:30 PM PST by RummyChick
Let’s just all hold hands and say everyone’s a winner. All those other ladies are sad, too.
That’s what I said as soon as I saw this. Lawsuit on the way - she can’t keep the crown, so she’ll settle for bling.
Well, you are correct in one sense. It was a once in a lifetime emotional high for a young woman since it was of a kind almost certainly never to be repeated - to say nothing of being in front of the entire world!
Typical guy would have said, "FU", and walked off the stage. Thank God our women are not built that way.
Think back on the greatest high in your life particularly if it involved winning at the international level, especially after a grueling competition and some good amount of out of pocket expenses, and then imagine what it would have felt like if the host stepped in and said, "oops, never mind, I screwed up".
I think Miss Philippine and her nation should step up, it would be a great thing between the two countries.
cc: Steve Harvey: rec you scratch Columbia off your vacation itinerary.
It was a little over 2 minutes when Harvey announced he made the mistake.
I can only wonder what the discussion between show producers and Harvey was like during the interim.
Yeah, I did as well.
My only excuse is that I lived near the river for a little over a year while I was high-lead logging under Mt. St. Helens. (I need to get that straightened out, my son is dating a beauty from Colombia!)
Moron. Coked-up or whatever.
Seems that the emcee mispronounced the country’s name as well, saying it like the river (if I heard correctly).
We are upstream a couple hundred miles from Portland.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Truthfully the correct answer was to not correct the mistake. Nobody really knows how the judges vote and why anyway, burn the evidence, move on. It was their mistaken belief that beauty pageants matter that led them to doing the worst thing possible.
I have been trying to think of an analogy that men might understand.
Perhaps the King title in a boxing match. So and So is the world champion. Pictures taken, belt put on, etc and then have the announcer say - oops I read the wrong name.
Yes
Come on, it could have been worse. Not as if someone accidentally sprayed ddt on their primary nose candy crop and destroyed Columbia’s economy.
Probably doesn't get much better. I have fond memories of the woods, 2 and 3 log truck runs.
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!!
Yeah. I wonder.
Remember when the MSM called Florida for Gore, and then the entire election for Gore. Actually they were doing that all night, calling it for Gore and then having to take it back. Freepers started the “SoreLoserman” campaign. Now that Trump has some proximity to this contest, all the principles go out the window.
She should graciously congratulate the winner, let Steve the host off the hook with some gracious words, and thereby become a hero to the slighted everywhere. It would set her for a hugely successful life, but that’s not even WHY she should do it.
Is that not the accent with which they say it in Columbia? I don’t know. I’m asking.
So rob Miss Philippines of the title just to cover yourself and spare Miss Columbia’s hurt feelings? I don’t think so. He did the right think fessing up.
He’d have declared somebody else the victor, somebody that wasn’t even there.
Plus you don't have to go around making all of those BS personal appearances.
Exactly.
It’s a meaningless title. It’s a made up competition with no value in the outside world. Miss Universe exists for the sole purpose of promoting the competition. Heck it was probably a fix to make it up for when they pulled the competition from the Philippines last year anyway.
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