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Miss South Carolina Teen USA explains herself
www.msnbc.msn.com ^ | 08/28/2007 | Mike Celizic

Posted on 08/29/2007 7:28:01 AM PDT by WesternCulture

The Miss Teen USA pageant contestant who became a YouTube sensation after butchering a question about why many Americans cannot find the U.S. on a world map says she was overwhelmed by her national television appearance and chalks up the experience to being “human.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: absolvedofhercrime; beautyqueens; caitlinupton; education; geography; iforgiveyou; likeiraqyouknow; media; notguilty; pageant; pageants; sc; sheshuman; sonotguilty; tv; whocares
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To: Lazamataz
17 is legal in Georgia.

I'll bet you have a US map showing all of the states labled with the legal age of consent!

61 posted on 08/29/2007 8:35:32 AM PDT by Sax
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To: facedown
“Is that really me? It’s like I’m not in my actual body.”

Not going near that one, too easy, and the first thought that popped into my head, which was fairly witty and funny, would get me SO banned.

62 posted on 08/29/2007 8:35:42 AM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (Did I mention I just got engaged to a fellow FReeper?)
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To: Rte66; Tax-chick

I think she was saying “the Iraq.”


63 posted on 08/29/2007 8:36:00 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-
Not going near that one...

That's why my comment was ....................

8^)

64 posted on 08/29/2007 8:36:56 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Xenalyte

Anyone who believes that they are articulate should read, just once, a verbatim transcript of a deposition in which one is the deponent. I have read my share over the years, and even the smartest folks don’t always come across that way when someone is typing everything you say. I also suffer the discomfort of reading my own questions, which never sound as articulate as I recall them.


65 posted on 08/29/2007 8:38:42 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Sax
I'll bet you have a US map showing all of the states labled with the legal age of consent!

Negative. Truthfully -- if I was even available -- I wouldn't date anyone under 30 these days.

But I am not available, so I won't date anyone except Karen!

66 posted on 08/29/2007 8:39:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: CholeraJoe
I don’t care what she says now, she’ll be screaming my name all night.

"Oh, CholeraJoe....."

I dunno. Not my idea of romantical.

67 posted on 08/29/2007 8:40:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Xenalyte

I love that you got that reference.


68 posted on 08/29/2007 8:41:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

I hear ya - I wouldn’t want to try to relate either. My little lady’s the old fart in our relationship (by a whole 6 months!)


69 posted on 08/29/2007 8:43:37 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Tax-chick
Her answer, in its entirety, was: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”

Are you SURE she's from SC? Sounds like she went to our school and have one of the history teachers who is so obsessed with Africa that that's all she talked about. Some of my daughter's friends who had her were really concerned about passing their regents. Their opinion was" Everybody who had _______ is going to fail. We're dead."

70 posted on 08/29/2007 8:50:39 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: NCLaw441

When I started teaching, I was fortunate to have a new-teacher buddy videotape a class of mine (I returned the favor). I was appalled at how few complete, diagrammable sentences I spoke.

I try VERY hard to be articulate enough in speech that it’d read well if printed.


71 posted on 08/29/2007 8:52:28 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Sax

So Mrs. Sax got her some young stuff too? I approve! (My husband is almost three years younger than I am.)


72 posted on 08/29/2007 8:53:18 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Tax-chick; Obadiah; Mind-numbed Robot; Zacs Mom; A.Hun; johnny7; The Spirit Of Allegiance; ...
I said,
. . . the interview part of the contest is the most extreme example of the difference. The interview is not an intellectual contest. To the contrary it is a Political Correctness contest. The challenge is to come up with the safest answer. If the question is about failure of teens to know something simple, the answer it is that "Class sizes are too big, and teachers aren't paid enough." The entire Democratic Party, and most importantly all journalists, will adopt you as their sweetheart. And therefore the judges will swoon.
. . . and make no mistake, by design the televised "Great Debates" resemble nothing so much as beauty pageants. They are structured to suit journalists, and therefore are intended to pressure the "contestants" to express PC sentiments.

Which, of course, is a game at which a Democrat can always beat a Republican.

Journalists are supposed to be objective, but they are heavily biased in favor of controlling the power of PR.

Republicans are supposed to help those who would rather work than be poor - but they are biased in favor of getting good PR.

Democrats are supposed to favor the poor and the downtrodden. In other words, they make sure to do nothing which would compromise their ability to get good PR.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

73 posted on 08/29/2007 8:53:25 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Xenalyte

How weird ... but that’s what the transcript said, anyway.

She certainly is pretty.


74 posted on 08/29/2007 8:53:41 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Gravity! It's not just a good idea, it's the law!)
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To: Lazamataz
Speaking of the ole DB, have you ever seen the Wu-Tang Financial commercial from Chappelle?
75 posted on 08/29/2007 8:54:28 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Xenalyte

Yep, there are some days where she feels like the only adult in the entire house!


76 posted on 08/29/2007 9:04:22 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Xenalyte

Now he’s DDB (Dead Dirty Bastard)


77 posted on 08/29/2007 9:06:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: Lazamataz
Truthfully -- if I was even available -- I wouldn't date anyone under 30 these days.

AHA!!

You DO follow Da Rules. ;-)

And even cut yourself 1 1/2 years short.

Just from a practical perspective, it is sometimes hard to communicate with somebody too young, as the following conversation shows.

I was talking to my friend that fits into the Half Your Age Plus Seven Rule for my age and mentioned something about the TV show "Leave it to Beaver".

"Oh, that was the TV show about that black family."

"No, "Leave it to Beaver" was not a black show.

"I'm pretty sure it was."

"Trust me on this one. "Leave it to Beaver" was NOT a black show."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. Positive. Absolutely no doubt about it. Trust me."

"Let's look it up."

"ARRRGGHHH!!!"

78 posted on 08/29/2007 9:07:38 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

BTTT


79 posted on 08/29/2007 9:14:50 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Lazamataz; ASA Vet

Everything Laz says or does is wackbards.

His real handle is Zatamazal.


80 posted on 08/29/2007 9:15:24 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
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