Posted on 09/10/2018 2:23:18 AM PDT by SMGFan
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- Miss New York Nia Imani Franklin was named Miss America 2019 in Atlantic City.
Her victory Sunday night resurrected a string of successes the Empire State has had in the pageant in recent years. Mallory Hagan, Nina Davuluri and Kira Kazantsev won the title from 2013 to 2015 competing as Miss New York.
A classical vocalist whose pageant platform is "advocating for the arts," Franklin sang an operatic selection from the opera La Boheme on Sunday night.
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Tuned in saw 3 out 5 final were AA. Tuned in 10:59 Saw NY won.
Ratings probably are down
Heard it was often referred to Miss America 2.0
next time try Miss America.0 /s
Adding to the intrigue was a remarkable letter released by Mund, the outgoing Miss America, who said Carlson and Hopper had bullied, silenced and marginalized her. They deny doing any of that, saying they have been working tirelessly to move the organization into the future.
Mund only appeared at the very end of the pageant before the next winner was crowned. She was not allowed to speak live; instead a 30-second taped segment of her speaking was broadcast.
Maybe they can do a joint program with the NFL so we can ignore them together. Perhaps have Hillary guest star.
It was nice to see a talent section again. We prefer evening gowns to swimsuits, but I’m sure guys prefer the latter. We only caught some of the stage interviews and what came after so only heard some of the PC answers. Why does it matter how many of what color were in the finals?
Of course guys prefer the latter. Not only that, it’s pretty much mandatory to hold our interest.
MA is supposed to be a beauty contest, that was its origin and that was its existence until this year when the radical feminists took it over.
Eliminate the beauty contest part - and make no mistake, getting rid of the swimsuits is just Step One on that path - and what’s the justification for having the contest at all?
Why would a man tune in to see a mere talent show, when a wider variety of talent is available to all at the click of a mouse?
If “Miss America” is not a competition to see who the most beautiful - not talented, but beautiful - woman in America is, it has absolutely no reason to exist at all.
Does the absence of pictures imply that the person is female, because they only identified as such?
“If Miss America is not a competition to see who the most beautiful - not talented, but beautiful - woman in America is, it has absolutely no reason to exist at all.”
I like a good tractor show but no man even goes to a tractor show to see ugly tractors.
The only involvement last night by the outgoing Miss America 2018
In the past the exiting Miss America was often up front near the start, spoken to by the hosts.
Evening gowns show off plenty of the contestants’ figures, and talent contests are just a small part of the criteria. Have no fear, attractive women will still be tottering around on overly high heels on stages for a few more years.
> I like a good tractor show but no man even goes to a tractor show to see ugly tractors.
Exactly.
What we’re seeing is an all-out assault on, and even a denial of the very existence of, femininity. It’s a mad rush to eliminate all overt acknowledgement that men and women are different. (”Trans” men are another flank in this strategy.)
The feminine quality of beauty is a real problem for the radial left agenda and they have to destroy it any way they can. Thus the premiere beauty contest in America had to be destroyed. And here we are, in the middle of that process.
They’ll destroy the pageant utterly so that no one will watch it, and rather than consider that a failure will pat themselves on the back for a victory.
Next year... Miss America Radio Show, a spelling bee.
Evening gowns will be next to go. That some women have better figures than others - or rather, any acknowledgement of this immutable fact of life - is simply unacceptable to the radfems.
And so evening gowns will be gone soon for the same exact reasons and justifications that the swimsuit was eliminated: the ideological conviction of the radfems that judging a woman on her beauty in any way is sexist and evil*.
* offer does not apply to Trump spokespeople or anyone else not on board with the radfem agenda
Oboy, Miss AHPOC pagent! Pass... (Where da white womens at?)
One would be entirely inclined to believe this.
Forty-six of 51 state (+DC) pageant directors want Carlson and Hopper gone. Recall Carlson, the former MA whose aging face and middle age spread got her moved off the F&F curvy couch, in favor of a younger news readerette. In revenge, she brought down Roger Ailes, roiled Fox, and walked away with a cool $25M settlement. She’s doing the same thing to the MA pageant which should come as no surprise.
Yawn. Maybe they can run these together with the NFL games to raise their anemic ratings.
i had no clue it was even on and i used to enjoy watching the show...
“Tuned in saw 3 out 5 final were AA. Tuned in 10:59 Saw NY won.”
I turned it on when there were 15 contestants left and they were about to get down to 10. The make up of the 15 looked to me like 5 AA, 1 Asian, 9 white. The MC looked to be Puerto Rican and the male host was obviously gay.
I turned to my wife and said, “want to see diversity? it’s going to be all the black contestants, the Asian and four whites.” She laughed at me and not 10 minutes later said, “how did you know?”
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