Posted on 05/29/2007 8:29:30 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
MEXICO CITY
It wasn't Miss USA's night.
Booed mercilessly at the Miss Universe pageant by a Mexican audience angry at U.S. immigration policy, and seen by millions of TV viewers as she slipped and fell on the pageant stage, Miss USA Rachel Smith nonetheless managed to take the high road and offer her Spanish-speaking hosts an enthusiastic, "Buenas noches Mexico. Muchas gracias!"
Smith, 22, from Clarksville, Tenn., who was crowned Miss USA last March, was continuously jeered by the mostly Mexican audience during the pageant's interview phase.
The pageant was won by Miss Japan, Riyo Mori, a 20-year-old dancer, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title.
Miss USA finished fifth.
Pageant owner Donald Trump downplayed the booing, saying it was aimed at American policies and not Smith.
"We believe it wasn't Rachel being booed but the USA and some of our policies as a country," pageant spokeswoman Lark-Marie Anton told FOXNews.com. "The booing was unfortunate, but Rachel represented the USA with style and grace. She was extremely dignified.
Asked whether the Mexican audience reaction would affect the pageant's return there, Anton said: "The Universe pageant traditionally goes to different countries yearly, so we wouldn't have the pageant in Mexico next year. Mr. Trump also mentioned in last night's press conference the possibility of Japan as a host country for next year."
She added that it would be "drastic" to never have the show in Mexico again because of Monday night's crowd reaction.
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There is even a toll free line for English speakers. Thank you, Mr. Soros.
1-800-417-7666. (English number)
We are on the verge of passing a most generous immigration bill that would in effect grant amnesty to illegal aliens.
We barely enforce existing immigration laws that are on the books.
Our president has spent the last 7 years kissing Mexico's butt
Now Mexicans citizens are booing the United States because of our immigration policy?
No, I don't understand.
Upon your dutiful presentation of the obligatory photo-evidence
for this investigative thread, my policy statement is:
“Make mine a double!”
For the Mexicans George Bush's Shamnesty program doesn't go far enough. THEY WANT OPEN BORDERS!!!!
Take a look at La Raza or any other Latino internet web site, and they spell out what their goals are. Unbelievable goals.
Bush will give them an automatic path to citizenship, a small fine and they still hate him.
Bush is MY President, not theirs, but he is not working for me..Secure the Border, give up on the amnesty or CIR, and send ICE out to do their job...pronto.
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“But if we give them all amnesty, then they will love us.”
W.
A friend just emailed me:
“The only good thing to come out of that country was tequila. And now - SCREW THAT! I’m gonna drink a Sam Adams!”
I suppose watching someone fall is hilarious . . . depending on your S-M level.
But watching her booed by a stadium full of people who want to take over our country was far from hilarious.
And I guess what actually transpired falls under the category of ironic: the winner came from the country who gave us Pearl Harbor and the most savage and inhumane examples of barbarism in World War II - Japan.
Screw the Mexicans!
Trump is wrong.
Go ask the U.S. Men’s Soccer team how they are treated on visits to Mexico and other Central American countries. Words and jeers are nothing.. They are pelted with batteries and bags of urine.
The Mexican and Central American cultures have raised horrible, dispicable human beings
I live in Mexico City and watched the pageant with my girlfriend who is mexican;
she thinks it’s perfectly okay to express your feelings about a country in this way.
Wow; I think it’s disgusting and counter-productive to their “cause”.
Everyone in the U.S. who watched that display of rudeness must be feeling a little less charitable towards the mexican illegals right now.
Why would any country want to reward foreigner-criminals who hate not only the country but even the country’s innocent representatives like Miss U.S.A. and the american athletes?? !!!!!
I hope the amnesty bill goes DOWN THE TOILET !
Better than that is “Plaza Mexico” off the 710. Every time I drive by it it pisses me off.
I see the same thing! There’s another one on the right side of the 105 by Watts.
(barf)
Carnudos, Jili Pollas!
Oh yeah, and stay home!
It's what happens when we have a corrupt class of political elites called the U. S. Senate.
“Pageant owner Donald Trump downplayed the booing, saying it was aimed at American policies and not Smith.”
There’s nothing wrong with American policies, Donald Trump!
Trump probably likes his cheap, compliant domestic help too.
“No Amnesty!”
This can’t be said enough for these ungrateful illegals (and those in Mexico who send their family members to the US for a better life). For the most part, they do not love our country. They do not want to integrate.
NO AMNESTY!
There was an article about trash and Mexicans some time back on FR. For some reason they just drop trash where ever happen to be. Sad.
They have some customs there I was not expecting. One of them was if you go to another persons house, you are to bring your own toilet paper.
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