Posted on 05/31/2007 4:45:34 AM PDT by blam
Miss USA gives Mexicans lesson in graciousness
By Herald wire services
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Miss USA Rachel Smith gets up after falling during the Miss Universe pageant. (AP photo)
MEXICO CITY - When Miss USA took the stage, there was nary a caballero in the crowd.
The Mexican audience booed and hooted Rachel Smith repeatedly during the weekend’s Miss Universe competition. The music was too loud to tell how they reacted when the gringa took a tumble on stage.
Smith was encountering what other Americans have before her. Mexican rudeness toward all things American. In 2004 and 2005, Mexican crowds booed the U.S. national anthem and some chanted “Osama! Osama!” during soccer games against the United States.
The beauty queen kept her poise during an interview Monday night with pageant judges, despite the boos and chants of “Mexico! Mexico!” that drowned out her answer.
“I am very passionate about education and being in South Africa sparked my interest in that,” said Smith, a journalism graduate who volunteered for a month at talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.
Then she paused, smiled and spoke in Spanish. “Buenas noches Mexico. Muchas gracias!” finally winning some applause for her graciousness.
The United States got the last laugh. Miss Mexico, Rosa Maria Ojeda, did not make it into the top five but Smith did, despite her fall. Miss Japan, Riyo Mori, went on to win the crown. Mexicans, long opposed to U.S. efforts to control its own border, are now also upset over a U.S. Senate proposal for immigration reform.
Only way that prat fall could have been funnier is if a boob had fallen out. From the picture, looks like that was pretty close to reality.
Smith, a journalism graduate
The only general group of people so stupid they regularly bite the had that is literally feeding them.
A lot of the Mexicans love to show their ignorance.
More stupid than the biten hand that continues to feed them?
“Only way that prat fall could have been funnier is if a boob had fallen out. From the picture, looks like that was pretty close to reality.”
Thank you for the cogent analysis.
You are, obviously, not aware of the recent advancements in the field of double-stick foam tape.
You should go over to YT and watch the many videos of Miss USA taking that fall. Please watch all of them and watch them repeatedly...until some of her class and dignity rubs off on you.
With such obvious derision toward the US, why in the world do so many want to come here and stay here?
I refuse to make taking the Miss Universe Pageant seriously a pre-requisite for consideration as a civilized society.
I hate that Miss USA had that bad experience in Mexico, but she handled it with a lot of class - good for her! However, if this episode has helped to convince some of those who are “riding the fence” about their opinion of illegal immigration and the amnesty that our government is pushing for them - then it will be a good thing.
If this doesn’t show Americans what these people are all about - what will?
The "boobs" are the ones who call them that. LOL!
Actually, yes. Much more.
Well said.
Hope springs eternal!
But seriously, she recovered VERY quickly. Blink and you would have missed the whole thing.
And I HOPE more foreigners hate America. Maybe then they will stop coming here!
Again, hope springs eternal . . . :)
PS I don’t know how Bush can say he is serious about protecting America when there are so many just to the south of us who are streaming over, saying huge portions of America belong to THEM. I don’t think even al-Qaeda makes that claim! What next, giving the Mississippi valley back to France?
If more Americans start realising they arent welcome in Mexico,maybe they will take their tourism dollars elsewhere.
The only group more stupid is the US Government for allowing the feeding to go on and on and on and on.......
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