Great description.
I also think she looks rather demonic or something.
Posted on 04/11/2008 10:11:48 PM PDT by pissant
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown.
Crystle Stewart, of Missouri City, Texas, runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, as well as modeling professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy.
"I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it," she told The Associated Press after the show. "Because I just achieved my goal."
Stewart edged out first runner-up Leah Laviano of Mississippi and Tiffany Andrade of New Jersey.
Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith relinquished the crown — and the posh New York apartment that comes with it — in a show aired live by NBC with hosts Donny and Marie Osmond from the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The network co-owns the parent Miss Universe Organization with Donald Trump.
Smith, a former Miss Tennessee USA, said she was headed to Hollywood.
Stewart was headed for the publicity circuit. She said she was eager to travel and spread her message of self-improvement to young women. She noted she was one of only a handful of black woman crowned Miss USA in the pageant's 57-year history.
"I think the United States is coming together," she said, citing the historic presidential candidacies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. She declined to name her preference.
"I don't know, we'll see. Fundamentally, I'm a Democrat," she said.
Contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia have been in Las Vegas for nearly three weeks, rehearsing and hyping the 57th annual pageant. After stints in Baltimore and Los Angeles, organizers billed the new venue as a city beloved by the event's international audience.
The pageant tried to showed off its edge, featuring a grinding live rock performance by the band Finger Eleven, music from Rihanna, and contestants in barely there black bikinis and faux-fur coats.
Donny and Marie kept up a steady stream of sibling banter even while swiftly whittling the field.
Donny Osmond told the losers to "put on a poker face" as he sent them home.
"Or use Botox; then it won't move," Marie quipped.
Stewart will compete in the Miss Universe pageant in Vietnam in July. She also becomes a spokeswoman for breast and ovarian cancer awareness and other causes, while traveling to promote the organization.
Miss USA contestants are scored in three categories: swimsuit, evening gown and interview. Miss Alaska USA, Courtney Erin Carroll, was chosen "Miss Photogenic USA" based on voting at the organization's Web site. The other contestants named Miss Ohio USA, Monica Day, "Miss Congeniality." Unlike the rival Miss America, Miss USA contestants are not asked to perform a talent.
Smith's year on the throne has been marked by fewer racy headlines than her 2006 predecessor, Tara Conner. Conner's underage drinking landed her in rehab and sparked a media circus documenting her fall from grace.
Smith's low point was a fall onstage during the evening gown competition of the Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City. She was booed by the crowd and Miss Japan won the title.
A bigger blunder this year belonged to Miss California USA organizers. The judges crowned the wrong queen in their November contest and reversed it days later, saying Raquel Beezley, of Barstow, was the victim of a vote tabulation error. Dethroned Miss Los Angeles, Christina Silva, a Hispanic woman, has filed a lawsuit alleging racial bias.
Asked to comment on the lawsuit, Stewart was whisked away by organizers. The Miss Universe Organization would not comment on the matter.
The panel of judges for Friday's pageant included Heather Mills, model and former wife of Paul McCartney; comedian Rob Schneider; Olympic gold-medal swimmer Amanda Beard; and Christian Siriano, winner of Bravo's fashion reality series, "Project Runway."
Is it human?!?
Naw, the wierd belly button is the give-away that she was created in a lab.
Reverend Manning would just call her another Big-Breasted Obama Working-Girl.
More than likely she wouldn’t let you.
Someone should tell this twit that you aren't a philanthropist unless you give away your own money. If you give away other people's money, you are a Democrap.
Just once I'd like to hear one of these gals say their goal in life is to open up and run a successful firearm store.......
The woman from MS got robbed. As a clear example of setting up the African American to win, I point to the Q&A session.
Texas - you’re an etreprenuer, so tell us about your business
Much better looking blonde girl from MO (I think) - you hunt hogs right?
Best remaining contestant from MS - you had a speech impediment right?
I predicted the tranny-looking chick from TX was going to win and I was right.
MS should’ve won
http://www.nbc.com/Miss_USA_2008/delegates/ms.shtml
OK was better than TX as well.
http://www.nbc.com/Miss_USA_2008/delegates/ok.shtml
Lights are on but nobody’s home.
Just curious ...can a white woman enter the Miss Black America pageant ? ; )
Nope......there is NO ~ white affirmative action....it is only for b. HUSSEIN supporters!!!
Great description.
I also think she looks rather demonic or something.
stop confusing the race baiter industry with common sense. It is bad for profits.
It is pretty insulting to consider Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as positive representatives of either women or black people in public office. Let alone to hold them up as some kind of UNITER.
Bush’s cabinet was not seen as “the United States coming together”. The black people holding office in the Bush administration are “Uncle Toms” and “race traitors”. Condi Rice is black and female, and while I may not stand by all of her policy decisions, she is a successful American. One who was derided with racist cartoon imagery in the MSM as a gang banger with a gold toof or Aunt Jamimah.
The Marxist scampaigns of Clintona and Obama do little to “unite” America in any positive manner. Hitler united Germany too. By stifiling dissent and criminalizing those who speak out. Try as the BDS crowd might, they cannot make the case that the anti-American war Left has been silenced. We would not hear from them at all. Cindy Sheehan would be in a gulag. As Castro.
“I’d do her.”
What a revolting thing to say. What are you,12?
I guess gay judges are allowed to like boobs these days since so many trannies get them.
Now if homosexuals claim that they prefer the company of men, and some men claim that they were really born a woman trapped in a man’s body, why do the men attracted to men pair up with the women who used to be men (and still are at a chromosome level)?
Talk about intolerance, they should be willing to embrace a REAL woman, not a minstrel show representation of a girl.
Right. Gasoline at $3.30 is a great unifier.
It’s because she is black.
I'm upset that Miss Utah (the Army Medic) didn't make the finals for Miss America. I thought she was cuter than the final winner, and much more "real"
Keep in mind that Miss USA is a business. They have to get viewers for the show, but most importantly they have to get sponsors who would like having Miss USA make an appearance at their businesses. Affirmative Action becomes part of the decision
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