Posted on 05/18/2010 6:55:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I see that, for the second year in a row, politics has intruded upon the Miss USA contest. After last year's tedious debacle with Carrie Prejean and the gay-marriage question, you'd think they would have learned to steer clear of hot-button social issues.
In the final round of this year's contest, the beautiful blonde who came in second was asked what she thought of Arizona's new immigration law. This is a subject that has spurred heated and unpleasant discussions across the land, but Miss Oklahoma was up to the task. She began her answer by saying "I'm a huge believer in states rights," which means, she explained, that she thinks it was okay for Arizona to pass the law. Now, that strikes me as a singularly politic way of avoiding the parts of the issue that are upsetting to people without ducking the question.
The ultimate winner, Miss Michigan, was asked if contraception should be paid for by health insurance. She thought that it should be. She explained, "I believe that birth control is just like every other medication, even though it's a controlled substance."
Controlled substance? Missed the point? Never mind. That dark-haired beauty, Rima Fakih, who hails from Dearborn and was educated in Catholic schools, will take her place as the first Arab-American Miss USA.
As it turns out, these political provocations were simply distractions from the real story. Miss USA is no longer about lovely, wholesome girls looking for scholarships. Under "the Donald's" new rules, posing for soft-core underwear ads was part of the talent testing — presumably, he does not want to exclude any hot and sexy young woman with a few nude pictures in her past, a little porn in her portfolio, or a stint as a stripper to her name. Indeed, becoming an underwear model is now considered a perfect career aspiration for contestants — which is good, because that was the substance of the pageant.
Happily, this means that Miss Michigan's exploits as a pole dancer won't disqualify her from the title.
The decline and fall continues.
Haven’t watched these pageants for some time. Now that they have turned political, I definitely won’t be watching.
The girl looking for a scholarship is probably competing in the Miss America pageant.
politicians, p!mps, etc.—it’s all really warp and woof the same thing isn’t it!
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Donald Trump is an utter loser.
I saw him interviewed, and he literally didn't know the difference between young women in bikinis playing beach volley ball or a group of Miss America contestants decked out in black lace bondage gear.
I mean, really, talk about STUPID.
Anyway, WHY should this crap be broadcast anywhere????
Why didn’t they ask the Muslim woman about her religion’s jihad on America? Now THAT would be a “hot-button question.”
Frankly, I don’t think the USA pageant did her any favors by having her win. With her advocating birth control and the pole-dancing video, etc., her days may be numbered.
“you’d think they would have learned to steer clear of hot-button social issues. “
That’s how they get free publicity and generate buzz. Look how many threads there are here!
“Haven’t watched these pageants for some time.”
We haven’t either. That will continue.
On the contrary, Trump is loving all the noise about his competition.
Birth control pills are a controlled substance !! Who’d a known?
I don’t know why people can’t get this straight...It’s the Miss America Pagent that has the scholarships NOT Miss USA. Miss USA, owned by Donald Trump, is a straight on Looks Only contest where the winner goes on to compete in Miss Universe. It is Miss America that has the talent portion. I don’t know why Miss USA doesn’t just skip the questions because it’s obvious the Miss USA girls just don’t have the attic space to provide mature answers. But their bumbling does get publicity, which must make Mr. Trump happy.
Not that it matters very much, but the Left has infiltrated this beauty pageant in much the way they have SO MUCH in America and the west over the near-century since the Soviet “colonization” efforts began in the 1920s. It’s all happening by rote now thanks to Gramsci, Alinsky, the Lewises, Cora Weiss, Bernadine Dohrn and all the others who have created the cutouts and trained their useful idiot apparatchik along the way.
Christian, not muzzie.
Since this thread has no pics (and is therefore useless), I will have to research this issue before proffering an opinion.
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