Sorry for the lull…
We all know Americans need to work on their geography, so a young woman charged with asking questions of the Miss Teen USA 2007 contestants wanted to know why exactly that is. Miss South Carolina lived up to expectations and revealed that she knows absolutely nothing, but that some people indeed do not have maps. Somehow, it sounds like she could definitely locate South Africa in a map of Iraq though. The poor girl may have just been a little nervous, but she gave an answer so nonsensical, Mike Tyson would be proud.
I don’t care what anyone says, but if Miss Teen USA is supposed to embody certain aspects of the American population then she should’ve won because she’s clearly as much in the dark as so many others. I’m guessing that she’ll soon be off to Florida State where she will spend a semester studying in Spain and return still not knowing that Argentina isn’t in Europe, but somehow manage to get a degree in International Relations. Give her 5 years and she’ll be interning for San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom’s senate campaign because of her insight and the fact that she takes awesome nude photos.
I have transcribed the interaction to highlight the ridiculousness of it, and I’m glad no one asked her opinions on fiscal policy at the world bank…
Question: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?
Answer: I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should…our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.
What do you mean Argentina isn’t in Spain??? LOL
…thought this was appropriate to the discussion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GEq_hWh-MA&NR=1
why do they even keep the whole Q&A as part of the competition? so all of us with “great personalities” feel better about ourselves? i confess, i feel pretty damn good about myself after watching the clip.
I don’t hate her for being hot, but i do hate that apparently that’s all it takes to enjoy a pampered life. if she is as dumb as her answer, she’ll look back at this as a highlight while she’s coked out in some sleazy hotel room getting triple stuffed by her dealer and his friends.
I think this Family Guy got it dead on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHiWdSqcE6M
hehe. but she looks beautiful
Good point, I wasn’t sure if that was a “the” in front of there or not, but I’ll add it into the official transcription…
…looks like you got the second “the”, she says it twice. Also, I really enjoy how she seems to throw in what sounds like some muffled “…for our children…” rhetoric as the moderator dumps her from the stage: “What, you’re trailing off, and did I hear a ‘niner’ in there, are you calling from a walkie-talkie?”
Dave, sorry but your transcription was a little erroneous. It’s not just “Iraq”, but “THE Iraq”. Like The Hague, but hotter, and dummer.