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.