20% of Americans can't find the USA on a map. What sayeth you, Miss Teen South Carolina?

Or find your house using MapQuest.

 

Looking at her when the question is being read "Recent polls show 1/5 of Americans ..." and I can just imagine what's going on in her head:

"1/5? 1/5? They said there would be no math!!! Damn, now let's see if I can remember - how many shot glasses from a Fifth of JD ... damn!"

 

I can play on the left wing


The transcript of her answer is amazing. Made me laugh at loud !

 

Is it me or did Mario Lopez look like he was about to burst out laughing at the end of her answer?

 

[classic Harland Williams bit]

Well, so what if 20% of Americans can't find the USA on a map? What about the 65% that CAN?

 

this would have been my winner on the night:
Miss Teen I-Da-Ho

 

and a few others I wouldn't kick out of bed:
Illinois


Alabama


Mississippi


who said the Bible Belt produces only fat, ugly girls?

 

Those chicks are all way too thin.

 

even the Ginger from Jerz isn't too bad...



Montana


it seems Miss Teen USA focuses more on looks and body than does Ms USA.

 

what, you prefer a girl with a little buddha belly?

 

And Warren Buffet is way too rich. Doesn't mean we can't covet their assets.

 

I'm not sure about that but it's a good bet she was left back in 6th grade a few times.

 

Actually, as it turns out, she IS a soccer player. Don't know whether she was/played left back, but she lists "High school varsity soccer team, past four years" under her honors, and as her proudest personal accomplishment, "I am proud of my involvement in my high school's varsity soccer team. We are the first Lexington High School soccer team, ever in the history of the school, to make it to state finals.

 

Mitts is injured, there's only one option left:

Cap her.

 

She made CountDown tonight. Olbermann actually took it easy on her, because, well, she pretty much writes her own script doesn't she?

 

Silly people. No one can find the USA on a map. The USA is on the Earth!

 

Some of the comments on these TV shows are way, way out of line. MSNBC put up a clip from Joe Scarborough's show. He had two other ladies on the set with him talking about the incident. Joe makes a stupid joke about Mario Lopez wanting to take her out to a nice dinner and a movie and taking her home. One of the women chimes in with something like "he probably wouldn't even have to do that" (after earlier commenting about how Miss S.C. probably was too stupid to be embarrassed by the news coverage).

That's so not right. It's worse than Imus.

 

In fairness to her she was probably extremely nervous. Scarborough has a lot of room to talk considering he calls people out for making fun of Bush when he does it.

 

Mario sums it all up nicely right at the end.

Thanks very much indeed, South Carolina.

 

For all those that are sympathetic, just remember that this isn't some young person who just HAPPENED to find themselves on TV answering a question, like after winning some competition there just happened to be media present.

This is a woman (18, mind you - high school graduate and all that) who probably her whole life (a presumption, sure, but the only pageant people I've known started early) has been part of a "LOOK AT ME" industry. Well guess what - you want us to look at you, be prepared for us to really see you.

Look - she wants to be model. Brains aren't required.

 

Yup, I don't care how smart she is or isn't, I'd let her fart on my nose.

 

Between this and the appearance of the USC frat boys in the "Borat" movie, it has been an interesting time in the national eye for the young people of the Palmetto State

"South Carolina. Too small for a country. Too large for an insane asylum."

James L. Petigru

 

I get your point Norsk, but the reason I felt somewhat sorry for her is the fact that at 18, she's basically still a child and as such probably did not understand the full extent of the consequences a bad appearance on a nationally televised beauty pageant can have on her future. I wouldn't like to arrive on a college campus where all of my peers consider me to be dumber than a bucket of bricks. Which is likely to happen should she opt to pursue a higher education.

And a lot of these teen beauty queens are forced into the beauty pageant circuit by their parents, some at a very young age, so we can't even be sure if taking part in these things is 100% her own choice.

 

Yes, but would you drag yours balls through a mile of broken glass just to hear her fart through a walkie-talkie?