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Miss Universe Loves Her Some Gitmo!
April 2, 2009
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Since I was a kid I’ve been creeped out by beauty pageants. Something about the plasticity of the skin, the set-in-bronze quality of the hair helmets, the tiny subway tile teeth has always sent me screaming in the other direction. The Q&A portion is the worst. That deer-in-the-headlights, drank-the-Kool-Aid smile and an answer seemingly generated by the “P-2000 Responserator.” One-piece bathing suits with pantyhose and high heels has always struck me as one of mankind’s funnier inside jokes. The contestants wear it and the rest of humankind has a good lol. And don’t even ask me about the kid pageants. Having said that, pardon me for thinking the following was really funny…
The New York Times reports that reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela paid a PR visit to the troops at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She then blogged about it, which in retrospect may have been a bad idea. Some of the highlights:
- “the first thing we did was attend a big lunch and then we visited one of the bars they have in the base.”
- In reference to a boating excursion – “we took a ride around the land and it was a loooot of fun!”
- On detainees – “we saw the jails, where they shower, how the (sic) recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books.”
- “The water in Guantánamo Bay is soooo beautiful!”
- And finally – “I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.”
So that happened. In her defense, it was a U.S.O. tour and she was there trying to do a good thing. And while it sounded like she took in a day at Legoland, I doubt she meant to be insensitive.
In case you’re wondering, the blog post was promptly removed.
Read up if you don’t want to end up like her:
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9 Responses to “Miss Universe Loves Her Some Gitmo!”
In her biography it says she “was discovered at age 13 at a local bus stop.” … Evidently the creepiness factor doesn’t end at the soul-less glass-eyed drugged look and the grocery bag skin. “Hey, little girlie.. yer lookin’ real pretty, little girlie, waitin’ fer the bus thar… why don’t you come with me and maybe some day you can be an international sex symbol representing the narcissism of mankind and the ultimate downfall of social standards. Would you like that little girlie..?”
Mary says: Beauty pageants originated as scholarships for young women and have largely remained that way today. People lie all the time in scholarship essays and pretend to be the people that whoever gives the scholoarship wants. Beauty pageants are the same way: pretending to be something for the overall success of yourself, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
C’mon. Like we’re all not looking for a calm, relaxing waterboard detainmen…er…weekend.
Scot says: You have to love Pageant Girls. They may be books smart (giving them the benefit of the doubt) but they have ZERO common sense…hey, wasn’t there a Stuff You Should Know about common sense?
Paul says: I personally enjoy beauty pageants, not as much as Cosmo Kramer, but some of them are very hot. HOT. But I agree that the Q and A are the worst, they talk like they are 13 year old teen girls texting. “Like, it was like so, omg it was sooo….lmfao cant believe that” like that. And some of them have the brains of a 7 year old. Remember the map thing a few years ago.”I think every American should ahve a map, cuz they tell you how to go places” (I think it went like that…)They may be nice on the eyes, but some of them are hard on the ears.
Paul says: They obvoiusy didnt show Mrs. Univers the terrorist prisoners, cuz she would’ve swam to dry land. The beaches may be nice, but I bet you the actual inmates are not.
Bella says: I think that U.S. Americans should, like, work, like, with Guantamo detaniees so, like we can, like, keep The America safe. Because we need to defend ourselves from, like, the Iraq, like such as.
Guantanamo Bay detaniees have art classes?
Bryant says: Incorrect Bella,
we don’t have to defend ourselves from the Iraqis, we have to defend ourselves from the Iranies.
Well, frankly I think that this Miss Universe thing is rigged, every year the winner comes from Earth.