Miss South Carolina on Today Show: I made a mistake

Sarah says:

With all due respect to miss carolina, i must say i have an understanding that a beauty pagent star should be poised, intelligent, focused and beautiful, with a strong personality to compliment these features. Part of being such a role model to so many young girls and being a young lady that is expected to make a change… she should be prepared for anything and everything.

Someone competing to be Miss Teen USA should not be fluffing up a question the way she did… she needs to be strong enough (mentally) to cope with surprises and challenges such as the one she was put on the other night.

Big Stupid says:

Yes, it’s so important to put this well-behaved, apparently normal kid through the wringer– and make sure we provide girls with smarter role models such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie and Briteny Spears!

Misbegotten Notions says:

“pagent”, rather than pageant.
“compliment”, instead of complement.
Broken sentences such as “Part of being such a role model … is expected to make a change” and being “put on” surprises and challenges.

And how exactly does one “fluff” a question? Was it not airy enough? Had the question become flattened with overuse?

These are emblematic linguistics from the kind of woman that thinks a beauty pageant provides role models, who believes that being pretty equates to intelligence or character, and whose priorities value such diverse qualities as looks, appearance, image, countenance, and… more looks.

I suspect Sarah is only aware that Miss Carolina screwed up because someone told her so. If she’s the kind of person who avidly enjoys beauty pageants, it’s likely she didn’t detect anything wrong at the time.

Mike says:

It is shameful that people will jump all over her case and try to insult her for a panick stricken moment. Ugly people will do, what ugly people do (not referring to their outside appearence, which may be ugly as well).