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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 03:19 PM

    Youtube as arbiter

    Anybody in here who thinks Miss S.C. is providing laughs only because she's female, blonde and beautiful, needs to visit youtube more often. There's a slew of true-life Bush videos featuring his trademark inanity/insanity/surreality, and they all get among the HIGHEST click numbers.

    When posers pretending to be quality people, people of leadership, people who the rest of us should follow and emulate, reveal themselves to have the intellect of slugs -- yeah, sorry, but THAT's entertainment.

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