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...it's b/c she's from the US, where people are PROUD to be ignorant--and arrogant enough to defend it. Why else, after having 3 days of supposed humiliation to develop a suitable answer, did she not have one on the Today show? She wasn't humiliated--she went off with her friends and fellow contestants and family and media and giggled about it. And why WAS she booked on the Today show? To show how far you can get if you're cute and dumb?
She talks JUST LIKE the CURRENT OCCUPANT. Her sentences made as much sense as many of his. I had to listen three times before I could determine that her "som-a [some of]" was not actually "Osama" ...
And those at Salon who said it's a geography question--it's NOT a geography question, it's a question about the woeful state of US general knowledge and intelligence. And, as Virginia Woolfe does in A Room of One's Own (though from the diametrically opposite intellectual paradigm), Upton so clearly illustrates through context rather than words--and in her subsequent behavior--the answer to the question. The reason US people are ignorant is that it's acceptable (even sometimes desirable--remember, Gore was "too smart") to be so in this society. Of course it is. Our PRESIDENT is. What more proof do you want?
