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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 01:24 PM

    Where's the Schadenfreude? I was told there would be Schadenfreude...

    My snark-o-meter is set off only when the person committing the gaffe is hateful (outing homophobes is a time-tested favorite). I don't have much use for beauty pageants, but raking a kid over the coals for having a brain freeze while speaking in public seems pretty pointless. Her subsequent high placement in the rankings however does give me a measure of cynical joy; we've known all along that beauty pageants are about physical appearance and nothing more.

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