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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 08:10 PM

    She's smarter than George W. Bush

    Probably she was quite nervous and really lost it, her answer doesn't strike me as stupid but rather as losing her thoughts completely in the spotlight. She really jumps around like her memory is disrupted, as anxiety will do. I hate public speaking myself and have almost done what she did.

    She still made more sense than W! Why aren't we considering her for president? That shows sexism, and other ...isms, that people will really write this young girl off yet W gets the support of the elite due to his gender and birth, plus his very inanity allegedly shows that he's not one of the elite.

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