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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Took a while to reach us over the pond.
I really am amazed at that answer, not because of the whole 'pretty dumb blonde' thing, that is neither here nor there. What astounds me is that this young woman is making a sideline career out of this business and she can't think on her feet?
When I was in high school I decided I wanted to get into a career somewhere in the media - not in front of a camera or anything but I figured I'd best brush up on my speaking skills if that was to be the case. So I joined the debating team, mock trial team, school musicals and all that stuff. Since then I've never had any trouble thinking on the go or speaking in public and I would certainly not be afraid to ask that a question be repeated. Even if you heard it the first time it's a great way to get a couple of seconds thinking time.
I can hardly imagine that this young girl chose to do these things and then didn't do everything she could to improve on her speaking skills. We don't have a lot in the way of beauty pageants here but I guess if every girl is beautiful and they're mostly going to sound as dumb as bricks wouldn't a girl who's both articulate *and* beautiful have that edge needed?
Geico cavemen!! Yeah! The evolved cavemen can translate for the viewer as she babbles the fine print of competing auto policies! LMAO
Oh, come on, Rebecca. We're leering and laughing at Lauren Caitlin Upton not because she's "young, pretty, blond, Southern and female" (thereby fitting into a convenient stereotype, as you would have it), but because her "reply" to the question was so astonishingly vacuous. As vacuous, in fact, as what we have heard far too often from another celebrity, but one who DOESN'T qualify as young, pretty, blond, or female--and is only marginally Southern--George W. Bush. Upton's absurd "explanation" at the pageant was as meaningless and unhelpful as so many of Dubya's have been; the main reason we can laugh over and over at her gaffe is that she probably won't ever have a chance to make her mark in or on the world, whereas our overachieving Prez has done extensive damage in his hours upon the stage, despite and because of his chronic cluelessness.
It's not a misogynistic impulse that causes such fascination with Upton's empty performance. It's alarm that now there are clearly at least TWO people in the country, one young and female, the other middle-aged and male, who have been given a chance to speak their minds publicly and had absolutely nothing to offer.
I think it's probably getting a lot of laughs, because it's funny to watch someone with lots of public speaking experience flub something so horribly.
Plus, most humor is a little on the mean side.
The only thing that will elicit a laugh from anyone, in any culture is someone falling flat on their face. Now to the person falling flat on their face, that could have been painful or it could have been equally funny like whoops, I lost control of my limbs ha ha.
For instance, once, when drunk, I fell down some stairs, at first no one laughed because they weren't sure if I was injured, then I started giggling like a madman because I found it so hilarious that I had fallen down a flight of stairs and wasn't hurt, they felt free to join in the giggle fest and they still trot that story out years later as one of the funniest things they've ever seen.
I don't see a young woman with lots of practice speaking in public totally becoming tounge tied any different.
I think it's also why that news reporter also gets giggled at and there is a Soup clip of a non-white reporter saying Good Morning, Good Morning, everyone, Good Morning repeatedly live on air as a test pretty damn funny too.
So no, I don't think we are pointing and laughing because she's a pretty blonde, I think we are pointing and laughing becuase it's funny to watch people fuck up.
As for equality, I think we need male beauty pagents, why should women get money and scholarships for being pretty and blessed with a great body and not men! I want to see some hot dudes in bananna hammocks answering questions with answers like for the children and world peace!
Why thank you! I was wondering when you would get around to calling me idiotic since you have done so to almost everyone else. I wouldn't want to feel left out.
Are you familiar with Cheney's (Lynne's, I mean) campaign to have history taught her way?
Just how old are you anyway?
She'll show up as NBC senior Pentagon correspondent.
I saw the clip and read the transcript and can't pick out a single coherent thought, let alone sentence, in her answer. "U.S. Americans" ?!?!? "The Iraq" ?!!?? Really, I'm trying hard here NOT *snork* and say something snarky about "Beauty Pageant" and "South Carolina", but there's not much material here that doesn't speak for itself.
There are a lot of idiots posting to BS incapable of making a logical argument or putting forth a reasonable hypothesis for anything. Don't take it personally. It's intentional, due to the idiotic columnists whose only real purpose is to generate tabloid controversy for clicks.
And as bad as Lyn Cheney is, the idea America's problem with geography, which goes back many decades, is due entirely, majority, or even significantly to her, is patently idiotic.
There are many reason's, primarily that we're a huge country isolated by vast distances and two oceans, where people travel internationally very little, and we have tremendous leisure time spent on frivolity with ever decreasing academic scores. By comparison, most developed countries in Europe and Asia have many countries on their borders which they frequently travel to, and share international events such as European Football. Also, average and median European and Asia academic scores have long been higher than American.
Apparently you don't have much information in your head, and notions rattle around eventually sticking to what little data you have, much like tumble-weeds and brambles on a barren landscape. Which produces something resembling an epiphany in you, which you then type down, because you're too ignorant to distinguish that from a well considered hypothesis, never having experienced one.
Which means of course you're the perfect job candidate for Salon's click generating tabloid sections. You should apply.
Though I imagine the Salon events must be an uncomfortable mix between the tabloids like BS and Manjoo the clueless, and Salon's real journalists, with functioning brains.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
