I didn’t know they still did the Miss America pageant. But they did it last night, and–of course: who would have doubted it?–they used the occasion to attack President Donald Trump and spew assorted Democrat talking points (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2017/09/10/miss-america-contestants-condemn-president-trump).
I know, I know–a lot of you hate beauty pageants anyway. But surely, surely, if there’s any reason at all for having them–if there ever was a reason for it–the only conceivable reason would be to provide a couple hours’ worth of escape.
But no. No more escape. Instead, the finalists were grilled on political issues, with all of them–surprised? don’t be–toeing the liberal line. Did Donald Trump’s campaign collude with the Russians? (Well, gee, it’s one of those things anyone who wants to be Miss America would be expected to know.) Wasn’t Donald Trump like totally 100% wrong, wrong, wrong when he blamed the Charlottesville riot on both sides instead of just on “white supremacists”? And wasn’t he like totally 100% dead wrong again for pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Change Pact and thank you very much you bastard we’re all gonna die? And finally, shouldn’t all those Confederate statues which have been standing for 150 years without anybody even noticing them all be pulled down?
It was decided by the judges that Miss North Dakota gave the most Politically Correct answers of all the finalists in this PC spelling bee, so she is now Miss America.
I could’ve sworn they’d gotten rid of this thing sometime in the 1980s. But it, like the Oscars, is still here: a fantastic waste of time and money.
I can’t imagine what ones political views would have to do with winning a beauty pageant. I agree, BTW, it’s a waste of time, money and effort, even without the PC nonsense.
“There she is, Miss Politically Correct.”
Amazing how the “women’s movement” could countenance such a contest
based on appearance, to say nothing of the asinine political opinions.
As I recall, one beauty pageant contestant once said that golly gee, everyone has different opinions but she kinda thought traditional marriage of one man and one woman was best, although she respected all those other people’s opinions, etc., etc., etc. — and she was savaged for months afterward and was almost retroactively tossed out of the pageant.
I remember that, too. Lovely times we live in.
Donald Trump owned the Miss America pageant from 1996 to 2015. Funny how all those years hanging out with America’s most beautiful women not one time was he accused of crossing the line, but the Leftids still call him a sexist.
Donald Trump was on center stage for years and years and nobody had anything bad to say about him–until he ran for president as a Republican. Had exactly the same man run as a Democrat, we’d be hearing nothing but extravagant praise.