Posted on 08/27/2007 5:56:30 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
Don't know much about ... geography?
Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina Teen USA, whose mangled response to a pageant question has become an Internet sensation, will have a second chance to answer it on Tuesday morning's Today show.
"I didn't do anything wrong," she told South Carolina's The State newspaper. "I wasn't expecting [the question]. I lost my train of thought."
She added she "completely misunderstood" the question, which she'll get a second stab at on Today.
The show's host, Mario Lopez, tells PEOPLE he wanted to help her, but was told that he couldn't talk to the contestants while they were answering questions.
"It was a very intense moment. It's live TV. You don't know what the question is until you get up there. And I believe that she misunderstood it. She went down the wrong road and couldn't figure out how to get back to the right one," he says. "I felt really badly for her."
The beauty contestant's video on YouTube has received more than 2 million hits thanks to her amazingly off-the-mark answer at Friday night's pageant, when she was queried about why Americans are so bad at geography.
Specifically, she was asked why one-fifth of Americans can't find the United States on a map.
"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps," she ventured.
During her meandering response, she also tossed in out-of-the-blue references to "the Iraq" and "Asian countries" and their need for the support of the American educational system in identifying the United States on the map.
Upton is described as a varsity athlete and student leader at Lexington High School, where she graduated in June with a 3.5 GPA.
Despite the on-camera gaffe, Upton finished as third runner-up.
One of his questions was: Name a country that begins with the letter "u". Four adults didn't know the answer!
Why would Michiganders point to a spot on their hands????
Now THAT even I can understand!!! hoot!!! ack!! LOL!!!!!
Michigan is shaped like a mitten (left hand), with the Upper Peninsula as the thumb.
All I have to say is she is completely innocent of all charges.
I watched a show on the history channel about the truther/loose change crowd. They keep having to rerelease the loose change movie because the facts keep making them look like fools.
During the editing process they were talking about changing the wording of one of their claims because it would likely be proven wrong.
Point is that those people know they’re lying to dupe idiots into buying their movie.
Ooooohhh..... I will lay down my life for her! Anyone who wants to insult this lovely young lady must go through me first. A duel to defend the lady’s honor........ :^)
No kidding she was a doll. You could tell that she had prepared for a certain question. Plus, give the girl a break. She is 17. lets see any of you juggle flaming batons!
No kidding she was a doll. You could tell that she had prepared for a certain question. Plus, give the girl a break. She is 17. lets see any of you juggle flaming batons!
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Now, you know dang well that if she was fat and ugly, you’d be ready to hang her at dawn.
Furthermore, when the leadership is ignorant, the ramifications can be bad for the whole country (i.e. officials in the intelligences agencies being unable to tell what distinguishes the two main sects of Islam--after September 11, to the not-quite-fully-applicable comparing the situation with Iraq to post-war Japan and South Korea--the Japanese and especially the Koreans are generally considered to be a homogeneous people; Iraq, not so much).
And to be fair, a lot of these Americans would have difficulty locating the United States on a map (unlabeled).
Well how dumb are the one's at Lexington high that have a 4.0??????
Sort of did a Lauren Upton there.
ROFL!!!
And your point????
That is just like winning the lottery, what are the odds of four Lexington high graduates showing up on at the same time. :)
Damn
I completely concur! These FReepers in here wouldn't know a complex, in depth, multi-dimensional reply if it bit them on the nose!
Uzbekistan.
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