Miss South Carolina Teen USA Explains Her TV Meltdown [Video]

People.com ^ | 08/27/07 | Stephen M. Silverman

[MaxMax]

Is it possible she was coached by Jesse Jackson?
Naw, but really close. She should run for Senate (D).

Poking fun is just plain Fun.

[Scotswife]

“And it was a bad question,,did they want her to bash our country when she shoulda gotten a chance to talk about world peace!”

She gets another chance...let’s hope she studies up.
The REAL answer to the question has to do with the fact that students used to take “history” and “geography.”

Now, instead, those coursed have been blended into “social studies” - a little bit of this, a little bit of that, with social messages about saving the rain forest - please recycle, and obviously not much about maps.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Ulan Bator (used to be Ulaanbaatar) is the capital of Mongolia.

United Kingdom.

[D Rider]

Lansing!

[Professional Engineer]

"I wasn't expecting [the question]. I lost my train of thought."

No one expects the USA inquisition?

[Westlander]

Hey, where’s the UP?

[Enchante]

Her answer should have been short and sweet:

“Most of us U.S. Americans have GPS nowadays so we always know where we are!”

[Scotswife]

I think that with her looks that probably would have been enough for at least 1st runner up!

[RDTF]

dontcha know Mario Lopez was glad he was saved by the bell??

[Westlander]

‘graduated in June with a 3.5 GPA.’

Now thats funny.

[SIDENET]

One of his questions was: Name a country that begins with the letter "u". Four adults didn't know the answer!

Yugoslavia.

Duh.

[SIDENET]

Definitely INNOCENT.

The poor girl is a victim. Bless her momma and daddy.

;-)

[Polybius]

Plus, give the girl a break. She is 17.

Seventeen?

"I swear, Judge, I thought she was 23!!!"

[SteveMcKing]

Kids-

Just because someone asks you to find a place on a map, does not mean that you should do it for them. Even if you can.

People have to stop jumping every time the world tells them to.

[rawhide]

Lauren Caitlin Upton of Lexington, S.C., shown in this undated modeling photo. The 18-year-old has become a national sensation after her gramatically challenged response to a question at the Miss Teen USA pageant in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 24, 2007 (photo courtesy Locke Management)

[rawhide]

Miss Teen South Carolina Lauren Caitlin Upton fumbles through an answer during Miss Teen USA Pageant on NBC Aug. 24, 2007

[rawhide]

"The 18-year-old beauty contestant who mesmerized the nation with her verbal "brilliance" at the Miss Teen USA pageant over the weekend actually entered beauty pageants to improve her personal communication skills..."

"I was never much of a pageant girl," Lauren Caitlin Upton said in an interview published just hours before Friday's event. "When I first started pageants, I wanted to build up my communication skills for interviews for college and for jobs. I was determined to prove I was able to accomplish anything I put my mind to."

[Sybeck1]

Just Damn

[Thrownatbirth]

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps

I think she may have hit on something. When I went K-12, mostly in the 60's, every classroom had a giant wall map of either the US or the world. You learned geography through constant exposure and referencing classwork to those maps. I hardly see them in classrooms anymore. Maybe that's what's missing.

She should have stuffed a sock in her mouth right there, but it was more fun when she kept talking.

[avacado]

"The poor girl is a victim. Bless her momma and daddy."

A victim indeed! That question was rigged!