All I have to say is she is completely innocent of all charges.
Translation:
“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, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.”
Stupid is as stupid does.
She should enter politics; completely ignoring the question asked and rambling off on a tangent is a skill that is highly-prized in political circles.
She’s still smarter than any MSNBC gal.
“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, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.”
Just be glad she wasn’t asked to explain why we Michiganders show our location in the state by pointing to a spot on our hand.
“Some people don’t have hands”
There’s a pole with that girl’s name on it.
She is so stupendously cute that I readily forgive her. But more importantly, I can sympathize with getting tangled up like that in a pressurized moment on live TV. Our prez does it and he’s a sharp fellah.
Beauty pageant boilerplate and buzz words gone badly awry.
That nasty woman with the stupid question should be sent away.
She's cute.
So see, I'm nobody's fool.
>>”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.<<
Mental note: If I ever move to Lexington, the kids go to private school.
Mm-mm! Word salads are tasty.
All I have to say is she is completely innocent of all charges.
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??????
It was a bunch of antiAmericanism fed to her all her life by supposed “teachers” and media mouths.
We’re dumb, we need to help the people of South Africa and Iraq...
She understood the question, she just attempted to cram all of
her talking points into a question that had nothing to do with
her talking points. A Tiger is a Tiger.
Ha Ha..
No one expects the USA inquisition?
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)