Miss America 2011: "Wikileaks was actually based on espionage" And she might be an idiot.

[Better Believe It]

Miss America Hates Wikileaks, Might Be An Idiot
By Pandora Young
January 16, 2011

Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska was crowned Miss America on Saturday evening in Las Vegas. During the question category of the pageant, Miss Scanlon was asked about Wikileaks, specifically how to balance people’s right to know with the need for government security? Her rambling response:

You know, when it came to that situation, it was actually based on espionage, and when it comes to the security of our nation we have to focus on security first, and then people’s right to know. Because it’s so important that everyone in our borders is safe, and so we can’t let things like that happen, and they must be handled properly, and I think that was the case.

Miss Scanlon plans to make a career in politics.


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Miss America 2011: "Wikileaks was actually based on espionage."
January 15, 2011

Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan, became champion of the 2011 Miss America pageant tonight. She has deep thoughts on foreign policy and radical transparency.

She won after strutting in a black bikini and a white evening gown, playing "White Water Chopped Sticks" on piano and telling the audience that when it comes to the website Wikileaks, security should come before public access to government information.

"You know when it came to that situation, it was actually based on espionage, and when it comes to the security of our nation, we have to focus on security first and then people's right to know, because it's so important that everybody who's in our borders is safe and so we can't let things like that happen, and they must be handled properly," she said.



http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/15/miss-america-2011-wi.html

Sarah Palin might be her role model in politics. BBI

[ixion]

1. And a bimbo is a source for this why?

I can't see why her opinion on this would matter at all.

[Better Believe It]

3. Millions saw her response which was of course applauded by the audience.

She might become a new hero of the right-wingnuts and she is interested in a political career.

I wonder if she can see China from her front porch?

[sabrina 1]

26. It matters to the masses who will now quote it as gospel.

Where do you think the average American gets their news, and where did SHE get that talking point?

Do they choose these people for their looks, because she's not particularly striking in the looks dept. Lots of makeup and the standard dyed-blond stiff hairdo, but I know a lot of women who are far more attractive and with less makeup and their natural colored hair.

Or are they chose as 'spokespersons' for the Corps who will simply absorb and regurgitate the propaganda we are so familiar with, and which passes for news in this country?

If it is the latter, I'd say she deserved to win.

[WhiteTara]

2. Might be? You are indeed a kind individual

because I think there is no doubt.

[Joanne98]

4. Being an idiot is a requirement of the Miss America contest.

If they ever picked someone smart we'd all die of shock!

[WinkyDink]

10. I don't think Bess Myerson was anyone's dummy. Or Vanessa Williams.

[Lint Head]

5. Gee so is so informed. Bimbos are in our future.

[fascisthunter]

6. everyone clap for a narcissist

yay

[Arkansas Granny]

7. And she might just be a 17 year old girl.

[Better Believe It]

8. This is how Sarah Palin started out.

[LanternWaste]

28. Post hoc ergo prompter hoc.

Post hoc ergo prompter hoc.

[Zebedeo]

38. One of my pet peeves

is when people try to sound smart by saying something in Latin, but bungle it. There is no "prompter" in this phrase.

propter

[WinkyDink]

9. 17. Immersed in the Pageant Life. Will NEVER, EVER get beyond the "Hasselbeck" stage.

But will we see her on TV for the duration? You betcha!

[tjwash]

11. You want a comfy life doing movies, commercial endoresements, and magazine covers? Read this.

You want to be crucified in the right wing media as a complete loon, stripped of your title later for some banal and obscure reason, and endlessly harassed on Fox, CNBC, and CNN for the next 10 years, than say what is actually on your mind.

I hate to state a very dumb sounding saying...but, "don't hate the playa' hate the game" seems very apropos here...remember who demographic audience of the Miss America pageant really is.

[Erose999]

41. Gay men and Donald Trump? Those are the only 2 groups who care about MA anymore.

[niyad]

12. she sounds like that idiot from SC a year or so ago

[ladjf]

13. Cobble together a couple of media cliches and voila, you can be

Miss America. nt

[peace13]

14. Wow 17!

I guess we have to get them younger and younger to be sure that they haven't been secretly married or bedded a goat in the past. What does this say about our society. These young women used to be in college or graduated from college before they make it to the big stage. Very sad indeed.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. She sounds like someone who can see Russia from her porch.

[JBoy]

16. Wrong answer, but I give her credit for having even heard of Wikileaks.

[Javaman]

17. Ah yes, the insightful blather of another repuke brought up in an era of reduced rights.

"when it comes to the security of our nation we have to focus on security first, and then people’s right to know."

Because when that boot is on your face, it's okay, you will be told later why you were arrested.

Privacy is never an issue until it is. Security is fine for everyone until it isn't. Freedoms are just a concept until you need them.

Know your rights, these are your rights.

[OnyxCollie]

18. Pretty

stupid.

[LiberalEsto]

19. She wants to attend Patrick Henry College

which is completely owned and operated by rightwing nuts. Enough said.

[janedum]

20. Purrrfect! Must be a repukelicon.

[Blue Owl]

21. espionage and such

"I don't know what police state security is, but I want it."

-- Miss America

[Better Believe It]

22. We found out more about this right-winger during her interview on "Fox and Friends"

She was "home schooled" and "the political arena really interests" her.

Her dream "is to be President or a Supreme Court justice".

She "clarified" her statement on WikiLeaks proclaiming there is "a gray area where free speech ends and national security must be imposed".

And she'll let it up to government officials to decide such matters.

[LawnLover]

23. She's SEVENTEEN, for chrissakes and

running for beauty queen. Do you really expect her to be a rocket scientist?

I suspect that most intelligent women have no interest whatsoever in being crowned Miss America. Give the kid a break.

[Better Believe It]

25. She's been indoctrinated and now being groomed by the far right.

17 year olds have played big roles as participants and frequently leaders in progressive social movements.

Don't put 17 year olds down or excuse their behavior be it for good or evil.

And some unfortunately have been drawn to the right, from skin-heads, to KKK'ers to tea-baggers.

"Hitler youth" were much younger.

[LawnLover]

30. Oh, please

She's a goddamn beauty queen. I'm not putting seventeen year olds down. But the majority of them DO NOT involve themselves in politics and have no interest in it whatsoever. And who really gives a damn what she thinks?

This is ridiculous.

[Better Believe It]

39. "majority of them (17 year olds) DO NOT involve themselves in politics" That's true about all ages

So what's your point?

Who cares?

The far right and people they want to brainwash care.

[EFerrari]

27. When we were seventeen, my friends and I were reading the Pentagon Papers

and then the Nixon transcripts. The first published version of the transcripts were redacted so heavily, they were hilarious. We weren't rocket scientists either but we did have a pulse. lol

[LawnLover]

31. When I was seventeen

I was campaigning for McGovern. But guess what? Most of my friends weren't. Most of my friends -- like most seventeen year olds -- couldn't have cared less about politics.

And I highly doubt that you would have run for beauty queen.

[EFerrari]

37. What is that even supposed to mean?!

That only homely girls think about anything but their pageant walk?

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

:rofl:

[Erose999]

43. She's only seventeen...

Seven teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEjMpUQ

[alp227]

24. Miss America? She's a DISGRACE to America.

Sheesh, no wonder the world has such a negative opinion about Americans. I first learned that Scanlan was a right-wing sheep when I read Alan Colmes's blog. Ugh! These useful idiots - like Carrie "you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage" Prejean, Sarah Palin, and now Scanlan, and Jessica Simpson and other Hollywood airheads - are the women America worships, not Rachel Maddow or Amy Goodman? :puke: Why won't Scanlan address the problems that WikiLeaks exposed rather than attack the source?

And I just read the Wikipedia entry about Scanlan. Apparently she also addressed eating disorders during the pageant. Well that at least reveals she has a conscience.

Oh, in last year's Conservative Political Action Conference, the Human Events editor Jason Mattera remarked that unlike Woodstock, "our women are beautiful." I think that Scanlan is available?

And insert John Boehner or smirking chimp joke here.

[LawnLover]

32. So is this what civility looks like? Please. nt.

[Enrique]

29. she's just jealous of Assange's hair n/t

[lonestarnot]

33. Just a fancy pageant walker who can put on next to nothing, with a next to nothing answer on a very

important subject. winky dinky.

[Odin2005]

34. Brainless moran.

[HEyHEY]

35. Hey, I was a dummy too at that age. WAY to dedicated to beliefs

[Monk06]

36. Oh I am so confused and desperate about the world today. I think I'll listen to the wisdom

of a bleach blond 17 year old white girl from Nebraska.

Someone even dumber than Sarah Palin. Shoot me now !!!

[Erose999]

40. Miss America ain't nothing but Donald Trump's annual search for new tail anyway.

I bet $1 she wins.

[jdp349]

42. Attending Patrick Henry University is like the conservative version of the Vulcan Ritual of Kolinahr

They spend 4 years purging their minds and bodies of the capacity for reason and integrity.

Also I really don't like her face.