More controversy: Miss USA’s stripper contest past. Did the runner up lose because of her anti-illegal immigration conservative views?
Posted on | May 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Miss USA controversies storm the blogosphere
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And you thought beauty queens’ infighting was fierce. No pageant managed by The Donald would be complete without its own outbreak of culture war.
Last year, of course, there was Miss USA’s great Carrie Prejean controversy — when the reigning Miss California upheld marriage as an exclusively heterosexual insitution after celebrity blogger Perez Hilton asked about gay matrimony. (That dustup was eventually overtaken by Prejean’s own naughty-photo scandal, which Donald Trump himself eventually arbitrated.)
This week, Lebanese-American immigrant Rima Fakih of Michigan was crowned Miss USA — maybe the first contestant of Muslim background to win, though the pageant’s records are incomplete.
There were, of course, the usual day-after revelations about the new titlist’s past media exploits: pictures from a 2007 pole-dancing competition and an appearance in a salaciously titled independent video production. But she remained fully clothed in both outings. In fact, the most provocative photos that have surfaced of her seem to be the official lingerie shots taken under the auspices of the pageant.
[Video: Trump defends the racy photos]
Instead, the highest decibels have been reserved for her Muslim Arab background (though the contestant herself has spoken little about religious matters, stressing that her family observes both Muslim and Christian holidays).
Daniel Pipes, who publishes a right-leaning blog on Middle Eastern affairs, pointed to a “surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants.” While allowing that “they are all attractive” — Pipes, a former board member of the U.S. Institute for Peace, posted pictures of several — he said that their victories “make me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.”
Pipes didn’t theorize how shadowy beauty-pageant fixers might be greasing the skids for contestants — but other political bloggers were happy to advance more heated pronouncements.
“Miss Hezbollah is now Miss USA,” declared conservative radio talk show host Debbie Schlussel, saying that Fakih’s relatives in Lebanon had ties to the terrorist organization based there. Schlussel also said Fakih received some financial backing from onetime Hezbollah supporter Imad Hamad — or, as Schlussel put it, Fakih’s “bid for the pageant was financed by an Islamic terrorist.” Suggesting the pageant was “rigged,” Schlussel wrote off Fakih’s victory to a “politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate.”
Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin saw a conspiracy afoot, too — generic rather than Muslim-specific this time. Malkin mocked Fakih as a “gaffetastic” contestant who tripped over her gown as well as over her answer to a question about birth control — exposing Fakih’s ignorance, Malkin argued, about what constitutes a “controlled substance” and what the purpose of health care is. “Looks like the Miss USA pageant didn’t want to risk the wrath of the open-borders mob,” Malkin said.
[See the video of Rima Fakih tripping]
Immigration was in fact another flashpoint of political controversy over the contest. Runner-up Morgan Elizabeth Woolard of Oklahoma was asked for her views on Arizona’s recent immigration law, a question that drew boos from the crowd before the judge — actor Oscar Nunez of “The Office” — could even finish getting it out.
When he did deliver the question, asking whether immigration enforcement “should be mandated by the state or by the federal government,” Woolard replied that she was “a huge believer in states’ rights,” then added: “I think it’s perfectly fine for Arizona to create that law, and I’m against illegal immigration. But I’m also against racial profiling, so I see both sides in this issue.” You can watch the exchange here:
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May 18th, 2010 @ 11:03 pm
I’m reposting here because I have no other way to find this and Orly Taitz’s blogs take comments
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On Obama-victory that day the Lottery drew 666
Posted by GeirSmith on May 17, 2010 18:59
Could you help me get screenshots of newspapers ?
It’s of the Nov 6th 2008 special Obama-victory edition
That day the Lottery drew 666 so the news of his victory and the Lottery draw of 666 were side by side in it
Can you get that ? Libraries have the back issues on microfilm and that’s a famous issue
I want the Illinois newspapers and the page with the lottery-draw
Thanks
if you have library cards and people around you have library cards they can access it online
Please send them to me
I want to make videos and flood Internet with this news of 666, the Mark of the Beast upon Obama.
The meaning of the Lottery draw is very deep because it harkens back to the Biblical throwing the merchants out of the temple by Jesus.
Indeed, Obama would be the Antichrist by it, and he would force the Mark of 666 of the Beast on the hand and forehead of all in the world.
How is that possible ?
Well, it’s clear that he does.
Obama is indeed the biggest-spending president in the history of the world so his hand-outs
of the money he illegally got hold of (by frauding the post of president), is reaching the hands and minds of one and all on earth.
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I’m not a fundie-crazy, I’m not even Christian; so the Lottery draw of 666 is a simple omen and sign which one does not have to obey the rules and teachings of any faith to see and realize the importance of.
It’s merely a question of faith in oneself and one’s inner feeling.
Reveal this all-important thing.