Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
My wife watched the whole thing last night. I sat down at 9:30 to see the last half-hour. 15 contestants left. I looked at the line-up and picked the one in the yellow dress because she had the biggest chest. Yep, right on the money. So what\u2019s the point of the rest of the contest?<\/p>\n
I watched the last 5 contestants answering dopey questions, as if that final answer would the clincher that would help the judges decide. But they didn\u2019t all answer the same question, of course, so no apples-to-apples comparison. How does that make sense?<\/p>\n
Ms. Minnesota was asked something like \u2018We\u2019ve seen politician\u2019s wives supporting their husbands lately, have they taken Stand By Your Man too far?\u2019 and she said \u201cNo, because marriage is a life-long commitment so they should stand by their men. But their men ought to shape up.\u2019 Yeah, she was the first loser to be sent home. What was wrong with that answer — not feminist enough?<\/p>\n
Another was asked about Syria and chemical weapons. The contestant was against them and in favor of world peace. Well, duh, we all are. Nice, safe answer to an idiotic question. A third was asked about Miley Cyrus and twerking. She was against them, too, and also in favor of world peace. Ask a stupid question . . . .<\/p>\n
Look, drop the questions, get out the measuring tape, lift your arms, girls, and let\u2019s get this show on the road. We could have been done in 15 minutes and had time for a Rambo re-run.<\/p>\n
As for the morons complaining that the winner is not American enough, two thoughts: one, none of us is \u201cfrom here\u201d originally, we\u2019re a nation of immigrants and pretty girls can be descended from immigrants as easily as natives so STFU; and two, I wouldn\u2019t be a bit surprised to learn many of the bigoted comments are coming from leftists obeying Berg\u2019s Seventh Law.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The American idiots who bagged on her were, pretty much to a person, morons.<\/p>\n
The curious bit is the contortions this is sending Indians into. \u00a0Nina Davuluri, Miss America, was born in Syracuse, but her parents were from India. \u00a0While American liberals think America is the only place where skin color matters, the divide between light and dark-skinned Indians is a deep and ugly one. \u00a0Indians are noting that there is no way Ms. Davuluri could ever be crowned Miss India<\/a>; she’s just too dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My wife watched the whole thing last night. I sat down at 9:30 to see the last half-hour. 15 contestants left. I looked at the line-up and picked the one in the yellow dress because she had the biggest chest. Yep, right on the money. So what\u2019s the point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38531,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527\/revisions\/38531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}