Noel, I have to apologize. When I first read this tease on the homepage, I thought, that's it, Noel's lost it. He's gone. He's off the deepend. There is NO WAY, NONE, that Palin Derangement Syndrome has reached this level.

Well hush my mouth. Nothing the libs do now surprises me. 

I'm truly sorry.... I shant doubt again!!!!

Maybe it's because U.S. Americans don't have maps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.

Funny you should bring this up.  Does being in a pageant automatically make one a bimbo?  Apparently so according to the media, if one is a conservative.

BOR had both Gretchen Carlson and Lauren Green on his show the other night, discussing beauty pageants.  (Gretchen Carlson bugs me as the chirpy morning hostess of F&F).

Back to BOR.  Both of these women vociferously defended the pageant as a way to earn scholarship dollars.  I was suprised to learn Carlson graduated from Stanford, with honors, and had attended Oxford, further that Lauren Green has a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern.

They were both extremely articulate, leading me to believe they're both underused at Fox (particularly the competent Lauren).

However, the "brush" of beauty pageant contestant has very obviously undercut their broadcasting careers.  Palin too.  Even though it was a means to an end.  

Now the question is....are there any prominent liberal pageant contestants in the public eye who have been treated the same way?

I would imagine that the Miss Alaska pageant is part of the overall Miss America pageant so it may not be that inaccurate to say that Gov Palin was a Miss America contestant.  She was in a competition where the final result was the Miss America title.  PDS is commonplace but IMO this was not a good example of it.

"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, uh, education like such as, uh, 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., uh, or, uh, 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]"

The unwashed left is hell bent on making us U.S. Americans hate Sarah Palin! Ain't gonna happen!

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I know Jackie Mayer, Miss America 1963(?) and she is no slouch. She has been a spokesman for stroke victims, having had a stroke herself a few years ago. One of the goals of her activity is to help stroke victims help themselves and others to function at their highest levels.

Lauren used to be the morning newsreader on F&F. Always a delight. Now she's the religion reporter, and has done a coupple of specials. It might be by her design that she isn't as busy, I don't know.

But I could absolutely enjoy her in more higher profile reporting. 

I think all the beautiful gals gave a pretty good answer....some more than most..but I was pleasantly surprised....no matter the Palin question, there were alot of questions of what is going on now...they did better than I expected...I, for one, am glad.

Oh Noel, you were one of my favorite posters of stories here (still are albeit this has me scratching my head as to its relevance to anything.)

However, I fail to see two things here. #1, why this is any bit of news, aside from *looking* for something to complain about, and #2, they didn't say anything detracting or in defamation of Sarah, they simply asked if the focus on her being a beauty pageant contestant was fair, seeing as they seemed more focused on her stereotypically female qualities and points of life rather than the legitimate issues. I gotta agree with the question, it was *totally* unfair. Aside from the ambush of Couric, Sarah was forced not to talk about her views on the pressing issues, but rather, defend her daughter, and her wardrobe expenditures (which is about half of John Edwards hair budget each week I'm sure, Blago seems to be gunning for the bragging rights however for 'most expensive hair in the DNC.')

I think there is nothing particularly evil here, the announcer merely made a verbal misstep but the question not only still had validity, but if anything, was seemingly in defense of Sarah, if only from a feminist angle, but hey, anyone defending her is good in my book. And as for the Couric ambush, they put her on stage with the idea the interview would be a standard Q&A when Couric decided to throw some curveballs. Sure, Barry and Biden seemed to be better at the interview, but only because they, like most politicians on both sides, know where the interview is going LONG before it occurs. Sarah, sadly, was not given that privledge. That paired with a rediculously incapable McCain Camp that wanted Sarah covered up as if she were some harlet in Saudi Arabia, in my opinion, was a big reason she was seen as a flaw to McCain's campaign rather than the savior of it she should have and could have been.

I admit I hate when people bring up Sarah still and take digs, but this was more a defense of her, albeit arbitrarily, and the announcer is no dunce simply because she made a simple gaffe. The point was still there and true, 'did the media focus too much on her past as a stereotypical woman as opposed to a potential political leader?' We all know that answer....

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The Government should fear the people.