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Politics and lingerie...

Slideshow - all the Miss USA contestants wearing lingerie, beginning with Miss Idaho:



*ahem* Where was I...

Oh yeah - politics:


Video - Audience erupts when Miss Oklahoma defends: "Huge believer in states' rights'... and Arizona's right to enforce the federal immigration statute.

Could her answer have been the reason she placed runner up?

And now this - our first Muslim Miss USA, Rima Fakih stripping contest photos emerge

This ain't your grandmas beauty pageant... 

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-of course there are woman in Idaho.   Next you will claim that no other place grows potatos.

Thank God.

I've been so worried.

But now we know Dan Quayle is alive and well.

1992 - The kid who corrected Quayle, potato

What are you talking about.  You dont even list your state on your profile here.  It must be one you want to hide.

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Forget 'world peace:' Beauty queens face culture war questions

...The winner, Miss Michigan Rima Fakih, a Lebanese immigrant who calls herself both Muslim and Christian and went to Catholic school, was asked if health insurance should cover birth control. Yes, she said, because it's so expensive. According to AP, she replied.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

No word on whether her prizes include health insurance along with a NY apartment for a year, living expenses and other goodies.The first runner up (the Carrie Prejean spot from 2009 and don't we all miss her!) was Miss Oklahoma Morgan Elizabeth Woolard. She, too, got a loaded question, this time on Arizona's strict new immigration law. Like most Americans surveyed, she's for it -- as long as it doesn't become racial profiling. Woolard said,

I'm a huge believer in states' rights. I think that's what's so wonderful about America. So I think it's perfectly fine for Arizona to create that law."

One thing the questions certainly do is quadruple the coverage of "a third rate beauty pageant desperate for attention," says Joe Carter, blogging at the conservative journal First Things on "Miss Culture War 2010." Says Carter:

Next year the judges should just ask what they really want to know: "Are you now or have you ever been a conservative?"

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ORIGINAL: SaintAllie
Couldn't you just read about the winner in the local newspaper?

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I also think it's hypocritical that the contestants were required to wear lingerie, but that a fully-clothed striptease is considered pushing it.

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The gowns are well..... over-done is a nice way of putting it.  Who decides that applique-is-the-way for this year?

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ORIGINAL: LanceHughes

Allie: As a gay man, I watch for fashion disasters. LOL!

ETA: As a matter of fact, that double side view above is getting pretty close.  Both are way too thin; hair is too long and not arranged properly;  The gowns are well..... over-done is a nice way of putting it.  Who decides that applique-is-the-way for this year?  "Girls" in the background are thinking, "Damn! My stylist was right!  White and applique.... I just had to have jewel tones, just had to try to be different to stand out.  Why, oh why didn't I listen to everyone who said to stuff my personality?  Why, oh why????"