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...feel that you asked Miss California a fair question, but do you regret the harsh treatment she received for answering her question honestly? - Barb McClintock, Houston I think by entering the Miss USA pageant, she made herself a public figure. If a civilian were to answer that question, would I think the response that she got was appropriate? No. But when you become a tabloid figure, which she did, the rules change. (See the top 10 beauty-pageant scandals...
...Some were beautiful, some were risqué, but, again, we're in the 21st century.' DONALD TRUMP, beauty-pageant co-owner, declaring that Miss California Carrie Prejean could keep her crown after topless photos of her surfaced online...
...could argue that the true hypocrisy is what came before, at that very political pageant, the Republican National Convention, in which the Palin family, including alleged fiancé Levi Johnston, was presented as a somewhat sprawling Norman Rockwell portrait. There the messaging was simple: our daughter is pregnant; she chose not to abort the baby; she will be marrying the father and finishing school, and we will all live happily ever after...
...Saberi entered the Miss North Dakota beauty pageant at the urging of a college instructor. She won, and became one of the final 10 contestants in that year's Miss America Pageant - the only finalist of Asian descent and the first recipient of the pageant's "Scholar Award...
...were revoked in 2006 provides ample material for a fair process of appeal but does not make the Revolutionary Court’s summary trial and its eight-year imprisonment sentence any less disturbing. Likewise, the media’s hype and portrayal of her as a pure beauty pageant queen to be rescued by the West from the dragon’s mouth just shortly after the silent death of a 29-year-old blogger in prison, Omidreza Mirsayafi, and the White House’s and Secretary of State’s parental support of her case surely...