Worst. Answer. Ever.

Posted: Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:54 PM by Countdown

The N-hole is well aware this is just a youngster...but the answer this young lady gives during the Miss Teen U.S.A. award show is astoundingly bad.

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It just occurred to me exactly who she sounds like. She's the Dude. She sounds like Jeff Lebowski trying to explain why he screwed up dropping the ransom money. Maybe she's keeping up a strict regiment of Pot, Oat Soda's and Caucasians. Or maybe she's that one child that was left behind.

J Z Jackson, Tampa, Florida (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 4:56 PM)

It is painfully amusing. I can only hope that when the event was over and the makeup came off, her parents put their arms around her and held her tight and told her that they loved her and were proud of her no matter what. And in the future, if anyone ever asks about her inglorious 48 seconds, I hope she looks them right in the eye and says, "yep, that was me" and keep on keep'n on. She just might come out on top.

Simonton Street, Key West (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 5:10 PM)

Good one, Captain Bill! Although it might have been Virginia Woolf she was channelling. You know, very few people these days dabble in the art of stream of consciousness.

SGP, Maryville, TN (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 5:13 PM)

We Europeans are not fooled one bit. This lady is extremely smart. She is proposing to export the US educational system where 1/5th doesn't know where the US can be found on a map to Africa and Iraq and Asian countries. Now *that*'s a good way to prevent war. We'll have world peace after all!

Nynke, Dordrecht, Netherlands (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 5:26 PM)

Future Liberal at large....

B. Garske, WI (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 6:03 PM)

I believe South Carolina is consistently a "red" state, is it not? Now we know why...

Mike Keller, Spring Mills, PA (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 6:21 PM)

Her 15 minutes of fame, poor girl.

jp, cali (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 7:41 PM)

Huh?

Edwin Frydendall, Mankato, MN (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 7:53 PM)

Did she hear the question correctly? If so, then she's the one who was not taught by her teacher(s) about here geaography, and she's not alone; my friend asked me three-week ago about what state is Maryland in (please pay attention: he asked state - not where it is located) - to which I repplied by asking him that: "Did you take your high school American History." And believe me, this guy is a 24-year-old college student in his 2nd year, and I'm refugee immigrant from Sudan (he's a U.S citezen).

Gatrek - Winona, MN (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 9:34 PM)

Pretty like a hummingbird, brain like baby chicken! I wonder what her proud momma and pops had to say at the country club when their friends said " I saw your daughter's performance on the web today "

The Edge, Macon GA (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 9:39 PM)

The democrats have another candidate for 08

S Vickers, Fl (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 9:45 PM)

bill o'reilly is going to have a feast with this one.

gene palm coast fl. (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 9:49 PM)

I didn't get a chance to look at this earlier but saw it on the show. Un-be-lievable. This girl gives new meaning to the "dumb blonde" stereotype. As the old saying goes, where is she going to get her diploma from, "Monkey Ward"'s? This level of ignorance combined with this much incoherence, mixed in with an obvious desperate mad scramble to recall and repeat some surefire winning catchphrase taught her by her "pageant coach" prior to the event, all added up to the biggest humiliation ever at a pageant of any kind. I don't think the young woman who tripped on her shoes felt as bad as this.

Tru M., Cleveland, Ohio (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 9:54 PM)

She must be a "Bushie" or maybe just a Republican.

William M. Brown (Sent Monday, August 27, 2007 10:46 PM)

I believe the poor girl _did_ answer the original question in a roundabout way, if you extend the question to an implied indictment of 1) the educational system, increasingly gutted by "government-is-evil" right-wing types, and 2) "students" who spend all their time on worthless activities, shallow pop culture, marketed material goods, etc., often doing exactly what they see their parents doing. I mean, her answer does sort of give you the idea, doesn't it?

In other words, it's not just the "educational system"; it's the willfully ignorant populus that (sort of) elected Bush, _twice_. The information is out there and has never been more accessible; students and their parents can't just be passive blobs, waiting for someone to "motivate" them and "inspire" them and "educate" them.

Really, the larger point is, if you're looking for a better example of whether or not we're sufficiently educated and intelligent as a nation, probably the White House is a better place to look than a beauty pageant for teenagers.

S. Finley, Lubbock, Texas (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:29 AM)

The question HAS to be referring to the National Geographic-Roper Geographic Literacy Poll, conducted in 2002 and 2006. In 2002, 89% of Americans polled could locate the US on a map. In 2006, 94% could locate the US on the map. Doesn't it seem like we've picked the wrong target here? Shouldn't we be mocking the pageant for being unable to write an accurate question? I mean, how dippy is it to confuse 80% and 89% or, worse, 94%? Getting confused in the face of a question that amounts to, "Polls say the sky is green. Why do you think that is?" isn't really that unreasonable.

Rebecca Allen, Brookline, NH (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:56 AM)

Leave the girl alone. She is only 18, and got a case of nerves in front of a national audience. Now, you guys want to pile on. Is this the compassionate liberal that is coming out of you people. This is the typical knee jerk reaction that because she misspoke in one instance, she is just a bimbo and a loser. You don't even know this girl. Give it a rest. It's rather insensitive for Newshole to exploit the girl's bad day. I wouldn't expect anything else.

Keith, Allentown PA (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:42 AM)

I don't believe this was the worst answer ever. That would have been from Mr Clinton in response to a question from the citizens of the USA. It went something like this.. " I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski " LOL

Larry Charleston, SC (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:01 AM)

After seeing this clip, I feel fairly confident that if "Dixie" really does "rise again" that they wont be able to locate the Yankees during the "2nd Civil War".

Rod, Tacoma, Washington (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:17 AM)

May I mombodogface in the banana patch?, would have been a better answer then what she gave.

T-Rae, Winchester, VA (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:33 AM)

I think we found Alberto Gonzales' replacement!!!

bob O'Day, Johnston Rhode Island (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:40 AM)

But Scotty,
She's from South Carolina!!!
Are you even allowed to be a liberal in that bastion of modern enlightened thinking we call South Carolina???
I think not Scotty Boy!!!
She's a Loyal Bushy like you...not loyal enough to enlist it seems but still quite loyal...YEEEE HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!

Bob O'Day, Johnston, RI (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:58 AM)

Heck, after W, she could be PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of "U.S. America".

In all fairness, she was on the Today Show this morning and [somewhat] redeemed herself. Except that she wants to be a Graphic Designer. Kid, snap out of it! You're too cute to spend the rest of your life in a cubicle.

Pedro, Fort Lauderdale, FL (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:08 AM)

Yup, sublime ignorance will get you a spot on 'TODAY'. If she'd have just drooled a little bit, she might have made '20/20'.

Steve Turner Cedar Falls Iowa (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:57 AM)

Well the girl does a bit better this time around.
http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=8c4ff841-eaf6-49bb-8186-92a07e09ee06&f=06/64&fg=copy

Shame on you people who took such glee in the young lady's embarassment.

PS
According to recent studies most College students don't know diddly about history or even current events, sort of like the Dem/Libs on this site.

Wayne, TN (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:42 PM)

I don't know, Larry. Worst answer ever, I'm sort of partial to "I am not a crook" or "Read my lips, no new taxes, and there's always " Mission Accomplished"

Frederick Sweeney, Brooklyn (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:03 PM)

Couldn't help seeing the South Carolina stripe...Larry, is that your daughter? Grand-daughter?

You must be so proud. She takes after her daddy/granddaddy all right...dumb as a bag of hammers.

Timmy, Milwaukee WI (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:09 PM)

Hey Keith in Allenton PA, come here.

Closer.

Shoot it out your blow hole, pal.

Oh and congrats for getting all the Rush Limbaugh bywords in one paragraph. You guys never cease to amaze me with the length and breadth of your vocabulary. Amazing. Truly amazing.

Some of us aren't very compassionate. Some of us can't wait to get one of you mouthy mofos alone in a dark alley. Watch your back, tough guy.

Timmy, Milwaukee WI (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:13 PM)

Dr. B stated (I'm paraphrasing here) that "people" listen to and believe "talking heads like Bush" instead of thinking for themselves and asking, "Does this make sense?" How about the talking heads who are the media? They've shaped the minds of more mindless people who think they are intelligent regarding the current administration and the poor state this country is in?! Perhaps we all feel so free to bash the president because the office lost the respect it deserves after we were forced to listen to crap about cigars in places they were never meant to be and stains on blue dresses during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal?

Frustrated in the US (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:52 PM)

Little TImmy

You are joking me pal. So a squirrelly little liberal from Wisconsin likes to beat up on an innocent 18 year old who had a case of nerves. Quite the class act. By the way, I'm 6'5" 240 lbs so I can hardly wait for that confrontation in a dark alley. Please, have a little respect for some of the more intelligent poster on this blog. I can have intelligent debate without resorting to your useless babble. What a pathetic loser.

Keith, Allentown PA (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:53 PM)

In all seriousness, this is such a great blog!! Where else are "the Dude" from BIG LEBOWSKI and Virginia Woolfe going to be referenced in the same thread??!! BTW (beware of nit-picky English professor visit), Virginia wasn't nearly the stream-of-consciousness writer as James Joyce's ULYSESS [sorry for botched spelling]. You wanna fry your brain, READ THAT!! Ugh...

Krista Swisher, Indianapolis, IN (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:36 PM)

Hey, folks, haven't many of you gone a bit overboard? This is a young kid of 17 or so, competing in something that we in this country have institutionalized - the "Beauty" Contest. She had to answer something to that question and didn't have a clue. That's unfortunate, but is it really any reason to put her down, degrade her, shame her and use all kinds of labels. I thought we were a more compassionate people than that. For myself, I feel sorry for her, because she was never prepared to answer a question of the kind asked. Show a little compssion and blame the educational system more than this poor kid. Incidentally, I didn't see any of you try to answer that rather esoteric question. Why is it that so many of our young people cannot use a map to locate their own country? It might take more than just a sound byte or two to answer that one.

Neal Hoffman, Syracuse, NY (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:38 PM)

Wayne. TN 12:42pm post.
I can't believe my eyes. You of all people defending a female. Watch it Bud, you're beginning to sound enlightened.

Nanalinda, San Antonio, TX (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:14 PM)

Thank goodness she's pretty.

LMM (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:57 PM)

It's because people aren't taught to read maps properly in school. And relatives don't always take initiative to teach them as well. XD That's the reason why I think that people can't read maps. I mean, even I, a younger person, have never been taught to read maps whilst in the K-12th grades. I learned how to read them myself by looking at maps and asking relatives about them. >.>

Well, people who are artists or aspire to be artists aren't always that good with words, they like to express themselves through their art. xD

Well, I know that I would certainly be nervous if I were in a national contest or pageant, since many people watch it, and you have to watch what you say.

Moogle (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:08 PM)

I don't get it. What's wrong with her answer...

Gerald Muskogee Ok (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:35 PM)

18 years old and on national television..i dont blame her...just one of those moments, as she explained when you draw a blank

Praveen, Ft. worth, texas (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:22 PM)

She redeemed herself pretty well on the Today Show this morning.

Eric, Tucson AZ (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:29 PM)

I'd bet my inner-city teacher's salary she goes to a rich, suburban school.

Margie, Kansas City, Missouri (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:30 PM)

We're not pleased at her performance, we're embarrassed to our toe nails at how our educational system could produce such an air head. Appearance is valued over substance and this is the result.

No child left behind, my foot. Teaching to the test is idiocy and this is proof.

Carol, Long Valley NJ (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:44 PM)

Wellllll, regardless of whether or not it was nerves (which I truly chocked it up to be), she certainly is getting her 15 minutes out of it.

Just goes to show what makes the 'news' in this country and what doesn't-it's all about 'celebrity.'

On that note, my kids (ages 8 & under), are pretty good with geography. That could be from the places we lived and all the places our family members live, but they do know geography. Unfortunately they know all too well where Iraq is-fortunately they know where Italy is and they will be living there very soon (which our official fly out date is September 30).

Jamie, Chula Vista, CA (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:45 PM)

OK - she's 17, blonde and in a beauty pageant. My expectations are only going to be so high. Compare her comment, though, with !W! and the "fool me once" quote... Can you guess who's the Leader of the Free World? Should be a lot more distance there than there is.

Of course, when I was 17, and someone had asked me that... "Uh... cause they're stupid. Duh!"

One point to make up some of her lost ground with everyone... at 17 years old, she came up the courage to go back on National TV and discuss it all. Way more than I could've mustered at that age.

Tony, Cary NC (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:15 PM)

I feel bad for this young lady as she is now the butt of all of your jokes. Tell me: how many of you could be suddenly thrust before a TV camera at that age, during an intense competition and not feel like a deer in the headlights? Give the girl some slack.

Bill Frially (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:27 PM)

"Tell me: how many of you could be suddenly thrust before a TV camera "
Why I can remember when Bill Clinton got so flustered in front of the cameras that he forgot the definition of the word "is", and couldn't even remember getting a BJ from Miss Lewinsky.

I would hazard a guess that many of the Liberals on this site still think White Phosporous is a Chemical Weapon, and think Mustard gas is not a proscribed chemical weapon. They also think al-Quida in Iraq is not al-Quida.

Wayne, TN (Sent Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:07 AM)

You should all look at your respective answers and b amazed and appalled. At a time when education is in the hands of the teachers alone and many parents are expecting the educational system to pick up the slack, you should be checking your spelling and not picking on one person who may have just been nervous. Stop pigeonholing people based on a brief encounter and start thinking before you write or speak.

Donna M, Sherburne NY (Sent Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:36 AM)

OOOOOH

Keith Allentown PA, I'm scared!

Care to put it to the test?

Or can't you get the 240 pound colostomy bag on an airplane?

By the way, I think your vast intelligence omitted an "s" in your post. You might have noticed if your head wasn't so far up Bushie's butt.

Timmy, Milwaukee WI (Sent Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:25 PM)

You're right Wayne, to put hazard and guess in the same sentence.

Any guessing done by you is extremely hazardous.

It's a good thing breathing is involuntary. Right, Wayne?

Timmy, Milwaukee WI (Sent Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:27 PM)

Little Timmy

So that is all you have, that I forgot an s when typing a post. You are the one that threatened me behind your computer that you wanted to meet me in a dark alley. My simple response was I can hardly wait. This blog is getting more shrill by the day. Nothing but name calling and hateful rhetoric. I though the democratic party was a peace-loving party. They are, as long as you don't disagree with them.

Keith, Allentown PA (Sent Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:37 AM)

Jamie, Chula Vista, CA (Sent Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:45 PM)

I do wish you all the best on your trip.. I've only been to a couple of countries in Europe.. I hope you enjoy your stay there.. I don't know if you've been abroad before, but I loved my experience while there..

Brenda Deltona FL (Sent Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:19 PM)

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