Miss USA gets Blowback
Its common knowledge that the Miss Universe pageant is just a vanity contest. Does anybody take it seriously? Can you learn something from watching a bunch of hot chicks parading around in evening dresses and bikinis?
On any given night no. They’re hot and that’s the only reason anyone watches it right? However, this year’s contest was held in Mexico, and the American public got an insight into the workings of Blowback.
Ron Paul talked about the CIA established concept in the Republican Debate. Unfortunately his explanation fell on deaf ears after the opportunist pig Giuliani decided that he’d play his 9/11 victim card another time and made a false allegation that Ron claimed the American people were at fault.
So what did happen at the pageant? Simply put the Mexican hosts booed and jeered the Miss USA contestant. Enough to warrant fear amongst the organisers that a riot could occur. She wasn’t representing her politics, immigration laws or resentment. She was simply there to participate in a pageant. However, the events that transpired in Mexico were the result of a growing sentiment of spite for the American people in general; as Nicolas Corte, a college student so aptly put it: “This was about immigration and so many things. She represented the United States and many people are thinking negative things about the country right now.”
The economic climate of Mexico is sparse, and there is increasing frustration over difficulties in immigration, getting children accepted into American schools, acquiring a visa for a job and the American public’s insensitivity towards the use of the derogatory term gringo. All this has contributed to an escalating anti-american sentimentality that resulted in Miss USA inadvertently becoming the subject of taunting, jeering and booing at Mexico.
If the American immigration policy is already causing enough anti-American sentimentality to create an uproar and anger a crowd watching a beauty pageant, then we seriously need to reconsider our foreign policy. You know, the one that got us into a war. And I’m sorry but “they hate us because of our freedoms” just doesn’t cut it for me anymore.
– via nytimes.com
