Miss USA Treatment - Michelle Malkin
Doing the booing Americans won't do
By Michelle Malkin ? May 30, 2007 09:35 AM
Beauty and the buffoons
Here's my syndicated column this week--following up on my post yesterday on the disgraceful treatment of Miss USA in Mexico. I take special note of how stupidly passive Miss USA's fellow Americans were as the crowd of hecklers and booers disrupted her interview on Monday night.
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The United States government is on the verge of approving a mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens - a plan pushed aggressively by meddling Mexican officials who reap billions of dollars in remittances (illegal aliens' earnings sent back to Mexico) without having to lift a finger to clean up their own country.
And the thanks we get? Internationally televised public humiliation.
On Monday night, the beautiful young woman who represented America in the Miss Universe pageant was booed and mocked as she competed on stage in Mexico City. Rachel Smith, 22, did her best to respond with grace and dignity during the Top Five finalists' interview segment as the audience disrupted the event.
Definitely not this one.
Smith soldiered through her answer, describing an educational trip to South Africa. Catcalls and whistles nearly drowned out Smith's reply until she wrapped up with "Buenos noches, Mexico."
I wouldn't have been so polite.
None of Miss USA's fellow Americans participating in the interview segment - neither Minnillo, nor macho co-host Mario Lopez, nor the dashing judge Tony Romo - came to Smith's defense. Instead, Minnillo pleaded briefly with the unruly mob: "Okay, una momento, por favor ." Lopez stood mute with a dumb grin on his dimpled face. Pathetic.
In fact, Smith was subjected to anti-American hatred throughout the week-long event. Last week, during the contestants' national costume fashion show, Smith smiled bravely as a rowdy outdoor crowd hissed and booed at her. According to pageant observers, no other contestants received such treatment.
Pitifully, Donald Trump and his Miss Universe officials are downplaying Smith's experience - ignoring the fact that the last time the pageant was held in Mexico, Miss USA was abused in similar fashion. 1993 Miss USA Kenya Moore was infamously heckled when chosen for the semi-finals that year.
Just a tiny minority of America-haters, right? How quickly we forget.
Do you remember what happened in Guadalajara in 2004 during an Olympics qualification soccer match between the U.S. and Mexico? The stadium erupted in boos during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Fans yelled "Osama! Osama!" as the U.S. was eliminated by Mexico.
The following year, in March 2005, Mexican soccer fans again cheered the al Qaeda mastermind's name at a World Cup qualifier. ESPN reported the audience again booed and whistled during the U.S. national anthem, and plastic bags filled with urine were reportedly tossed on American players.
One Mexican fan told the Christian Science Monitor: "'Every schoolboy knows about 1848. . . . When they robbed our territory,' referring to when Texas, California and New Mexico were annexed to the U.S. as part of a peace treaty ending the war between the two countries, 'that was the beginning.'"
This bitterness is long-standing, deep-seated and stoked by top Mexican government officials and elites. But pointing this reality out in the context of our crucial national debate over sovereignty, immigration, assimilation, border security and the rule of law will get you labeled a bigot. Our leaders have concluded that it is better to pander, hide, pull out a friendly Spanish phrase like Minnillo did, and pray that the hatred will go away by giving the pro-amnesty lobby its legislative goodie-bag.
Meanwhile, as Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald points out, the White House continues to attack opponents of the Bush-Kennedy amnesty package as "nativists." Conservative columnist Linda Chavez accused amnesty critics of "not liking Mexicans." Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested enforcement advocates wanted to "execute" illegal aliens. And Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham trashed immigration enforcement proponents as "bigots" in front of the ethnocentric, open-borders group La Raza.
Yeah, we're the nativists.
Next, they'll tell us the mob at the Miss Universe pageant was simply "doing the booing Americans won't do."
Will President Bush speak out against the treatment Miss USA received in Mexico? Will any amnesty peddler in Washington? Imagine if Miss Mexico were booed, heckled and subjected to chants of "USA, USA" if the pageant had been held here.
Smith can hold her head up high. Those who are selling out our country, on the other hand, should hang their heads in shame.
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Here's a lovely message of support for Smith from her hometown newspaper in Clarksville, Tennessee:
The Clarksville-Montgomery County community is extremely proud of Miss USA, Rachel Smith of Sango, who finished fourth runner-up in the Miss Universe competition in Mexico City.
Smith, 22, showed a tremendous amount of poise and determination throughout the competition - including in the moments after she accidentally fell during the evening gown portion and then as some in the audience heckled her during the question and answer segment.
The booing was especially disrespectful, and it was disgraceful that the pageant didn't try to get the crowd under control before the question was asked.
This should have been a dignified pageant, after all, not a rowdy international soccer match.
Exactly. If you want to send a message of support for Miss Smith and a message of protest to the Miss Universe pageant for its lousy handling of the abusive Mexico City crowd, here's the contact info:
The Miss Universe Organization
1370 Avenue of the Americas
16th Floor
New York, NY 10019
212.373.4999
MissUPR@missuniverse.com
By Michelle Malkin ? May 30, 2007 09:35 AM
Beauty and the buffoons
Here's my syndicated column this week--following up on my post yesterday on the disgraceful treatment of Miss USA in Mexico. I take special note of how stupidly passive Miss USA's fellow Americans were as the crowd of hecklers and booers disrupted her interview on Monday night.
***
The United States government is on the verge of approving a mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens - a plan pushed aggressively by meddling Mexican officials who reap billions of dollars in remittances (illegal aliens' earnings sent back to Mexico) without having to lift a finger to clean up their own country.
And the thanks we get? Internationally televised public humiliation.
On Monday night, the beautiful young woman who represented America in the Miss Universe pageant was booed and mocked as she competed on stage in Mexico City. Rachel Smith, 22, did her best to respond with grace and dignity during the Top Five finalists' interview segment as the audience disrupted the event.
Definitely not this one.
Smith soldiered through her answer, describing an educational trip to South Africa. Catcalls and whistles nearly drowned out Smith's reply until she wrapped up with "Buenos noches, Mexico."
I wouldn't have been so polite.
None of Miss USA's fellow Americans participating in the interview segment - neither Minnillo, nor macho co-host Mario Lopez, nor the dashing judge Tony Romo - came to Smith's defense. Instead, Minnillo pleaded briefly with the unruly mob: "Okay, una momento, por favor ." Lopez stood mute with a dumb grin on his dimpled face. Pathetic.
In fact, Smith was subjected to anti-American hatred throughout the week-long event. Last week, during the contestants' national costume fashion show, Smith smiled bravely as a rowdy outdoor crowd hissed and booed at her. According to pageant observers, no other contestants received such treatment.
Pitifully, Donald Trump and his Miss Universe officials are downplaying Smith's experience - ignoring the fact that the last time the pageant was held in Mexico, Miss USA was abused in similar fashion. 1993 Miss USA Kenya Moore was infamously heckled when chosen for the semi-finals that year.
Just a tiny minority of America-haters, right? How quickly we forget.
Do you remember what happened in Guadalajara in 2004 during an Olympics qualification soccer match between the U.S. and Mexico? The stadium erupted in boos during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Fans yelled "Osama! Osama!" as the U.S. was eliminated by Mexico.
The following year, in March 2005, Mexican soccer fans again cheered the al Qaeda mastermind's name at a World Cup qualifier. ESPN reported the audience again booed and whistled during the U.S. national anthem, and plastic bags filled with urine were reportedly tossed on American players.
One Mexican fan told the Christian Science Monitor: "'Every schoolboy knows about 1848. . . . When they robbed our territory,' referring to when Texas, California and New Mexico were annexed to the U.S. as part of a peace treaty ending the war between the two countries, 'that was the beginning.'"
This bitterness is long-standing, deep-seated and stoked by top Mexican government officials and elites. But pointing this reality out in the context of our crucial national debate over sovereignty, immigration, assimilation, border security and the rule of law will get you labeled a bigot. Our leaders have concluded that it is better to pander, hide, pull out a friendly Spanish phrase like Minnillo did, and pray that the hatred will go away by giving the pro-amnesty lobby its legislative goodie-bag.
Meanwhile, as Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald points out, the White House continues to attack opponents of the Bush-Kennedy amnesty package as "nativists." Conservative columnist Linda Chavez accused amnesty critics of "not liking Mexicans." Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested enforcement advocates wanted to "execute" illegal aliens. And Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham trashed immigration enforcement proponents as "bigots" in front of the ethnocentric, open-borders group La Raza.
Yeah, we're the nativists.
Next, they'll tell us the mob at the Miss Universe pageant was simply "doing the booing Americans won't do."
Will President Bush speak out against the treatment Miss USA received in Mexico? Will any amnesty peddler in Washington? Imagine if Miss Mexico were booed, heckled and subjected to chants of "USA, USA" if the pageant had been held here.
Smith can hold her head up high. Those who are selling out our country, on the other hand, should hang their heads in shame.
***
Here's a lovely message of support for Smith from her hometown newspaper in Clarksville, Tennessee:
The Clarksville-Montgomery County community is extremely proud of Miss USA, Rachel Smith of Sango, who finished fourth runner-up in the Miss Universe competition in Mexico City.
Smith, 22, showed a tremendous amount of poise and determination throughout the competition - including in the moments after she accidentally fell during the evening gown portion and then as some in the audience heckled her during the question and answer segment.
The booing was especially disrespectful, and it was disgraceful that the pageant didn't try to get the crowd under control before the question was asked.
This should have been a dignified pageant, after all, not a rowdy international soccer match.
Exactly. If you want to send a message of support for Miss Smith and a message of protest to the Miss Universe pageant for its lousy handling of the abusive Mexico City crowd, here's the contact info:
The Miss Universe Organization
1370 Avenue of the Americas
16th Floor
New York, NY 10019
212.373.4999
MissUPR@missuniverse.com
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You hate me cuz you aint me.[;)] 0 -
America is going to be great with 100 million hispanics 
Schools will be top notch, traffic will flow like the salmon of capristrano, crime and corruption in government will be non-existent, teenagers wont get pregnant anymore....life will be peachy
Thank you George Bush and Congress0 -
"salmon of capistrona" ---- butterflys of capistrona, i belive..anyway, have to admit ,,can't wait for the mexicans to take over.... thinking about living in mexico, kind of turn the tables..nambu 0 -
Forget the Middle East, lets go to war with Mexico. 0 -
Outragous! I believe that we should start a boycott of all Mexican petroleum in order to show them that we mean business. Paying $5 for a gallon of gasoline will be a small price to pay to avenge the honor of Miss USA because even the clumbsy should have dignity! 0 -
Appoint Miss USA ambassador to Mexico.[}:)] 0 -
Imagine people who'd laugh or make fun of someone who simply tripped or stumbled? I'll bet that if the Mexican's had a President like Ford, who seemed to trip and fall quite a bit, they'd have the nerve to make fun of him on a TV show like Saturday Night Live. Thank God that we live in a country where something like that could never happen. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by kristov
Imagine people who'd laugh or make fun of someone who simply tripped or stumbled? I'll bet that if the Mexican's had a President like Ford, who seemed to trip and fall quite a bit, they'd have the nerve to make fun of him on a TV show like Saturday Night Live. Thank God that we live in a country where something like that could never happen.
K,
I get the feeling you don't like the USA, I'm beginning to believe the country will be better off when you move to Italy.0 -
quote:Originally posted by dongizmo
quote:Originally posted by kristov
Imagine people who'd laugh or make fun of someone who simply tripped or stumbled? I'll bet that if the Mexican's had a President like Ford, who seemed to trip and fall quite a bit, they'd have the nerve to make fun of him on a TV show like Saturday Night Live. Thank God that we live in a country where something like that could never happen.
K,
I get the feeling you don't like the USA, I'm beginning to believe the country will be better off when you move to Italy.
Give him a break,you can't live here in Ca.with out some of it sticking to ya.He'll be fine after he leaves.0
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