An Alternate Viewpoint On Miss S.C.

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Okay here’s an intellectual challenge for you. Everyone in the blogosphere, television, and radio jumped — no, leaped — no, sprinted full speed and dived headlong — onto the bandwagon of calling that South Carolina teen pageant contestant all kinds of stupid for her awkward answer to what should have been a straightforward question.

I submit to you (yes, YOU) that, in a society that encourages people to B.S. their way to the top and rewards people for who they know rather than what they know, she should have been applauded for delivering a verbose answer filled with buzzwords that meant absolutely nothing, all in a high-pressure situation, when she clearly did not have a real answer. How many times have you seen a manager or salesman doing the same thing, and get paid top dollar for doing it? I predict she will go far in American business and/or politics. (And by the way, she ended up in fourth place out of, I presume, 50 contestants.)

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