I hadn’t really planned to write about the new Miss USA, who’s the first woman of Arab descent to win that pageant title (or any, as far as I know…?), because I don’t really care about who wins a beauty pageant. (She’s also pro-contraception, which I think is awesome.) But apparently some folks are a little freaked out that Miss USA, who was born in Lebanon and now lives in Dearborn, Michigan, is a Muslim.
Because Muslims aren’t American, or something? Rima Fakih’s win is “affirmative action”? Oh, right, because bottle blond faux-tanned girls with implants are what’s normal in this country, dammit. What exactly is the problem? Does someone out there honestly believe the former Miss Michigan managed to cram a dirty bomb down her thong, imperiling the national treasure that is Donald Trump's rug?
Let me throw it to my conservative friend Mayor Jimmy, who had this to say in an e-mail (PROFANITY ALERT; cover your children’s ears):
“Dear Michelle Malkin and other currently foaming at the mouth right wingers.... WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT.
OK so lemme get this straight.... you all complain LOUDLY about how Mexicans refuse to adapt to our ways. they don't speak English or anything. so now here comes a hot Arab chick who speaks English, went to CATHOLIC SCHOOL even and has adapted to western culture to the point of she won a pole dancing contest and now you guys complain?!?!?!?
look, i'll admit she doesn't appear to be the brightest card in the deck and i'll even admit i think miss Oklahoma got torpedoed with the immigration question. none of this is deserving of the whack job shit you guys are spewing forth. just when you guys started making real progress to make yourselves appear to be more than just a bunch of racist jerk offs you go and pull this shit. you do realize this does absolutely NOTHING to help you right? not even FOX NEWS is going to go on and say ‘they might be right, she might be a terrorist plant.’”
Does it seem that non-white, non-Christian, maybe-not-born-here Americans can’t do anything to please the people who’ve appointed themselves the judges of who does and doesn’t have legitimacy in this country? And yes, his honor the mayor is right that, after the WTF-ness of Arizona’s new laws and the election year tradition of some double-negative-spewing candidate proposing we make English the official language, conservatives really could use a break from communicating that they are and always will be suspicious of anyone who doesn’t look like John Roberts.
While we’re on the subject… for the second year in a row, the Miss USA pageant has turned into the center of some cultural/political storm, complete with a runner-up who suspects she lost because she gave a right-wing answer to a question most candidates for public office couldn’t answer gracefully (remember Carrie Prejean?). I can’t decide if this is good or bad for our national conversation.
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