GarMan & CCTAU May Have A Stroke

[AUChizad]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_en_tv/us_miss_usa

Arab-American from Michigan crowned 2010 Miss USA
AP


Rima Fakih, Kristen Dalton AP – Miss Michigan Rima Fakih, left, reacts as she is crowned Miss USA 2010 by Kristen Dalton, Miss USA 2009, …

By OSKAR GARCIA, Associated Press Writer Oskar Garcia, Associated Press Writer – Mon May 17, 1:42 pm ET

LAS VEGAS – Rima Fakih knew she had won the 2010 Miss USA title when she saw the look on Donald Trump's face: It was the same one she'd seen him flash at the winners of "The Apprentice."

The 24-year-old Lebanese immigrant — Miss Michigan USA to the judges — beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown.

She told reporters later that she believed she had won after glancing at pageant owner Trump as she awaited the results with the first runner-up, Miss Oklahoma USA Morgan Elizabeth Woolard.

"That's the same look that he gives them when he says, 'You're hired,'" on Trump's reality show, she said.

"She's a great girl," said Trump, who owns the pageant with NBC in a joint venture.

Fakih took top honors at the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold bikini, wearing a strapless white gown that resembled a wedding dress and saying health insurance should cover birth control pills.

Fakih was born into a powerful Shiite family in a village in southern Lebanon that was heavily bombed during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. But she and her sister said the family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths and prefer to be referred to as Lebanese, Arabs or Arab-Americans.

She moved to the United States with her family in 1993 and attended a Catholic school in New York. Her family moved to Michigan in 2003.

Her sister, Rana Faqih, who moved back to Lebanon a few months ago for a new job, said she spent the night exchanging messages with her father, Hussein, and another sister, Ruba, who were attending the competition.

"It was a beautiful surprise," she said from the family's native village of Srifa in southern Lebanon. "It was not easy for Rima to reach this title."

"We're very proud as Lebanese Americans and as Lebanese that Rima reached this point despite all the pressures and stereotyping about Arabs and Lebanese. She made it. She fought and reached her goal," her sister said.

Pageant officials said historical pageant records were not detailed enough to show whether Fakih was the first Arab-American, Muslim or immigrant to win the Miss USA title. The pageant started in 1952 as a local bathing suit competition in Long Beach, Calif.

Fakih told reporters she sold her car after graduating college in Michigan to help pay for her run in the Miss Michigan USA pageant.

In a moment that was replayed during the pageant's broadcast, Fakih nearly fell while finishing her walk in her gown because of the length of its train.

"I did it here, I better not do it at Miss Universe," she said. "Modeling does help, after all."

Fakih replaces Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton and won a spot representing the United States this summer in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant. She also gets a one-year lease in a New York apartment with living expenses, an undisclosed salary, and various health, professional and beauty services.

During the interview portion of the competition, Fakih was asked whether she thought birth control should be paid for by health insurance, and she said she believed it should because it's costly.

"I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance," Fakih said.

Woolard handled a question about Arizona's new immigration law. She said she supports the law, which requires police enforcing another law to verify a person's immigration status if there's "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally.

"I'm a huge believer in states' rights. I think that's what's so wonderful about America," Woolard said. "So I think it's perfectly fine for Arizona to create that law."

Miss Virginia USA Samantha Evelyn Casey was the second runner-up, Miss Colorado USA Jessica Hartman was third runner-up, and Miss Maine USA Katherine Ashley Whittier was the fourth runner-up.

Most of the field of contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia were eliminated just after the pageant began and the entire group danced onstage to "TiK ToK" by Ke$ha.

A panel of eight judges, including NBA star Carmelo Anthony, Treasure Island casino-hotel owner Phil Ruffin and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir, were judging the girls throughout the night.

After 15 contestants strutted in swimsuits, five were eliminated. Another five were eliminated after the evening gown competition.

Miss Nebraska USA Belinda Renee Wright won the Miss Congeniality award, roughly one week after her father was killed in a farm accident. Miss Alabama USA Audrey Moore won Miss Photogenic after an online fan vote.

The pageant aired live to East Coast viewers on NBC.

The competition, which is not affiliated with the Miss America pageant, was hosted by celebrity chef Curtis Stone and NBC correspondent Natalie Morales.

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http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/17/miss-usa-rima-fakih-stripping-contest-photos-emerge/?test=faces

http://mojo.channel955.com/pages/photos.html?feed=185661&article=7123180

[Tarheel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_en_tv/us_miss_usa

I would've thought that you'd have a stroke too...

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But she and her sister said the family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths and prefer to be referred to as Lebanese, Arabs or Arab-Americans.
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[Buzz Killington]

Rut Row

[Jumbo]

She's hott!

[JR4AU]

She's hott!

Yeah, and you can tell she's all about Muslims and Jihad!

[AUChizad]

Yeah, and you can tell she's all about Muslims and Jihad!

She could Jihad on my naughty bits.

[Townhallsavoy]

I wouldn't mind sticking my penis into her vagina. 

[JR4AU]

I wouldn't mind sticking my penis into her vagina. 

I like her lips for wrapping around mine.

[JR4AU]

Not bad!  Yessir...I'd hit it!

[GarMan]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_en_tv/us_miss_usa  

Sorry Pookie, I'm all for this!  I think it's great.  She's attractive.  She has a great body.  She's legal.  She can pole dance.  And, she's just as stupid as the previous winners.  I don't have any problem with this.  

Question: "Should birth control be paid for by health insurance."

Answer: "I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance."

 

[GH2001]

Just think - in most Arab countries, they'd probably execute her for this. Aint America a great place?

BTW - She's friggin HAWT!

[GarMan]

Just think - in most Arab countries, they'd probably execute her for this. Aint America a great place?

That could still happen.  I hope it doesn't, but you never know what these extemist nutjobs will do next. 

[CCTAU]

That could still happen.  I hope it doesn't, but you never know what these extemist nutjobs will do next. 

I thought about this also. She is a very attractive young lady. But is she really more qualified than the next girl? Or was the fact that she is part muslim the reason she was chosen? Was her answer about birth control more librul than agreeing with states' rights?

As with anything judged in this manner, it is all subjective. She is not ugly and she meets all of the criteria. But one still wonders if you had turned all of the sound off and just judged by actions and written answers, would she have won. Congrats to her. But not really such a big deal as to create a stroke. Now if she comes up with some Vanessa Williamsesque photos........

[Tiger Wench]

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Question: "Should birth control be paid for by health insurance."

Answer: "I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance."

Her point is that birth control pills should be OTC like other medications, and not a controlled substance, meaning you have to have a prescription to get them.  I kind of agree with this. 

[Tarheel]

That could still happen.  I hope it doesn't, but you never know what these extemist nutjobs will do next. 

I'm sure that you mean the ones who wanted to crucify a young, pale, white, blond, Christian girl from Southern California who disagreed with gay marriage. 

You're surely not referring to the followers of the religion of perpetual rage who would like to stone this girl for wearing a bathing suit in public instead of a burka.

[JR4AU]

QuoteHer point is that birth control pills should be OTC like other medications, and not a controlled substance, meaning you have to have a prescription to get them.  I kind of agree with this. 

Um, I think you need a Dr. to prescribe them only because they all have different amounts of hormones, and different types of hormones...you need a Dr. to get that part right...but they should be readily available.

[GarMan]

Her point is that birth control pills should be OTC like other medications, and not a controlled substance, meaning you have to have a prescription to get them.  I kind of agree with this. 

The question was... "Should birth control be paid for by health insurance."  Even if you agree with her position, she didn't respond to the question correctly. 

She's still hot.  I can't disagree, but Miss Oklahoma hit a homerun with her interview regarding state's rights.

[CCTAU]

The question was... "Should birth control be paid for by health insurance."  Even if you agree with her position, she didn't respond to the question correctly.  

She's still hot.  I can't disagree, but Miss Oklahoma hit a homerun with her interview regarding state's rights.

And she was hot too. Seems the one with the most librul answer always wins this pageant?

Which contestant got to answer the gay marriage question this year?

And while me and Garman are not having a stoke over this, many folks out there are wondering about the political correctness of this pageant.

Read the whole article. There are a lot of links.

Miss USA controversies storm the blogosphere

    


And you thought beauty queens' infighting was fierce. No pageant managed by The Donald would be complete without its own outbreak of culture war.

Last year, of course, there was Miss USA's great Carrie Prejean controversy — when the reigning Miss California upheld marriage as an exclusively heterosexual insitution after celebrity blogger Perez Hilton asked about gay matrimony. (That dustup was eventually overtaken by Prejean's own naughty-photo scandal, which Donald Trump himself eventually arbitrated.)

This week, Lebanese-American immigrant Rima Fakih of Michigan was crowned Miss USA — maybe the first contestant of Arab or Muslim background to win, though the pageant's records are incomplete.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2099

[wesfau2]

many folks out there are wondering about the political correctness of this pageant.

Say this over and over in your head and contemplate the ridiculousness of it.