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Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti
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That literally made my head hurt watching it.
My response, were I a buxom blonde teen instead of a brown-haired 27 year-old man, would have been "If they knew where it was, they wouldn't need a map, would they?" It would have made more sense and and the side benefit of lampooning the original question.
While this person is dim, the fault also lies with the whole beauty pageant ethos. They play a game of let's pretend this isn't all teeth and tits by asking pageant contestants about current affairs. While some of them may be intelligent, they don't get where they are in these things through brains and native talent. They get where they are by being photogenic while they preen and sashay. Why stop at asking them about the Iraq War or why Americans can't find their own country on a map?
Why not ask them about how to best secure continued American influence over the former Soviet states in Central Asia, whether confidence in the dollar will survive if the euro reaches a $1.70 per one euro exchange rate, or whether debt forgiveness for Africa cynically ignores the debt-trap facing African nations? Every aspect of this is equally absurd: the answer
and the question.