from The Huffington Post, but it's brief enough so read it anyway
Ho Chi Mihn, is he rolling around in his grave?
To add final insult to injury, the winner was Miss Venezuela. Damn that Hugo Chavez!
Hard to believe, harder to accept that 58000+ American men died for this? ah, shit. And those Boat People, couldn't they have shown a little more patience?
On the brighter side, but not in my lifetime, can we expect to see one of these in say, Tehran or Ridyah or Gaza City or Mogadishu or Kabul or...well, you get the picture.
Yep, there's just no ISM as powerful as capitalism.
Miss Universe in Vietnam -- Isn't That Wild? Posted July 13, 2008 | 11:14 PM (EST)
Anybody who was alive and sentient during the Vietnam War had to do at least one double-take during Sunday night's NBC telecast of the Miss Universe Pageant. For one thing, the show originated live from Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon. The last time I think a prime time NBC show originated anywhere in Vietnam, it was a Bob Hope special, he was entertaining the troops on some base -- Da Nang, Cam Ranh Bay? -- asking them "how 'bout that Raquel Welch, isn't she wild?" -- and it certainly wasn't live.
Nor was it hosted, as Sunday night's program was, by Jerry Springer and Mel B (Scary Spice). Nor was it co-sponsored by ritzy golf resorts in Vietnam, nor executive-produced by none other than (Miss Universe Pageant owner) Donald Trump).
This must have been what John McCain and John Kerry had in mind when they advocated normalized relations with the former enemy. This, in 2008, is what passes for normal: a glitzy beauty pageant at a clone of a Florida resort hotel, staged at 8 a.m. local time for the benefit of prime time half a world away.
And this is what we're fighting for in Iraq right now, the ability for Donald Trump Jr. to stage a Miss Universe evening in Basra in 2042. Go for it, dude.
The pageant was not in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). It was in Nha Trang. The location of an event is such an easy thing to check...which makes this mistake so egregious. Just goes to show how facts are overlooked by our liberal friends. But I didn't need to tell you that!
i tell ya. personally, i think some of those secularized Arab women are severely underrated as purient interest material, but that's another post for another day and another board
perhaps Trump Jr. will introduce a suicide bomber belt competition for the Moslem ladies, but if the broader point being made comes to pass, that's going to be totally superfluous.
which suddenly makes me think of a possible future post : the Miss Jihad competition. stay tuned, that one's going to have to gestate for quite some time
[and you know these damn foreign pinko socialist commie godless secularist appeaser judges always vote against the Miss USA entry out of pure spite. Even when she's an African-American and doesn't trip over her own feet, it's a lost cause]
anyway, again, not in my lifetime. but your sons [?] and grandsons [?] may have something to look forward.
in all seriousness, WII was a case where the USA won the war and lost the peace [at least until 1989-91], while in Vietnam we definitely lost the war but eventually won the peace. or so it seems.
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