Tara Conner (right), the 20-year-old Kentuckian who became Miss USA, is about to get the boot because she came to New York and went wild, drinking in bars and having a grand old time in the Big Apple.
We're trying to grasp the hypocrisy of this. It's OK for the young girl to put on a skimpy bikini and strut sex appeal all over the stage but God forbid that she go out on the town and have a little fun.
This gets even funnier when you realize the Miss USA franchise is owned by New York real estate speculator Donald Trump, who has all the moral virtue of a junkyard dog.
Trump has scheduled a press conference Tuesday to announce Conner's fate but news organizations are already reporting that Miss USA officials have called runner-up Tamiko Nash, Miss California, and told her to get ready to take over the crown.
Beauty pageants are, by nature, exercises in hyprocrisy, promoting manufactured sex appeal for television audiences. Firing a beauty queen because she made a human mistake only carries that hyprocrisy to new heights. In an era when pro sports figures get multiple chances for drug abuse or breaking the law, it is ridiculous to fire a 20-year-old kid for acting like one.
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