The winner of the Miss USA pageant is usually talked about on the evening news shows, but on NBC tonight Lester Holt didn't mention her but had a segment about a young Black man going to Oxford, which is great. But it looks like Miss USA has already become a non-person.

The only reservation I have about her is that she worked for the NRC.

Most people there are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, bless their hearts.

Yeah well, Trump owned this pageant and that's why she won. Idiots will say the same when she wins Miss Universe. It's this and Russians, ya know.

http://www.washingtontimes.com...s-tune-calls-health/

Miss USA changes tune, calls health care ‘a right’

Well, that didn’t last long, did it? Social media had been afire with news of the newest Miss USA, black Washington, D.C., representative Kara McCullough, and her conservative viewpoints — most particularly, the one that went like this: Health care is not a right, but rather a privilege.

Fast-forward a few short hours and her mantra now goes: Oops. My bad. I meant health care is indeed a right.

That’s head-spinningly fast.

“I would like to just take this moment to truly clarify because I am a woman, I’m going to own what I said. I am privileged to have health care,” McCullough said Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “And I do believe that it should be a right, and I hope and pray moving forward that health care is a right for all worldwide.”

That’s not the song she had been singing, though.
When asked during the question-answer portion of the beauty competition whether she thought health care was a right or privilege for Americans, McCullough said this: “I’m definitely going to say it’s a privilege. As a government employee, I’m granted health care. And I see firsthand that for one, to have health care, you need to have jobs, so therefore we need to continue to cultivate this environment so that we’re given the opportunities to have health care as well as jobs for all Americans worldwide.”

Sigh. That was a short-lived moment for the right, wasn’t it?

McCullough, not only black, not only from one of the most liberal cities in the nation, nay, world, but also a conservative who parted ways with the key ingredient in Obamacare passage — the message that health insurance was a right, not individual responsibility?

Brains, beauty and conservative values and principles, all while defying the stereotypes of the Democratic voter. It seemed too good to be true.

Guess it was.

Well that sucks.

Sell out.

Well there goes the White House invite. Lol

Wow. She went from hero to zero in nothing flat.

Well, I hate to say it, but...

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Originally posted by stoic-one:
Well, I hate to say it, but...

Well, you're fine, because you didn't say anything at all.

See? Unprincipled therefore malleable.

Hey, I'm on Fox News, now. It's a privilege. I stand behind what I said.

McCullough, a 25-year-old nuclear chemist, told Ainsley Earhardt this morning that she's not backing down from her statements, despite the social media backlash.

"I stand behind what I said," McCullough said.

She said she's "extremely grateful" to be an American and for everything that she's been granted.

"It's definitely a good aspect to have affordable health care for people," McCullough said. "But I definitely am not taking my health care for granted. And that's why I said it's a privilege."

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Originally posted by 12131:
Hey, I'm on Fox News, now. It's a privilege. I stand behind what I said.

McCullough, a 25-year-old nuclear chemist, told Ainsley Earhardt this morning that she's not backing down from her statements, despite the social media backlash.

"I stand behind what I said," McCullough said.

She said she's "extremely grateful" to be an American and for everything that she's been granted.

"It's definitely a good aspect to have affordable health care for people," McCullough said. "But I definitely am not taking my health care for granted. And that's why I said it's a privilege."

LOL. Just a tad bit confused.

It's a privilege to have the right to have healthcare, that's exactly what I meant!

Also, I didn't not say that I didn't not like feminists, what I meant was that I don't not not like them and I fully stand behind my statements!

Way too much attention and focus on the opinions of a woman who just won an award based on her looks. I for one don't care if she thinks the earth is flat and little green men from Mars will arrive shortly to handle all our healthcare needs. This woman, not unlike her opinions, is irrelevant.

^^^ She should have told the questioner "This is a beauty pageant. Mind your own GD business."

Seriously, asking political questions at a beauty pageant as asinine. How could anyone have answered the healthcare question without incurring the twitter wrath of half the nation? I guess pageant contestants need to learn the politician's trick of "don't answer the question that was asked, answer the question you wish had been asked."

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Way too much attention and focus on the opinions of a woman who just won an award based on her look.

If based on looks there were many much more qualified than she!

Playing the race card was a factor to appease the liberal masses........