The Miss U.S.A. Pageant, Now with a New Set of Political Undertones

By Avi Zenilman, in Vanity Fair Daily

The two finalists at last night’s Miss U.S.A. competition opened up a whole new set of avenues for empty political chatter.

Miss Oklahoma, Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, is for the Arizona immigration law. She really likes “states’ rights,” but she is against racial profiling.

On the other hand, Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih, is a Muslim. She won the whole event. According to Daniel Pipes, a former Giuliani adviser, her victory is a sign of affirmative action—the bad kind of racial profiling?—run amok. (Or maybe it’s a sign that you shouldn’t tout states’ rights once you’ve already won the right to represent your state.)

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