Orienting the Map Answer

Mark Evanier, word-smith extraordinaire, asks that we put things in perspective:

By now, you've probably seen the video of Miss Teen South Carolina giving a pretty clumsy answer to a question in a beauty contest. Matter of fact, I don't know how you could have avoided it.

We have a guy in the White House sending men and women off to war who gives equally incoherent answers to questions... but somehow, this eighteen year old woman who has no responsibility for anything (and no real job except to just look cute) gives a lunkheaded reply and it's Front Page News.

And since the pollsters are including non-candidates like Fred Thompson in their GOP presidential polls, maybe they should see how Miss Teen South Carolina fares against Rudy, Mitt and John.

After all she is a Republican three-fer: White, Southern and Simple.