| Subject: i copy/pasted this from the national board...maybe, just maybe, opinions are beginning to change and the MAO can once again be the icon it was |
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Date Posted: 14:59:04 02/06/10 Sat
Excerpt from Rush's radio show about the Miss America Pageant
CALLER: Rush, I wanted to tell you. I have not watched the Miss America contest in 30 years. I grew up watching it with my sister, I loved it, and this year watched it only because you were going to be a judge. I watched with my husband and my 11-year-old daughter. We had the best time. My daughter now wants to be Miss America, and I was able to be the nagging mother and say, "You need to study hard and practice your piano." What a joy, and the women were all lovely, and Caressa was just poised and beautiful and so well spoken. I was so proud. So thank you so much.
RUSH: That's great. You know, I don't want to get cheesy about this, but we talk about cultural rot on this program a lot. I don't mean to be mean here, but Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian? These are not the kind of role models that you would want your little girl to look up to but unfortunately that's who they are. Everybody is doing Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and all these things because everybody wants to be famous. Everybody's vomiting everything about themselves trying to become a media star.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: It's just shallow as it can be, and these women were not shallow. They had all worked really hard for this. Some of them were better than others, but nobody's the same. Caressa was a standout, there's no question, but there were many others. Miss California was great. Miss Indiana was a fabulous speaker. She gave Caressa a run for her money, but I'm glad that you had that take from it because not too long ago these were the kinds of women who were role models, then feminism got involved and these kind of women became targets for ridicule.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Really, they don't deserve to be targets of ridicule. They deserve to be examples of pursuing excellence and trying to be the best. Like Robin Leach asked me in the press conference which was held on Wednesday afternoon: "Will America be in good hands with one of these women?" I said, "I am so glad you asked that question, because -- undoubtedly, without one moment of hesitation -- I say that," and I went into what I just explained to you. By the way, this is not a desire to turn the clock back, 'cause I know you can't do that. This is not me being an old fuddy-duddy. It's just I was astounded by not -- and not just the contestants. Everybody in the Miss America Organization. They're some of the finest people that I've ever known. Any charitable organization could not do wrong to emulate the way these people go about doing their business, and they are a charitable organization: $49 million in scholarships for women they grant over the course of the year toward women's education opportunities. Everything about it is just wholesome and decent and good. This is what you want your culture and society to be.
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