The American who lost out to Miss Hezbollah in the Miss USA contest

Here is Miss Oklahoma, with a figure like Helen of Troy, answering a question about the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law. With a minimum of words, she hits it out of the park: “I’m a huge believer in states’ rights, I think that’s what’s so wonderful about America.”

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Sage McLaughlin writes:

It’s pretty hard for me to feel much fellowship with America anymore. Not only is “Miss USA” a “Miss Fakih,” it turns out she’s a “Stripper 101” contestant.

Honestly, Larry, I’m at a point where I’m just deeply alienated. Simply withdrawing seems like the only honorable thing to do.

Hannon writes:

I had heard the quote from Miss Oklahoma about states’ rights and wanted to check out her website. It is the first time I have ever got back the message “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.”

Somehow states’ rights really unnerves liberals. I’ve had this peculiar experience and I wonder what could possibly be on their minds.

LA replies:

Well, they think, or they tell themselves, that states’ rights means a return to Jim Crow and segregation, because that’s what the term is most associated with. But of course states’ rights simply means states’ rights—the proper sphere of states’ authority over their own affairs that has been massively impinged upon over the last century.

Gintas writes:

Sage said: “Honestly, Larry, I’m at a point where I’m just deeply alienated. Simply withdrawing seems like the only honorable thing to do.”

The times where I am like that come more frequently now, and they last longer. We are living under an occupation.

On the other hand, the good news is that those whom God would destroy he first makes crazy, so their doom is foreordained.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 18, 2010 12:36 AM | Send