South Carolina just can’t win for losing when it comes to beauty pageants …
In 2007, our state achieved national infamy when its entry in the Miss Teen USA pageant, Caitlin Upton, offered a borderline retarded response to a question about why so many Americans couldn’t locate their own country on a map.
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future,” the Lexington, S.C. resident said.
Exactly …
Fast forward to this weekend, when Brooke Mosteller – daughter of longtime “Republican” activist Cyndi Mosteller – introduced herself to the nation by citing the Palmetto State’s abnormally large mobile home population as a source of pride.
“I’m from the state where twenty percent of our homes are mobile because that’s how we roll,” Mosteller said.
Wow …
Actually (surprise) Mosteller’s math is off. According to the latest data, 17.9 percent of South Carolina homes are of the mobile variety – the highest percentage in the nation. South Carolina is also home to a trailer park-themed reality television show – TLC’s “Myrtle Manor.”
What do you think of Mosteller’s comment? Vote in our poll and post your thoughts in our comments section below …
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At least we’re not home to Honey Boo Boo.
Bill Walsh, the weather dude from channel 5 here in Charleston actually journeyed with a “news” crew to McIntyre, GA to do a report about the Honey Boo-Boo show
I couldn’t help myself when I uploaded this spoof…
http://2big2fall.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/bill-walsh-interviews-honey-boo-boo/
Damn! I laughed so hard I’ve got the hiccups!
Thanks, Henry. Best way to get rid of those hiccups is to breathe into a paper bag. Add a little model airplane glue if the problem persists.
Brooke is so smart and sophisticated. I couldn’t believe she would say that. I’m sure she was prodded by pageant producers, but I would have expected her to say she wasn’t comfortable with that for her intro — and I would think each girl would come to the pageant with some ideas on what they wanted to say in that segment. And, the absolute irony is that Brooke lives in one of the biggest, most extravagent homes in our state — long way from a trailer.
Yup her family has made a lot of money off taxpayers …
If she’s so smart and sophisticated, why is she wasting her time being in beauty pageants. Also, for all the money mom and dad pay for the gowns and such, is there not some sort of a media coach for her? That poor girl will forever be remembered for that!
I doubt she’ll be remembered forever for anything, and considering that this state has claimed such characters as Preston Brooks, who most people have forgotten, this little contretemps will fade the minute another lovelorn SC politician takes the mic and confesses his sins.
I’m scratching my head trying to figure out why “beauty pageants” survived into the 21st Century.
Well with county sheriffs donating their budget to keep them…skim…
Tradition. And people make money from them. Why do you think the borderline pedophilic events known as child beauty pageants still exist?
I wonder if that ever crosses the parent(s)’ mind at child beauty pageants, just who could be lurking in the audience. Or worse, amongst the judges.
I think they’re just so wrapped up in living vicariously through their children that they’re blind to what it really looks like.
That’s why I don’t watch that Honey BooBoo shit. Never watched a single episode, and God help me I’ve seen almost all Myrtle Manors. The JonBennet Ramsey case should have been the death knell of child pageants. Now they’re celebrated, even as people watch to laugh at them. Sick.
Bill Walsh, the weather dude from channel 5 here in Charleston actually journeyed with a “news” crew to McIntyre, GA to do a report about the Honey Boo-Boo phenom. What a gas that was.
I couldn’t help myself when I uploaded this spoof…
http://2big2fall.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/bill-walsh-interviews-honey-boo-boo/
Don’t you be have a right to be entertained?
I don’t watch none of that so-called reality shit.
I’m more pissed about FOX taking off the “SPEED” channel. That was the only channel that offered more than a token of motorcycle related films/races not to mention roadracing (both two & 4 wheel)
Fucking programming “suits” – I could do a better job fer sure!!!
Damn FOX is going to own the media world one day!!!
Amen to that! Fox sux, and they took away the Speed Channel! I loved Speed! They are trying to become ESPN only they are so dang biased, you cant believe anything on Fox! And have you noticed how many times their stories are incorrect???? And sports doesn’t even exist in their world, only what they want you to know!
Oh, you should watch the South Park episode on child beauty pageants……
Yep and if there is one thing this state has plenty of it’s “Tradition”
That’s why South Carolina is 45th-49th place in just about every category EXCEPT more occupants in “trailers”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agyEAhwrVUU
Barak Obama and democrats are responsible for the ignorance / stupidity of this young lady.
Jethro,
Quit yer gabbin’ and go clean out the cement pond!
Maybe for her public high skule, tho her mammy and kinfolk bin big in the GOP for how long FITS?
an Wil, wherz that bukakke framez from her photo booth that Harpo promised?
Her mother’s brother is state Senator Chip Campsen, notoriously grumpy guy who actually does a pretty good job in the senate. It helps that he doesn’t have to make his money off of making connections with other senators and being a vendor to contractors who have state contracts.
Is that last statement sarcasm?
She has much better teeth than her mom. Apparently not a lunatic either, unlike her bat-shit crazy mom.
Pageants are ridiculous. I don’t understand what is wrong with people who spend their time and money competing in these. What do you expect? I am horrified that she said that, but nobody who matters takes this crap seriously anyways.
*Sigh*
Keep voting for the ((R)(etarted)) keep getting more mobile homes!!
I’m confused, I thought Republicans were all rich people? At least that’s what all the Section 8 dwellers tell me. So I guess our future depends on the choice of voting in Mobile Home owners or Section 8/Housing Project renters.
This is about as bad as Will Folks giving lines to Nancy Mace so she doesn’t have to do live interviews with reporters (with a similar outcome).
That introduction portrayed her as a spoiled young woman who can’t relate to the poor-to-middle class residents of South Carolina. Living in a mobile home is not a joke. The 17.9% who live in mobile homes are doing their best to keep a roof over their family’s head. That intro was 100% embarrassing and degrading.
Yea, but she’s got nice legs:
http://www.gwinndavisphotos.com/Pageants/Miss-South-Carolina-Pageant/30529470_j8KHtH/2635822304_VhwzH27#!i=2635822304&k=VhwzH27&lb=1&s=X3
nice legs? gross my mule. you need glasses. my only question is: does she swallow? she seems to be a moron like her mother
and a butter face.
http://www.furmanpaladins.com/sports/w-tennis/mtt/mosteller_brooke00.html
Lovely face and killer eyes – I’ll buy her six beers…..
Henry, remember what I told you about mentally ill women???? Be careful lol! Yes, it’s a beautiful day in South Carolina where we are known on national TV as the Number One Trailer Park in the nation!
Why does she have purple bruises on her knees and ankles?
She was making fun of people who live in trailers. She should save that joke for the gals at the debutant parties.
Beauty queens don’t go to deb parties in Charleston. At least not to the Saint Cecilia.
Did you happen to be aware of all of the effort she put into her project to help kids who were first generation college bound to be able to go to college? Not spoiled, just human!
Living in a mobile home is not a joke, but neither is it any kind of tragic judgment. And while some of the 17.9% are no doubt doing their best, let’s face the facts that some are not doing their best just as some who live in fixed homes are not doing their best. The value of someone’s home is not a reliable indication of anything.
Now was she smart to include herself and all South Carolinians in a trailer park stereotype? No, but then most Republicans are neither smart nor sensitive and might better stay away from social commentary altogether.
OFF SUBJECT—- but I just went insane! The link is to an article about the Jaguar Cheerleaders in London, but forget the article and view their lingerie video at the end. Outstanding!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/spo…
It was so hot they took the whole article down, apparently.
Here ya go
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2420697/See-Jacksonville-Jaguars-cheerleaders-perform-Fulham-vs-West-Brom.html
It’s pretty telling that she allows herself to be objectified in such a pageant to start. Maybe she can address that topic on her next round of truth telling to the public/judges.
Nobody who is watching pageants gives a shit about how smart this babe is or who her daddy might be. These stupid events have never been anything but socially acceptable multi-generational ogling of what makes young females sexually attractive. That’s what makes the child pageants so odious.
This just in today – at the least, it’s a start:
France bans children’s beauty contests in bid to stop the ‘hyper-sexualisation’ of youngsters—-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424462/France-bans-childrens-beauty-contests-bid-stop-hyper-sexualisation-youngsters.html
With regards to the 20% vs. 17.9%, that is splitting a fine hair.
With regards to mobile homes, why do so many think they are bad? I have owned two and they were nice homes, my second one was more energy efficient than most of my friends’ stick built homes. You can have your home ready to live in a couple days after its moved to the site and they are just as good as stick built homes.
Yes some are dilapidated and trashy looking but it isn’t hard to find stick built homes that are as bad. Mobile homes let lower income people have a pretty nice home, typically in the country. This helps people get away from the silliness of the politicians that tend to congregate in the cities and towns (though Lexington County is trying to act like the whole county is a city that needs regulation). I give her a thumbs up on this issue.
Shit, half of the condos down here in the MB area are really the equivalent of double-wides stacked on top of each other. Including many on the beachfront. We call ’em stack-a-shacks. And there are communities of older people with no strict no-kid rules that are composed of double-wides — very neat and well-kept-up. Nicer than a lot of the pricey homes in the area. So it’s all relative.
I’ll use this as an opportunity to say Miss Oklahoma got robbed…
Happily South Carolina seems to be less prone to the sort of tornado activity that usually correlates with concentrations of mobile homes. Of course, that might be an ongoing process of averaging out for Sherman in 1865.
Even worse, the lines were written for Arkansas, where the guv (Huckabee) albeit prudently for the taxpayers, vs Poker boy Jimbo Hodges, used a triple wide during governor’s mansion renovations,,, and that is Chip Campsen’s niece.
Unfortunately for Ms. Mosteller, to paraphrase Aristophanes, “youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, but stupid is forever”
I said this in the Post and Courier comment section and I will say it here also. What do you all here in the comment section think the story would be today if this fine lady had said this line instead…..”“I’m from the state where no woman has ever been elected to the US Senate, I’m voting for Nancy Mace for US Senate. That’s how this lady rolls in South Carolina.” Mosteller said…”
Can you imagine the interviews she would be getting and “Advertising Fees” too boot..!!
She would be covered as the next Jane Fonda..!!
But no…she had to talk about mobile homes instead of the war in Syria..!!…or our fine lady running against US Senator Lindsey Graham…!!
So much for taking advantage of her media time. Heck, her comment would have probably been edited out of even getting airtime.
What fine lady do you speak of??
Brooke Mosteller is anything but dumb,she is a Furman graduate and is
Now in law school.She also happens to be one of the nicest people
You will ever meet
So true. If funny how people who don’t even know her have formed so many opinions. Could it be jealousy?
She embarrassed our state when she could have been highlighting some of our Palmetto State greatness – BMW, First in Golf, Spoleto Festival USA, or Charleston’s many superlatives. She lives in a city that has been named the best city in North America and one of the top ten cities in the world and she makes a glib comment about trailers?
Uh, nothing she could say would highlight Palmetto State greatness as much as Mark Sanford made it a laughing stock and continues to remind the world of South Carolina’s foolishness by sitting in Congress and traipsing the world with his “fiancée.”
On the biggest stage of her life to date (and probably ever) she said something that was very, very dumb and incredibly cruel. I’m sure she’s a great person.
And, incredibly elitist.
Especially, considering a goodly number of those people vote R reflexively and put the bread on her mama’s table.
And we all know how hard Furman is to get into especially if you’re a legacy and your family has money and political connections. USC Law School, pfft… I guess her tuition check cleared… because that’s about all it takes to get into that school.
She was also in the top of her class at Wando Highschool,fantastic tennis player
And at college became one of the best distance runners on the track team even though
She had never run track,could it be that you are jealous.
This Brooke chick is honestly very average looking. They should just crown Ali Rogers Miss South Carolina for life. Man, that’s a beautiful woman.
@Yelsewh – I would say it’s not nice to call a girl “average looking”. But SHE did enter a contest to see who is the prettiest…
I was being charitable when I called her “average looking.” Look at some of the pictures of her without her pagent garb and war paint and I’m sure you’ll agree.
Ali Rogers OTOH is positively smoking dressed up or dressed down.
I actually know Ali and she is not only beautiful but she is a class act in every sense. Our country was done a dis-service by her not winning Miss America but politics from NY and the Donald no doubt derailed her.
She’s a PERFECT exemplar of the imbecilic white right wing elite that stands bestride the pathetic morass of poverty in that sad state and wrings profit from the hides of the poor.
Did Greenwood Sheriff’s dept sponsor her!
Miss Mustellu, It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. I hope your case of foot in mouth clears up.
She was asked to use something creative and funny to introduce herself. Lighten up. She didn’t say one thing negative about mobile homes or the people who live in them. Some people wake up in the mornings looking for something to be offended about. Lighten up. I’ve lived in a mobile home, and I’m not offended. By the way, there are some very expensive mobile homes. Lighten up.
I’ll pay to see you go to a trailer park or a trailer with 3 broken lawn mowers and the pungent smell of overcooked hamburger wafting out of the open door and call the inhabitants “Trailer Trash” and see if those inhabitants are not offended!!!
The ONLY place you could ever get your money out of a trailer/”mobile home” is if it is the beach or some high dollar retirement community. Certainly not some run down piece of shit off county road 105…….
The minute you have a “mobile home” towed off the sales lot the damn thing depreciates faster than any car imagined. Not to mention lowering the surrounding landowner’s property values.
Here’s my own saying:
“I’d much rather be surrounded by country black folk than have one trailer full of white trash”
Wanna stay a week or two in Brookside Village up here in Spartanburg County????
You’ll sing a different song in just a day or two I’ll wager!!!!!
How could her parents allow her to leave the house looking like a cheap dime store floozy whore? I can understand the girl wanting validation from a cheap rhinestone crown but why would her mother and father pimp her out like that. Sad!
What do you expect from the offspring of elitist Republicans!!!
The poor thing dosen’t know any better even if she is a law student.
Odds are she won’t be a public defender………………
No. She’ll be clerking for some judge a long, long time.
Quit pickin on my sister.
She’s got those crazy woman eyes. And every guys knows if at all possible you don’t stick it in the crazy ones.
Her eyes are fascinatingly attractive – I’d buy her a beer. Speaking from personal experiences, sex with a woman on the verge of a mental breakdown is terrifically enjoyable!
Up until your done and she wants to start talking about kids names and the need to move in together because you’re the man she’s always dreamed about ending up with. All the while you’re laying there thinking, “I just picked you up at a bar because it was closing time and you were better than average looking and drunk”.
You’ve been there,too, I see. Back in the days I kept forgetting to prepare my “exit strategy” for afterwards. But for now I prefer to just remember the good part…..
Then there’s the coyote strategy.. fortunately, I still have both arms and legs.
It got much better for me after discovering the Ugly Bus….
Yes.. I buried my libido up on a lonesome hill, under a dead Magnolia tree with spanish moss as my pall bearers. It wasn’t so much that she said, “no.” It was the way she said it – with a 357 magnum police special. She used rubber bullets and spelled out the legal contract of our separation in the space between my navel and my groin. She had to reload 15 times. No, I’ll never forget what’s-her-name..
—very good!
Be careful Henry! My friend was dating a mentally ill woman and during the sex part, she stabbed him! True story! He didn’t die, but lets just say he has a restraining order against her and the sex was not enjoyable! Intense yes when you are stabbed! LOL
Smart and funny – maybe she should have borrowed a line from Nikki and said she is from a state where no one can pass a drug test.
THAT’S our Miss SC?!?
We can do way better than that and we have scores of times.
Dear South Carolina’s misbegotten “Miss”–
With or without a sash and tiara–
Try to remember this
And be a tad fairer:
Whether you live inside
A double-wide,
Or out back
In a tarpaper shack
Washing socks and mending pants
Behind a Charleston manse,
There’s still very little finer
Than to be planted in South Carolina.
She is correct. There is more trailer trash in this state than anywhere else.
“I’m from SC, where if you don’t win your pageant, your Mom will lie and say you did.”
“I’m from SC, where our Governors commit ethical violations and adultery.”
“I’m from SC, top ten in both football and teen pregnancy!”
“I’m from SC, where our leaders are as crooked as our teeth…toothes, whatever…”
Her mouth is why she lost the pageant! Why brag about the poorest people living in trailers on national TV? She is and will always be a spoiled brat moron who cares nothing about the folks living in mobile homes. She thinks that’s a good thing? What an embarrassment to our state and its people! She should be ashamed!!! But I am sure she isn’t, because that statistic was proof she doesn’t care about the image she gives SC!
Guess what folks? We are finally number one in something and Brooke makes it a joke, an embarrassment, and makes sure the whole world knows! What an idiot!
And being Number One in trailers is a travesty to this state and its hard working people! And she had to talk about that of all things??? Dear Lord, help SC and get rid of Haley and Mostellers and others like them! And the beauty queen before her, omg! They are why we are not number one in anything except illiteracy and dumbness!
Nancy, is this you? ———-CONFESS!!
You may have to use the… COMFY CHAIR!!!
That paragraph reads like an upcoming political ad.
Isn’t Caitlin Upton Don Upton’s granddaughter? She’s very pretty, but if there are dibs on Uptons, I’ll take Kate – even with her skinny hips. Kate is like strawberries and creme. Caitlin is like strawberry yogurt. Both nourishing, but one is perfection.
For the record, I liked Don very much.
You have excellent taste in women………..
No, sorry, I am not Nancy! Don’t insult me like that lol !!! But of all the stupid things to come out of her mouth; she represented our state as the land of the poor, and trailer trash!
“… she represented our state as the land of the poor, and trailer trash!”
Only to those who’ve never seen an expensive trailer park, like those in Malibu, that is probably out of reach for most of those who indulge in trailer park stereotyping. Anyway, numbers don’t lie and whether this beauty queen hopeful represents SC or not, it’s still one of the poorest and least educated and fattest states in the country.
She seems like a nice enough young lady. She certainly does clean up nicely. Furman isn’t exactly easy to get through, especially, if you’re a conservative. And while I personally loathe tennis, she apparently is quite good at it. How many of you have ever been that good at anything? This is not addressed to Shifty, 9″, Patel, ?, TBG, or, occasionally, Smirks.
France bans children’s beauty contests in bid to stop the ‘hyper-sexualisation’
of youngsters—-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424462/France-bans-childrens-beauty-contests-bid-stop-hyper-sexualisation-youngsters.html
Saw her apology today, and she was truly impressive.