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Miss Teen USA “Big Disaster”

Lauren Caitlin Upton a contender at the Miss Teen USA pageant, honestly made Jessica Simpson look and sound like Albert Einstein when she answered a simple question at the Miss USA pageant.  Under pressure, the South Carolina contestant completely blanked when asked “why a fifth of Americans could not locate the United States on a world map.”  Her answer was “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”

She explained that there are a series of questions that she was ready for, but that question was not one of them.  It completely through her off guard.  On the Today show, she said, “Everything did come at me at once. I was overwhelmed, and I made a mistake. I’m human.”  And at the very moment after she had answered the question, Mario Lopez, the host of the show, looked shocked.  The face he made on camera was priceless.  Later on, Mario Lopez, said that during Lauren complete and utter meltdown, he wanted to help her, but was not permitted to do so.  “It was a very intense moment,” Lopez said. “It’s live TV. You don’t know what the question is until you get up there. And I believe that she misunderstood it. She went down the wrong road and couldn’t figure out how to get back to the right one. I felt really badly for her.”
Yesterday morning on the Today Show, Upton got the chance to answer the question once more and this time she was prepared.  You could definitely tell she had rehearsed it several times.  Her new answer: “Personally, my friends and I, we know exactly where the United States is on our map. I don’t know anyone else who doesn’t. And if the statistics are correct, I believe there should be more emphasis on geography in our education so people know how to read maps better.”  “Now that was a perfect answer,” said Anne Curry.

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