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Posted by Suman on August 29th 2008 in Rants
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Earlier this week, a Maryland beauty queen was arrested for breaking into a home and assaulting a woman there.  What makes this newsworthy is the luscious irony that her pageant platform was to prevent bullying.  Last year an Arizona beauty queen was charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault, among other things.  The irony there was that she was a second-year law school student at the time.  Similarly, I recall a news story a few years ago (but can’t find a link), about a beauty queen who was an advocate against drunk driving, getting arrested for - you guessed it - drunk driving.

Far be it from me to overgeneralize against all beauty pageant contestants, but I think it might be fun to predict what sort of future irony-laced news stories some of them might generate.  For example, one whose platform includes protection of third-world children, but whose designer clothing line is made in sweatshops exploiting such children.  Or one who took up preventing animal cruelty as her pet passion (pardon the pun) but is later found to be running a puppy mill supplying illegal dog fighting rings (or simply running a puppy mill, period).

Any other suggestions?