Does anyone else think it’s about time we stop airing the Miss USA pageant altogether? Considering the past two years have been wracked with scandal, paired with the fact that these women aren’t even legitimate celebrities, all adds up to too much airtime devoted to an event that stopped being relevant in the 1980s.

This years winner, Rima Fakih of Michigan, was historic, in that she was both born in Lebanon and is of the Muslim faith. And yet, of course, the tabloids have decided to concentrate instead on the fact that one time, in 2007, she took part in a pole dancing class/competition sponsored by a local radio station in Michigan. There were pictures, so of course the media decided to blow the whole thing out of proportion and made her out to be some sort of disgusting pervert. Oh, did I mention there were only women at this strip tease competition?

The only thing one can honestly take from the photos of the event is this: Rima Fakih is drop dead gorgeous, and people who work for tabloids should all contract some new form of the Bubonic Plague.

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