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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 09:40 AM Sep 2013

Fox News host: new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, doesn’t ‘represent American values’

By Scott Kaufman
Monday, September 16, 2013 7:34 EDT



The crowning of Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, as Miss America should have been, to paraphrase her platform, a celebration of diversity through cultural competency. But in the hours after her victory, Twitter became a frank demonstration of American incompetence in matters relating to both ethnicity and geography.

“Well they just picked a Muslim for Miss America. That must’ve made Obama happy. Maybe he had a vote,” said one user.

“I am literally soo mad right now a ARAB won. #MissAmerica” wrote another.

It should go without saying that Davuluri, a Syracuse native of Indian descent, is neither Muslim nor an Arab. But according to Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes, the American-born Davuluri doesn’t “represent American values,” unlike the blonde-haired, blue-eyed contestant from Kansas, Theresa Vail.

This is not to say that Vail isn’t an unprecedented contestant in her own right: she’s spent five years in the Kansas Army National Guard and is double-majoring in chemistry and Chinese at Kansas State University. But, according to Starnes on Facebook, she lost because “the liberal Miss America judges were not interested in a gun-toting, deer-hunting, military veteran.”

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Fox News host: new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, doesn’t ‘represent American values’ (Original Post) n2doc Sep 2013 OP
idiots warrior1 Sep 2013 #1
This! yuiyoshida Sep 2013 #11
More idiocy here: n2doc Sep 2013 #2
But...but...she has dark skin, you see. MineralMan Sep 2013 #3
Fox News represents the Aryan Nation & giftedgirl77 Sep 2013 #4
Does anybody even watch the Miss America pageant any longer? R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #5
Seeing as how this is coming from a Fox Corp employee, kentauros Sep 2013 #16
you forgot Voice for Peace Sep 2013 #22
Forgive me; kentauros Sep 2013 #23
But... whttevrr Sep 2013 #6
What is more American than a beauty contest? Downwinder Sep 2013 #7
Hey, give the racists some credit. They haven't called her Mexican yet. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #8
Where is Tod Starnes from? Octafish Sep 2013 #9
Do these racist idiots ever get tired of their tripe? Happyhippychick Sep 2013 #10
No....their hatred is like food to them SummerSnow Sep 2013 #25
The amount of stupid on display is staggering... Ohio Joe Sep 2013 #12
Ain't it, though? Jeff In Milwaukee Sep 2013 #24
She doesn't represent Fox values malaise Sep 2013 #13
Heehee. FOX will rue the day, because Bobby Jindal will run for President. WinkyDink Sep 2013 #14
Uhhhh Todd Starnes trumad Sep 2013 #15
She is beautiful. Stargazer09 Sep 2013 #17
Very sad Stargazer09 Sep 2013 #18
These same morons just adore my imbecile governor, Nikki Haley. GoCubsGo Sep 2013 #19
What's the difference between her and Nikki Haley as far as race? SummerSnow Sep 2013 #29
Haley has lighter skin and a European sur name. GoCubsGo Sep 2013 #33
Louisiana Dems were tarred with the racist brush KamaAina Sep 2013 #35
Apparently Nikki and Bobby got sanitized and Christianized to be acceptable to Republicans. Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2013 #37
Right on cue PD Turk Sep 2013 #20
Those comments are just another form of bagger statement "I want my country back"..... Sheepshank Sep 2013 #21
Her Bollywood number. Pretty good. And she's smart. Love her, love Bollywood. KittyWampus Sep 2013 #26
Sure she does - fat-shaming IS an American value, right? Iris Sep 2013 #27
I agree. Clearly in thar photo she was caught shouting the islamic battle cry. Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2013 #28
I can't help but be reminded of the week following 9/11/2001. GoCubsGo Sep 2013 #34
I remember that. I lived in OH at the time and some genius rammed his car Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2013 #36
Indian Americans need to remember this day! kalisto2010 Sep 2013 #30
Fox News says "she doesn't represent American values". Translation: "She's not white". Initech Sep 2013 #31
She's an American. She represents exactly American values. Iggo Sep 2013 #32
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
5. Does anybody even watch the Miss America pageant any longer?
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 09:48 AM
Sep 2013

And besides, what exactly are "American values" today?

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
16. Seeing as how this is coming from a Fox Corp employee,
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 10:16 AM
Sep 2013

I would figure their idea of values would be easy to list. Such as:

1. Votes Republican
2. Is White
3. Is a (fundamentalist) Christian
4. Watches/listens to Fox exclusively

I'm rarely surprised by anything that comes out of Fox anymore. I do look forward to seeing how Jon Stewart then roasts them with it

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
8. Hey, give the racists some credit. They haven't called her Mexican yet.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 09:50 AM
Sep 2013

At least they're somewhat able to distinguish between people with brown skin now.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
9. Where is Tod Starnes from?
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 09:50 AM
Sep 2013

Pinheadland? Hope he goes back real soon to live and cash his unemployment check.

malaise

(268,980 posts)
13. She doesn't represent Fox values
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 09:58 AM
Sep 2013

and they hire anchors at beauty contests - one less blonde asshole for hire.

GoCubsGo

(32,081 posts)
19. These same morons just adore my imbecile governor, Nikki Haley.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 10:32 AM
Sep 2013

Who is also an Indian-American. I'm sure some of them even helped elect her. Go figure.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
29. What's the difference between her and Nikki Haley as far as race?
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:19 AM
Sep 2013

These racist wear their stupidity as a badge of honor.

GoCubsGo

(32,081 posts)
33. Haley has lighter skin and a European sur name.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 12:44 PM
Sep 2013

And, an "R" after her name. She also seems to be ashamed of her heritage, and goes by "Nikki", rather than her real name, "Nimrata". Her maiden name is "Randhawa", and she runs away from that, as well.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
35. Louisiana Dems were tarred with the racist brush
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 01:01 PM
Sep 2013

for daring to point out that Booby Jindal's given name is Piyush. (Believe it or not, he got "Bobby" from the Brady Bunch!)

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
37. Apparently Nikki and Bobby got sanitized and Christianized to be acceptable to Republicans.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 01:43 PM
Sep 2013

Seems that getting baptized is kinda like Clorox.

I think her family is Sikh and Bobby's is Hindu.

PD Turk

(1,289 posts)
20. Right on cue
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 10:34 AM
Sep 2013

I told the wife last night this was coming, they never miss an opportunity to step in it

 

Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)
21. Those comments are just another form of bagger statement "I want my country back".....
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 10:42 AM
Sep 2013

....... They can never tell me back to what, back to when or back where etc...it's all code for I want my country white and conservative.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
26. Her Bollywood number. Pretty good. And she's smart. Love her, love Bollywood.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:16 AM
Sep 2013

She's going to go far, I think.

GoCubsGo

(32,081 posts)
34. I can't help but be reminded of the week following 9/11/2001.
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 12:56 PM
Sep 2013

There was a man of Indian descent who was working in a convenience store in Phoenix. He was a Sikh, and wore a turban. Some brain-dead FoxNews-watcher type shot him dead, thinking he was an "Arab Islamist", and therefore, a "terrorist".

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts)
36. I remember that. I lived in OH at the time and some genius rammed his car
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 01:16 PM
Sep 2013

through one of my favorite restaurants. The name? The Taj Mahal. That's right. This is he caliber of moron we're dealing with.

kalisto2010

(64 posts)
30. Indian Americans need to remember this day!
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:22 AM
Sep 2013

No matter how much you excel economically or scholastically these so-called "Real Americans" will never accept you as an equal.

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