My husband, who doesn’t really care about such things. Watches, asks to watch again, says “What the F*#@? They shouldn’t…she’s…good god. What a dumbass.”
I feel bad for her. Trying to wrap up all the pageant extra credit points in one answer. (World Peace, Iraq, Apartheid, heck, she was just missing Hunger)
Doh! I forgot to mention, in my fantasy, she was pointing to Mexico when she said that.
Of course not.
You know what? There are far too many jokes to be made here, and I’m not qualified enough to be a main contributor. My mind boggles at the amount of jokes that can be made here, most are partially funny at best, but at least that says something.
This is a gold mine, and I’m happy to just sit back and watch.
Well, anyone can miss Canada, all tucked away down there…
Canada – Like a ball sac on a fat guy.
I’m starting to see how you earned that fancy title there. 
Boy, that joke would work better if I could type. How about stop COPYING me?
In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn:
That girl’s about as sharp as a sack of wet mash.
Was she saying something?
Three pages in and no one has posted the following? For shame Dopers:
Just FYI, I made the poor choice of reading this out loud to my husband without telling him to put down the soup. He didn’t spray the computer, but did cough for a few minutes afterwards. I stopped reading the posts to him after that.
Didn’t dnooman reference it in post #3?
Looks like she got another chance. Her second, prepared answer… there needs to be more emphasis on geography on our schools. Right. That’ll solve everything. Can these people even read? Do they have any interest in anything outside of the U.S.A.? How many of them have passports? But, you know, she and ‘her friends’ can locate the United States, apparently, so whatevs.
Pretty funny, but I can see how it can happen, where you are presented with something and for whatever reason you start down the wrong path and you cannot extricate yourself in any way that doesn’t just spiral you further down into the darkness.
I saw it live. It was during a commercial break for the football game… I swear! I thought, “Oh, my…” and felt her digging herself deeper and deeper. I’m not going to saw she’s a Rhodes Scholar or anything, but she may not be quite as stupid as most people here are saying. She’s cute, I’d hit it if I weren’t 31 years older than her. 
As someone here already mentioned, it could be that she was being VERY smart when she said “U.S. Americans”, since, regardless of what percentage of U.S. residents can’t find th U.S. on a world map, I am SURE that a majority of them have yet to realize that Argentinians, Canadians, etc. are all Americans, too.
If she really did mean to express this fact in that way, I give her mad props, and forgive her all the other silly things she said.
She claims that she “only heard one or two words of the actual question.” Um…okay. Why not just ask to repeat the question then?
Seriously…South Africa? The Iraq? Her answer went way beyond nervous rambling into the realm of the bizarrely incoherent. For someone who is 18 and presumably has a lot of pageant experience under her belt, it was very strange.
I think “US Americans” is so politically hyper correct even the PC offenderati haven’t picked up on it yet.
Hmm…I’m not sure why accurately distinguishing between 1. two entire continents and 2. one country should necessarily make one an “offenderati”. But, then, you might be surprised to also find out that the southern tip of California is around Los Cabos!
She’d obviously been expecting a different question, and was given lots of ‘key words’ (and expressions. ‘Such as’ was surely an ‘intelligent’ replacement for ‘like’) by her coach. It’s like when you’ve studied for an exam and get an unexpected question – sometimes you write bullshit hoping the teacher won’t read too closely and will just pick up on a few correct terms. And wear a swimsuit to class hoping no one will notice your vapidity.