Miss Venezuela’s Painfully Awkward Answer to Miss Universe Question Is Cringe-Inducing
During the Miss Universe pageant on Wednesday, Miss Venezuela not only lost the competition to Miss USA, she also apparently lost her ability to put together a cohesive sentence, at least temporarily.
Reminiscent of Miss South Carolina Teen USA’s cringe-inducing reply to a question during a pageant in 2007, Miss Venezuela, or Irene Sofia Esser Quintero, failed to piece together a decipherable response when she was asked — by a Spanish translator — what law she would enact if she could and why.
LAS VEGAS, NV – DECEMBER 19: Miss Venezuela 2012, Irene Sofia Esser Quintero, competes in the 2012 Miss Universe Pageant at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on December 19, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Getty Images
Instead of trying to transcribe her disjointed rambling answer, why don’t you just watch the mega-awkward moment for yourself.
However, Miss Venezuela was somehow able to recover from the embarrassing moment and was crowned second runner-up in the competition. Miss USA Olivia Culpo was crowned Miss Universe on Wednesday night.
(H/T: Gawker)
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Brem
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:38pmshe said something? I didn’t notice
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Thomas_Jefferson
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:04pmSounded like Obama without the teleprompter.
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afishfarted
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:29pmWho cares if she can’t talk?
WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA !!!
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cemerius
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:33pmha ha ha ha @ Thomas_Jefferson …….Obama without a teleprompter is nominated as best catch phrase for this story! lmao
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JBARRANCHAZ
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:49pm$600 and hour for her, would be acceptable. For the 44 year old married skank, no thanks.
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v15
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:37pmthey should ask relevant questions like “what would you do to seduce me?”.
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The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:13amShe was distraced by the sight of a border patrol agent at the back of the room.
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statutoryape
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:04amInteresting question. He basically asked her how she would expand the government.
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caveman74
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:00amdo you want to know how to make her even hotter? Start the video over and turn off your sound
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caveman74
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:03amin her defense she doesnt know English that well. I’m sure had she said it in spanish it would have come out a little more understandable
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countryfirst
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:17amV15, I am sure all she would have to do is show up
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khandahar&jalalabad
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:20amThe host’s reaction was priceless. Thank you…..great stuff…..thank you next up!
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KyleD
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:29pmShe obviously doesn’t know english very well considering she had to have the question translated…and probably isn’t all that intelligent to begin with. She probably would have done better if they let her say it in spanish and have the guy translate into english.
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Platonician
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:46pmIn fact she said: “I think all laws are already written.” which is quite true. The problem is that she doesn’t master English, as she said “Leyes” instead of Laws, which is the word for Laws in Spanish.
Anyway, I bet she could be a better president than Obama and the Muslim Minions like Huma Abedin, that currently rule America.
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Ethereal
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:27pmobviuosly a victim of the language barrier, nothing more, nothing less.
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Too_Far_Gone
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 2:16pmDingbat ..
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horseman43
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 3:48pmIt could well be that the problem is her limited English.
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ltb
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:04pmWhatever she said, it came out beautifully. BTW, why did they ask the question in English and then translate it to Spanish, just so she could answer back in English? Seems like there was an unnecessary step in there.
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Patriot Z
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:45pmThomas Jefferson: NOW we know what obama looks like to chris matthews! hehe
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pavepaws
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:00pmShe doesn’t have to talk. Besides, she wasn’t allowed to answer in her native tongue.
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Canyouhearus
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:33pmTranscribe her words Didn’t understand more than a couple of the words she said! IF we can’t understand her and k now what she said…this is a non story!… As many on the site seem to be today! News? REALLY???
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forthepeople
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:16pmGive me a break …here…… I think the question was stupid , she is not running for a political post !
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darkknight91
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:25pmThey need to stop with the questions and interviews. They’re pointless. All that matters is how hot they look in tight dresses and bikinis.
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chips1
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:19amIf Hillery doesn’t have to answer questions, the contestants shouldn’t either. On the other hand, Hillery in a bikini?
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DLV
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:27amPlease Chips it’s Christmas time no need to scare children. It ain’t Halloween.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:59amCHIPS1
I JUST ATE LUNCH! Ugh!
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South Philly Boy
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:13pmMiss USA… Hip Hip Hooray
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circleDwagons
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:00pmMiss Venezula is hotter than miss america. Thanks Blaze for the eye candy
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stogieguy7
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:42amMiss USA looks more Mexican than Miss Mexico did. Really not a good pick. Miss Australia, Venezuela, Brazil and Hungary were waaaaaay hotter!
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searcher619
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:45amstogieguy7:
What does a ‘Mexican’ look like? I’m betting you’ve never been to Mexico or past border towns like Tijuana. Mexicans, like Americans, are a mix. Mexico is not a heterogeneous country. I doubt you meant this as any kind of slam but I just felt I had to point out the ignorance of the comment.
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stogieguy7
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:35pmYou know damn well what I meant, so don’t be ignorant.
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Exidor
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:37pmMan, she IS hot.
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DesdemonasCrew
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:48pm@searcher
Don’t you mean homogeneous? Heterogeneous means mixed up, not all the same.
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Mil-Dot
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 4:34pmShe is smoldering hot. Give her a break on the broken English. Hot is hot in any language.
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Ron Staiger
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:09pmWhy ask her anything? Nobody really cares what she has to say- unless of course she gets naked to say it!
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Gary_K
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:19pmYup, what he ^ said.
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:38pmI’ve heard obumbles talk that way when not using the Tele..
really didn’t give a shi* what she said anyway….HOT, HOT !!
I see why Sean Penn has an interest in Hugoland…NICEEEE !!!
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beatobama
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:01pmYessssssss!!!
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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 9:36amawe shucks
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:06pmUSA won because we have 57 States in the most stupidest President ever, eyes.
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UNALIEN
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:05pmI don’t see the problem she said she would make a law prohibiting Marxism and Progressivism and still have time to go surfing.. representing freedom and liberty
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rickfromthecape
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:05pmyesssss! I knew I liked her!
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:43pmI thought that is what she said, just couldn’t pass the accent..
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UNALIEN
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:54pm@MIBUGNU2
yes, the accent is strong but it is the regional dialect that makes it difficult,
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MDECKER
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:09pmYeap! That’s what I saw, I mean heard.
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:03pm@Salamander: unfortunately, I think you took my post all wrong. I actually agree with you! Sorry you mistook my sincerity for something else. You might want to check that gutter for someone else’s mind, cuz mine isn’t there. :)
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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:01pmWell, that certainly didn’t make sense. Perhaps she misunderstood the question. If she had said she would enact the fair tax, she would have owned me at that point.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:01pmI saw Ron Paul give an answer like that at the Republican debates… cringe worthy… and WAYYYY more boos….
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Stelex
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:38pmGood god man, your obsession is becoming a bit creepy. Just letting you know.
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soybomb315_II
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:59pmsome people were uplifted by Ron Paul’s policies/principles while other people were scarred and live the rest of their days in fear
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:08pmSTELEX and SOY…. which one of you two made this “creepy video” and which one of you should I call Dr Sparkles… ??
http://youtu.be/rA7pkz96LQw
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justangry
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:42pmHe’s a collectivist authoritarian. Of course he hates Ron Paul. Most pinkos do. You should see how he argued individualism is the same as Marxism and how a wee bit of communism is good for a society.
Time2, how about coming out of the closet and just go ahead and call Ayn Rand stupid for her beliefs? Do it right here and now on the Blaze for everyone to see who you really are, comrade.
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Stopit
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:50pmLoved the video! Thanks for posting it.
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Stelex
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:58pmSorry Time, not into G@y porn.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:07pmLmao JUST. Ayn Rand was an atheist and a hypocrite… I have no use for either…
Talk to EASTINFECTION about his rationalization of Communism and how it applies to the family… not me boy. But I will always remember when Ron Paul quoted Leon Trotsky if you want to ask me about that?? Lol.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:12pmSTELEX… pretty close… an adrogynous cowboy with sparkley makeup pining for Ron Paul…. I know it’s either you or SOY (testosterone deficiancy from too much SOY). I’m leaning towards that it’s SOY if you want the truth….
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:33pmAnd I present another comment I made that ANGRY little fella’ writes about…
Liberal-tarianism is basically the Marxism of the right “fringe”. If Marxism is the delusion that one can run society purely on altruism and collectivism, then Liberal-tarianism is the mirror-image delusion that one can run it purely on selfishness and individualism. Society in fact requires both individualism and collectivism (ie the draft in some cases as an example), both selfishness and altruism, to function. Like Marxism, Liberal-tarianism offers the fraudulent intellectual security of a complete a priori account of the political good without the effort of empirical investigation. Like Marxism, it aspires, overtly or covertly, to reduce social life to economics. And like Marxism, it has its historical myths and a genius for making its followers feel like an elect unbound by the moral rules of their society.
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justangry
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:14pmIndividualism and collectivism can not coexist, pinko.
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soybomb315_II
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:36pmwhenever time2 posts, the entire human race and reason take a step backward
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:04amTwelve subjects were enrolled with a mean age of 32.25 years (range 25 to 47). Serum testosterone decreased 19% during the 4-week use of SOY protein powder and increased within 2 weeks after we discontinued SOY protein powder. SOY protein powder was found to induce agonist activity to ER-beta using a reporter estrogen receptor assay in yeast.
CONCLUSION: SOY protein powder decreases serum testosterone levels in healthy men…
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Zipit
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:21amDudes! Can’t we all just get along!!!! It’s Christmas………… Or is that a sore spot too?
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AVATARBABY
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 10:51amTime_2, I’ll bet you’re the life of your company Christmas party.
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ImMadAsHell
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:59pmGive the woman break, she obviously didn’t understand the dumb question
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Archstone
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:58pmIt’s not that she didn’t answer the, we all have at times had what will, when my **** itches I wonder why it does, I once fell off a, well never mind that, so I thank you, and did I win?
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IronSights
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:27pmMade me laugh, coffee out the nose.
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calamityjane85
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:53pmWait! I re-read it and it says she got second runner up? With that sorry a$$ answer? Why don’t they just eliminate the Q and A portion, it obviously doesn’t count.
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softunderbelly
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:53pmBecause this way we get a chance to back for seconds. She ees muy caliente! Aiiieee caramba!
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Concernd4USA
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 8:38pmexactly what I was thinking, then I remembered the idiot ( Perez something)asking the question about Gay marriage and she said she believed in family values and she lost. Basically they want to know how far left you are before they vote.
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Baddoggy
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:50pmI speaky no english…
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calamityjane85
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:49pmShe probably just gathered every word of english that she knew and put all of them together.
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hatchetjob
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:03pmI had the same thought.
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chips1
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:14pmMaybe she’s a troll.
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Scaz
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:47pmI don’t care what anyone says, Dumb girls are so freakin’ HOT!!!
Hottest chick ever right here!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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gyro
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:53pmfuture presidential adviser
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mpierce
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:46pmNice, does she work for the same escort service as the runner?
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noslave
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:45pmi like pretty women that dont talk,make some noise ??o.k.
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justangry
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:43pmI like her!!
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:42pmAwww I think she’s cute! Even if her answer made no sense, who was really listening anyhow? Give her some credit for trying!
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Salamander
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:48pmOn the fly or off the cuff, and get your mind out of the gutter, I thought she handled it gracefully, and I belive it sounded like she is a conservative, willing to acknowledge the effort and insight of our forefathers!
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gyro
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:52pmthis
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DougHuffman
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:41pmThe answer is – FORTY-TWO!! Or for the monolingual, cuarente-dos!
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SovereignSoul
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:57pmcuarenta y dos, para ser exactos
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DougHuffman
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:05pmGracias ud. I was raised speaking only gutter Mexican and haven’t spoken that for fifty years.
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Stelex
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:39pmYes but what is the question?????
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SovereignSoul
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 1:42amno hay problema mi amigo : )
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RIGHTWINGHATEMACHINE
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:38pmDumb as a box of rocks. No wonder so many of their kind end up as entertainers on FOX news….hehehehe!
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:18pmI know one on Fox that actually WON a crown….
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Stelex
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:48pmSo this is what you do in between pageants??? I’m glad you lost. Vapid is as vapid does
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RIGHTWINGHATEMACHINE
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:37pmThey are nothing but walking eye candy made of flesh bags.
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M13
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:42pmFlesh bag eye candy, yuuuuuuuum.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:43pmJust more of that left wing war on women, eh?
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Patriot Z
Posted on December 21, 2012 at 7:47pmyes RWHM, all of us here are fully aware you find vaginas ‘icky’.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:36pmJust imitating the typical politician with such an answer. If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh/t!
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gyro
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:36pmshe did beter than I would of on tv
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nesmond
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:35pmSean Penn coached her.
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