Beauty Pageant Gets Ugly: Accusations Fly After Miss PA USA Resigns Over Allegedly Rigged Competition
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In this photo provided by the Miss Universe Organization, Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin competes during the 2012 Miss USA Presentation Show on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 in Las Vegas. Monnin resigned her crown claiming the contest is rigged, but according to organizers the beauty queen was upset over the decision to allow transgender contestants to enter. A posting on Monnin’s Facebook page claims another contestant learned the names of the top 5 finishers on Sunday morning, hours before the show was broadcast. (AP Photo/Miss Universe Organization, Darren Decker)
PITTSBURGH (The Blaze/AP) — The Miss USA pageant representative from Pennsylvania resigned her crown claiming the contest is rigged, but according to organizers the beauty queen was upset over the decision to allow transgender contestants to enter.
A posting on Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin’s Facebook page claims another contestant learned the names of the top 5 finishers on Sunday morning – hours before the show was broadcast.
Monnin claims the other contestant told her the names of the top 5 she spotted on a planning sheet for the telecast – and she decided to step down as soon as those same contestants were named during the show.
“In my heart I believe in honesty, fair play, a fair opportunity, and high moral integrity, none of which in my opinion are part of this pageant system any longer,” Monnin wrote in one of her Facebook posts.
Monnin, of Cranberry, Butler County, did not immediately respond to a Facebook message from The Associated Press.
Donald Trump, who runs the Miss Universe Organization, called Monnin’s claims that the pageant was fixed “totally ridiculous” in a live interview Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and said the pageant organization plans to sue Monnin for making the “false charge.”
“We’re going to be suing her now. She made a very false charge and she knows it’s a false charge,” Trump said.
Pageant organizers confirmed Monnin resigned, but said it wasn’t for the reason she claimed.
According to a statement from the Miss Universe Organization, the contestant who Monnin claimed saw the sheet vehemently refuted Monnin’s account.
The statement includes text from an email organizers said Monnin sent citing the decision to allow transgender contestants into the competition as the reason she’s resigning.
A transgender contestant was initially denied entry to the Miss Universe Canada pageant, but Trump subsequently overruled that decision.
Miss Rhode Island, the pageant’s winner, Olivia Culpo, told WPRO-AM she knew Monnin “fairly well” because contestants were often positioned alphabetically by state. She said Monnin‘s original resignation was based on her stance on the pageant’s policy on transgender contestants and called it “strange” that Monnin is now saying something else.
“It’s a little iffy to me,” Culpo said.
Culpo also appeared on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning and said Monnin is missing out:
Trump downplayed the role transgender contestants had on that Monnin’s decision, even though pageant claim that was her motivation.
“I don’t think that she had an issue with that,” Trump said. “I think her primary issue is that she lost and she’s angry about losing. And frankly, in my opinion, I saw her barely a second and she didn’t deserve to be in the top 15.”
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Comments (111)
ishtar
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:14pmOf course its rigged it usually goes to a black or hispanic so we can all feel good…
lukerw
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:12pmWhat is the World coming to… if a girl cannot Fluke her way to the Top?
Report Post »zorro
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:58pmYou know this is for Miss “Universe” right, idiot? And in the UNIVERSE, there are other races besides white. Your kinds of imbecilic comments are the ones liberals love to point to when they make fun of conservatives. It’s best you do our cause a favor and keep your ignorant trap shut.
Now that this is out of the way, I don’t blame her for dropping out of the race due to allowing transgenders to compete. The thought of it is disgusting. Good for her.
Report Post »SweetLena
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 6:29pmWrong. It’s about the Miss USA pageant run by the Miss Universe organization. While I, too, agree with her decision, I dont think it‘s necessary to be so hateful about someone’s opinion. An opinion which, as a hispanic conservative, I happen to sympathize with. Minorities are given an unfair disadvantage simply for being non-white. It’s no longer based on a merit, accomplishments, or character. Of course it’s just a pageant, but it’s the principle. My issue is more with employment.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 8:46pm“Donald Trump, who runs the Miss Universe Organization, called Monnin’s claims that the pageant was fixed “totally ridiculous” in a live interview Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and said the pageant organization plans to sue Monnin for making the “false charge.” ”
So Donald’s first response is….”sue the b!tch”. Wow, what a great guy. SOOO glad he has been mixing it up with Mitt Romney lately
Report Post »cmonnow
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 9:41pmtypical Blaze bs-er. spouting out **** based on whatever he’s pulling out his/her ***.
go look at the winners of Ms. USA over the past 10 years. 6 white women, 1 woman of Lebanese origin, 1 black girl, 1 bi-racial (black/white), 1 latina (Puerto Rican/Domincan).
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:29pmWho cares? Now that a man is part of the competition, why would anyone watch it anymore? Who knows what other nasty surprises might be waiting for you?
Donald Trump has made it a mockery. Progressive Socialist. I never did understand why any “Conservative” supported Trump in all his political nonsense.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:30pm@soybomb315
What do you care? You‘re just mad that YOUR Progressive Socialist isn’t involved. Go, Ron “Let Iran Have Nukes” Paul!
Report Post »red1
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 2:13amI have always suspected these contests were somewhat rigged. When I used to watch them years ago, I could usually pick the winner quite early. They always pick someone for a politically correct reason. Trump’s reaction almost confirms it for me. He knows it is true and knows that the pageant will be much less valuable if the public becomes aware. Why else would he react so harshly to her accusation? If there was no truth to her claims, he would calmly dismiss her.
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 3:08amthey can all sit on my face gigety gigety gigety except for mrs/mr canada
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 3:09amgigedy gigedy gigedy
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 3:34am@ Army
Yep, you’re going to hell.
See you there :)
Report Post »TROONORTH
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 9:10amWell, oh – ya?!!? You guys watch your step or we will send some of our Canadian trans-gender beaurty queens down there to beat the crap out of you!
Report Post »LastAmerican
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 9:29amI don’t watch any of it anyways. But come on man beautiful girls are good no matter what race. The inclusion of transgender is just wrong. As tone loc said “I don’t play around with no Oscar Meyer wiener”.
Report Post »SUNTZU
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 9:47amHumanrace.
Report Post »Doesent make any difference to me what color the VW is
its a VW.
However, you can put a MG kit on a VW
its still a VW.
We have a Miss USA,Mrs USA I guess its time for
a Whatever USA contest.
zorro
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 10:20amI shouldn’t have called anyone an idoit. Sorry about that.
But the comment about the crown “usually going to a black or hispanic” I believe applies to the Miss Universe pageant, not Miss USA. As someone already pointed out, 60% of the past Miss USA winners have been white, only 10% black, and the remaining 30% “Hispanic” – which are many races, not just one. I am a “hispanic” conservative as well and this kind of garbage really ****** me off because unlike some of you, no one has given me a damn thing.
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:01pm@Jaycen
Report Post »You truely showed your ignorance by claiming Ron Paul is a progressive socialist.
IDIOT.
He is the only Constitutional candidate we have running.
You must be mixing him up with Romney. Romney is the big government Utopian.
I gotta say it again; IDIOT
spfoam1
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:10pmI stopped watching these long ago. When the questions asked were obviously designed to appease some fairy in the pageant administration, it was time to turn them off. How can a homosexual man be a judge for a beauty pageant anyhow?
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:04pmI knew a couple men in my college days who were “light in the loafers,” shall we say. Gay men are the best to ask how you look because they’ll give you an honest answer. They can view beauty and not be caught up by hormones.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:38pm@LORIANN12
What a stupid stereotype.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:32am@INBLACK …
Are you kidding? .. everyone … or nearly everyone … knows that gay men make the best friends for straight women. Have had several myself over the years.
Report Post »HowardSternIsABigot
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 9:02amStraight men no longer watch as far as I can tell. None of my friends ever mentions it at all. TV and all the reality BS is not straight oriented. Beuty pageants are passee with internet sex and all the porn sites. Id like to see the breakdown of who watches this nonsense, bet its little girls and gays.
Report Post »noproblems
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:06pmTrump is such a tool. Cant wait to see his lawsuit. Betcha he nevers files because he knows it is true.
Report Post »daxawyes
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:59pmOf course Trump will sue. What a silly thing to do. How can he prove she doesn’t really believe that? And then he wants to basically call her ugly. Typical Trump. You’re a grown a** man.
Report Post »DogTags
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:28pmIf he files a lawsuit, you had better believe her attorney will ask for all kinds of discovery on how the pageant is put together. I don’t think Trump wants that kind of scrutiny.
He’s bluffing.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 8:00pmIs this woman’s name for real?
Sheena Monnin?
They might as well go all the way and call her She‘sa Moanin’
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 9:22pmTrump is a jackass. When news came out that him and Romney were hanging out together, i almost lost my lunch
Report Post »theshortwhiteguy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:06pmNow that I think of it, Trump really should call it The Miss ” * ” pageant.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:43pmTransgender is a lie.
There are no transgender. They are “everyone pretend I’m a woman now” men.
America is being tricked with illogical terms like transgender. No one can change your sex.
They can what parts off and pump you up with fake hormones, but they have not made you a woman, they have made you a freak. And that is even more psychologically damaging than where these people started from.
Next they‘ll be putting a bikini on a vulture and telling us it’s trans-species.
Trans-gender is another lie from the father of lies.
Report Post »SUNTZU
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 9:54amINBLACK
I like what you said
Report Post »and you said it verywell.
lynda1276
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:01pmi just wish this were the most serious issue we had to worry about.
Report Post »stage9
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:22pmI agree!
Yes, we are indoctrinating children, says New York h o m o s e x u a l magazine
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11b/homo_admission.html
On s e x issues in elementary school: “Goal is to reach kids before they absorb their parents values,” says school administrator!
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11a/herald_sex-ed_032411.html
Graphic h o m o s e x u a l s e x flier given to kids at state-supported “youth pride” event
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11b/youth_pride/bisexual_pamphlet/index.html
Support traditional marriage? ‘You’re d e a d’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317681
“[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams (Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)
Report Post »geomann
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:35pmIf Trump wants to have contests with trans, why doesn’t he simply start a new one? He is most likely trying to hedge his reputation in the media after the last controversy about s e x u a l orientaion.I for one, have no interest in watching a pagent for women with gender confused people mixed in. I wonder how long it will take for the data to come back convincing the sponsors nobody is watching.
Although I believe her story, Sheena should have taken photos of the “top five” lists when she saw them. Either way, she has two good reasons to quit.
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:30pmHoly mackerel!
That’s what a call a good looking woman.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:39pmWelcome to Pennsylvania. Hubba-hubba. ;)
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:53pmAre you sure that’s a woman? I don’t know however I refuse to allow my imagination to engage when looking at images off the net, anymore.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:07pm‘I wish they all could be Pennsylvania girls’…
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:12pmIts a rariety in PA! Truth!
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:20pmBig world, Chief. Get in it.
Report Post »tckid17
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:28pmNow that’s using your Adams apple!
Report Post »PROSECUTE_PUBLIC_SERVANTS__FOR_CONSTITUTIONAL_TREASON
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:26pmTaking the moral high ground wearing a bikini???????????
This are fresh bait shows. Nothing more. Men have enough stress. Trump is pimping willing girls. Not much different than XXX sites.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:52pmOh please grow up.
You are half way to a saudi prince with that kind of talk.
Next you’ll be stoning them for wearing a bikini and handing out burka.
Report Post »theshortwhiteguy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:16pmI heard from a friend of friend of friend of a sister of a guy that knows a make up artist at the pageant Miss PA resigned because her song choice “The Crying Game” was denied.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:09pmWhen are people going to realize there is no such thing as “transgender.” Gender is genetically determined by two distinct chromosomes. All the hormones and plastic surgery can’t change it.
Report Post »50211bs
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:32pmmandorsshhhhhhh, the pervs n libs don’t know that truth yet.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:36pmI was in an interview for a government position yesterday. Afterward, a government employee was sitting at a computer, collecting biographical information such as age, height, weight, etc. When he came to “sex”, there were seven possible options listed on the government form… swear to God.
Report Post »marssnw
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:40pmAmen
Report Post »kfogs1957
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:08pmBig man Donald Trump, yes you are very big and tough guy wanting to sue this girl. Just shut up and go away already. The self promotion and slapping yourself on the back while you bully people is tiresome. And I’m a conservative saying that Trump!
Report Post »thejackal
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:07pmThis whole pagent BS is such a joke. I would be totaly embarassed to have a family memeber up there, it’s just so ridiculous. The women are total mental midgets for the most part. Now they are letting men dressed as women parade around in bikini’s and sht? I don’t blame the girl one bit for quitting, Adios Donny boy!.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:26pmGotta agree with you jackal,,,,
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:40pmOh Babylon…where have your lovers gone?
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:06pmTrump completely dropped the “ balls ” when he allowed a he/she into the Women’s Pageant in Canada. DESDEMONASCREW is correct – Who wants to see that ? Trump caved in to the gay-****-lez-trans-genderconfused crowd. Now I am beginning to think that the late George Carlin was right: ” Miss America contestants must return to the pageant EVERY Year until they WIN ! – In about 50 years, it would look real sad. ” Another formerly kind-a’ nice all American thing completely ruined by Lib-Prog-Comm’s and Political Correctness.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:00pmTrump continues to show his sleazy side. Why does anyone take this guy seriously?
Report Post »Wildblue3
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:57pmI’ll be honest. I’ve not followed Miss USA since I turned 25. It always seemed a little fake to me. I can easily believe that there was such a sheet. I don’t think the judges would honestly change their opinions that much in a two hours. I think they have a good idea before who the top five will be minus any screw ups.
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:56pmI agree with Monnin, frankly why would she want to compete in a competition with guys that are fake women, they dont let women and men compete together in a swimming or gymnastics or ice skating in the olympics, because men and women have different competition styles in those competitions, and really who wants to compete against a castrated man in a dress, who takes hormones, wares makeup, and has bigger implants? i would not.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:53pmi HATE FREAKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »DesdemonasCrew
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:40pmWould they allow a transgender in the swimsuit competition if he still had all of his junk? EWWWW! Let me just wrap a sarong around those offending bulges.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:52pmSounds more like the East German Olympic athletes of the ‘70s and ’80s! Eeeewwwww is right.
Report Post »LOL, remember the old Miller Lite commercial where their team walks into a bar naturally the parts are played by men, and one or two even have mustaches.
saranda
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:17pmEast German? You can add FloJo to that list. Not as nasty looking but just as juiced.
Report Post »DesdemonasCrew
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:50pmJuiced is one thing…hanging do-dads is a whole ‘nother!
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:39pmYou go, Pennsylvania!
Report Post »Master.Debater
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:32pmWho wants to watch a beauty pageant with dudes competing anyway?
Report Post »caleejr
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:32pm“And frankly, in my opinion, I saw her barely a second and she didn’t deserve to be in the top 15.”
Trump – you slowly erode any respect you have with the public with comments like that.
Report Post »Rillobymorning
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:07pmAgreed. We already have one narsaccist in the WH. Can’t stand Trump.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:31pmHow is a transgender (AKA Post Op transexual) allowed in a beauty pageant for women? Oh, thats right, ratings….I know they have transvestite beauty pageants etc….perfect place for that ‘thing’ to prance and strut.
Report Post »Master.Debater
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:44pmMaybe they think viewers will enjoy playing, “spot the male”
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:50pmMaster.debater….hilarious!!..I was thinking pin the ‘tail’ on the donkey…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:54pmMASTER.DEBATER, LOL, a new twist on Where’s Waldo.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:47pm*****?
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:49pmDear Blaze, I never posted the above. Please look into it. I’m SERIOUS.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:30pmI wonder if the same amount of people would watch KNOWING that trannies were inclued in the mix?
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:24pmWhich ever reason is true,good for her.
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