So one of the topics on tonight's Hannity & Colmes was the rather unusual response given by South Carolina's contestant in the Miss Teen USA Pageant... and as is typically the case when pageants or pageant winners are the news of the day, Fox News Channel brought in Shandi Finnessey to comment.

For those who can't get enough of Shandi on Lingo, H&C is slated to rerun at midnight ET/9 pm PT on FNC as I type this. So as to minimize FNC exposure for those of you who otherwise prefer not to watch the network but want to catch this segment, it appears within the last 15 minutes of the show. :-)

Is she there for a lengthy time, or was it just a quick, "So Shandi, what did you think..."?

It ran about 4-5 minutes and Shandi got to talk for most of it.

Well, can she identify the U.S. on a map?

And does she even have a map? I hear that's a problem, too.

Curt
University of South Carolina Alumnus

Of course she can. Especially the states of I D _ _ _ , M _ _ N _ , and T _ X _ _. But sometimes she has to ask for bonus letters.

Another of our future leaders.
I personally believe I'd like this young lady to diagram her answer sentence and such as.
So what did the co-host of Lingo Starring Chuck have to say about the beauty queen?

I lol'd. Hard. Very hard. Bravo!

In a nutshell, Shandi said that the beauty queen in question really was smart and shouldn't be judged on what she said while under extreme stress, and that while she didn't deserve all the negative media attention, at least she was making the most of the publicity. Hannity and Colmes both agreed, and Shandi added that the two of them should see what it's like to go on live, nationwide TV in a bikini and heels.

I was less disturbed by anything Shandi said than by Hannity's promise that Colmes would accept Shandi's challenge. ;-)

The young lady in question was on the Today show, where she presented herself with poise and good humor, and an extremely well-rehearsed answer to the fateful question.

I watched that bit on the 'Tube, and wanted to bludgeon Ann Curry with a scepter the whole time. I realize that the Today Show relies heavily on puff pieces, but if there was ever a better example of leading a subject down the garden path, I haven't seen it.

/And this young lady actually won her state to qualify for the national contest. Just roll that around in your heads.
//Such as.

Leave it to a former game show host (let's try a different youtube link)... to break down Ms. South Carolina's answer into something we can all understand.

While the provided link is lovely, I somehow don't believe it's the link you intended. Either that or I'm missing something.

Yeah, I'm REALLY confused.

/sharp knees
//ah, who'm I kidding, I'd hit it

WTF!??! I put in a Youtube link in my original post, and not a Youtubetop link. That was a bizarre link.

Take 2:

Leave it to a former game show host to break down Ms. South Carolina's answer into something we can all understand.

He's still a game show host until 9 p.m. tomorrow night.

If you want to call what he's on a game show.

"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."

Care to share what it was?

Man, that must have just happened. YouTube is getting better about policing the copyrights, it appears.

Jimmy Kimmel showed the poor girl's infamous response, and then essentially diagrammed, defined and otherwise explained each piece of it on an old-fashioned green chalkboard. Pretty funny, and much better than an average-looking girl washing a car.

Tangent: I wonder if YouTube is getting better, or if the major media corps. are just searching for "Jimmy Kimmel" (and Letterman and Leno and Colbert and on and on) several times a day, then shooting e-mails off to YTHQ.

I was amused the other day to spot an old Late Night With Conan O'Brien clip that had been up for quite some time--due in no small part, I'm sure, to its description along the lines of "clip from a late night talk show".

I heard on the news that Youtube will be getting rid of all Copyrighted Material by September. So I guess they are starting now.

Actually, what YouTube announced is that by September it hopes to have a system that will block uploads of copyrighted material. There's no guarantee that it will be in place by then or that it will work reliably, and it certainly doesn't explain what you're seeing now.

Not exactly. Lawyer says one thing, official spokesperson sorta says another. Plus, there will always be copyrighted material on YouTube, it'll just be the authorized kind. Which for a company in the business of making money is the way things should be.

If someone else wants to try to provide a working link to the Kimmel bit on Youtube, go right ahead -- I'm 0 for 2 in that department, despite double-checking the links right after I posted them to make sure they worked.

EDIT: As of 11PM MT, of the following group of Youtube clips, only the 2nd one was 'in violation'. Take your pick of the others while you can!

/I'm still trying to figure out how the first one got sidetracked to another website, but I guess if someone can crack the iPhone code in a matter of a few weeks, then Youtube can't be much harder.