Times change. The last time there was controversy in a Miss America pageant, it involved a contestant taking her clothes off.
That was then. In the wake of last night’s Miss America pageant, controversy rages across the union over why a yodeling ventriloquist singing “I want to be a cowboy sweetheart” did not win:
America still isn’t ready for the likes of Miss Arkansas, apparently.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins