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Miss America Teresa Scanlan Visits Fox & Friends, Has Strong Opinions About WikiLeaks

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Miss America 2011 Teresa Scanlan paid a visit to the set of Fox & Friends this morning to talk about her win and her goals for the coming year. As it turns out, Scanlan has proven that she’s not only a young woman with firm opinions, she’s rather rather adept at expressing those opinions clearly, be they about the nature of the Miss America competition… or WikiLeaks.

Co-host Gretchen Carlson, herself a former Miss America winner, asked 17-year-old Scanlan a fairly hardball question about the award: How is a competition like Miss America still relevant in 2011? Scanlan answered that America, while grounded in realism, needs a healthy dose of idealism as well, and this is exactly what the competition provides.

Interestingly, Fox & Friends mentioned at least twice that Nebraska-born Scanlan – who hopes to become a prosecutor, then a judge – is a “homeschooled Conservative Christian.” The AP, meanwhile, adds that Scanlan plans to register as Independent when she turns 18.

Scanlan’s political beliefs may have played a part in how she answered the question posed to her during the ceremony – something just a wee bit tougher than “Do you love world peace?” or “Aren’t baby horses cool?” Scanlan’s question: “Everybody’s talking about the Wikileaks, how do we balance people’s right to know with the need for government security?” Her response:

Miss America Teresa Scanlan Visits Fox & Friends:

You know when it came to that situation, it was actually based on espionage, and when it comes to the security of our nation, we have to focus on security first and then people’s right to know, because it’s so important that everybody who’s in our borders is safe and so we can’t let things like that happen, and they must be handled properly.

We’ve seen a bit of a backlash to Scanlan’s response on other blogs, but nowhere near the polarized response to a certain other beauty queen’s controversial – and much, much less articulate – opinions.

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  • skyfet

    Now, that’s a smart question and answer. Not the silly qustion about gay marriage that would never be or who paid for the boob job. Jokers!

  • The Real Royal King

    My, this is inspiring.

  • Harry Flashman

    It’s too bad, really, that a 17 year old beauty queen displays a better grasp of the issue and more common sense than 90% of the left.

  • skyfet

    Harry Flashman said:
    It’s too bad, really, that a 17 year old beauty queen displays a better grasp of the issue and more common sense than 90% of the left.

    The Govt is left, and they are giving Assange and his Supporters nightmare around Europe. Go and ask the private companies who have been forced to ditch wikileaks. All of whom are capitalists e.g. Visa, MasterCard, Twitter, PayPal etc. You don’t know what you are talking about, sometimes I realise some people don’t think before they speak, all they want is to start a fight.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    I already feel sorry for scanlan for what the lamestream socialist fake-new “Corrupt B-tards” will now do to her because she has a (correct) view of Wikileaks that is opposite to theirs.

  • The Real Royal King

    I will say I don’t see this going the way of Carrier Prejean and her Enhancements. That was terribly embarrassing for the rightist crowd.

  • Harry Flashman

    skyfet said:

    “The Govt is left, and they are giving Assange and his Supporters nightmare around Europe….. You don’t know what you are talking about,”

    I don’t?

    As we speak Julian Assange is living a life of luxury at the opulent home of a far left British “journalist”. He hid in a well known “journalist’s” club until surrendering. Go to ANY of the lefty websites (HuffPo, Kos, etc.,) and look at the articles on Assange and the comments of the readers. They are far and away in support of this worm, citing freedom of speech, protection of journalists, the evil American Government, etc.

    And our government, while making some feeble jabs in Assange’s direction, not only hasn’t done nearly enough, they turned blind eye and deaf ear to Assage from the beginning. You argument that they’re somehow acting like they should under these circumstances is preposterous and intellectually lazy, a fat dog that won’t hunt.

    Try again.

  • Lefter than Ewe

    Right Flashman and TPP, just bury your heads and let the government tell you the truth, because obviously you can’t handle the truth nor can you disypher it for yourselves.

  • Harry Flashman

    Lefter than ewe said:

    “Right Flashman and TPP, just bury your heads and let the government tell you the truth, because obviously you can’t handle the truth nor can you disypher it for yourselves”

    I don’t expect the government, epecially THIS government, to tell me the truth about anything. Did you actually READ my comment?

  • Harry Flashman

    By the way, Lefter than Ewe, where do you stand on the assange issue. Besides pointing fingers at me, that is?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Teresa Scanlon rocks! She is very pretty & quite intelligent.

  • skyfet

    Harry Flashman said:
    skyfet said:

    “The Govt is left, and they are giving Assange and his Supporters nightmare around Europe….. You don’t know what you are talking about,”

    I don’t?

    As we speak Julian Assange is living a life of luxury at the opulent home of a far left British “journalist”. He hid in a well known “journalist’s” club until surrendering. Go to ANY of the lefty websites (HuffPo, Kos, etc.,) and look at the articles on Assange and the comments of the readers. They are far and away in support of this worm, citing freedom of speech, protection of journalists, the evil American Government, etc.

    And our government, while making some feeble jabs in Assange’s direction, not only hasn’t done nearly enough, they turned blind eye and deaf ear to Assage from the beginning. You argument that they’re somehow acting like they should under these circumstances is preposterous and intellectually lazy, a fat dog that won’t hunt.

    Try again.

    Let me educate you,there is something called the rule of law. You just can’t go into another man’s country and arrest a criminal (except a third world country). There are legal requirements that needs to be followed before you can extradite someone. There are several cases of extradition cases that started under bush and ended recently and some that are still going on. The UK isn’t the 51st state of the US.

  • writer

    I hope this gal doesn’t agree with Obama on gay marriage. Olbermann will really tear her a new one for that.

  • Harry Flashman

    skyfet said:

    “Let me educate you,there is something called the rule of law.”

    No where in my comment did I advocate anything else. And you’re right…there IS a rule of law. It’s called ESPIONAGE. And Possession of Stolen Property.

    He should be pursued under these laws, chrges, extradited, and brought back to face trial. And as I’ve said many times if he’s found guilty he should spend many years in a nice comfy 8×10 in Leavenworth with a cellmate who thinks his name is Ben Dover and not Assange.

    If he’s found not guilty so be it, but face the charges he should.

    Did I clear it up for you this time?

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Harry Flashman said:
    skyfet said:

    “Let me educate you,there is something called the rule of law.”

    No where in my comment did I advocate anything else. And you’re right…there IS a rule of law. It’s called ESPIONAGE. And Possession of Stolen Property.

    He should be pursued under these laws, chrges, extradited, and brought back to face trial. And as I’ve said many times if he’s found guilty he should spend many years in a nice comfy 8×10 in Leavenworth with a cellmate who thinks his name is Ben Dover and not Assange.

    If he’s found not guilty so be it, but face the charges he should.

    Did I clear it up for you this time?

    We already knew the far right was full of vengeful neanderthals.

  • Harry Flashman

    Publius said:

    “We already knew the far right was full of vengeful neanderthals.”

    And I knew that the left is incapable of debating an issue on it’s merit and resorts to name calling in place of thought.

    Thanks for proving my point.

  • marcus.lewis

    Harry Flashman said:
    skyfet said:
    No where in my comment did I advocate anything else. And you’re right…there IS a rule of law. It’s called ESPIONAGE. And Possession of Stolen Property.

    He should be pursued under these laws, chrges, extradited, and brought back to face trial. And as I’ve said many times if he’s found guilty he should spend many years in a nice comfy 8×10 in Leavenworth with a cellmate who thinks his name is Ben Dover and not Assange.

    If he’s found not guilty so be it, but face the charges he should.

    Did I clear it up for you this time?

    I don’t really care about what this young lady said, but with that said–I think she is correct in her assessment that government needs to put security first. However, and tying this into what you stated, I don’t think what Assange is doing is considered espionage. That is why the senators are trying to get the Shield law through. I think what Assange is doing is wreckless and misguided; but, Assange didn’t leak the information. Private Manning leaked the information and he is the one who should be punished—not a publisher of information.

    Furthermore, this was a failure of the Pentagon/DoD. There should have been no way for this information to be able to be taken from its premises.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Still looking for any evidence of damage done except to the president of Tunisia. More sinister is her registration as an ‘independent.’ Same as Loughner.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    im wondering how she beat out miss arkansas, (who is much more beautiful and talented) i noticed retched carlson used the occasion to take a shot at joy behar… i just hope she doesnt have a sextape out there for WikiLeaks to get hold of, Assange kinda doesnt like being called a criminal, In her defense though, I dont understand why these girls get asked such hot button questions…..My advise to her though is to stay as far away from donald trump as she can

  • Nachi

    A brilliant, seasoned response! She’ll make a great GOPster with that brain!! Yup.

  • ChuckfromTacoma

    Bill Adkins, How can a seventeen year old be a registered any kind of voter ( outside of Cook County)?
    From where did you extract that information?

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    What to say?

    We are not Americans anymore…. we are citizens of the world since the internet became so involved in our lives.
    If the American government is doing illegal things to other citizens of the world.. I want to know because chances are I don’t agree.. and I don’t feel like paying the government to kill people unjustly, waste my money, or make my moral decisions for me(within reason).

    Wikileaks is sort of like the policemen for the citizens/ the proletariet, when the government is acting like a criminal we hear about it but not from the government.

    When our entire government is corrupt, we need a system of checks and balances that exists outside the governments boundaries.

    Taking away wikileaks is like taking away a conservatives right to use guns. If wikleaks is gone, where is our defense against the government?

    Do you understand?

  • Gasket

    It’s an ok answer for a 17y/o. Fallacious but acceptable.

  • LarryB

    It brings to mind lyrics from an old Julie Brown song:
    “Cause I’m a blonde,
    b-l-o-n-d,
    ‘Cause I’m a blonde,
    don’t you wish you were me!
    I can’t spell VW,
    but I’ve got a Porsche
    ‘Cause I’m a blonde.

    Teresa will grow up to be a beautiful woman who will be quite comfortable allowing her government to do her thinking for her.

  • D Right One

    Has anyone even researched what the international agreement is on trying to extradite someone from a foreign country to the USA based on the charges against Assange? Why does the right think anyone outside this country is accountable to our laws? If anything it’ll take time to negotiate with his country of residence. We know who he is and his whereabouts.

  • StewartIII
  • timzank

    The Real Royal King said:
    I will say I don’t see this going the way of Carrier Prejean and her Enhancements. That was terribly embarrassing for the rightist crowd.

    Actually King, it wasn’t embarassing for us, it illustrated clearly what a cut throat band of soulless pussies the leftards and the media are though. Didn’t hurt us a bit, only helped turn independents against lefties a little more. Thanks.

  • my dogs gone

    Ah, Fox investigates the wisdom of another 17 year old beauty queen.
    So much for her career…………………….

  • my dogs gone

    If Assange had published Obama’s birth certificate, would anyone be calling for his prosecution or cheering him as a hero?

  • hgovernick

    A genuine dope.

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