I’m Sorry? Miss Universe Says What?

24 April 2009 at 10:37 am (Funny Things, Random, Why Is This News?) (Crystal Steward, Dayana Mendoza, Guantanamo Bay, Miss Universe, Miss USA, Paula M. Shugart)

LOL. She’s not making many people think beauty queens ARE smart beings.

“It was a loooot of fun!,” Mendoza wrote, describing how she and Stewart met U.S. military personnel and took rides around the camp, which is encircled by a barbed-wire fenced, minefields and watchtowers. She said they also visited a bar on the base and the “unbelievable” beach there.

“We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the(y) recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting,” she wrote.

“I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful,” she added.

Her apparent reason for the comments, via her blog (which has since been “mysteriously” removed) are as follows:

“Dayana Mendoza’s comments on her blog were in reference to the hospitality she received while meeting the members of the U.S. military and their families who are stationed in Guantanamo,” Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart said in the statement.

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