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Miss Virginia: Even I've been interviewed by Chris Matthews

fivethirtyeight.com — Kristi Glakas, 3-time Miss Va. and whip-smart U. of Va. honor student: Palin's hiding from the press was a giant turnoff; Glakas doing her level best to push back against the stereotypes set by other former pageant contestants Miss Teen South Carolina and Miss Alaska entrant Sarah Palin.

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  • niradg, on 10/22/2008, -0/+6"What offended me and made me sad about those comments," said Glakas, a resident for many years in northern Virginia, "is that I've been to every county, every part of this state. What's best about Virginia is its diversity. The people, the geography. We have every class, every race, an amazing immigrant population... Virginia is the birthplace of America. To say that part of Virginia is not part of the real America is just offensive."

    I wonder if she's single...
  • WilliamCrandall, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2
    "The witty Glakas had the line of the day. Saying she was doing her level best to push back against the stereotypes set by other former pageant contestants Miss Teen South Carolina and Miss Alaska entrant Sarah Palin (formerly Sarah Heath), she pointed out that Palin's hiding from the press was a giant turnoff and gave beauty queens a bad name.

    "Even I've been interviewed by Chris Matthews." "

    Ouch.
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