Posted 12/19/2006 05:32:00 PM by Douglas

Why does anyone care about Miss USA? I thought the interest in such things dropped off right after the swimsuit competition. I was wrong.

Trump met with Conner earlier Tuesday morning fully expecting to fire her, he said. But he walked away convinced the young woman was a "good person" with a "good heart" and not deserving of the boot.

"She left a small town in Kentucky, and she was telling me that she got caught up in the whirlwind of New York," Trump said at a news conference with Conner at his side. "It's a story that has happened many times before to many women and to many men who came to the Big Apple. They wanted their slice of the Big Apple, and they found out it wasn't so easy."

Conner won the title in April and moved to New York. Since then, she has partied hard, admitting she frequented clubs, where she threw drinks back — despite being underage. She turned 21 on Monday.

That's her crime? Drinking the demon alcohol when she was 20 years and 11 months old, and she's only going to rehab? Why not GitMo? As told by Jon Stewart, she was also seen making out with Miss Teen USA, so the plot thickens.

"My personal demons are my personal demons," she told a horde of reporters.

Which prompted Stewart to quip, "my personal demons are paying money to watch your personal demons." And how!

But let's put the blame where it really belongs: The full degradation of our society brought on by the feminists.

In a way, says Steiner-Adair, what's happened to the culture is a perversion of the original feminist movement and the so-called sexual revolution.

That may be a bit much, but to paraphrase Marx (Groucho, not Karl), "sometimes a drunk-whore is just a drunk whore."