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March 27, 2009 Guantanamo Bay This week, Guantanamo!!! It was an incredible experience. We arrived in Gitmo on Friday and stared going around the town, everybody knew Crystle and I were coming so the first thing we did was attend a big lunch and then we visited one of the bars they have in the ...
Miss Universe Visits Guantánamo Bay
Miss Universe Visits Guantánamo Bay
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com — The reigning Miss Universe writes on her blog that she had a lovely time visiting Guantánamo Bay... last week. (more) Miss Universe Visits Guantánamo Bay
Miss Universe says had lot of fun in Guantanamo | Lifestyle
reuters.com — MIAMI (Reuters) - A "relaxing, calm, beautiful place" may not be everyone's description of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,... where the United States holds about 240 prisoners in a detention center that has drawn condemnation from around the world. But this was ... (more) Miss Universe says had lot of fun in Guantanamo | Lifestyle
Gitmo!!! Awesome!!!!
slate.com — Last week Miss Universe visited Gitmo, and blogged about it here . This is not a joke.... I highlighted my favorite bits. This week, Guantanamo!!! It was an incredible experience. We arrived in Gitmo on Friday and stared going around the town, ... (more) Gitmo!!! Awesome!!!!
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Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo: 'A Loooot Of Fun!'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — The current 'Miss Universe' Dayana Mendoza (formerly Miss Venezuela) and 'Miss America' Crystal Stewart visited US troops stationed in Guantanamo Bay last week, the New York Times reports. Here's Mendoza's account of the visit from her pageant blog last Friday. She says the trip "was a loooot of fun!" This week, Guantánamo!!! It was an incredible experience...All the guys from the Army were amazing with us. We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It ...

Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo: 'A Loooot Of Fun!'
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The current 'Miss Universe' Dayana Mendoza (formerly Miss Venezuela) and 'Miss America' Crystal Stewart visited US troops stationed in Guantanamo Bay last week, the New York Times reports. Here's Mendoza's account of the visit from her pageant blog last Friday. She says the trip "was a loooot of fun!" This week, Guantánamo!!! It was an incredible experience...All the guys from the Army were amazing with us. We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It ...

Shocka!!! Dayana Mendoza (Miss Universe) Writes About Her Visit To GITMO, Outrage Ensues
The Jawa Report — ... I am posting it in its entirety, in case the original post is removed for being just too damn embarrassing to beauty queens everywhere. (Perhaps somewhere Miss Teen South Carolina is feeling a little bit better.) Don't appear to appreciate Miss Universe thoughts on GITMO. Her write up was a bit silly, but that's besides the point. Unfortunately for the left, she didn't speak of torture, waterboarding, prisoner abuse. Her omission of the aforementioned puts her in a league, according to the leftist, of idiots. Deep down in the bowels of their conscious they really worry, ...

Miss Universe ♥s Gitmo!
Firedoglake — ... Ms. Mendoza, who competed as Miss Venezuela, has a blog on the pageant’s Web site, and this account of the visit appeared there last Friday, after her deployment: ...

Miss Universe And Miss USA Visit Gitmo
Pirate's Cove — Yeah, I’ll jump on the wonderful bandwagon that John Lilyea started Miss Universe and Miss USA have taken a firsthand look at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay. The beauty pageant winners took part in a VIP tour to entertain American military personnel at the prison in Cuba. Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza is blogging on the pageant Web site about her visit with Miss USA Crystle Stewart. Detention center spokesman Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt said Monday he doesn’t know if any ...

Miss Universe Blogs About Her Trip To Gitmo
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Oh, there's more. Much more. Every sentence is a delightful little sip of candy-flavored brain poison. I just wonder if, you know...the Universe might deserve a better representative than someone who dots her torture center travelogue with emoticons. But who knows? Maybe it doesn't! ...

Miss Universe Blogs About Her Trip To Gitmo
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Oh, there's more. Much more. Every sentence is a delightful little sip of candy-flavored brain poison. I just wonder if, you know...the Universe might deserve a better representative than someone who dots her torture center travelogue with emoticons. But who knows? Maybe it doesn't! ...

Oh, The Torture: Miss Universe Visits Club Gitmo
JammieWearingFool — ... Rumor has it some prisoners volunteered for torture after seeing this babe arrive. This week, Guantanamo!!! It was an incredible experience. We arrived in Gitmo on Friday and stared going around the town, everybody knew Crystle and I were coming so the first thing we did was attend a big lunch and then we visited one of the bars they have in the base. We talked about Gitmo and what is was like living there. The next days we had a wonderful time, this truly was a memorable trip! We hung out with the guys from the East Coast and they showed us the boat inside and out, how ...

Miss Universe Displays Better Judgment than President Obama
Power Line — ... As the last-linked post above noted, Ms. Mendoza's relations with Hugo Chavez were apparently somewhat frosty, and he did not congratulate her on her victory. Now Miss Mendoza, who is enjoying her year as Miss Universe, has surfaced once again--at Guantanamo Bay! She and the 2008 Miss USA, Crystle Stewart, were invited to tour the base and meet with troops there. Miss Mendoza wrote about the experience on her blog at the Miss Universe web site: ...

Miss Universe Calls GITMO: “Relaxing Calm and Beautiful”
Nice Deb — ... I visited the Miss Universe Website, linked to in the Reuters article, and her post seems to have been scrubbed. The latest entry says: ...

The World’s Sexiest Torture Apologist
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Caracas-born Mendoza, 22, who visited the facility March 20-25 along with Miss USA Crystle Stewart, 27, enthused about her Guantanamo trip as an “incredible experience” in a blog entry posted on the Miss Universe website dated March 27, 2009 (http://www.missuniverse.com/missuniverse/blog.php). ...

Miss Universe Had Faboo Time at Guantanamo Bay
Flopping Aces — ... camp for foreign terrorism suspects. Critics have condemned it as a symbol of abuses in Washington’s war on terrorism launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Caracas-born Mendoza, 22, who visited the facility March 20-25 along with Miss USA Crystle Stewart, 27, enthused about her Guantanamo trip as an “incredible experience” in a blog entry posted on the Miss Universe website dated March 27, 2009 [Note: The web site has apparently been scrubbed. This is the only mention you will find.] “It was a loooot of ...

Quote of the Day
Shakesville — "It was a loooot of fun! I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful."—The reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, on her blog, after her visit to Guantanamo. The post was later removed. ...

Miss Universe's 'Calm and Beautiful' Gitmo Bay Blog Removed
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Last Friday, Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza posted her impressions of Guantanamo Bay -- which apparently was "such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful" that she "didn’t want to leave" -- at her official blog. ...

Miss Universe Guantanamo Blog Post Taken Down
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... was there in 2002, singing "The devil went down to Gitmo, he was looking for some Taliban" in front of cheering soldiers. The Victoria's Secret models visited in December 2007, and participated in a Christmas parade. Portland rockers Everclear were there in 2008 and Art Alexakis, the band's leader, said "we had a great time." Mendoza was crowned Miss Universe last year at a pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam. __ On the Net: Miss Universe's blog: http://www.missuniverse.com/missuniverse/blog.php ...

Miss Universe Guantanamo Blog Post Taken Down
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... was there in 2002, singing "The devil went down to Gitmo, he was looking for some Taliban" in front of cheering soldiers. The Victoria's Secret models visited in December 2007, and participated in a Christmas parade. Portland rockers Everclear were there in 2008 and Art Alexakis, the band's leader, said "we had a great time." Mendoza was crowned Miss Universe last year at a pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam. __ On the Net: Miss Universe's blog: http://www.missuniverse.com/missuniverse/blog.php

Down the Mammary Hole: Miss Universe Club Gitmo Post Disappears
JammieWearingFool — ... base. In a brief mention of the detainee camp, Mendoza said her group "saw the jails, where they shower, how they recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books." She described the prison only as "very interesting." In place of her posting Wednesday was a statement from Paula M. Shugart, president of the Miss Universe Organization, who said Mendoza and Miss USA Crystle Stewart had gone to Guantanamo on a USO tour to boost the morale of U.S. troops. The link now takes you here . Statement by Paula M. Shugart, President of the Miss Universe Organization regarding ...

From the Mouths of Babes
Power Line — ... about Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza, who was invited to tour Guantanamo Bay by the USO. She was impressed by the facility and the U.S. soldiers she met there, and wrote a cheerful, positive account of her visit on her blog at the Miss Universe site, as she has done with visits to other locales. ...

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