Miss Universe: "They like, totally stole my blog!"

The original of reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza's controversial "gushing on Gitmo" blog entry is gone. It vanished from the Miss Universe website, according to the New York Times Lede blog, and been replaced by a dry and official-sounding statement about the visit :

An enthusiastic first-person account by the reigning Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza, of her visit to the United States naval base and detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba last week has been removed from her blog, two days after The Lede first reported the March 27 post, and a day after it was reported on by Reuters and The Associated Press and excerpted on Web sites around the world.

The original text of her "Gitmo gush" blog entry is available at the New York Times here.

In response, Dayana Mendoza exclaimed:

Oh my God! They like, totally stole my blog! At least I still have my crown and trophy. If I lost those....Oh my God!

I'm totally holding on to them so I don't looose them!

And like, please dooon't kill me just because I'm beautiful!


Hey missy, come "reign" on my parade anytime you want...but don't write any reviews if you visit my favorite torture camp--my former high school.

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Photo credit: Gaye Gerard/Getty Images via New York Times Lede blog

Miss Universe: Gitmo is "a loooot of fun"

With plenty of sports, recreation, leisure and natural beauty, Cuba's the perfect vacation spot...for um, natural beauties. The prisoners of war and their torturers like it too!

Especially at Guantanamo Bay, where W's military contingent there liked to practice "extreme waterboarding"--back in the good ol' days before a humanitarian became President.


From 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 the opinion of reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, who visited the U.S. naval facility in eastern Cuba this month on a trip organized by the United Service Organizations (USO) which supports U.S. troops...

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.

"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.

Hey, baby! Bend me over, "stand me up" for hours--and let's play with the little doggies, too! I'll do whatever you want. C'mon -- Gitme at Gitmo!
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