\nYou’re Fired?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n The organizers of the Miss USA pageant said Thursday they are evaluating the “behavioral and personal issues” of the reigning winner and will decide her future within a week.<\/p>\n Pageant officials and \n“I can’t really talk about it now,” Trump said. “But we have to make a decision. There is no question about that.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n A 5-foot-5 blonde who lives in New York, Conner has been competing in pageants since age 4. She won the title of Young Miss Russell County in Kentucky at the county fair when she was 13, and by 2002 she was second runner-up in Miss Teen USA. She finished fourth in the Miss Universe pageant in July.\n<\/p>\n \nTrump said if Conner gets the boot runner-up Miss California Tamiko Nash would take over as Miss USA.\n<\/p>\n \nThis wouldn’t be the first time Trump has dealt with such a scenario. In 2002, Russia’s Oxana Fedorova won Miss Universe but was stripped [heh] of her title after violating her contract.\n<\/p>\n \n“We had a Miss Universe from Russia that was a total disaster, and we fired her, and Miss Panama took over and she did great,” Trump said.\n<\/p>\n \nTrump said he had not spoken with Conner.\n<\/p>\n \nA telephone message left for Conner with her grandmother was not immediately returned Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \nHonestly, sometimes I think we men are just hung up on women’s personal issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just in time for the holidays, our ever diligent media have added a new word for breasts to our mammary-denotation-starved nomenclature: “personal issues.” Miss USA’s ‘personal issues’ scrutinized You’re Fired? The organizers of the Miss USA pageant said Thursday they are evaluating the “behavioral and personal issues” of the reigning winner and will decide her future within a week. Pageant officials and Scrooge McDuck Donald Trump, who co-owns the Miss<\/p>\n\n
Scrooge McDuck<\/strike> Donald Trump, who co-owns the Miss Universe Organization with NBC, would not say what Kentucky native Tara Conner, 20, had done to prompt the serious evaluation.\n<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.eskuel.net\/imgblog\/2006\/07\/missusa6.jpg\")
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