...like Katie Couric. I want people to take me seriously," Miss USA Rachel Smith said last week when speaking to the Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network.
In the same talk she mentioned she wanted to do “some serious news” … “but some modeling too." That’s probably why her first comment when she was interviewed about the importance of winning the title was describing what she wore, “"I was wearing, like, a hot pink Rocawear sweatsuit and paraded around my room at the Waldorf, just dancing with my crown!"
No room for parody here.
Katie Couric’s pr spokesperson offered this comment, “"If she continues to offer such profound insight, she will not have to worry about anyone taking her seriously." Hint, when someone insults you, respond by elevating the conversation rather than getting down in the mud too.
When you throw mud you get dirty.
By the way, one of my favorite comparisons is witty, seemingly going negative yet ends on a note of admiration - a positive comparision – all packed into one pithy sentence.
Back in 1931 Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein drove down a street together. Pedestrians waved and cheered. Chaplin explained the scene this way:
"The people are applauding you
because none of them understands you,
and applauding me, because
everybody understands me."
