Something else that I think really
has to be looked at in a serious way -
This person graduated high school without knowing these things.
"Who won World War II?" Okay, we don't know if that really happened.
But the Failure to know about the Korean War and stating that North Korea is an "ally" is documented. And face it, the "trail" goes on and on from there.
The time for charismatic people to "charm" their way through school clearly has to end, i.m.o. Face it, it REALLY happened, we just came within a hair's breadth of having somebody as the President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces who isn't aware that Africa is a continent. It's the schools' responsibility to Fail students who are failing. She should have been left back; instead, the Homecoming Queen was patted on the back and told to keep smiling and look pretty.
Maybe it's actually the Educational System that failed her, by not being willing to admit that this person has a learning deficit and/or was not learning what she was supposed to be - what every single one of her classmates must have been learning.
Again - face it - you don't graduate high school not knowing that Africa is a continent unless something untoward and unethical is going on. But I wouldn't be surprised if her high school's football team won the championship that year.
"Everybody run - the Home-coming Queen has got a gun."
P.S. - One thing I'll say in her defense though - and i.m.o. this is another educational failure because it should have been obvious but was apparently not caught by the media -
Couric asked her to name a newspaper
which they put in front of her in the morning.
That - obviously - is a different thing from not being able to name a single newspaper at all.