Marissa Powell, Miss Utah USA, Bombs Pageant Answer and Earns Place in Pageant History (VIDEO)
Marissa Powell is quickly becoming a household name after she gave a memorable, if not regrettable, answer during the 2013 Miss America contest on Sunday night insisting that we need to "create education better" in response to a question regarding income inequality.
When asked about women being the primary earners in 40 percent of American families and yet are still continuing to earn less than men, Powell said: "I think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to ... (silence) ... figure out how to create jobs right now. That is the biggest problem."
She continued, indicating who she believes is responsible and how it could be fixed.
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"And I think especially the men are, um, seen as the leaders of this and so we need to try to figure out how to create education better so that we can solve this problem. Thank you."
Her body language went to suggest that she knew she sounded incoherent while giving such a poor answer. And it is hard not to feel bad for her after such an answer, but to her credit she kept her head up and smiled on.
Connecticut accountant Erin Brady went on to take the Miss USA crown and will spend the next year traveling the globe and raising awareness of breast cancer and poverty.
In the pageant's final minutes, Brady aced her question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold widespread DNA tests.
"If someone is being prosecuted and committed a crime, it should happen. There are so many crimes that if that's one step closer to stopping them, then we should be able to do so," she said.
