.....As soon as co-host Vanessa Minnillo invited Miss USA to pick a judge’s name from a bowl of index cards, widespread howls broke out at the mere mention of “USA.” The verbal derision continued as judge Tony Romo asked Smith to pick one moment in her life she would relive.Definitely not this one.Smith soldiered through her answer, describing an educational trip to South Africa. Catcalls and whistles nearly drowned out Smith’s reply until she wrapped up with “Buenos noches, Mexico.”I wouldn’t have been so polite.None of Miss USA’s fellow Americans participating in the interview segment — neither Minnillo, nor macho co-host Mario Lopez, nor the dashing Romo — came to Smith’s defense. Instead, Minnillo pleaded briefly with the unruly mob: “Okay, una momento, por favor.” Lopez stood mute with a dumb grin on his dimpled face. Pathetic.In fact, Smith was subjected to anti-American hatred throughout the week-long event. Last week, during the contestants’ national costume fashion show, Smith smiled bravely as a rowdy outdoor crowd hissed and booed at her. According to pageant observers, no other contestants received such treatment.Pitifully, Donald Trump and his Miss Universe officials are downplaying Smith’s experience — ignoring the fact that the last time the pageant was held in Mexico, Miss USA was abused in similar fashion. 1993 Miss USA Kenya Moore was infamously heckled when chosen for the semi-finals that year.Just a tiny minority of America haters, right? How quickly we forget.Do you remember what happened in Guadalajara in 2004 during an Olympics-qualification soccer match between the U.S. and Mexico? The stadium erupted in boos during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Fans yelled “Osama! Osama!” as the U.S. was eliminated by Mexico.The following year, in March 2005, Mexican soccer fans again cheered the al Qaeda mastermind’s name at a World Cup qualifier. ESPN reported the audience again booed and whistled during the U.S. national anthem, and plastic bags filled with urine were reportedly tossed on American players.One Mexican fan told the Christian Science Monitor: “‘Every schoolboy knows about 1848. . . . When they robbed our territory,’ referring to when Texas, California and New Mexico were annexed to the U.S. as part of a peace treaty ending the war between the two countries, ‘that was the beginning.’“.....
