Carrie Keeps Her Crown
May 12th, 2009 | 11 responses
In internet time this is old news. But the irony that earlier on the very day that the NY Assembly voted a bill to legalize gay marriage still more photos of Carrie Prejean were revealed makes it too hard to resist.
That last batch — taken when “Carrie was the ripe ol’ LEGAL age of 20″ — came after she was the featured event in a press conference held by The Donald in the city of Sodom. There he announced his ruling, Miss California can keep her crown:
Once again, our weary and deeply conflicted nation turned to Donald Trump for moral guidance on Tuesday, and once again, the wise old sage reached deep into his soul and delivered this proclamation: She’s blonde, she’s hot, she stays.
In a question-and-answer period, Mr. Trump declined to state his own view on same-sex marriage. “This isn’t about me,” he said, to some laughter among the news media.
“Come on, Donald, say it,” Ms. Prejean prodded, but to no avail. He said that gay marriage is a big, complicated issue, and that he understands both sides.
Oh, that Donald. Sooo diplomatic.
What we’re left with is gay and lesbian activists people continuing to pursue their revolutionary quest for inclusion in the military, in places of worship and for legally sanctioned committed relationships, while the protect marriage movement finds itself rallying behind a woman who lied, again, about posing for nudie photos. (Prejean has claimed that some of the images are Photoshopped.)
OTHER PRICELESS REACTION: David Shuster on MSNBC, Can I Vomit Right Now?; Dan Savage, Clown keeps crown; Perez Hilton, The timing on this couldn’t be more perfect!; Media Matters for America, Cable networks find another reason to air racy photos; Hot Air, “Note to pageant organizers: If you don’t want your spokeswomen swept up in political controversies, don’t ask them questions about divisive political issues. End of story.”
The Miss California USA organization released a public service announcement Sunday featuring a whole host of other pageant winners who disagree with Prejean on marriage… (after the jump)
LATER: On the Today Show she details the “wardrobe malfunction” and names the photographer. The Donald says he reviewed the photos carefully and “they were magnificent photos and…she looked very beautiful.”
Then they scooted over to Good Morning America. There The Donald said, “I reviewed the pictures. We’re living in the 21st century… I mean I’ve seen bad pictures. These were not bad.”
GMA focused some on the same-as- Obama’s-position quote (ignored on Today). I’m glad to have the Right push Obama and Hillary on marriage. They’ve got to know which way the wind is blowing.
Go here for more discussion around that. Here for Pam Spaulding’s look at press secretary Robert Gibbs fielding questions from journalists about marriage and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
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11 Responses to “Carrie Keeps Her Crown”
Actresses have been nakeder on peta posters and it's not posing nude. Unless the goal of the shoot was to publish nude photo's then those are just extra shots that caught nip. Big deal, I thought conservatives were supposed to be the repressed ones. The woman is inarticulate and not very smart (by what I've heard from her) but you guys are making yourselves look stupid by this idiotic frenzied attack.
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Her postion on gay rights is the same as Obama's.
“…still more photos of Carrie Prejean were revealed makes it too hard to resist.”
Yes, this whole episode had everything to do with these 'racy' photos:
http://www.abc6.com/news/rhodeisland/44758027.html
From the article: “Castonguay herself has taken similar photos, which the pageant had no problem with.”
I'm sure we can count on a few here to begin labeling Miss R.I. a wind up doll as well.
Leonidas: So much the worse for Obama, then.
Dear God, this whole new obsession with Ms. Prejean is making me miss the good old days of TMV's Palin obsessions.
I don't agree with Ms. Prejean's view re: gay marriage, but c'mon, she was ambushed with the question. And should she have even been asked a question from someone who would only accept one answer? Perez Hilton is a tool.
Absolutely she should be asked a question with one acceptable answer, if the questioner thinks she might not give it. It falls a little flat if you get the expected answer, but is quite useful if you don't.
Soooo, she's asked a question regarding an OPINION and it should equal the opinion of the questioner? Again, I actually agree with Perez Hilton regarding said opinion, but she was set up to answer the question with the answer he wanted to hear or fail the “test”. That sucks. It was a damn beauty pageant for f**k's sake. I stand by my opinion that Perez is a tool. However, I don't demand that you, Ryan, agree with my opinion.
If someone asks for her OPINION regarding Jews, and she states that her OPINION is that they are evil, control everything and should be killed, would it be unreasonable to express disapproval of her OPINION?
Yes, she was set up. Yes, it was a test. She still failed it.
Not wanting homosexuals to be allowed to marry, while misguided and kind of stupid, being compared to thinking Jews are evil and should be killed is like comparing reckless driving (a crime) to first degree murder (also a crime, but of a much worse degree). Sorry Ryan, the world is not black and white. We moderates see the full palette of grays.