Carrie Prejean Getting Opposite Married

So wait. It's OK to get plastic surgery, enter a beauty pageant, answer your question in Palin-esque garbled English, tell the whole world gays shouldn't get married, while concealing nudie photos and countless "sex tapes," and you're still allowed to get married yourself?

Sounds fair.

Source: Qweerty

Sarah Palin Fans Love Her, Don't Know Much About Her

President Barack Obama took a lot of heat for his celebrity status, his "cult of personality." Some of it is deserved, of course. He did seem to come out of nowhere. And many of his supporters went overboard. Still, it could be argued that after eight years of the Bush Administration, some enthusiasm for someone totally and utterly different was warranted. But the McCain-Palin campaign tried to turn "celebrity" into a bad thing. The right-wing radio yakkers, FOX "News" and their followers played up this angle, and continue to.

So, whither Sarah Palin? She is no doubt a celebrity. There is also certainly a Carrie Prejean/Joe the Plumber "famous for being famous" air about her. Her fans are devoted in a way that rivals a cult. But they can't exactly say why they love her so much. She's "real" and she's "honest" is about the best they can do. Which is strange, since to me she seems utterly phony and has only a passing familiarity with the truth. Oh well. . .

Sarah Palin in 2012? Go for it!

Image from source, Raw Story

Sarah Palin is going to be inescapable for the next couple of weeks, with a media blitz that includes Oprah and Barbara Walters. You'd think she was white-hot popular, and a shoo-in for the 2012 Presidential race, right? Maybe not so much. As the excerpted article below shows, she does have enthusiastic support. . .among a small slice of the electorate. Probably that same slice that watches FOX "News" all day, and thought that George W. Bush did a heckuva job.

I think a run at it would be highly entertaining. First the primaries, where there is enough material available for her GOP competitors' negative ads. That'd be a hoot. And supposing she made it through that gauntlet, she'd then have to rally about 30% more of the electorate than she currently commands. Daunting task. President Obama would then just have to cobble together all the GOP bits, and let 'em roll. I say run her!

And a little bit of a sidebar now. Conservatives are very defensive about the treatment Palin has received, alleging it's a personal, character assassination. Possibly. A little. But there is more to it than that. For some time now, the GOP and its defenders have been hoisting up a slate of cartoon characters as their standard bearers. Palin. Carrie Prejean. Mike Huckabee. Michelle Bachmann. John Boner Boehner. Joe the freakin' Plumber. And they defend and support them with vigor. Until they don't (poor Levi Johnston, where have your defenders gone? Don't worry, Carrie Prejean will be there to join you soon).

When bloggers like me assail them, it is not entirely aimed at the public figure. Much of the effort put into these "attacks" is to point out the hypocrisy and unseriousness of their followers. Plus a whole lot of schadenfreude.

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Poll: Plurality of Americans do not like Sarah Palin

Looks like the voters are going rogue.
According to new CBS News figures [PDF link], 38 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Sarah Palin. Meanwhile, 37 percent are not paying attention, saying they do not know enough to form an opinion. . .

Read more at: Raw Story

Carrie Prejean's Sex Tape

I can't help it. This cracks me up. If you've clicked on this link, you have no reason to be offended, or appalled. Seriously. And while I don't have much use for Perez Hilton, kudos anyway.

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Carrie Prejean: Solo Sex, Lies and & Multiple Tapes

Image from source (via TMZ), EdgeBoston

The whole Carrie Prejean flap meant very little to me when it happened. A douchey gay blogger asked a political question, and a beauty queen answered in a "the Iraq doesn't have maps, such as"-type answer. For me, it had a lot less to do with her anti-gay marriage views as it did her word salad answer. But it was just a blip for me.

Then, she became a right-wing (naughty) poster child. She started popping up on FOX "News," and at all auspicious fundie events. She was a junior Sarah Palin in the making. But she was still a vacuous twit. Um, not that Palin isn't, mind you. Then came the story about the fake boobs, the soft-core nudie shots, and all of her very unlikely explanations about it (it was the wind!).

She shows up everywhere, speaking nonstop about how she's had her free speech rights taken away? WHEN? She never stops talking! Unless she's on Larry King Live. This week, she abruptly dropped a lawsuit against the pageant, when it was discovered that she had a solo sex video out there. Of course, the logical thing to do is go on FOX "News" and explain herself. On a very specific show of course. She's got a book to sell, and Sean Hannity wrote the foreword to it, so it's off to do Hannity! The host and authoress gave it their all, soft peddling the story as best they could. But something about Carrie's wide-eyed explanation made me instantly doubt her story. Sure enough, there was more to it. Much more.

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Prejean’s Boyfriend: Plenty More Tapes & She Asked Me to Lie

Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean became a darling of the anti-gay right after denouncing marriage equality on national television last April and then becoming a target for gay blogger Perez Hilton, who hurled an anti-woman slur at her on his video blog. The controversy that ensued swept Prejean into the embrace of the religious right, as she went on to make a commercial for the National Organization for Marriage (which opposes family parity for gays) and speaking at a megachurch. . .

Read more at: EdgeBoston

Carrie Prejean Meltdown

OK, just let me start by saying, I don't give a flying fig about beauty pageants. There isn't anything further from my radar. But Carrie Prejean, the Miss California contestant who started a firestorm with her "opposite marriage" opinions has become a right-wing star. And as such, she's become something of a political figure, right up there with Caribou Barbie Sarah Palin and (the O-Band is slipping) Mike Huckabee. So, this series of video clips is politically relevant. And hilarious.

Sean Hannity "Interviews" ex-Beauty Queen Carrie Prejean

Image from 05News

Or, himbo interviews bimbo. Seriously, Hannity is the guy who wrote the foreword to Prejean's new book. Which she's hawking on his show, while being interviewed by him. So you just know this is going to be a hard-hitting, no holds barred inquisition, right? Well, no. In fact both the host and subject do their very best to downplay this scandal as an attack on Miss Prejean's "free speech rights."

Um, what? This girl gave an almost unintelligible answer about gay marriage to a question from a super gay judge (Perez Hilton), and hasn't shut up about it since. She's no doubt much more famous, and now infamous (thanks to her "wind blown" accidentally half nude shots, and her solo "performance" art sex tape) than she ever would have been had she won the damned pageant. And I tell you what, I'm not buying her story. From the descriptions of the video, the camera starts at her. . .fingers. . .and pans to her vacuous face. Yet she claims she was alone when the video was shot? Who was running the camera, Carrie? Even if it weren't for that bit of contradiction, the expressions on her face would betray her anyway. She punctuates most of her words in her explanation with Tex Avery-style eye bugging that practically screams "I'm lying!!!"

Carrie Prejean Has to Pay for Boob Job?

Image from source, Joe.My.God.

You know, beauty pageants haven't held the slightest bit of interest for me since my little sister stopped participating in them back in the mid-80s. And trust me, those little girl pageants were nothing like the monstrosities they've become today. Even when Carrie Prejean, Miss California, was asked the gay marriage question by culture skank Perez Hilton, I wasn't much interested.

In fact, the only thing that made it newsworthy to me at the time was for what the news didn't focus on. In my opinion, she lost the pageant not for her political views, but for the fact that she answered the question with such imbecilic phrasing. "Opposite marriage?" She was as bad as that Miss Teen South Carolina contestant. And the Iraq, such as. . .

Anyway, since Prejean lost, she has parlayed her 15 minutes into an excruciating right-wing world tour, hailed as a hero. Ugh. So it is with great pleasure that I present the following excerpted story. . .

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Pageant Lawsuit: Pay Us For Your Fake Titties, Carrie Prejean!!!

Miss California USA pageant organizer K2 Productions has filed a counter-suit to Carrie Prejean's claim of religious discrimination, demanding (among other things) that she pay them back for her fake titties. . .

Read more at: Joe.My.God.

Olbermann: Carrie Prejean. . .WTF?

There is very little on this earth that interests me less than beauty pageants. And stupid, homophobic contestants only barely make that rise to blog-worthy. But here, Countdown with Keith Olbermann does a fantastic job taking this ridiculous new right-wing heroine apart. Love it.

Miss California USA: Naked Photos?

Image from source, PopCrunch

Let me start out by saying, I have no interest in beauty pageants, their contestants, or their "profound" utterances. I don't really care if Miss California USA Carrie Prejean doesn't like gay marriage. Who cares, she's a pageant queen! But the right-wingers took her up as a hero, and the thing that bugged me was that she came off more stupid than just homophobic.

There are daily news items on this woman, and she's being treated like her opinions matter. And while I'm still not particularly interested, the following story is something of a doozy. After all of the hubbub about her morals (even after it was revealed that the pageant people bought her a new set of ta-tas), this might actually be the story that makes her go away. Provided it is true of course. Could be one of those interweb hoaxes or something. Either way, I really don't care, unless it means we never have to hear from her again. Now, if only she could take "Joe the Plumber" down with her. Ahem, not literally of course.

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Miss California Nude Picture — Carrie Prejean Naked Photo Scandal

The blogosphere is ablaze with buzz about topless and semi-nude photos of controversial anti-gay marriage activist Miss California Carrie Prejean. We hear there’s a whole series of these suckers about to leak. The first photo, which appeared just a few minutes ago on TheDirty.com, shows a woman — who bares a stricking resemblance to the beauty queen — staring seductively into a camera while wearing only a pair of pink panties and using a strategically placed arm to cover her naughty bits. . .

Read more at: PopCrunch

National Organization for Opposite Marriage

Heh! This is pretty cute. No offense. . .

Miss California USA: How Dumb is She?

I know. Another post about a girl who's as DUMB as a post. And about as interesting. See, that's the conundrum I'm in as it pertains to Miss California, Carrie Prejean. Even though she made an anti-gay comment, I don't find pageant queens to be very newsworthy. Particularly when the news being made of her is focusing on entirely the wrong issue.

That's why the graphic displayed here (from Dan Savage, via AmericaBlog) is so perfect. It reminds us, not only is Ms. Prejean a homophobic bigot, she's a stupid homophobic bigot. The only thing that might have improved the graphic is the addition of Miss Teen South Carolina.