I hate to waste any more time on the Miss California imbroglio, but I’m afraid we haven’t heard the last from Carrie Prejean.
“There’s a lot of people cheering you tonight that you stood on your principles, that you put the principles above winning,” Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity told Prejean when she appeared on his television program. “Not enough people do that. And I admire you a lot for it.”
I guess bad sports are to be admired. Though Prejean says she would’ve won the title had she not been asked about gay marriage, Miss North Carolina had higher scores throughout the competition.
She earned the title. But conservatives — alleged supporters of a meritocracy — choose to overlook that, embracing another victim who isn’t in an effort to gin up their fundamentalist base.
Conservative blogger Matt Lewis of Townhall.com concluded that Prejean seems destined to turn up on the campaign trail.
“Aside from the obvious point that this was a travesty of justice and that she is being punished for answering honestly — and standing up for what she believes in — how long do you think it will be before Miss California is out campaigning with a prominent Republican running for office?” he wrote.
Maybe we’ll see her campaigning alongside Sarah Palin, another former beauty pageant contestant fond of playing the victim card.
“Most would agree that it’s the job of journalists to ask the ‘right questions’ but politicians from all sides have to realise that the ‘right question’ from a journalistic point of view might feel very ‘wrong’ to them especially if it gets them hot under the collar,” [Palin] said (in an interview during which she complained about “unfair” interviews conducted by anchorwoman/cheerleader Katie Couric).
If only Couric and Miss America judge Perez Hilton had asked the “right questions.”
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