Carrie Prejean, Patriot
I’m going to beat O’Reilly to the punch on this one:
Miss California, Carrie Prejean, is a patriot.
For the record, I could care less about beauty pageants or the women who participate in them. However, this was something special.
Carrie Prejean is a young woman from San Diego, California, and a contestant in the 2009 Miss USA pageant.
Apparently, at some point during the judging process there’s a question and answer session between the judges and contestants, and Miss Prejean had the misfortune of being asked a loaded question by gay sleazebag gossip columnist Perez Hilton, who we find sticking his agenda – among other things – where it doesn’t belong. Here is their exchange:
Perez Hilton: “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?”
Prejean: “Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman. Thank you very much.”
Contrary to what the leftie sites are reporting, the crowd cheered wildly. (Youtube link here)
Well, unless you just got off a really slow boat from China, you know where this is going. Pageant directors were ‘upset’ and ‘offended’. Perez Hilton, in a classic display of liberal tolerance, called Miss Prejean a “dumb bitch”. Not to her face though (displaying, of course, some of that legendary liberal courage…)
Later, Miss Prejean was quoted as saying:
“It did cost me my crown,” Prejean continued. “It is a very touchy subject and [Hilton] is a homosexual, and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would’ve wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything.”
“I feel like I won,” she said. “I feel like I’m the winner. I really do.”
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a strong, courageous woman right there. My personal opinion of beauty contests aside, these women work incredibly hard and sacrifice so much of their young lives to the pursuit of the pageant crown. She had to know that her answer would doom her chances before she gave it. But instead of caving in and regurgitating some half-hearted politically-correct answer that may have kept her in the show, she stayed true to her beliefs and gave the only answer she could.
Did her politically-incorrect answer take her out of the running? Probably. But I’ll bet my last dollar that Miss Prejean, like any good person of faith and conviction, will sleep well tonight knowing she did the right thing.
-Cnation
Update: Michelle Malkin reports that not only did Hilton retract his apology (apparently, he apologized sometime today…), but then went on to refer to Miss Prejean as a “c-word”.
What kind of world do we live in when guys like Hilton matter?
-Cnation
Maybe Donald will put her in charge of the pageant. Who screens the questions for these pageants?
sacrifice their young lives? Gee, beauty really means you have to sacrifice things and never ever get anything handed to you on a fucking silver platter. Bullshit dude.
And as for her statement, just as she can say what she wants and have that crowd cheer, us “liberals” can boo at what she said. That’s the beauty of free speech. And so what if it was a loaded question, is it going to make her bleached, too-tanned brain explode? Should they just ask these girls simple questions to get the same generic responses? Wow, that’s really a contest.
My point is that to reach her level of achievement takes sacrifice on the way up. This is nothing new – success takes hard work; to be the best in a given area takes extraordinarily hard work. To throw it all away for the sake of your principals and convictions takes tremendous courage.
Again you missed the point. The liberal blogs were reporting that the people booed, while the video showed they actually cheered. The liberal press lied in order to make it seem as though she had no support when in fact she had substantial support.
No, and in fact it didn’t, did it? The liberal attack squad of Perez Hilton and those scuzzball event organizers may have gone ballistic, but Miss Prejean – arguably the one person in this whole thing who actually had a legitimate right to be upset – handled the whole thing with several orders of magnitude more poise and class than any of those creeps could ever dream of possessing.
-Cnation
I came across this blog by accident and decided to check it out. Here’s why I think you’re so full of shit:
1. Pretty much every sane person who is aware of this incident (admittedly few, probably) thinks Hilton is a scumbag for going after her for speaking her mind. Assuming that he represents “liberals” is moronic. He is blinded by his own agenda. I’m as pro-gay as anyone and I’m still offended by his actions.
2. I want you to think about this question honestly for a second. Would you have written this column praising her courage if she had voiced a pro-choice opinion? — You’re no better than Hilton. He is attacking her for disagreeing with him. You’re defending her for agreeing with you. This isn’t about freedom of speech. Don’t act like it is.
I welcome all points of view here, even ones that start off with such thoughtful eloquence as yours.
I don’t think he represents -all- liberals, a point which, frankly, I didn’t think needed clarification. However, his particular brand of liberalism – intolerant, racist, sexist/misogynistic and bigoted – is extremely common these days, and has become especially prevalent in the days since Obama took over the white house.
Well, let me ask you something – do you think I would have had to write a column praising her courage if she had voiced a pro-choice (I’m assuming you meant pro gay marriage) opinion?
I’m supporting her because she has the courage of her convictions, to the point that she threw everything she worked for away rather than sell out. That’s primarily what this is about, with the secondary issues being the incredible hypocrisy on the part of pro-gay activists and the liberal media on a national level.
As for the ‘freedom of speech’ thing, unless the Miss USA Pageant is now government-run (have they had TARP money shoved down their throats yet? I dunno…), this is not and never has been about freedom of speech. I’ll wear an “I love Perez Hilton” t-shirt for a week if you can point to one instance anywhere in my post where I said it was.
-Cnation
I missed something? How is Ms. Prejean a patriot? For having conviction, or for following sum conservative ideal of what America ‘should be’? America is a place for everyone, from anywhere and of any creed. The Perez Hiltons and Christian Right all have a place.
The “patriot” title of my post was really a nod to Bill O’Reilly’s ‘pinhead and patriots’ segment, wherein the ‘pinhead’ is someone who does something particularly idiotic, while the ‘patriot’ is one who does something particularly good or courageous. It was not necessarily meant to be taken literally, although I probably do need to remember that my audience here consists of more than just “factor” viewers.
That said, our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principals, so sure, I think holding and adhering to those principals as she did is part and parcel of being a true patriot.
The problem is that while you and I might respect the idea of opposing viewpoints and open, honest debate, people like Hilton – as well as extremists on either end of the political and ideological spectrum – simply want the opposing viewpoint silenced. There’s nothing American about that.
-Cnation
My sister is gay and has been living with the same ‘wife’ for 25 plus years. Frankly, I do believe gays who have lived together for a long period should probably be entitled to the same ‘tax benefits’ (rules of accounting) and perhaps a few other benefits that any other ‘pair’ of lovers enjoys. Marriage? To force a church to allow marriages, when they’ve spent centuries cultivating what many people consider to be conservative (dare I say religious) family values is wrong. Maybe there is a place for gay marriages, but not through by trampling on conventional churches. It is like forcing someone who honestly believes that killing is a sin to go kill others in Vietnam or Iraq – two wars that many people believe were wrong from the start. Anytime you penalize people or institutions for choosing something that they believe is dead wrong, you trample the rights of the ‘minority’ simply because a thin majority might be making a bad decision.
It requires courage to stand up for what you believe, even in the face of political pressure or peer pressure and those few people who do so are sterling examples that perhaps there is hope for mankind. Carrie Prejean is one of them. As the post said, she knew she was going to lose with that answer and gave it anyway. She had courage and integrity. She should be given a job by any firm that wants trusted Executives and despite being young and maybe inexperienced, you can train someone to be an Executive, but you can’t train someone to gain integrity. She’s already got that and is worth her weight in gold.
On the other hand, the man who asked the question, rather than being a real man with real integrity and saying “Ok, she was courageous enough to tell a gay man NO and that’s a great woman.” instead, this man said “Well, her integrity isn’t an issue and her moral opinion must obviously be flawed” and perhaps even secretly, “I’ve found a way to get 1001 press releases with my name on them by abusing someone who the nation would normally love.” I have never seen Hilton on TV because I don’t watch crap on TV and if I ran into that guy for using his power to promote a gay agenda at the expense of a woman with that kind of integrity, I would beat his MF a** into the ground and I am one of those far-left, peace loving guys who thinks Vietnam and Iraq and violence in general is dead wrong – except when I encounter men who beat women or who molest kids or display such a lack of integrity that someone who has real talent like Prejean, take a hit from slime balls like Hilton. I hope the guy gets aids and dies and I get to watch him suffer – that royal piece of S*** If gays get to be parents of adopted kids – great. I don’t really agree with the concept, but I know a few gals who have raised kids and their kids are pretty sharp. Its an experiment that is unfolding and we’ll see how it works out. It might even work out well. But if a guy like Hilton ever gets near one of my kids (I teach), I’d flatten him: he’s a molester and the kind of guy any man or woman, gay or straight, left or right, Dem or GOP, should love to hate. He should be banned from television and sent to the same anonymous place in history as the guy who shot Lennon.
Trump should have given Carrie a million bucks for that answer – an answer fully loaded with class and integrity; it was simply sterling – and for most hetro males, made her all the more gorgeous. If she ever wants a million dollar job, we’ve got one waiting for her – anytime. She could be 80 years old and ugly as sin and we’d hire her in a blink because inside she has things 99.999% of people never develop in their entire life: courage and integrity.
I think, by now, we should all know that the problem wasn’t her response to the loaded question. I agree it just shouldn’t have been asked and that she answered it very well, no matter how you feel about the issue, itself.
My understanding, at this point, is that the problem swirled around the fact that she passed on opportunities to tell the full truth when asked about whether she had any history that would or could embarrass the “title”, even though she was told the issue could be discussed. Then, she flubbed around with improbably excuses for the nipples like, “it was windy”, while her hair hung low. If she has a case against the photographer, let her prove that in court. One of them is wrong. There was the confusion about her age, the showboating with a religious group, right out of the chute, and, finally, the very carefully-worded explanation by the show organizers that she would not have won, anyway, based on corrected point counts, even discounting the impolitic answer, and that worthy competitors deserved fairness, only for it all to be, somehow, overturned by Lord Trump, that impossible publicity hound, from on high, forgiving her sins! Please!! I agree that she’s a “victim” here but so are her competitors who, as I saw on TV, actually won on points. End of story!
Personally, I don’t care much one way or the other about same sex marriages or what have you. I do see both sides. If you love someone else enough to want them to be a part of you life and soul forever, it shouldn’t matter if they are the same sex as you or not. On the flip side, the initial point and basics of a relationship and marriage would be altered. Males and females were put on this earth to procreate. Gay relationships don’t foster this. So like I said I can see both sides of the spectrum. It’s all how you take it, it’s what you believe in and it’s what you accept for your life. If you think that gay relationships are wrong to you and your beliefs, that’s fine. Marry the opposite sex, have your 2 kids and a dog and live the life you want. Feel free to state what you believe in if asked and that’s all. And the same goes for people who want to be in a gay relationship.
What’s driving me nuts are these gays and lesbians who are trying to force their beliefs down other people’s throats. They’re trying to force them to believe what they do because if they don’t, that makes them all “ignorant bitches”. I know the gays and lesbians want their equal rights and like any other monumentally thought changing revolution, it takes time and it doesn’t happen by shoving your thoughts, lifestyles and choices down other people’s throats. Perfect example, black men and women. How many years did it take for us as a country to accept black people as part of the family? Over a hundred plus. For some, it still hasn’t happened but for a great majority of the public, it has. There’s no more segregation, daily violence and hatred. It took time just as this will take time. Within the next 50-100 years, this won’t be anywhere near as much of an issue anymore. They can have the lives they want and we won’t have to be subjected to their billboarding like you see now. It won’t be such a loaded, touchy and controversial subject like it is right here and now.
It’s not fair that someone who was asked a legitimate opinion based question based around this topic is forced to tell how they really feel and be persecuted or lie and be praised. These people who look to billboard and plaster their lives onto others need to be silenced. They aren’t contributing anything to society other than fueling fires for their own entertainment. To not silence these people is like otherwise it’s saying, “You can have your own opinion… so long as it conforms with today’s society or it matches my opinion.”