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The 6 Craziest Carrie Prejean Moments

Carrie Prejean’s meltdown on Larry King Live Wednesday was only the latest in the dethroned beauty queen’s public spectacles. WATCH VIDEO of our favorite Miss California USA moments, from her first use of “opposite marriage” to her brief stint as a weather girl.

Miss Eloquent

It’s hard to believe there was ever a time when “opposite marriage” wasn’t in the American lexicon, isn’t it? When Perez Hilton asked Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, about her thoughts on gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant in April 2009, her rambling, controversial reply started the clock on her 15 minutes of fame ticking.

Miss Martyr

A few weeks later, Prejean held a press conference where she invoked her WWII vet grandfather, who fought to protect her Constitutional right to say things like “opposite marriage.”

Miss Sunshine

Later that month, Prejean found the sympathetic audience she was looking for in the Fox and Friends crew, who brought her on as a guest host. They had her give the weather update, and even let her mangle the word “amok.”

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November 12, 2009 | 3:52pm
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periscope

Carrie must have made a faustian bargain. She got great beauty in exchange for little brains. And both are apparent.

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4:30 pm, Nov 12, 2009
osea65

The only apparent thing here, is your own terrible inner battle with stupidity!!!!

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7:57 am, Nov 13, 2009
roadhunter

Wow! I think that's the worse comeback I've ever seen online.

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12:26 pm, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Beep Beep roadkill!!!!

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11:05 pm, Nov 13, 2009
roadhunter

I'd argue that. I don't find her the least bit beautiful. She's a stereotypical Barbie blonde. You want beatuy? Take a look at Mary Louise Parker, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansen, Lee Le Sobieski, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Anniston, etc.
I'm not saying I'd kick her out of bed, but people like you are the reason we're flooded with images of skanks like Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson.

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12:26 pm, Nov 13, 2009
Warehouseone

I agree 100%
Scarlett Jo is in another league altogether

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4:58 pm, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Roadrunner, none of the women you mention, would ever even give you the time of day. Gues who would though? Yes, Carrie would at least tell you the time, cause she has a good heart and would feel sorry for you!!!!

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11:09 pm, Nov 13, 2009
TJColatrella

Dumb Republican chicks make me horny...

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8:06 pm, Nov 13, 2009
speechrock

If you mean by Faustian bargain that she has arthritis in both hands, she is a 21st century cable media creation. There ought to be a name for this thing, a noun, that accompanies and updates Andy Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame.
Maybe Wierd Al Jankovich would take "What I'd do for Love" and substitute "TV" for Love.
One thing sure is obvious, celebrity comes at a price. Are these just you and I shown in the light of tabloids or are these people drawn to this theatre of absurd by their personality?
I have never heard of a really good book on the nature of celebrity. The TV show "Lie to Me" that purports a whole science in detection of lies. What about the more complicated psychology of celebrity?

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4:41 pm, Nov 14, 2009
loloo33

I don't think she is that pretty, without makeups and bleached blond hair, she is nothing. And the problem was not about the anti-gay marriage speech, I think it has a lot to do with the way she talks, comes off bitchy maybe from that overly whte fake teeth.

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5:18 pm, Nov 12, 2009
Granite

My sophmore roommate in college was a girl who at 19 had already had a nose job, breast implants,and liposuction. She had hair extensions, fake tan, artificial nails and opaque blue contacts. Three years later she represented our state in the Miss America contest.

Pagaent whores will do anything for that crown.

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5:37 pm, Nov 12, 2009
Demsdisorder

"Pagaent whores" wow, you must be one ugly woman to hate a pretty girl that much. i think some PS is in order or just a big box of cookies. fatty

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7:20 am, Nov 13, 2009
roadhunter

Well put, and I bet you're prettier now than that girl is after what she did to herself.

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12:27 pm, Nov 13, 2009
soitgoesjen

She makes me lose faith in my gender. Truly.

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1:57 am, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

You are and have been beyond hope for years now, and there´s nobody to blame but your ignorant self I´m afraid!!!

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8:01 am, Nov 13, 2009
Demsdisorder

I have to question your gender as well.

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10:06 am, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

As opposed to your overly yellow teeth?

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8:02 am, Nov 13, 2009
loloo33

Osea65, you are creepy, so why don't you move out from your parent basement?

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10:07 am, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Loloo33 you freak go brush your teeth!!!

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10:25 pm, Nov 13, 2009
gmartin

Carrie Prejean seems to suffer from the same delusions of her hero Sarah Palin. Both equate the backlash from their words as some sort of squelching of free speech. They both have the right to say whatever they want. What they don't seem to comprehend is that we have the right to disagree and draw our own conclusions about what sort of people they are based on their loudly articulated beliefs. Carrie's Grandfather did not fight in vain. In America, she is free to put her 3" heels in her mouth if she so pleases. Just don't complain when you are called out for being intolerant.

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5:41 pm, Nov 12, 2009
MGondry

Thankyou for your eloquence.

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10:09 pm, Nov 19, 2009
MatKen

I find this somewhat entertaining. Not the least bit important, but a real world theatre of the absurd where none of this really matters and nobody is getting hurt. Ms. Prejean has the same outlook as millions of Americans but you combine that sort of silly bigotry with beauty pageants, shameless self promoting comb over relics from the 80's, religious zealotry, a right wing political body looking for heroes in the narrowest of margins and a media with so many worthwhile things to do but so little will to do it and you get this enormously comical farce.

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5:49 pm, Nov 12, 2009
MCrothers

well put MatKen . . . another word for it, in a word, bathos. Although, I can't throw stones at anyone over perceived 'intelligence' or lack thereof. Judging is a false sense of power -- what we participate in we empower . . .

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8:54 am, Nov 13, 2009
dooreen

I think judging is a real sense of power, negative power, an ugly sort of power, but a real power. A power to disrupt a Larry King show, but not the kind of progressive power, which grows, and is organic in nature.

Sort of like the difference between real and fake breasts. The real ones are soft, the fake ones are hard.

Don't ask, don't tell :).

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3:22 pm, Nov 14, 2009
crymeariver

A round-up of all Ms. Carrie Prejean's lies and hypocrisy:
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2009/11/sex-lies-and-videotape-sarah-pali ns-new.html

The latest being that not only did she make her sex-tape as an adult (not at age 17 as she claimed) but she made about 15-20 tapes. And apparently the tapes were floating around when her topless photos were made public and she denied having a sex-tape at that time.
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"Unfortunately, pornography has become mainstreamed -- it rushes at us through big screens, portable screens; soft-core porn is on mainstream TV cable stations, hard-core porn is just a mouse click away on the internet, and the envelope of what seems acceptable seems to get pushed farther and farther as more and more people are exposed to this material."

"Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy."

-Ms. Carrie Prejean

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6:06 pm, Nov 12, 2009
my3sons

Why is she on TV?

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6:16 pm, Nov 12, 2009
Demsdisorder

Ahhh...TV is a visual media. so we don't need to see ugly fat she/male liberal hags with short haircuts. I guess..

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8:50 am, Nov 13, 2009
sophia5

Seems Prejean is from the same wacky mold as Michelle Bachmann, and Palin.

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6:52 pm, Nov 12, 2009
ManchaTheo

blonde with a messiah complex...

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7:00 pm, Nov 12, 2009
Southpaw

No messiah would be making sex tapes. She's just out to make a buck.

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5:40 am, Nov 14, 2009
dooreen

I think it is just the culture. There so many young women who just act so condescending, disrespectful, but more than that, there is usually mild sexual overtones that are accusatory.

It is almost unbelievable, unless you see it for yourself.

Larry King looked like he was shocked, but it seems to be everywhere, in white evangelistic dominant areas.

You even see it in the grocery store, clerks refusing to speak, and with all kinds of makeup on, they are just horrible. I use the self serve check out now.

It is not about brains, I think it is about power.

People, not just women, create conflict, so they can gain power over someone.

Women, who have a little bit of power, and take it for all it is worth, tend to do it this way. It is pretty horrible.

For someone so beautiful, you wonder why they have to be so mean.They have the power anyway.

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8:39 pm, Nov 12, 2009
osea65

I know what you mean doreen and you´re right. In Carrie´s particular case, it´s just that she was thrown onto the circus ring and was forced to perform. She and everybody else around her, realized that this was the opportunity of a lifetime and they are going to milk it for all it´s worth. She will be in the spotlight for quite some time to come and those that think she´s just a dumb blond, all I can say is, you´re so very wrong!!! This girl is very smart and the camera loves her. I´m sure she has political aspirations also and we´ll get to see her evolve into whatever the opportunities allow her to. She definitely belongs to the conservatives though and, because of that, she will be harassed beyond belief. She was rude to Larry King and there´s no excuse for that. I hope she can learn from her mistakes, cause I know, deep down , she´s a good girl. Too bad those liberals will never admit to seeing that also, and that makes them so much worse than any of their vile comments!!!!

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8:41 am, Nov 13, 2009
coach777b

Let me see OSea65, Ms. Prejean has $5000 worth of tits, a false tan (not too dark), great dental work and fifteen to twenty sex tapes floating around. With her blatant homophobia and other hate agendas, what can we conclude? Then you top it off with the intelligence level of a fence post and you got another poster child for you rethugs. Palin, Bachman, Schmidt, Harris...see where I'm going here?

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12:19 pm, Nov 13, 2009
roadhunter

Ohh, the poor wittle ting! I wish someone would force me into a circus ring for the kind of money she's making.

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12:31 pm, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

I see where you crashed, yes I can see that coach777b!!!! But really, who cares???

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10:28 pm, Nov 13, 2009
yote78

My initial thought was to tell this bimbo to go f**k herself, but, oops, she already HAS!!!

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10:09 pm, Nov 12, 2009
greenkangaroo

All of the posts so far sound like the typical liberal, mean, nasty personal attacks that you smugly indulge in at every opportunity when someone disagrees with your view of the world. You're sick!

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10:45 pm, Nov 12, 2009
soitgoesjen


The woman is just damn stupid. To make a Miss America pageant answer (in which she coined her own phrase, might I add) a moral crusade is annoying at best. I disagree with limiting marriage to "opposite" couples, but it's the part when she says, "in MY America" that does not sit well with me.

And then there's the hypocrisy. Believe in the glory of Christ and all that crap when she's obviously incredibly vain and has multiple sex tapes out.

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2:04 am, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Greenkangaroo you are spot on!!! They are!!!

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8:42 am, Nov 13, 2009
crymeariver

No Greenkangaroo, that would be YOU republicans. People are simply pointing out the hypocrisy of a "Christian" who is:

1) a pathelogical liar
2) Makes sex tapes
3) Poses naked
4) Undergoes surgery to reconstruct her God-given body just to win a contest.
5) Joins contests that jump people by their personal appearances and ability to generate lust in men.

But then again, I am assuming conservatives actually know what Christianity is about. You guys most obviously don't.

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1:13 am, Nov 14, 2009
nortonclybourn

It's Polictical Correckness run Amoak!

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6:49 pm, Nov 14, 2009
Rawk5tar

What a little bitch.

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11:14 pm, Nov 12, 2009
osea65

Yeah and you can´t have her!!!!

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8:43 am, Nov 13, 2009
dreaday19

can you?

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1:04 pm, Nov 14, 2009
Demsdisorder

She is one beautiful girl.

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8:07 am, Nov 13, 2009
Demsdisorder

how can you say there is no god when we see his best work. Her beauty makes the world just a little better

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8:08 am, Nov 13, 2009
Ruckus

don't you mean a surgeons best work? God was porbably not even in the room.

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9:31 am, Nov 13, 2009
theschmooze

Dems: Her beauty is a result of manmade implants, manmade teeth whitening, manmade makeup, manmade hair coloring, manmade hair removal laser equipment. I know you are going to say that god made man so he could invent the aforementioned. To that I will say BS!

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9:23 am, Nov 13, 2009
Demsdisorder

I don't believe it, she was born like that and if she had some body work so what she is perfect now.

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9:58 am, Nov 13, 2009
theschmooze

Dems: News flash for you, she is a DOPE!!! By the way it is their not THERE mouths which you wrote below, it is THEIR mouths. No I understand why you like her, you think she is smart.

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5:32 pm, Nov 13, 2009
theschmooze

Dems: She was not born that way. You are delusional. I would probably make greater progress arguing with a stump. Dems look up stump!

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7:52 pm, Nov 13, 2009
tumbleweed

Every time the woman opens her mouth ignorance flows from it in torrents like it does Palin's and Bachmann's both. I know all conservative women aren't this stupid as she comes across. She would be a beautiful girl if she would stop getting on national television and whining about how badly she is being mistreated. She goes out of her way to make a ass out of herself so the media will pick on her!

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9:28 am, Nov 13, 2009
Demsdisorder

And Nanci P is better? god knows she has a full time PS with her at all times.
and no one has a bigger line of BS coming out of there mouths.

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10:01 am, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Tumble of your high horse will ya, you make us all nauseous with all that crap that you spew out. The liberal media picks on her, because it´s run be deranged fanatics like you, who get like bitches in heat whenever they see someone sympathizing with conservative beliefs!!!!

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3:37 pm, Nov 13, 2009
DanKenton

You know Oxy65, I don't know what smells worse; your sloppy-joe stained wife-beater or Prejean's fingers. However, something tells me the thought of comparing the two is making you excited.

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5:10 pm, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Dan that is a new low even for you, wow, but really,how low can you go?? How many little boys do you keep in cages in your basement, by the way?

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10:38 pm, Nov 13, 2009
theschmooze

The brains were left out.

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9:28 am, Nov 13, 2009
Demsdisorder

All this just for the fact that she doesn't like gay marriage like most of the people in this country? give me a brake.

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10:02 am, Nov 13, 2009
Cashmoney

But more and more Americans are cool with gay marriage.

Look at it this way, Dem.

It's 1965. Black have just gotten full civil rights. Most Americans are cool with it. Do you think celebrities who go before national audiences to denounce coons and n*ggers have a future?

That's Prejean's problem. She keeps defending her retrograde attitudes re: gay marriage and then wonders why her career as a talentless celebrity isn't taking off.

Why should it?

Decent Americans won't have anything to do with her. Showbiz, which is full of gays, considers her toxic.

So her only option is appearing before rightwing freaks and whining how unfair it is she's disliked for what most of us regard as her bigotry.

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11:00 am, Nov 13, 2009
roadhunter

Cashmoney: There's a difference. People are born black. They are not born gay. Your statement that "showbiz is full of gays" is evidence of this.

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12:33 pm, Nov 13, 2009
theschmooze

Dems: It is give me a break not brake. BRAKE is on your car. I don't like her because she is a two faced christian hypocrite, the gay marriage business is secondary.

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12:55 pm, Nov 13, 2009
DanKenton

Give me a brake? Holy hell...another trailer-schooled NeoCon. Do they have proms at trailer park schools or is it just weapons training all day followed by a course on how to open a can a beer with your teeth.

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5:13 pm, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Cashmoney, I love to see a liberal like you that is drowning fast in their own cesspool!!! What would someone like you know about decency? Absolutely nothing!!! You´re delusional and repulsive because of the intolerant venom you want to impose on all of us. We are not buying, so go sell crazy somewhere else!!! Perez Hilton and his kind of militant radical gays, will only hurt their cause. Who´s going to sympathize with someone who demands that you agree with him, otherwise he will wage war against you?? Who made him the dictator of the American mind? It is gays like this that make us all less inclined to get behind the plight of decent gays, who face uphill battles everyday.

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11:00 pm, Nov 13, 2009
dreaday19

you could try practicing what you're preaching here, osea. it would be nice to see a tolerant conservative christian do that.

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1:07 pm, Nov 14, 2009
hfb1053

But the nasty was left in.

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10:30 am, Nov 13, 2009
Cashmoney

Her 15 minutes are about up.

Yes, she has a certain ratlike cunning to stay minimally newsworthy, but her endless second chances to repair her image have done nothing but make her look even worse.

I predict it's a matter of time before she's working as a San Fernando Valley call girl.

And when the cops bust her and hold the perp walk for the TV cameras, she will finally become the celebrity we all know she was destined to be.

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10:50 am, Nov 13, 2009
mycountrytoo

This is much ado about nothing. It is simply target practice for those who disagree with her position. She is not someone skilled for the mental gymnastics of news mudslinging. The biased news has done everything they can to destroy the messenger and she not skilled with that has melted. The sad thing is that everyone is focusing on her "presentation" and not on her message, which is sad, but typical. Destroy the messenger and kill the message. The good news is the message stands strong. "Opposite Marriage" is still what the masses want, what the system was built on, and what is best for "families".

I suggest those that try to redefine marriage to discredit the masses, that they instead try to get their "rights" by other methods. Mutual respect will get more done in society than strong arm cooperation. Nature does not play favorites, but also does not change to meet the wants of the few. It accepts choice, but doesn't change to meet the whims of those who try to live a different lifestyle.than was designed, this in spite of all the proactive efforts of those who want some form of legitimization by public mandate. Nature doesn't work that way, and you shouldn't ask the rest of us to bend over for you.

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12:03 pm, Nov 13, 2009
Willow207

Carrie "pre" Jean, Sarah Palin-The Dumbest Woman in America, Michelle Bachmann-True Idiot, and Anorexic Ann Coulter are the poster children of republican/conservative women---and a disgrace to their gender and any platform they are given.

I would hope intelligent women would rise up against being portayed or linked to these buffoons in any way. I would also hope and plea to intelligent women to rise up in protest of these clowns being given any legitimacy..... for they are not legitimate, they are merely whores to the men of the right, the puppet masters!

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1:08 pm, Nov 13, 2009
theschmooze

It won't be long before Carrie appears in the middle of some men's magazine, show us what we have not seen. What a minute we have seen everything. OK bad idea about the magazine.

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5:38 pm, Nov 13, 2009
whipmawhopma

Everything else aside I am glad she's able to make a career out of being herself. Most of us don't get to do that.

periscope - Why do you say she has 'little brains'? Being wrong about something doesn't mean she's stupid. I doubt she's at all bright or has learned much about the world she's in, but she'll be able to get by in life, and strikes me as less silly than Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin.

Maybe I mean less evil.

Maybe one day she'll be able to admit that she was wrong. Not in terms of how her religious beliefs apply to herself, but in how she applied them to other people. Perhaps I am being optimistic.

Cashmoney - Her fame will continue and continue ad nauseam in the niche market that she's working in. It's a huge country. If only 10% of the population endorses her that's about 30 million. And I doubt she'll end up as a San Fernando Valley call girl. Eventually she'll end up being Mrs. Brian Kilmeade or something like that.

Demsdisorder - Yes, she is physically attractive. Artificial to a certain degree, but in the throes of sexual passion or mere infatuation that counts for little in the eye of the beholder.

She still strikes me as a bit whacky, but mostly because she was in the beauty pageant business, which seems to be kind of tacky these days.

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8:04 pm, Nov 13, 2009
altlic

She's a classic "mean girl". Nuff said.

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11:18 pm, Nov 13, 2009
osea65

Hey whiplash, you came late to the party and your boring synopsis is putting us all to sleep, and frankly you don´t sound too bright either so, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, oh I´m sorry zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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11:29 pm, Nov 13, 2009
whipmawhopma

osea65 - Then don't read it. It's not for you.

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12:15 am, Nov 14, 2009
dooreen

Ok, would it be easier if we just were blunt about the difference between real and fake breasts and expand the theory to Ms. MyAmerica.

They make look the same, but they sure don't feel the same. The real kind are soft and tender, and the fake kind are hard, and of course, fake.

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3:26 pm, Nov 14, 2009
whipmawhopma

dooreen - Never underestimate sexually induced male stupidity.

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5:30 pm, Nov 14, 2009
Erock1

If Palin, Prejean, et al were physically unattractive, Republicans would have no use for nor interest in them. That, my little neeocons, is your sad truth.

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3:55 am, Nov 14, 2009
mycountrytoo

I saw the interview, and this as always is much ado about nothing. She and Larry had prearranged rules of engagement, and Larry set her up. Not very Larry King like, but clearly he had set her up.

Now, she was naive thinking that she would get a free hand on Larry King, but to say her response was a "meltdown" is absurd. She simply and politely refused to go on after the prearranged rules of engagement were broken.

When you read the press you would have thought she had freaked out on camera. She simply stopped the interview. Not much of a meltdown to me, and just another reason you can not believe 50% of the press all of the time, and the other half only half of the time!!!!

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10:53 am, Nov 14, 2009
whipmawhopma

Agreed.

She was set up on Larry King much like the way she was set up on that fateful day she was public asked what her position on gay marriage is. Like it matters what she thinks about it in her role as Miss California USA, the ultimate arbiter of public opinion for a very, very, very, very, very small number of people.

If it weren't for her courageous if wrongheaded expression of her own opinion about it she'd be doing car shows and autograph sessions these days, and virtually none of us, especially on TDB, would have ever heard of her.

Exaggerating the news is how the press gets us to pay attention. If it's not sensationalist, then people tend to tune it out because it's mostly worthless information if not crafted into entertainment. People gravitate towards novelty, emotion and spectacle. If they didn't we'd have no movie industry and precious little on television other than public access channels and documentaries, all of our professional sports would not exist, Hooters would have to shut down and we'd all be Finns.

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11:33 am, Nov 14, 2009
BlueMoose

Carrie Prejean is part of the right wing's attempt to make Sarah Palin look less stupid by comparison.

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11:38 am, Nov 14, 2009
osea65

You actually believe that crap BlueMoose? The sad answer to that question is that indeed you do and that makes Democrats like you, not only the stupidest humans walking the planet, it also makes you very dangerous!!!! We can´t have deranged lunatics in the White House. Just take the bus back to the loony bin and have a nice life!!!!

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