Video: Campaign to destroy Miss California escalates; Update: NOM stands by Prejean
posted at 4:10 pm on May 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
If you haven’t seen the “scandalous” new photo yet, feast your eyes. It’s been many moons since I’ve looked at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue but I remember shots like that being in there even when I was a kid. (Or even sometimes on the cover.) Which is to say, it’s very late in the day culturally to be feigning shock at material like this — and yet NBC, the network that aired photos and video of the Virginia Tech killer glorifying himself, has decided that the pic’s simply too hot for the Peacock to handle. A cynic might wonder if they want viewers to imagine that it’s worse than it is. Good thing I’m not a cynic.
There’s an open question of when the photo was taken — she says it was several years ago, others say it’s more recent — which may be relevant to whether she was a Christian or a pageant contender at the time but doesn’t much matter to her critics. Their goal, using the pretext of “hypocrisy,” is simply to try to make her radioactive within her own political and religious communities by painting her as some sort of fallen woman. It didn’t work with Palin vis-a-vis Bristol’s pregnancy and it won’t work here, but presumably they’re drawing some gratification from the mere thought that they might be causing her discomfort. Pure vindictiveness, but then what did you expect?
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Update: Maggie Gallagher from the National Organization of Marriage issues this statement. I told you it wouldn’t work.
Because Carrie honestly said what she believed in answer to a question–marriage is the union of a man and a woman– she is now the subject of ongoing character assassination. The level of hatred directed at her is astonishing. Even more astonishing is her personal courage and strength of character in the midst of these attacks. Of course Carrie is not perfect. On a personal note, as a former unwed mother, I want to say to Americans: you don’t have to be a perfect person to have the right to stand up for marriage. Nothing gay marriage advocates can do can change the fact—we all saw it on national TV—that Carrie is a young woman who surrendered all the glitter Hollywood has to offer, because she would not become the kind of person afraid to say the truth.
Through Carrie, we are also learning, the lengths some people will go to hurt and harass those who speak up for marriage.
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Into darkness, into danger
Into storms that rip the night
Don’t give in, don’t give up
But give thanks for the glorious fight
Someone has to face the mob
Rush in, you have to rally and win, girl
When the oppressors of this world are saying not to
By God, you know you’ve got to march on, girl
Never hold back your step for a moment
Never doubt that your courage will grow
Yes, it’s higher and higher
And into battle with the tyrant smear merchants you go
PercyB on May 5, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Karen, I’ve noticed that they’re all butt ugly myself and probably haven’t had the hammer put to them in many years.
orlandocajun on May 5, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Perhaps it is when you do it, but when I was young, it was no laughing matter. I know I’m old and perhaps times have changed, but I remember the hunt as being quite romantic: stars, moonlight, candles, and Rachmaninov.
La nuit… L’amour
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 7:14 PM
NBC are scum. Period.
There was more skin during the Miss USA Pageant bathing suit segment.
They want the ignorant and uninformed (their base) to believe the pics are worse than they are.
roninacreage on May 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I think it’s more of
How can I avoid my studying
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 7:19 PM
I love Maggie Gallagher.
jgapinoy on May 5, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Agree, ronin..frankly, there’s more showing on the bathing suit pics.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Let me count the ways.
** In my best Carl Sagan voice **
Billions and billions…
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Got to love msnbc’s pathetic coverage of this….
food3234 on May 5, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Dear Lord.
ctmom on May 5, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Hey Y’all, I just found one socially redeeming value from the liberals:
They keep making me look at pictures and read stories (un)covering Miss Carrie Prejean.
Keep it coming. I’m not dead yet.;-)
Blacksmith8 on May 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM
I’m finding the whole spectacle humorous.
No one seems to find any fault in placing all the blame on the homosexual judge for her losing, yet denounce any facts that are not complimentary to Carrie. Many openly wonder why there was a homosexual as a judge for a female beauty pageant.
I’m laughing at the rampant hypocrisy on BOTH sides of the issue.
Hick on May 5, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Hearing Jane Mitchell shoot off her mouth about this may as well have made my BP rise by five points.
Ryan Gandy on May 5, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Wow! Ya, know. Posing topless as a teenager didn’t hurt Miley Cirus career.
Hmm???
Mojave Mark on May 5, 2009 at 7:42 PM
All of a sudden libs are focusing on morals? Bwahahahahaha
SouthernGent on May 5, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Um…both?
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 7:47 PM
I didn’t see anything distasteful about this one photo.
They just don’t understand Christians and so they think they have the ammo to finish her off. Two big problems: 1. We’re not as prude as you think we are. 2. One of the basic tenets of our faith is forgiveness and an understanding that we’re all sinners. Duh.
sheesh on May 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Maybe they need to open up their tent to people that pose with their bare back facing the lens…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM
It’s the same with Bristol Palin. They thought that would seal the coffin on Palin. What they don’t understand is that many Christians have teenagers that have had children out of wedlock. It’s that they want to DISCOURAGE it, but they don’t want to hush it up and rush to the nearest Planned Parenthood… So I guess many “prudish” Christians are actually more open minded than most on the left.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 7:51 PM
As already stated, that is not a nudity picture…its the pose SI uses, sometimes on their cover, in every swimsuit issue.
Some ambitious person needs to make a video of NBC showing pictures like that and worse…like the massacre guy…and then contrast it with that tool’s “oh we cant even show you as it is too dirty to show you on our non-dirty network.
That would rule.
The Wall on May 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Whatcha studying?
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM
What about Obama’s abs and Michelle’s arms? /sarc
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Amazing isn’t it? 20 years ago this would have been declared contemptuous opprobrium, today it is considered de rigueur by our new left-wing overlords. Homosexual marriage today; Polygamy, pederasty, and bestiality tomorrow. What’s up is down, and what’s down is up.
What was once good, is now evil, what was once evil, is now good.
Ladies and Gentlemen, if this continues, and, unfortunately, I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, you can say farewell to the America we all loved and fought so hard for.
Joe Pyne on May 5, 2009 at 7:54 PM
It wasn’t until I was in college that I learned my beloved grandmother “had” to get married…my beloved aunt was the result…
(you may read “beloved” as “favorite, revered, loved, Christian, saintly”)
I have no use for the stone throwers….
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 7:54 PM
The tactics of those advancing the homosexual agenda do a remarkable job of displaying just how reprehensible that agenda is.
doriangrey on May 5, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Ladyingray
Lil mechanical science
Then I have us foreign policy
And some Arabic
Lots of fun stuff.
Sarcdog
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Ha… same story with my great-grandmother.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 7:59 PM
She is incredibly beautiful.
True_King on May 5, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Cool stuff. Much more fun that accounting. UGH. IF I had it to do over again, I would study history and English…maybe some Appalachian studies…. ;-)
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:05 PM
I don’t care what they dig up on her. They are still smearing her because she had the temerity to defy the politically correct line and express her real beliefs. And Perez Hilton and Keith Olbermann will always be pathetic douchebags.
packsoldier on May 5, 2009 at 8:05 PM
I really don’t see any argument that would allow for gay marriage and not allow for polygamy. Anyone?
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:05 PM
No doubt, most liberals, like yourself, find themselves sitting on the sidelines, above the fray, throwing rocks at those who actually believe in something. You would consider anyone a hypocrite who has moral standards. You, on the other hand, have none, thus you are removed from any qualification of hypocrisy. How can you be a hypocrite when you stand for nothing but your own selfish desires.
Unfortunately, the side you sit on is a pool of sewage, and the only reason you don’t notice the stench is because you bathe and drink from it daily – much like the Hindus along the Ganges.
Joe Pyne on May 5, 2009 at 8:06 PM
And to think there was an outcry from the left when Ann Coulter accurately pointed out that Olbermann was no Ivy Leaguer… severely pales in comparison.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Ouch, accounting.
I like Arabic, I’d like to do that all day, the others blow. I’m just not in the mood, and 6 days straight of overcast and rain has made me a lazy dog.
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:08 PM
By the by, hows the Jack?
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Anyone want to call it?
How many Plastic Press Conferences till Obama makes a snide remark about Prejean?
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM
That’s assuming that NBC hasn’t already been employed by Obama…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Matt thinks that those are nude photos? PLEEEAAAZZZEE!
Goebbels is smiling.
jukin on May 5, 2009 at 8:10 PM
He’s got a bleached photo of Obama in his grave…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM
No. The same is true of civil unions. However, the same is true without gay marriage or civil unions. Polygamy and Shari’a law are coming. The EU goes dhimmi first. Any suggestions for how to stop it?
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Forget it, Upstater85, they don’t want to answer good, logical questions like that, it takes the issue places they refuse to go. Most of the time – in fact all of the time that I’ve heard them – they wave it away with, “but that’s not the issue we are discussing!” Sometimes they will remark, “OK, if polygamists want rights, more power to them.” Then when you ask them about marriage between a father and his teenage daughter they scream, “UNFAIR.”
The amazing part of all of this is that intelligent people take their arguments seriously!
Joe Pyne on May 5, 2009 at 8:13 PM
The less power the government has, the more power the American people have. That is the solution.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Jack is a fine gentleman.
It’s been raining here for days, too. Blech.
Take it from someone older than you..figure out a way to do what you love, and you won’t work for a living, you’ll play.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Indeed she is. And she’s very good looking too.
Patrick S on May 5, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I cringe every time a progressive even HINTS that they are a libertarian. That is an oxymoron. They are all about promoting the “rights” of their constituents and that’s about it.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Please!!! Not another drinking game!
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM
I like the thought behind what you said, but the reality is the American people are the one’s who put this cretin, and his henchman, in office, and gave the Democrats a filibuster proof majority in both houses of congress.
The people elected the government they want, and the rest of us suffer for it.
Joe Pyne on May 5, 2009 at 8:17 PM
hehe
Come on, give a guess.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Um, I would say they were successful with Palin. Her numbers with women are about where Bob Packwood’s would be.
Speedwagon82 on May 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Yes, perhaps I should have been more clear. I meant, we should empower the individual to make their own choices and strip the government of the power that it has built up over the last few decades.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I wonder how many women they have to throw under the bus to achieve gender equality.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I’ll let my friend blat pick for me…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Undoing a SCOTUS ruling would be tough.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I can really only imagine myself doing one of three things:
1) working in the intelligence community
2) playing with my buddies in our band forever
3) owning a crazy nice hot dog cart, parking my ass at a beach, and sellin em.
Who knows!
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Here is Prejean at age 17…
http://tinyurl.com/prejean17
1. She looks a little more muscular
2. Doubtful that is the way her body was when she got first runner up at Miss Teen Cali 2005…
3. She would have peaked for the Miss Teen Cali 2005
4. The hair certainly matches better than the blonde look she’s had since at least last summer…
5. I still think it’s possible that her chest isn’t fake…
ninjapirate on May 5, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Yet possible – the legislators would have to be to the right.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:22 PM
I’m guessing 5 PPCs
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:23 PM
I bet 1 month
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:23 PM
What kind of band?
But I like choice number 3…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:24 PM
How many after April 15th till Obama sneered?
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:24 PM
So 1 month = 30 Plastic Press Conferences?
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Sorry, the last post was to you…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Cwap. I better start training…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:26 PM
ladyingray, blatantblue & Upstater85:
I’m heading out to let you youngins have fun. Enjoy.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Per Ace:
BREAKING: TOPLESS PHOTO OF DITZY GAY-MARRIAGE OPPONENT SURFACES
deidre on May 5, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Women are funny. You push them so far, and then…..that’s it.
Palin’s numbers may well be down, but a few more situations like this, and I betcha women will start to rethink.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Hard to say. Some songs have some old school rock riffs, some jazz, and some metal type stuff. No yelling though or anything.
I know, option three really is best. I can see it now:
*20 something walks up in a bikini*
“Hey, can I get one hot dog and a cherry coke?”
“Flash me — and you’ll get it for free.”
“Sure!”
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM
ha! If you count Gibbs…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Have a good night. Hope it’s sunny where you are!
Upstater, yes, 30 PPCS
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Oh come on, you could pass on some of your wisdom…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:29 PM
The New York Times better get on the Pill.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:30 PM
You have to make enough to pay rental on the hot dog stand…keep that in mind!
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Gibbs doesn’t count for anything more than pathetic
ObamaBiden apologist…Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Well, duh! They have absolutely no concept of what it is to be a Christian. They think they can cherry-pick verses having no idea what the backstory of the verse might be.
Also, not being Christians, they also have no concept of the whole forgiveness thing…..
vapig on May 5, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Oh I’ll try! I love the idea of sellin em.
Are you taking Jack straight?
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:32 PM
This reminds me of a scene from one of my favorite movies, The Italian Job, where “the Napster” narrates “Handsome Rob”…
Sheesh. I “heart” Handsome Rob.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Has anybody else noticed how relatively quiet the Trolls have been the last couple of days?
kingsjester on May 5, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I’d have to disagree. They [the left] has just recently learned what forgiveness is. Every time they piddle on the WH press room floor, Obama forgives them…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Have you seen Handsome Rob’s movies “Crank?”
Awful
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Oh, they were pretty fired up about this earlier today… go up the thread! Prejean is like salt in their wounds.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Excuse me, my young friend…there is NO other way to take Jack…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Oops! I’m not very experienced with the liquor. I’m more of a beer boy.
Fosters, New Castle, Bass Ale
Liquor makes my stomach turn into a blast furnace
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Yeah. I saw them today. They left when no one paid any attention to them. Plus we were having too much fun. Has anyone seen DeathToMediaHacks or capitulus lately? I think they banned themselves.
kingsjester on May 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Um…Handsome Rob…Awful…Does. Not. Compute. ;)
My gawd…Transporter 3…the “strip tease” fight…I gotta go….
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM
.
What, are you guys and gals here at HotAir asleep?:
http://religiopoliticaltalk.blogspot.com/2009/05/angry-left-where-is-tolerance.html
.
papa_giorgio on May 5, 2009 at 8:38 PM
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Foster’s works when you need a beer…Have you ever had “dead guy ale”…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I got this from another thread, but I think it applies.
One has to think that if the Left is trying to paint Prejean as some exotic dancer, then how many women are they turning away from their movement? I mean if Prejean is a poll dancer and Palin is satan, then the average Jane (with all of her mistakes in life) must be the mud the democrats walk on… Maybe the democrat party needs to become a little bigger tentish…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:39 PM
No – which would please islam, mightily! Also, I can see NAMBLA actually having a leg to stand on. Some dope has already tried to marry a goat in MA.
The Activists would say that would never happen – but that is what they said about gay marriage when they lobbied for civil unions years ago.
vapig on May 5, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Foster’s “works”??!?! It’s better than THAT. Nope haven’t seen dead guy ale anywhere.
Going to participate in the fight yourself??!
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I have to say.
I disagree with Carrie on this issue.
Expecting rocks to be thrown at me…
However I will stop the support vocally and otherwise of this issue because I can’t stand the far left kooks and thier childish tactics.
By the way the wonderful femists don’t speak for me either and they can go shut up also.I am sick onto death if I don’t support everyone of thier ideas, I or any other citzen can be attacked.
I am prepared to fight and fight hard for what I believe in but I am also ready to fight dirty like the left does because they are pi**ing me off.
Gracelynn on May 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Hah!
SouthernGent on May 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM
No, not recently…
This one needs to get banned (14 yo kid thread) – this is far too below the belt.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM
I don’t agree with her position, either. I do entirely agree with her that she’s being targeted for speaking out about her personal beliefs.
What’s particularly dispicable is that doing so means people dig up stupid stuff from when she was 17.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 8:43 PM
As long as the argument is “we should let people that love each other get married,” I see nothing that should logically stop polygamy (there’s even a historical argument here).
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:43 PM
I’m pretty sure that’s where it’s headed.
Polyamory is very popular in CA circles already.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 8:43 PM
It’s just going to have to be PALIN-PREJEAN 2012.
scrubjay on May 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM
If only…
…well, perhaps I’ll dream that tonight…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM
This was essentially my point earlier. If you disagree with her, fine. But don’t attack her to just shut her up.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM
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