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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I’ve decided that it’s irrelevant. Marry everyone. *haha
Remove divorce from the courts. Just have judges be a rubberstamp. Gotta go to mediation.
Then let everyone show up and duke it out. :)
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Sorry, grace…this thread has evolved…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Snorting Guinness or something… ///sarc
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Keep up with the Jack and you’ll be sleeping soon
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:47 PM
O ye of little faith…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Government, my keester! In both California and Iowa the people decided that marriage was between a man and a woman. Their courts said it was unConstitutional. It took an amendment to force their peoples will on California. Iowa has to wait until 2012 to do the same.
And this whole muck about their freaking civil rights being violated. Bunk! They can get married just like everyone else as long as they follow the same rules and restrictions as everyone else. Even men and women have to follow certain rules to get married (i.e. age; relationship, competentcy; etc).
vapig on May 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM
My point would be, well, the government had too much power to intervene on that one…
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 8:49 PM
She is so pretty.
GunRunner on May 5, 2009 at 8:50 PM
You could drink me under the table. I assure you.
3 beers and I’m half drunk.
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:50 PM
OOOOhhhh…cheap date…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Well, vapig, the conflict is obviously about individual rights.
Even though people voted, they also vote on quite a few issues which later turn out to be unconstitutional. (I’m not suggesting this is such a case.) The point is that direct democracy isn’t always the wisest course.
I really don’t think this change would be that upsetting even to a large number of conservatives. Doesn’t everyone have someone in their family who is now out of the closet? The funniest example of how this issue gets silly is a Thanksgiving I spent with a family. The longest-together couple? The gay guys.
So it’s not about stability, necessarily. Then what’s the issue?
Anyway, I’m not sure direct voting is the right path.
I still think Ms. CA. did nothing wrong. She’s entitled to her opinion.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Am I missing something here?? She looks great here….she isn’t naked….what’s the problem?? And typical of the pro gay media to somehow think people will think less of Ms. Prejean because of this picture….
Albertanator on May 5, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Indeed. I’m a lightweight. Ah well.
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Would you like some paint for that broad brush? Westboro Baptist Church “stands” for things as well. Shall I lump you in with Westboro Baptist Church members for your views? I believe that the Constitution gives equal rights to all, not a select group only as some love to believe. Where would Slavery, Womens Vote, and Civil Rights be if people didn’t realize that they were wrong about some things?
Hick on May 5, 2009 at 8:55 PM
The good news is that you have time to outgrow it if you so choose…if you don’t, well then, you will make some great girl a terrific husband.
I think you should choose the latter…with time…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Thanks for the compliment, but then I won’t be able to get flashes at the hot dog stand!
:p
Ayone watching American idol?
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Um…yeah. Please don’t sent Danny home, America!!!!
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I just watched access hollywood…
http://preview3.accesshollywood.com/miss-californias-nude-photo-controversy-may-5-2009_video_1096407
Victoria’s secret didn’t make that kind of underwear till 2006… she turned 18 in 2005…
Here is their before and after implant picture…
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8767/carrieprejeanbeforeafte.jpg
She still claims she was 17, and that she wasn’t wearing victoria’s secret…
Victoria Secret then said: “Without seeing the underwear in person, there is no way for me to confirm that these are in fact victoria’s secret underwear”
ninjapirate on May 5, 2009 at 9:03 PM
ninjapirate on May 5, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Have you read this thread????
We don’t care!
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:04 PM
i know
i miss hot blonde
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I’m to the point I don’t care who wins as long as it’s not ADAM…not for any other reason but he has been the “winner” all season…
…no fun there…
…any of the other 3 would be better for me.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:09 PM
LOL — Can’t blame ya’ there.
The blonde was good, but she chose the wrong songs over and over
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM
The goal of the Left is to harass and intimidate, by any and every means possible, everyone who disagrees with them until their opposition is silenced and living in fear.
There are no morals, ethics, or values being served by this attack. instead, the leftists derive a sadistic pleasure from this. They satisfy their hunger for power. It is for this that the Left is fighting.
And so, the Left celebrates another orgy of their sadistic lust for pleasure and power.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM
The blonde was good, but she chose the wrong songs over and over
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM
And they warned her over and over….good song choice!!
Actually, I think they all made good song choice tonight…I just want Danny to get through this week and I think he can beat Adam…I think Alison might be able to also…but Kris won’t…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I THINK this will have no legs….
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Paula always looks like she just sobered up before the show.
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM
nice ta tas tho
:x
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM
FIFY.
For my coworkers and me…she makes us laugh.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:21 PM
LOL good fix. I like her.
what do u do?
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I agree, Lox. But then, I don’t think this is a truly liberal group at all.
It’s opposite.
It’s the opposite of the moral majority.
Backlash.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 9:24 PM
But..but…but….those people are always talking about how ‘inclusive and tolerant’ they are of others. Unlike those homophobic, racist, white pig, knuckle dragging, bible thumping, gun loving, tax hating Neanderthal Republicans.
Did I miss anything?
GarandFan on May 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Accountant for a health care system…boRING!!!]
I want to be writer…
I actually like Paula too…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I can’t stand American Idol. But then, I grew up in a musician’s home.
It’s simply too painful for words to watch.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Did I miss anything?
GarandFan on May 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM
No.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Do it! Write a book on the side!
OR have a webpage
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Trying to figure out how to do that…any suggestions on the webpage???
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM
AP, I love you bro!
conservnut on May 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Well, do you do poetry? Commentary? Stories?
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Well, do you do poetry? Commentary? Stories?
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Mostly fiction, but I can do commentary as well…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:34 PM
you could always start a site and post your stories there
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:36 PM
I’m an editor if you need one (no charge).
Daggett on May 5, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Google News search of Miss California nude pictures:
475 articles (2:05 PM); 735 articles(9:25 PM)
These attacks do influence people. Terrorists use terrorist tactics because they work. The goal is to spread fear of attack for dissenting.
Not everyone has a strong and independent character. Not everyone has the physical or financial means or support group needed to withstand such attacks. Thus, they willingly silence themselves. Some need to belong to the in crowd. But others need to get good grades or keep their jobs to feed their families, and are unwilling to risk being similarly targeted for expressing dissenting views.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 9:40 PM
does your fiction include a spinning vibrating bed?
LOL
or just lots of jack
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Ooooo….what type of work do you edit?
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Both..and YOU can’t handle either…LOL
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I need some ice for that burn
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Please relate the pics with terrorist attacks – right now.
I don’t get it.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Yes, you do.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:47 PM
2nd degree.
But you’re probably right!
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:48 PM
lady and blatant?
Sweet stuff.
Ever here of twittering one another?
You have, *she politely says*, hijacked the thread.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 9:48 PM
I used to have a Twitter. My account doesn’t work anymore and I dont know why
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Leftists attack dissenters in order to terrorize all who observe the attack into silence. It’s a tactic used to keep their members in line and to intimidate opponents into silence and submission.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM
OK, blatant. :)
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 9:55 PM
If only I knew his “twitter” handle…
My guess is that you “used it up”..get another…
Mmmm..kay…wanna see pics of my arsenal????
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Heh. Why did they crop it so tight? It looks like she may be giving someone the finger for taking a photo of her wearing her skivies.
AES on May 5, 2009 at 9:57 PM
According to the left, religious Christians are backwards, repressed, small minded, and superstitious. And the ones who aren’t all these things are HYPOCRITES.
I really wish some prominent spokesperson for the Religious Right would come out swinging against the media/academia/entertainment industry/Democrat party cabal who have been demonizing these good people for decades, and really set the record straight.
The Religious Right didn’t come together in the 1950′s to protest the publication of Playboy. Nor did it come together in the 1960′s to protest The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It came together in the mid-1970′s after watching our popular culture get more and more decadent. It’s message was “this has gone far enough, let’s pull back a little bit”.
You can listen to rock music, wear a mini skirt, grow your hair long, smoke some grass, and still have respect for traditional values and old time religion. That’s the message they’ve been preaching to the masses. And though I’m neither religious nor a Christian, I will defend these people against any swine who goes after them.
ardenenoch on May 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM
LOL I’ve had problems since day one
They tell me my password doesnt work, but its the right one!!!
And I can’t reset!
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Are we talking 9mm’s or 36 c’s?
had to
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Why, oh why do girls allow these kind of pix to be taken? Don’t they know it will *always* come back to bite them, especially if they get anywhere near famous?!?
KS Rex on May 5, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Ah…the Beatles…I’ve been watching the “Beatles Anthology”….
….Baby, you can drive my car….
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I meant “these kind of pix (or even more explicit)”
KS Rex on May 5, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Got ‘em, both, sweetie…
…well, try 36D…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:04 PM
blatant man, dont resign yourself to 3 beer queer status…dont make me train you. how do you expect to impress hotair ladies if you cant hold your booze?!
ernesto on May 5, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I’ve wondered that for years…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:05 PM
I don’t need to. I’m very happy you are not intimidate by these tactics.
But how many Americans are intimidated? I’ve seen this approach work in academia, and in other workplace and social settings. Their tactics work.
Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Don’t worry about blatant man..he is damn impressive to hot air ladies…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I know. It’s rather beta. But I guess it helps me stay in shape — not drinking so much.
! LOL what have I done to this thread
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:07 PM
That photo is no more explicit than the magazine covers you see at the grocery stores. give me a break.
AES on May 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM
She looks so hot that her critics are literally burning up with envy by all the attention Carrie gets.
A pox on all of Carrie’s critics! :P
sarahpalinfan99 on May 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Lorien’s a lady?
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM
You drove off the trolls…
…good man!
I’m damn proud of you!
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM
KS…she’s actually right. It’s just the modeling world right now.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Yep. To her crtitics I have two words…jealous, much?
Can’t say…but I can say that you aren’t, sweet one.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Hold on a minute, I can only drink three beers in a sitting..
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Carrie is a beautiful spokesperson for NOM! I am glad they spoke up to defend her.
TN Mom on May 5, 2009 at 10:17 PM
The modeling world may be a “part” of her life, but I can’t be certain that it is “all” of her world.
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:17 PM
arden…I think people should be allowed to practice whatever faith they embrace in peace.
However, that may mean they need to give others the right to do so, too.
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Must work on that…you do want to sell more than one hot dog at a time, don’t you?
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:18 PM
I agree. She’s a beauty. I’m pretty jealous, actually…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Good point.
I need to train!
This will be that summer to train
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Carrie, she’s definitely gifted with beauty. I also support her 100% on her right to speak out.
On a personal level?
Just looking at her younger pictures, it really upsets me that she didn’t really know just how perfect she was. I hate all this pressure to have bigger breasts, to serve some outside idea of beauty rather than trust yourself.
The fact that such a beautiful young woman didn’t feel good enough says a lot to me about our society.
Men are simply not really getting through to these young women just how desirable they are.
This travesty lands on men’s shoulders. What’s wrong with you guys, anyway?
AnninCA on May 5, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Plus, you never know when the girl with the 36 d’s comes asking for a hotdog!
zing
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM
no no…im still here :-)
ernesto on May 5, 2009 at 10:24 PM
LOL you lost troll status a long time ago bro.
you gotta work hard to get that back
people like you
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:25 PM
True… you never know when a NYC girl’s friend from the hills of TN will visit NYC and want a “hot dog” from a cart…
…LOL….train, my young Jedi…train…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Yeah that was my first thought as well, something along the lines of, “and she needed implants why….?”
Its a shame, but theres so much blame to go around its almost futile discussing it. Guys my age dont know how to be men (i mean, look how Blatant cant handle his booze…i mean cmon!), girls dont know how to get respect seeing as staying over is the new goodnight kiss, parents don’t instill any sense of value or discipline in their kids, media hypersexualizes everything…its just all too much.
ernesto on May 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM
How long will it be before the far left crazies define “marriage” as the union between man and sheep, woman and horse, or man and 10-year old girl? The girl believes what 75% of the population believes yet she should be hung by her toes in the public square?
uncalheels on May 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM
LOL ill be the one with the acoustic guitar next to the stand
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Sorry…personal responsibility and all…she has no one to blame but herself for the pics…
…but those pics have NOTHING to do with her stand regarding marriage…
…sorry, this woman isn’t so easily swayed….
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:30 PM
What a shame…though i suppose in my story lies hope for those who find themselves on opposite ends of the political spectrum: spar enough with keen minds and you’re liable to craft a worthwhile view on things. though at this point ill often throw out a contrarian statement for the hell of it, just because it gets kind of echo chambery here sometimes.
I propose interstate “foreign exchange”. Im sure Blatant and some of us other new yorkers could learn a thing or 2 from some time in TN or thereabout. I keep hearing so much bout these country girls…
ernesto on May 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Well, you’re one of the few I know who can actually talk politics and not get angry. I behave more in real life when it comes to political discussion.
I know! The country girls, what I’ve heard..
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:32 PM
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Kewl…I’ll look for you…and toss you a dollar with my hotel address…LOL
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:32 PM
lots of good BnB’s out here in the quasi hamptons.
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:35 PM
…And the southern girls with the way they talk, they knock me out when I’m down there….
You guys are soooo sweet….
Truly, I am Elly May…but not blond, if that matters…
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Ask yourself: would you rather spend an evening with Miss Prejean or with her detractors? Of course, you would love to spend an evening with Miss Prejean. She is a lovely, good person. Her detractors, on the other hand, are ugly, awful people.
As for the “semi-nude” picture of Miss Prejean, there are racier photos in the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. And don’t deny it: she looks lovely in that “semi-nude” picture.
So it is time in this thread to state the self-evident truth that Carrie Prejean is a beautiful young woman. An honorable man protects such a beautiful young woman.
Phil Byler on May 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM
You might have to trek into the city a bit….
ladyingray on May 5, 2009 at 10:38 PM
tea party, NYC see you both there!!!!
blatantblue on May 5, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Accents kill me. having spent my entire life within 9 miles of NYC, anything even approaching southern gets my attention immediately. as funny as it sounds, the quickest way to get me totally smitten is a wholesome demeanor with a bit of an accent…im defenseless against that.
ernesto on May 5, 2009 at 10:39 PM
definitely man, you missed quite the party last time. shyt if i could get any attention there spitting my contrarian blather, imagine what a strapping young true blue conservative could do!
ernesto on May 5, 2009 at 10:41 PM
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