Video: Shuster flips out over Miss California
posted at 4:40 pm on May 12, 2009 by Allahpundit
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In fairness, this isn’t anything you wouldn’t hear from Shep on a day when he’s feeling extra pissy. Count on Shuster to miss the point, though: The reason this story is hot isn’t because the public hangs on the every word of “superficial” pageant contestants, it’s because the left’s campaign to humiliate Prejean for an exceedingly gentle statement of opposition to gay marriage is a flashpoint in the conflict between political correctness and Christian belief. What makes her an almost uniquely sympathetic figure in the public debate is that she’s not a polished pol or pundit advancing an agenda. She was asked a simple question about her opinion, gave a simple answer, and has been vilified in the nastiest ways for it ever since — including by people appearing in this clip. Which is to say, it’s because she’s nothing more than a pageant contestant that makes it easy to root for her and makes the story compelling. Even if, like me, you disagree with her on the issue.
Watch ’til the very end or else you’ll miss intellectual giant David Shuster suggesting that people who participate in pageants have nothing useful to say to anyone, ever. There’s a whiff of ostentatious feminism about that — i.e. no one who’d participate in something so superficial and retrograde deserves to be taken seriously — but insofar as it conclusively presumes something about the intelligence of an individual woman based on one aspect of her life, it’s anything but. Click the image to watch.
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You know, I might be wrong on this analogy. I still think the reaction to the Chicks was WAY over the top but it does come down to a consumer issue. Miss California doesn’t have a product.
OK, I concede the point.
And David Schuster has a problem with women.
SnarkVader on May 12, 2009 at 5:47 PM
She answered Perez’s question..SHE did not bring it up.
Jamson64 on May 12, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Here is how it wouldn’t be an issue.
If, before you were hired at PETA or the church, they gave you a list of activities that were unacceptable – and you knew beforehand that they’d get you fired.
Then, yes, hunting or whatever and being fired is okay in my book.
If the pageant told Prejean that she cannot be “against gay marriage” then I’d be okay that she gets fired. I doubt they tell their contestants what to think, so if she has the right to her opinion in the job, then she can’t be fired for it.
lorien1973 on May 12, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Bottom line here is this:
What this is is reactionary politics. The lefties were going to hate and vilify Prejean the moment she answered that question. It’s what they do. It would have been a few threads on DU, HuffPo, DKos. Olby would have made her WPITW. And after a couple days, the story would have died out.
But too many on the right reacted so hugely to the left, which only fanned the flames that much more. If the right would have simply ignored those fools as inconsequential, which is what they are, again…it would have lasted only a couple of days.
The left plays off annoying anyone and everyone on the right. No surprise…it’s all they have. Just ignore them.
JetBoy on May 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Well, I never called you a liberal piece of trash ;)
Yeah, so you agree that they are biased… So if they don’t make sales, then no one feels bad for them.
If Prejean didn’t make sales to Lefty-Gays, I wouldn’t get all flamed up about it…
However, to tear her down simply because you want to silence dissent, is a little different than not wanting to listen to the Dixie Chicks on your drive home from work… Any radio station that had aired the DC’s songs to a VERY pro-America, righty group would have lost lots of advertisement… The same goes for any lefty group having Prejean give out autographs…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM
All they had to do, was leave her alone.
Terrye on May 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Nope. If you’re vilified at all, it’s because of your infinite hypocrisy and rampant vapidity.
Oh, and also your constant defense of sexual perversions.
platypus on May 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM
More Prejean photos.
Less Shuster, Garafuglio, et. al.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM
If Shuster really wants to vomit over Carrie Prejean, he needs to consult a gastro-enterologist. A more healthy male reaction would be drooling and a tightening of the trousers.
Steve Z on May 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM
So what did happen to separation of church and state in your pea brain? You have got to be the dimmest bulb here. Interestingly your tone would have us believe you think a lot of yourself. Psst you do not have much.
Jamson64 on May 12, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Actually, I think you could have used Janeane Garrafolo (sp?) as a better example… Except for her stint on 24 (some people will stop watching), it’s not like she’s going on the blue-collar comedy tour… In fact, she seems willing to even discuss her issues with the “faux” conservatives… So we should give her a debate instead of trying to silence her or whatever…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 5:51 PM
You’re absolutely right and I conceded the point once it dawned on my dim head that Prejean doesn’t have a product. My analogy = FAIL.
SnarkVader on May 12, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Yes ignore evil…that always works.
/s
Jamson64 on May 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM
After Nancy signed off on all of that torture stuff… the left couldn’t get all of that mean nastiness out of their system….
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Shuster is a true “progressive” weener……With a freakist mouth, might I add…..Not much longer until he starts blogging on DKOS…bank on it.
therightwinger on May 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM
The most hilarious thing is Prejean will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Jamson64 on May 12, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Not exactly… look at my above post.
I appreciate the discussion instead of a simple yayaya whatever AP feeds us…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
It’s otay, SV.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Fair enough, and most do. My mother has a position at her church and was given something of a “you’re a leader, and this is what you should/should not do,” kinda talk.
But again, for one, this was never just the Left saying and doing these things to her. For another, since when have you ever said that about any other target of the Left?
Esthier on May 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Him and Shep should make out one day though.
lorien1973 on May 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM
They could make the baby that the unmentionable whale will adopt…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM
How I’d love to pie Shuster.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Even though I’m a conservative I tend to have somewhat liberal views on social issues. Gay marriage is not something I really care that much about. If I had to make a choice I’d probably allow it.
But watching the way Carrie was treated has given me reason to be strongly opposed to gay marriage now. I can’t stand it when the left bullies and intimidates people.
Even though I may have leaned in favor of gay marriage, that doesn’t mean I don’t respect those with a traditional view of marriage.
As a Christian myself, I also recognize the assault Christianity is under right now in this country, and the gay extremists are another symptom of that.
jonezee on May 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM
You just had to arouse the prissy boys, didn’t you?
platypus on May 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM
That’s why I enjoy this place so much. I can’t stand echo chambers and there seems to be a place here for people who are conservative on some matters and a little lefty on others. It makes for good discussion and that’s a rare thing on the tubes these days.
SnarkVader on May 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I can agree with you there. I never understood why it went that far, but then I’m not a country music fan. Maybe it’s something you’d have to be to understood their anger. I don’t know.
Esthier on May 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to get in front of a angry, charging CM fan…
Yeah, we need to listen more to each other…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Agreed, especially since we don’t see to have any trolls these days.
Esthier on May 12, 2009 at 5:59 PM
The leftards aren’t “evil”…that’s giving them far too much credit. They’re just stoopid and predictable. Best ignored.
I’ve said it about Rush. It’s one thing when it’s a political figure. And another when it’s an entertainer or celebrity. Prejean is a beauty pageant contestant. Was asked a question, and gave an answer. The lefties aren’t going after her so much over her answer, but that far too many righties have themselves in a tizzy elevating Carrie to some kind of conservative sainthood.
JetBoy on May 12, 2009 at 5:59 PM
She answered a question with her opinion. This Shuster idiot is making the she LIED just like they did with Bush. It was great when they said this is the same opinion as Obama has.
Frances on May 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Shuster is a wormy little puke and his opinions are irrelevant and absolutely valueless.
rplat on May 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Anderson Cooper is the jealous type. He is very possessive of his Sheppy poo.
portlandon on May 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Thanks for jinxing it, Esthy.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Getalife RIP
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Does anyone take anything David Shuster says seriously?
GarandFan on May 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Probably most of his viewers…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:02 PM
David Shuster is a teabag.
HornetSting on May 12, 2009 at 6:02 PM
One more time for old time’s sake:
good luck cons
winning 2010 and ‘12 with dumb blondes
reagan is proud in his grave
haha pathetic cons
my America doesn’t torture
/getalife
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:03 PM
He is the teabag on Anderson Cooper’s Chin…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:03 PM
*sniff sniff*
She was a good (for nothing) troll.
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Is Shuster related to Barney Frank? I don’t see any teeth in that photo. Frank has no teeth either.
darwin on May 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM
I really don’t see it that way. If you take out everything conservatives have said about her, you’d get rid of just a handful of articles, nearly all done as a response to the ones that were already out there, and not just ones from Lefties.
They’ve been driving this story, not her and not us.
Doh! I wasn’t thinking. I apologize in advance if we get one at next open registration.
Esthier on May 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I plant a flower for it every Friday.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM
And why do you think that is?
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM
getalife was a she?
JetBoy on May 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM
off topic
wtf? I know that girl in the Teen USA Ad. Shes Teen New York on the bottom
WEIRD!
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM
I hope it’s one of those eco-friendly ones that will create jobs for illegal aliens.
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM
70% sure…
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM
British dental plan?
Wait … oh. Ohhhh!
darwin on May 12, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Media talking heads calling a woman who stood up for her convictions superficial. That’s a good one.
JellyToast on May 12, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Hhhmmmm….So THAT’S what happened to MSNBC’s audience.
Kasper Hauser on May 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Does somebody have a link to Getalife/brain/clue’s banning? I could use a lift to my spirits. :-)
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM
I just cannot wait to see what happens next open reg.
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Really? You’ve got to be kidding.
gwelf on May 12, 2009 at 6:10 PM
It’s such a mixture, generally we get some great commenters who add to the discussion and then some idiots who just want to yell and who’ve been reading the comments just waiting for an opportunity.
Esthier on May 12, 2009 at 6:13 PM
No doubt. We’ll see what happens in the future.
Maybe we will see an “Obvious Orange.”
If you get my dumb joke
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:15 PM
This is off topic but interesting. Tausch is to go after Obama with $100,000 in attack ads. Some speculation on whether he would run in NH Senate race.
Terrye on May 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Who the hell that?
One bastard named Perez Hilton crawls back under his rock and another one named David Shuster comes out.
You want to know what you are, David Shuster? Huh? Huh? You don’t, I do, everyone does… … you’re the son of a thousand fathers, all cowardly scum sucking bastards like you.
Tuco on May 12, 2009 at 6:18 PM
I’m sure Amy Robach and all the other ex-beauty contestants at NBC/MSNBC will appreciate the Ventriloquist Dummy’s insight.
budfox on May 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM
I contend that any vilification you perceive to receive here, whether real or imagined, is due much more to the way you present yourself and your opinions than it is to your actual opinions.
Would you like to dispute that?
Bizarro No. 1 on May 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Yeah, that’s the tactic for when you really can’t argue in any other way. Cheap, in other words. Anyway, I don’t think she was exactly saying that gays are scum who oughtta all die.
If she’s a lesbian who recently applied for a marriage license, you’d have a point.
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Really? The trolls are gone? Did they go of their own accord or did they get tossed?
scalleywag on May 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM
So was getalife’s doctor, about 70% sure.
*Bic Lighter flicked on in honor*
Drops Bic on couch, burns finger and a hole in the couch.
Damn Getalife.
HornetSting on May 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Have less vile opinions.
MB4 on May 12, 2009 at 6:24 PM
We still have a couple of Trolls left, strangelet, The Wall, crr6, starfleet dude.
I haven’t seen deathtomediahacks, Poptech, capitulus, or sethstorm for a while, thoughj.
kingsjester on May 12, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Too funny… it hurts!
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Yeah. They’re kind of like news anchors that way, chosen primarily for the way they look and their ability to follow instructions.
capitalist piglet on May 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Yeah what happened to Poptech… actually he wasn’t a troll in the strict definition of the word.
Upstater85 on May 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Nope, The Wall is tango uniform.
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Huh? Translate please.
kingsjester on May 12, 2009 at 6:29 PM
LOL…The Wall was banned recently. “Tits up”.
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
LOL…The Wall was banned recently.
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
“T*ts up”.
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Really? What thread? That sucker tried to bully me one Saturday afternoon because I wouldn’t back down from him.
kingsjester on May 12, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Ooops…sorry, I thought the first post was rejected for content. ROFL
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Whew, I honestly don’t remember. It was a Palin thread in the Headlines section, though, a week or so ago.
ddrintn on May 12, 2009 at 6:34 PM
The wall got banned? Well, at least I don’t have to worry about him showing up at my doorstep with a ballgag and a large ham.
HornetSting on May 12, 2009 at 6:34 PM
HornetSting on May 12, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Darlin’, I really didn’t need that image. Have you told your hubby about this?
kingsjester on May 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Just because you don’t see him, doesn’t mean he isn’t there….
O_o
blatantblue on May 12, 2009 at 6:37 PM
why do you think my husband has restocked his gun collection…..I think the wall wants to bring the ham to distract our big, black, vicious dog. Too bad he doesn’t know that the dog hates ham, but loves corn dogs.
HornetSting on May 12, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Poop Shootster is just mad because this story ruined his boyfriend’s day.
Bleed_thelizard on May 12, 2009 at 6:43 PM
HornetSting on May 12, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Heh. Good dog. I wish there was a way of seeing the Headline thread where he was banned. It would be enjoyable.
kingsjester on May 12, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Here’s the Wall-gets-banned thread, with Paul006 getting banned for good measure:
Now, who’s got the Getalife-gets-banned thread?
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Let’s try this again:
Here’s the Wall-gets-banned thread, with Paul006 getting banned for good measure:
http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=39292#comment-442019
Now, who’s got the Getalife-gets-banned thread?
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Metro Man Meets Real Woman, Crumbles.
pat on May 12, 2009 at 6:51 PM
YAY! Allah FINALLY did it! Will wonders never … took freaking LONG enough!
upinak on May 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM
AP – please archive that video under landmark court cases.
I predict that within 2 years, it will be major evidence in the government’s defense against MSNBC’s appeal to SCOTUS after the FCC pulls MSNBC’s broadcast license for lack of audience.
fred5678 on May 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 6:46 PM
It was the “Iranian Boat” thread about 3 – 4 weeks ago. Ed dropped the hammer on getalife.
kingsjester on May 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Here is the thread where getalife is banned:
I flipped flopped like McCain on torture.
getalife on April 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Cute. Let me help you stick to your promises, then.
Ed Morrissey on April 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM
aengus on May 12, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Cover pic say it all. . . .Shuster looks like he’s
ready to or already has serviced Perez Hilton
Texyank on May 12, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Bee-yootiful! I’d forgotten how obnoxious that thing was. :-P
Thanks, kingsjester and aengus!
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Rereading the thread, I realized I’d like to hear more from El Coqui. Still out there, amigo?
(Oh, and I miss the Grue.)
Mary in LA on May 12, 2009 at 7:09 PM
One parting thought about the Dixie Chicks…
I didn’t really think one way or another about the initial kerfuffle, although I thought it was career suicide to insult the same people who had been putting money in your pockets.
However, that all changed when they started crying “censorship” and intimating that people didn’t have the right to RESPOND to what they said.
As if the Dixie Chicks had some previously unknown constitutional right to have their albums bought, concerts attended and songs played on the radio.
They wrapped themselves in the American flag and proclaimed themselves “martyrs” – which the MSM willingly played along with (remember that Rolling Stones cover?)
And they kept intimating and stating outright that people had no right to reply to their statements (statements, I might add, that they initially apologized for, and then retracted their apology).
What they were stating was that free speech protected THEIR speech, but not their opponents.
Now, free speech does NOT cover death threats. That was wrong and every person who sent one should be tracked down and thrown in jail for a long time.
But consumers exercise their free speech by not going to their concerts and by not buying their albums and by petitioning their radio station to not play their songs.
This, unfortunately, was a very common ploy back then, something other anti-war, anti-Bush people like Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon tried to use.
And what should be noted here is that no one is saying that Perez Hilton, David Shuster et al shouldn’t be able to say what they’re saying.
No one here is trying to claim that Miss Prejean’s first amendment rights are being trampled on because people disagree with her.
But we ARE pointing out the viciousness of the comments and the hypocrisy that they are coming from some of the chief stewards of “tolerance” and “diversity.”
Religious_Zealot on May 12, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Does Shyster have any personal reasons to get this exercised over this?
d1carter on May 12, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Besides, if you want to make a comparison to something the right did wrong (heh), then I’d point to the 2LiveCrew brouhaha.
They put out a very vulgar rap album (am I repeating myself?) that went absolutely nowhere on the charts. In fact, it was about to drop off of the Billboard top 500 albums when the AFA (American Family Association) pressured the governor of Florida (Bob Martinez) to arrest them on obscenity charges.
This, of course, turned the band into a First Amendment Darling and all of a sudden their album soared on the charts and sold over 2 million copies.
If they had been left alone they would have disappeared without a trace.
But the right decided to go after them and that made them into heroes.
Of course, the aftermath of the story is that many people were left with their album in their collection only to figure out, years later, that it wasn’t any good!
Religious_Zealot on May 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Let me guess, Davie goes hom
oe to Brucie every night.stenwin77 on May 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
David Schuster is a pimple in serious need of being popped.
pilamaye on May 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM
If that’s true, it would include not only the contestants, but the judges, including the one throwing a hissy fit over all this. I’m coming to this late, so I figure at least one of you already figured this out too.
manwithblackhat on May 12, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Jetboy and radiofreevillage
Do either of you feel that the treatment she has received in the press has been agenda based or would you say it has been fair coverage?
Mormon Doc on May 12, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Might I suggest this is the epitome of elitism? Superficial is stereotyping a whole class of people you have never even met.
David Shuster is superficial working at a superficial network. Are they suggesting that watching the crap on MSNBC is an intellectual thing to do?
Throwing a fit because he didn’t get to see the witch burning on the stake is worse than superficial, it is perverse.
petunia on May 12, 2009 at 8:30 PM
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