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Miss California Returns To Roots

Posted by DFO

May 16, 2009 6:03 a.m. • 13 comments

Miss California Carrie Prejean holds a ball in the air as she works with the Pad Squad during the sixth inning of a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Cincinnati Reds Friday in San Diego. Prejean worked on the Pad Squad before becoming Miss California. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Question: Did Donald Trump make the right call in allowing Miss California Carrie Prejean to keep her crown after the controversy she ignited re: her stand on gay marriage and the disclosure that she posed topless as a teen-ager? (Story here.)

13 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

hhuseland on May 16 at 1:12 p.m.
Actually, she didn’t appear topless, but just a peakaboo side view. Her answer to a loaded question was not untypical of most Christians.
otter4771 on May 16 at 2:21 p.m.
Uh, isn’t topless “without a top on”, even if it is a side view? And have you seen the most recent ones, full frontal w/ nip showing?
She’s a hypocrite, plain and simple. An inarticulate one at that.
poolman on May 16 at 2:53 p.m.
http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/carrie_prejean_2

Don’t worry their is a star over the nip. TMZ is all class (ha) Herb - this is a little more than a peakaboo side shot.
JamesBond on May 16 at 4:00 p.m.
Yes.
spokelooneh on May 16 at 4:19 p.m.
What’s fascinating about her and the media frenzy is how she’s outright lied several times now about the existence of such pictures, how many, and has even gone as far to say the raciest shot was a “wardrobe malfunction” (wind blew her top) and that the pics were taken surreptitiously by the photog when she was unaware. Only one problem, she’s staring directly into his camera and striking a pose while exposing her breast in a manner that cannot be printed in any family newspaper without photoshopping in some sort of a digital pastie.

She’s claimed her uncle or whoever’s fighting in the Battle of the Bulge is what grants her and justifies her First Amendment right to free speech. Hey sweetie, we know you’re dim, but exactly WHERE is the government trying to suppress your right to free speech? So, your uncle fought the Germans so you could blab your anti-gay message in the midst of a COMMERCIAL event, known as a beauty pageant?

She’s entitled to her opinion, and others are entitled to have and express their opinion of her opinion. In fact, as a public figure, people can say just about they want about her, and they have, some over the top in my estimation.

But her playing of the poor “Christian” victim here, the crying, the twice daily media appearances, all of it, is pure theatre. The hypocrisy that she’s holding the high moral ground is ludicrous.

“Tell that to my son-in-law the Lutheran pastor. He believes Prejean is the embodiment of hypocrisy. In his online journal, he writes:

“(In) America, according to this girl … it is totally immoral for two people of the same gender who are in love to enter into a lifelong, faithful, monogamous union, (and) apparently not a problem at all for a 17-year-old girl to be photographed half-naked for the expressed purpose of sexually arousing millions of heterosexual men to whom she is not married and who are not married to her.”“

http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20090516/OPINION/905160311

But she’ll go far in today’s infotainment world.

She’s subbing on Fox and Friends on May 27. Set your TIVOs, boys, maybe there’ll be another wardrobe malfunction! Yahoo!
Kage_Mann on May 16 at 4:33 p.m.
I’m glad to see that peoples ideology conflicts with Ms.California are playing a part in their judgements of her here.I’ve seen the pictures and the whole time she’s wearing a top albeit, open.I don’t even consider her well enough endowed for those shots of her to be considered obscene;she’s practically flat-chested anyway and it’s much to do about nothing.There’s a thousand other women whose pictures I’d rather have.Go jump in a pool and cool off.
Cindy_H on May 16 at 5:11 p.m.
Actually, if she was really returning to her roots they’d be brown. Just saying.
jazzyvandal on May 16 at 5:25 p.m.
I’m sick of this woman. Beauty contests are full of phonies. She is a phony. She can disagree with gay marriage all she wants. That’s her right. People have a right to criticize her, which she needs to remember. Freedom of speech goes both ways. She’s totally playing the victim. “boo hoo, Perez Hilton hurt my feelings” “boo hoo the wind was blowing”. “boo hoo, someone leaked my nudie pics”. Her fake-cry fest made me laugh out loud. I can’t believe people feel sorry for her and are on her “bandwagon”. No one denied her right to free speech.
Stickman on May 16 at 5:48 p.m.
Like James Bond, a simple yes.
Charlie on May 16 at 6:08 p.m.
Whatever call “The Donald” made would be the right one, he owns the pageant.
TBO on May 17 at 7:49 p.m.
I’m sorry ….. Didn’t she sign a agreement not to pose nude as Miss California ? …… weren’t the photos’ made before she signed the agreement ? What is wrong with every body anyways ???? If she never made any more pictures , isn’t she in compliance with the agreement she signed ??

And another thing … why would anyone hire anyone like Perez Hilton to judge a women’s pageant ………. I mean really …….. A Mister universe contest maybe … but his obvious hate for that girl …. Or just any girl ….. should have disqualified him from judging any kind of contest where a female was involved .

I mean , didn’t he say on National TV that if she would have won he would have jumped up on stage and “yanked that crown off of that bitches head “ .

Well I’m sorry boys and girls ……. I think your pointing your finger at the wrong person …. I know … I know …. That makes me “ Politically incorrect “ but so be it .. I’m tired of people pointing at others , just so they can point …….. If you want to point …. Point your finger at Perez Hilton .
spokelooneh on May 17 at 8:01 p.m.
Yes, TBO, she signed a CONTRACT saying she had disclosed to pageant officials any racy, semi-nude, or in this case NUDE photographs she had already taken.

She BREACHED that contract and lied about it.

Nearly EVERYBODY who’s male and INVOLVED in beauty pageants is gay.

You don’t get out much, do you?

What a wonderful role model Ms. Boob Job is to young women.
JarodS on May 17 at 11:36 p.m.
I’m wondering what exactly is “Christian” about taking topless photos and altering your body with plastic surgery to be more sexually appealing.

Would Jesus do that? Anyone care to say yes?

She’s a hypocrite, she’s a phony, and she’s a fake. Sounds like a great candidate for a beauty queen.

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