Rachel Maddow & Guest Make Fun Of Miss California's Book Deal

Kent Jones, Rachel Maddow's connection to the world of entertainment, joined the host on her MSNBC show last night to discuss the momentous news that Carrie Prejean, better known as Miss California (although she has been stripped of her crown), has landed a book deal "in the tradition of Che's 'Motorcycle Diaries' and 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.'"

As Jones succinctly puts it, the book, titled "Still Standing," is a tell-all memoir, "an inspiring story for anyone who ever had the dream of stopping other people's dreams."

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Comments

[JoeSausage]

05:02 AM on 07/29/2009

Look for it in the bargain bin with Joe the Plumber's ode to inanity.

[MadCroation]

08:51 PM on 07/28/2009

Still standing must be about her fake boobs.

[lordjin]

05:40 PM on 07/23/2009

I find Maddow's tremendous intelligence and broadcast saavy quite sexy.

You go, girl.

[johnr49]

01:24 AM on 07/23/2009

Why are so many right-wingers terrified of strong, intelligent women?

[skippypicasso]

11:46 PM on 07/22/2009

ROFLMAO

[fscuttle]

11:45 PM on 07/22/2009

Do you think she will do an interview with katie Kouric?

[mikesw]

11:17 PM on 07/22/2009

It's no longer about the book; its about finding an excuse to push one's agenda on the talk-show circuit in the "promotion" of the book.

[AspenSyzygy]

11:12 PM on 07/22/2009

Maddow is just a bully.

First they attack Prejean for speaking her opinion publically.

Then then make fun of her for defending herself, and denigrate her further.

Then they make fun of her for commenting on the manner in which she's been denigrated.

Blah-blah-blah.

Doesn't Maddow have anything original to offer?

Apparently not.

Time to get her off of TV and make way for someone original.

[goddess1871]

11:19 PM on 07/22/2009

Nope, nothing at all to offer. Just a doctorate from Oxford University. There's no way that she could possibly compare to Prejean's frantic "filling out the blue book" answers. That pioneering work that she did on AIDS policy and prison populations couldn't POSSIBLY compare with "In my country, in my family I think that I believe that." That word salad is just the next Maya Angelou.

[goddess1871]

11:20 PM on 07/22/2009

(The pioneering work that MADDOW did, I should say - heaven forbid we confuse Maddow with Prejean.)

[gx5000]

09:47 PM on 07/22/2009

So funny, but soo true !
I just can't see how these books deals are being offered, it's insan...oh..nevermind ;)

[BlackJAC]

07:08 PM on 07/22/2009

Further irony: the title is also that of a song by a gay man with a legally sanctioned husband: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSwO0aJKHA

[Zofomofo]

06:30 PM on 07/22/2009

The punch line is great on this, and so true of a lot of right wing causes.

The dream of stopping other peoples dreams...

nice.......

[Bitsko]

06:29 PM on 07/22/2009

Did Eric Idle write this high-larious story?

[smartenoughforthisforum]

06:24 PM on 07/22/2009

This has been a very funny thread today. Except for Fuss and Cyclops.

[KoolAidDrinkersAnonymous]

06:02 PM on 07/22/2009

Rachel is just jealous that she will never sleep with a woman that hot...

[Infostream]

06:16 PM on 07/22/2009

You grossly underestimate the power of fame and having a talk show - how about Portia de Rossi boinking Ellen, or then there's always Larry King's 7 wives. But this beauty contestant bimbo is not hot, without a team of beauticians working on her for 5 hours she is just a plain white bread jane with plastic boobs that is dull as a doorknob and an uptight corpse in bed. I'm sure Rachel does just fine, the sexy librarian works for a lot of women, and guys too.

[Bitsko]

06:30 PM on 07/22/2009

How are things in Loserville?

[GayIthacan]

05:47 PM on 07/22/2009

Only in America can a book deal be bestowed on someone who has never read one!

But then, looking at the 'publisher', how can we be surprised? Illiteracy for the illiterate.