Miss USA Pushing For Carrie Prejean Repeat?

Perso, we think the Q&A segments of beauty pageants are the most illuminating...and it's also where the contestants seem to get into the most trouble (exempli gratia: Miss California Carrie Prejean's defense of "opposite marriage" at Miss USA back in 2009).

FoxNews.com's "Pop Tarts" reports that this year's Miss USA hopefuls are being asked the tough questions in on-camera interviews for the event's website -- whether evolution should be taught in classrooms and if they'd pose for nude photographs -- prompting certain mouthpieces to wonder if the pageant is pushing for a Prejean repeat.

Publicist Angie Meyer told Fox News, "The pageant officials are intimidating contestants into answering questions a certain way that are deemed 'politically correct' while discriminating against their own belief and opinions." Keith Lewis, the executive state pageant director for California, New York and New Hampshire, added, "The girls are scared to death. They witnessed with Carrie Prejean how a firestorm can create a road kill, and nobody wants to be part of a situation like that again."

Fox News also points out that some fine folks from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) were given free tickets to the June 19 show by its organizers, that "HRC are prominent champions for the legalization of gay marriage, the very topic that sparked the Prejean pandemonium two years ago," and that incidentally the group is holding a leadership summit in Las Vegas that very same weekend.

Well, then maybe they should all hang out. Talk about some human rights and stuff.

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Comments

[Bladerunn3r]

06:21 PM on 06/13/2011

If I was religious I would just pull out of the pageant right now. Totally biased and unfair against the superstitious. What if they ask you if the moon landing was real? Or if the earth is flat? Or what you think about stoning people for blasphemy? Obviously they are expecting "Secular" or "Scientific" answers to all of these for sure. . . .

[norepublicanleftbehind]

08:17 PM on 06/12/2011

If only that question was given to political candidates before the election.....

[supergranny]

09:10 AM on 06/12/2011

somehow this sad piece of walking _ _ _ _ ended up in the style section. The style section is now forever tainted with the _ _ _ _ _ of this piece of dog _ _ _ _ _ parading around her fake morality. Morality issues have no place in the style section. Everyone knows that people w/style are all old school _ _ _ _ _ _.

[jukesgrrl]

01:08 AM on 06/12/2011

To The Donald, there's no such thing as bad publicity, no matter how much he may complain about his coverage. Maybe he could invite the contestants to New York City for a slice of pizza.

[multidoc]

05:03 PM on 06/11/2011

This is about nothing but media attention for the pageant.

[Skeptic4Life]

05:00 PM on 06/11/2011

People still watch beauty pageants???

[NYC619]

04:35 PM on 06/11/2011

So Fox News against any kind of educational question, what else is new.

[Saif Imtiaz Pias]

03:41 PM on 06/11/2011

What an evolution?Ha Ha.....
http://maoihcsw.blogspot.com

[robert horwitz]

03:32 PM on 06/11/2011

So there you are sitting alone at home mulling over every mistake that you have ever made in your life and if you believe in this sort of thing every mistake that you have ever made in your multiple past lives. No doubt as you are getting increasingly depressed a rather handsome fellow sporting a well manicured beard who is carrying a pitchfork for some reason but you have no idea why and wearing a read suit with what looks like a tail shows up in the darkened shaded light of your bedroom. After a brief conversation with him he presents you with a contract which you willingly sign. You now have more money in the bank than if Ben Benanke hit the print money on switch at the Federal Reserve and he couldn't shut it off. You are now a member of the Most exclusive Country Club in the Universe and you are married to Carrie Prejean who by the way is wildly in love with you. Everything is going great, until she opens her mouth.

[effect]

02:23 PM on 06/11/2011

Y'know, I don't even READ the "Style" section, and I'm constitutionally unable to watch pageants, but the "Prejean moment" headline caught my attention.

I was initially surprised by the number and vehemence of Prejean defenders on this thread but, relating the quality and content of the defenses to the person defended, I realize this is no surprise at all. The very persons you would expect to agree with her politics, b!gotry and "moral virtue" are the ones doing the defending, and in the exact manner one would reasonably expect. Some of the same people also defend pageants in general - again, not a surprise.

Given the objectification of women which pageants entail (oh, I know, "smart, strong, accomplished, blah, blah, blah" - and parading around in next to nothing, striking artificial poses, flashing phony smiles, mouthing shallow platitudes, playing to base instinct, etc. Surely this is the very measure of worth and competence as a human being.), their defenders cannot be expected to be big on things like universal equality and equal opportunity.

If "libs" ran the world, I expect pageants would take their rightful place alongside buggy whips, arranged marriages, finishing schools.

[BlackJAC]

04:07 PM on 06/11/2011

Based on the behavior of Her Alaskan Majesty, Ann Coulter, Michelle Bachmann, Carrie Prejean, Michelle Malkin, and the rest of them, methinks it was the gops who did away with finishing schools.

[jukesgrrl]

01:10 AM on 06/12/2011

Effect, you forgot "fake boobs paid for by the pageant" on your objectification list. Otherwise, good job.

[Knothare1230]

02:05 PM on 06/11/2011

LOL HP/AOL Scraping the bottom of the barrel? PopTart- Fox News' entertainment gossip blog. where did they run this story? Between the Bigfoot sightings?

[supergranny]

09:02 AM on 06/12/2011

AOL brought the trash in.

[cliffhammond]

01:49 PM on 06/11/2011

Seems to me they're all being trained to become Fox News anchors.

[Slacktoo]

01:31 PM on 06/11/2011

Evolution?!?! Hahahah, this should be good. I can't help thinking there are some curious internet atheists on the panel making these decisions.

[cliffhammond]

01:50 PM on 06/11/2011

There ARE Christian scientists, you know. (No pun intended.)

[Slacktoo]

02:08 PM on 06/11/2011

Oh I know, but I doubt any Christians would think to ask these vapid blonde southern girls about their opinions on evolution...

[CAhye]

01:06 PM on 06/11/2011

what they did to carrie prejean for her opinion was just wrong, especially since over half the people in CA agree with her (prop 8).

[David Shrewsbury]

01:33 PM on 06/11/2011

if you relied solely on public opinion as an arbiter of what's right and wrong, the South would still be segregated...

[CAhye]

01:41 PM on 06/11/2011

my point was that her view was not obscure and should not have caused the media backlash that it did.

[glesslib]

03:22 PM on 06/11/2011

I'm with you. By this person's logic, we should be getting a virgin ready to throw in a volcano to appease the weather gods. I mean, there were entire cultures who thought that was the way to go.

[lletaa]

01:41 PM on 06/11/2011

To bad, we will continue to love who we desire and opinions like hers and yours will continue to be religious bigotry and I don't care how pretty of a package its in.

[CAhye]

10:20 AM on 06/13/2011

do you know me? because that is actually not my own view. i just respect others. thanks.

[Luv2Purple]

12:31 PM on 06/11/2011

could there be more SMARMY ill prepared people than Carrie Prejean and the next familyIdiot Billy"the Kid"Bush?

[CAhye]

01:06 PM on 06/11/2011

lol dont know what you are talking about now do you?

[Luv2Purple]

02:07 PM on 06/11/2011

Oh YES....I certainly do....and I think you do too!