Miss California to star in TV ad from conservative group

[sabra]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant from California who famously declared her opposition to same sex marriage on the pageant stage, will star in a new $1.5 million ad campaign funded by the National Organization for Marriage.

Prejean was roasted by same-sex marriage advocates after she stood up for what she called "opposite marriage" (marriage between a man and a woman) when responding to a question from celebrity blogger Perez Hilton during the pageant. But she's also become a fresh-faced standard-bearer for the same-sex marriage opponents, who have rallied to her defense.

The National Organziation for Marriage has scheduled a press conference with Prejean in Washington on Wednesday to unveil the new ad, called "No Offense."

"She is attacked viciously for having the courage to speak up for her truth and her values," the group said in a press release. "But Carrie's courage inspired a whole nation and a whole generation of young people because she chose to risk the Miss USA crown rather than be silent about her deepest moral values."

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/29/miss-california-to-star-in-tv-ad-from-conservative-group/

[truebrit71]

1. "deepest moral values"...is that why she had a boob-job just weeks before the contest...

...:eyes:

[roguevalley]

55. awfulplasticsurgery.com talks about it too

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. When's the Playboy spread? I imagine that's not far behind. (n/t)

[HopeHoops]

23. Nah, more like Hustler.

That's not a sexist comment by the way, but more a practical one. Hustler would love to outbid to get her just so they could say they got Miss "Same Sex Marriage", nothing else.

[Dramarama]

37. Do it Flynt

[New Dawn]

58. Mhmm.

[DebbieCDC]

3. Well now that's bravery

"Risking the Miss USA crown"

[saigon68]

61. It's just a new rush to Bigotry and Pandering Homophobia

"But Carrie's courage inspired a whole nation and a whole generation of young people because she chose to risk the Miss USA crown rather than be silent about her deepest moral values."

[MinneapolisMatt]

4. I'm surprised...

...this isn't a violation of pageant rules or something.

I know they do charity work and stuff, but I thought politics/controversial crap was off-limits while they were wearing their 'crown' or whatever.

[nxylas]

21. She didn't win

So she doesn't have a crown. I'm no expert, but I'd be surprised if there was a rule barring losing contestants from doing and saying whatever the hell they like.

[yardwork]

26. She does have a crown. She's Miss California and there are rules dictating their behavior.

In return for "scholarships," winners of these pageants agree to work for the pageant for a year, making public appearances, advocating for charitable causes, and staying away from controversy. She's Miss California and I'm sure that the state pageant people are very unhappy with her behavior.

[slackmaster]

41. She's bound to make a whole lot more money off the "controversy" over her remarks than as Miss CA

She'll turn in her crown in a heartbeat if the rules require it.

[yardwork]

42. Yep.

She's hoping to create a new career for herself. After all, look at Sarah Palin!

[jmowreader]

51. I'm sure they are, but there's no way they'll pull her crown over those remarks

If the Miss California USA pageant (there are two Miss Californias--Miss California USA, who can go on to be Miss USA (assuming something doesn't stand in her way like...well, you know, a prettier girl than Miss Proposition 8 there) and ultimately vie for the crown of Miss Universe; and Miss California, who can go on to be Miss America) pulls her crown, every fundamentalist in America will start screaming for blood because, after all, Carrie Prejean would have lost her crown only because of her Religious Views. Which, unfortunately, would be the case.

Little Carrie will evaporate in three weeks. Ignore her and it will happen in two weeks.

[badgerpup]

53. Hmmm...

She was so upset that her comment had cost her "her" crown. Note the phrasing: not 'the' crown, but hers.
I don't pay attention to the meat parade pageantry circuit, but it's my understanding that it's nobody's crown until the judges have voted and it's placed upon the agreed-upon bubblehead. Then it's HER crown...right?

If she's upsetting the state pageant people of California, then maybe there's a possibility that she could lose 'her' crown in truth.
Ruh-roh...
She should have just taken the 'martyr's crown' quietly and gracefully rather than whining and kicking up such a fuss.
It would have made a much bigger and more dignified (read: ADULT) impression.
As it is, she's going to make a splash in the puddle, have maybe another 15 minutes of fame, and by this time next year, it's going to be "Who was she?"


:nopity:

[Aragorn]

35. BFD

It might be against their rules for her to endorse one political side or another using her "title". But it has never been against the rules of any beauty pageant to be ignorant.

[christx30]

69. I think the rule

should be on what the judges are allowed to ask. I mean... if she said "I support gay marriage" she would have alienated the Christian Right crowd. She said what she did and she alienated the other side of the issue. She couldn't win either way. A non-answer would have pissed off both sides. So she stuck to her beliefs.
SO I think the fault likes in the judge's question. Keep the political questions out of the pageant.

[Ian David]

5. Miss KKKalifornia can suck it. n/t

[wyldwolf]

6. quick! Someone find the suggestive Myspace and Facebook pics!

[BOSSHOG]

7. So If I suggest that Divorce be made illegal

will christian conservatives "come to my rescue" and feature me in a commercial?

[Aragorn]

36. Yes

but only if you win a state beauty pageant. Pics?

[kskiska]

8. Anita Bryant's footsteps n/t

[8 track mind]

9. now thats a flashback.....

anybody got a pie that they're not using????

[Veruca Salt]

67. That's exactly what I was thinking...

:scared:

[Starry Messenger]

10. Well, who didn't see that coming?

1.5 million dollars. That's disgusting. :thumbsdown: I hope Youtube film makers torpedo this new effort as handily as they did the Gathering Storm campaign.

[global1]

11. The Road To Fame Is Through Expressing Conservative Values In A Public Forum Where.......

Faux & the Conservatives can use you as a spokesperson for their failing cause. Think Joe the Plumber and now this chick. If you want your 15 minutes of fame and to make a few bucks in the process and then maybe write a book about it - just go out and spew conservative values somewhere where you can be caught on film. Maybe even start a YouTube program and say the most outlandish things about Dems, Obama and any high focus group like the middle class, poor, immigrants, gays, etc.

[HillWilliam]

20. Conservative values:

greenbacks, simoleans, cashola, payola, baksheesh, banknote, bread, buck, bullion, cabbage, chicken feed, coin, coinage, currency, dinero, dough, funds, green stuff, investment, legal tender, lot, mazumah, note, payment, pledge, principal, ready assets, refund, remuneration, reserve, resources, riches, savings (usually someone else's), scratch, security, skins, stock, treasure (always someone else's)...

all usually made by theft, bullshit showmanship, snake-oil sales, and/or oogadaboogadah religion.

[Vidar]

12. That didn't take long.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Who attacked her 'viciously' for what she said? I make fun of all 'beauty' contestants, even those

who can compose and speak complex sentences.

[HillWilliam]

14. You mean a noun, a verb AND whirled peas? n/t

[AngryAmish]

66. Perez Hilton calling her the c-word?

[kimmylavin]

15. A new career, based on hate.

How "inspiring." :eyes:

[tabbycat31]

16. and we have the new Joe the Plumber

[AlbertCat]

27. I wonder if she too will get all horny at GOP speaking events.

I'm sure Joe himself and the Sarah Palin studs want her too.

[tabbycat31]

32. I think Jessica Simpson lookalike makes JTP horny

[marshall]

17. She's getting more face time than the actual winner!

The winner, whatever her name is, needs to get out there and drown this woman out.

[TheCoxwain]

18. Maybe she aint that dumb .... she is being a smart business woman

[DinahMoeHum]

24. . . .because the shelf life of her newfound celebrity status is very short

n/t

[Libertas1776]

19. She's so...

courageous. :sarcasm: OMG I'm here to tell you that like gays and stuff can't get married so like ya know whatever. What a ditz. :puke:

[closeupready]

22. Ms. Prejean, we are on minute 25 here. How many more minutes do you need?

:eyes:

[onestepforward]

25. They couldn't have picked a better spokesperson! n/t

[AlbertCat]

28. Indeed. A loser for a losing battle.

[feslen]

30. re: does she really need to "win" to be crowned?

Come on...it's not like there hasn't been illegitimate winners before :). <coughs> <coughs>.

another vapid former "beauty queen" that represents the GOP what a shock. I'm so scared! <rolls eyes>

[demoborn47]

29. Oh wait!!!

You mean a blonde, white, bigotted, ignorant bitch is speaking for the "moral majority"???... yeah, big surprise there. I like how they keep putting these poorly vetted talking heads to be their spokespeople.... they're playing into our hands. Like taking candy from a ignorant racist baby.

[question everything]

31. As was expected (nt)

[Political Tiger]

33. I love this line:

"Carrie's courage inspired a whole nation and a whole generation of young people because she chose to risk the Miss USA crown..."

LOL! It's a beauty contest for God's sake! "Risking" the Miss USA crown is hardly an act of "courage." Courage is risking your life in Afghanistan or rushing into a burning building to save a person's life, not getting a bikini wax and strutting half naked on television vying for a beauty contest "crown!"

[Orrex]

34. I don't know. A bikini wax sounds pretty dangerous to me.

Painful, at least.


Godspeed, Carrie. Godspeed!

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[brentspeak]

39. I didn't have a problem with her for answering when asked about her views

But now she's going out of her way to foist her views onto the public.

[yellowcanine]

40. When did intolerance become a "deep moral value"?

[ieoeja]

43. 4 November 1980

[TankLV]

68. when it is shoved REALLY FAR up a repuke's butthole...

only then, can they truly appreciate it...

[BlueIdaho]

44. Yeah...

I really prefer getting my moral values from beauty pageant contestants - speaking of which- I'll bet Palin is shaking in her fucking boots... Looks like she's about to be replaced.

[Toucano]

45. Doesn't she have a contract with Miss USA as runner-up?

I am surprised they would allow her to do something controversial during the year of her stand-by status.

Maybe Donald gets a cut.

[ronnykmarshall]

49. She has a contract w/ the Miss California org

and she is pushing it so they ask her to step down so she can sue.

I wish she and Perez Hilton would drive off a fucking cliff.

[ninety lives]

46. I don't understand this

How did California get so conservative?

If your cause is so important to you, why do you represent it with a beauty queen?

[Merlot]

47. "...star in a new $1.5 million ad campaign..."

People star in movies, not advertising. Will she be acting in these ads or being herself? Because being herself doesn't make her a star, it makes her a spokesperson.

[ronnykmarshall]

48. She pushing the Miss Cal peeps to ask her to step down.

[Bluebear]

50. "Carrie's courage inspired a whole nation" - yes, she is a regular Susan B Anthony

[Blue_Tires]

52. well this was coming sooner or later

if she plays her cards right, she'll rake in more fame and cash than she ever would had she won the damn thing...

[Trocadero]

54. Should we ask her views on pre-marital sex?

[Solly Mack]

56. What losers do to get attention for 100

[depakid]

57. I wonder whther she realizes just how ugly she's becoming?

It's one thing to be clueless and inarticulate- but ugly takes some doing.

[and-justice-for-all]

59. "I sur is a purty bigoty, I is....ma saz I is."

[enola fay]

60. "HER truth"

If only this were really about people being allowed to follow their own truths instead of forcing them on others. I am a gay person in a committed, 5 yr relationship who worries every day about what would happen if something horrible happened to my partner or myself. Why can't I live MY truth???

"She is attacked viciously for having the courage to speak up for her truth and her values," the group said in a press release.

[underpants]

63. truthiness

1. truthiness (noun)
1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/06words.htm

[underpants]

62. There are several blondes over at Fox News who are getting plenty nervous right now

:scared:

[Blandocyte]

64. So if Ann Coulter quickened the conservaguys' pulses,

this lady will be able to get a rise outta them. A conservastar is born! I think "Courageous Carrie" will join the stable of fake mavericketttes alongside Ann and Sarah. Seems a good strategy for PR-- get the young guys over to the party/belief system by sex appeal instead of by appealing to reason.

I wasn't inspired by her, so she missed this part of the whole nation. Turning a televised moral faux pas into star power. Amazing.

[tanyev]

65. Make sure she has a script.

With easy words. And lots of time to practice.