The Sandspur

Issue date: 11/20/09 Section: News

Media Credit: MCT Campus BEAUTY QUEEN SMILES: Prejean (left) hams it up for the camera after her win and before the sextape scandal.

In case you have had the good fortune of missing her on television the last couple of weeks, former Miss California Carrie Prejean has been making the talk show rounds. In addition to her plethora of softball appearances on Fox News, Prejean has also appeared recently on "The Today Show," "The View" and, in an utterly bizarre appearance, "Larry King Live." The recent media blitz is due to the release of a book that Prejean penned that details the "harsh treatment" that she claims to have suffered as a result of her response to a question about whether or not she advocates gay marriage.

Prejean, as we have heard on countless television shows by now, does not. Unlike some who were outraged by her stance against gay marriage, I applauded it not because I agree with Prejean--because I don't, but because she had the courage to be honest on the topic. As recent polls suggest, the majority of Americans do not support gay marriage and to single her out for her view as some commentators did is misguided and counterproductive. Yes, it was wrong for Prejean to be attacked as she was at times was for expressing a view to a question that, let's be honest, had no place even being asked in a beauty pageant. The problem, then, is not with the question itself but with the despicable way in which Prejean has handled the matter in the pageant's wake.

After the title of Miss USA was awarded to Miss North Carolina, Kristen Dalton, Prejean appeared instantly, proclaiming her rightful claim to the crown which she says she lost due to the bias of the judges. This is where Prejean's train first derailed. In making such accusations against the pageant, Prejean revealed her selfishness and surgically enhanced ego. Refusing to consider the possibility that she was simply outdone by a better candidate, Prejean denied newly appointed Miss USA Dalton her moment in the spotlight, accepting with open arms the "victim" role the rightwing media immediately thrust upon her. Since then, Prejean's whining has reached ear shattering pitch as each new week brings a new "outrage" which she so nobly takes upon herself to expose. Miraculously, in between the lawsuits against the pageant and their countersuits, Prejean has found the time to write about what she sees as the media's unfair and biased treatment of conservative women. As evidenced by her claims that she has been "Palin-ized," Pre-jean has been eager to share the mantle of martyred conservative female with the former Vice Presidential nominee.

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