Know Your Place

I figured the Miss California brouhaha would settle down, but the opposite has happened. It's mutated into several different stories and Carrie Prejean is becoming the most famous Miss USA loser ever.

First, she's becoming a spokesperson for "traditional marriage." While it's hard to blame her for jumping on a bandwagon when her opponents wanted to throw her under it, this does smell of opportunism for her and any organization that supports the move.

Meanwhile, she's gotten into a contretemps with former Miss California Pageant official Shanna Moakler, who confirmed that Prejean has breast implants--paid for by the California Pageant people, no less. She also seemed to imply Prejean might be fired from her position as Miss California. The whole thing is odd, since it's not clear (to me anyway--there may be more to this story than I'm aware of) why Moakler is saying anything, except that Prejean is now controversial and Moakler feels hurt by her political opinion.

Above all, the hate continues. You'd think they'd let it go, but the insults just keep coming. The weird thing is Perez Hilton looked like a jerk calling Prejean a "dumb bitch," but some people don't seem to understand this. For instance, here's Keith Olbermann and Michael Musto chortling over her stupidity, apparently believing she's creating sympathy for her opponents.