Posted on 11/05/2009 5:03:33 AM PST by robertvance
So – my fellow conservatives – Was defending Carrie Prejean worth it or did we prop her up on a pedestal a little too soon? Was it really a good idea to see her as our poster girl just because we salivated over a few sentences that she uttered at a beauty pageant?
We should have known better using a beauty queen to try to get our message across. What were we thinking?
And yes, I am sure that we can thank our good friends on the left for digging up these uncomplimentary images and video about Prejean.
That’s what they do best.
But if the allegations are true, then Prejean is a hypocrite and we all look like idiots.
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Not really. She has right to her views despite what she did on camera. I really would like to see the video to make a final judgment.
I rather look like an idiot for supporting Prejean when be an idiot for supporting Obama.
But that’s just me.
We did?
Thought that was John Edwards.
I think we need to see the tape, before deciding for ourselves. So far, these are just baseless allegations, and we need to see the evidence. :p
I don’t get the point of this article.
We didn’t defend Prejean because she was purity personified.
We defended Prejean - and still defend her - because she answered a question on TV without genuflecting to the Gay Baal.
She literally spoke truth to power and the Liberal wolfpack want her to die. I couldn’t care less that she has some ‘glamor shots’.
I thought support for her was as much about her being a victim of PC ridicule and intolerance than what she actually said.
Many of us weren’t in support of her personally but were fed up with anyone that speaks their opinion being ridiculed for having a point of view and that point of view being damaging to them professionally.
We’re told time and time again that us refusing to go to movies, buy albums or watch TV shows with idiot liberal performers is censorship. Well for once, we got to turn things around.
I never thought of her as someone worth defending personally yet was entirely in favor of throwing back the liberal stance on “censorship” being applied as much to those that they disagreed with as those they agreed with.
I think a lot of us males here put her up on a pedestal just so we could scope out her butt.
"...I really would like to see the video to make a final judgment..."
As do I, but it had little to do with "judgement"!
I understand it was a solo act wherein she pleasured herself. That's just wrong, wrong, wrong. But yeah, I'd really like to see the video, simply for scientific and archival purposes.
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I agree 100% with your post.
She did more than glamour shots. Apparently there is a sex video of her, only she’s by herself.
Learn to judge people without you quick gun attitude. The left is good a picking on people with weak evidence.
Dig enough and you’ll find dirt on everyone. Goodness knows, beauty pageant judge Mario Armando Lavandeira aka Perez Hilton (a Paris Hilton wannabe) has so much dirt you’d need a hazmat suit.
What do these other things have to do with fact she was slammed for speaking against same sex marriage? This is the left’s way of discrediting her story. This is playing right into the other side. All the other women in this competition who were on the side of same sex marriage are angels. They get a pass. In summary not guilty
I don’t think it was a mistake. I’m betting every Christian has bad stuff in their past that they regret doing. I know I do. An essential part of Christianity is repenting of the sinful behavior the past. Christians sin too. Sometimes it may be hypocrisy if a person claims Christ and isn’t his. But more often it’s weakness.
Don’t kill the messenger.
Maybe we should of defended Perez Hilton?? Hmmmm?
Exactly. The only perfect man last walked this Earth over two thousand years ago and there ain't never been a perfect woman.
No. Not at all. She had a right to express herself freely. She did nothing wrong.
Political correctness was designed to silence people from speaking out against the liberal agenda. If you notice, only the left wing special interest groups are "protected" by it. The same thing applies to hate crimes. Do they protect ANY member of a RIGHT wing group? No, they don't.
Like Carrie, people need to speak out loud and clear while they still can, or they'll forever be holding their tongues.
Like Carrie, SPEAK UP!
If she made the video AFTER the beauty pageant, then I’d have to believe she’s a hypocrite. (Not that she’s the Lone Ranger in that department, either.)
If she made it BEFORE, then I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and believe she had a change of heart, and asked for and received forgiveness. In that case, it’s between her and God.
And, regardless of her actions, her statements and her behavior since the pageant have been RIGHT. That counts for something.
I never took you for a voyeur, Perdog.
Prejean could have starred in multiple raunchy videos with Newt Gingrich and my position would be: so what?
She has a right to say that homosexual marriage is wrong, even if she was a Clinton mistress or the madame of a Congressional brothel, or < insert depraved job title here >
Very recent case in point - the head of Planned Parenthood just came out as saying abortion is wrong. Did she have a right to say that? God yes!
You know I am joking, little morning humor.
Talk of lousy journalism.... I should’ve known better than to go to page titled “The Idiocratic”.
Well named though.
Nothing the libtards do can change the fact that in that one instant she spoke the truth of her convictions and her star shown bright.
She has human frailties so it is now time for all Conservatives to throw her under the bus!
If no busses are available, just throw rocks!!
Quickly now, STONE HER before she gets away!
We may not agree on much but that doesn't mean I don't respect you.
We may not agree on much but that doesn't mean I don't respect you.
Good one.
Let me get this straight, if you are a republican you are not allowed to have sex at all or you are a hypocrite, is that it? If someone were to video tape you then that makes you a bad person.
I like using the three characters :0) for those all-important smiles, the 0 in the middle being a big nose.
I hope the Admins never actually enable full emoticons though - DU is just rank with those things :0(
I seen her pics. Nothing more than your average modeling pics with a little breast flashing. OMG! (haven’t seen any sex tape)
IMO, this video more fairly represents this young lady.
We didn’t defend her as our spokesperson - we defended her right to free speech - her right to answer a question honestly when asked, during a beauty pageant.
I think this whole fiasco is going to put the last coffin nails in beauty pageants, it has exposed them as being completely & utterly corrupted.
I don’t know what you are alluding to about Ms. Prejean - I don’t think you can expect much out of a woman who parades around in the skimpiest of bikinis in terms of modesty or anything else. But I do defend her right to free speech.
Of course, that’s the shining hallmark of liberals - when the heat gets too hot on them, they pull up all sorts of diversions. Things are heating up, aren’t they?
we probably agree on more than you might think.
As to the author's point concerning the wisdom of supporting a beauty queen: conservatives find so little affirmation from the popular culture that when we do get hint of it we react like a drowning man getting that dies gasp of air on bobbing to the surface.
Can’t tell until I see the tape.
Truth is truth, and if Charles Manson came out and said gay marriage is wrong, I'd have to agree with him, in spite of who he is.
Only liberals measure the truth of a statement by who's saying it.
1. The video doesn’t exist. The TMZ is known for lying. If they had it, they would have posted it.
2. Look up ad hominem tu quoque, it’s a fallacy. The fact that it is a favorite tactic in our day and age doesn’t make it any less of a fallacy.
Hypocrite? Did she marry a girl?
They should never have asked the question at the pageant. Apparently you can lose your job for having the wrong opinion.
The point is that conservatives are chumped by the Left, once again.
I guess some conservatives STILL don't recognize the dead hand of Saul Alinsky even as it reaches from the grave to wrap Carrie Prejean in its foul, vile grip.
As you wrote, Prejean didn't "genuflect to the Gay Baal", and so she must be destroyed.
Now, if any of the female darlings of the Left had had the same thing happen to them, the Left would mobilize its Great Big Excuse Machine to defend their actions to the death.
I mean, look at ACORN. We have them on TAPE advising a prostitute and a pimp about extracting the most mileage from child sex slaves. Has ACORN been chased from the public arena? No way.
I'm just going to pull an Obamao on this one. Since Obamao didn't watch the Tuesday elections, they didn't happen.
Since I don't have TeeVee, I can't see any of the Left's smears and hitpieces on Carrie Prejean. I refuse to read any of the Left's online slander of Carrie Prejean.
Problem solved.
Guys like me are EXACTLY why Reichsfuhrer Cass Sunstein wants to control information on the Interweb. :-)
I just saw a CNN story say she “declared her opposition to same sex marriage” at the pageant.
She was asked the question. She gave her views that marriage was between a man and a woman.
But apparently to the media she hijacked the show and for no reason grabbed the mic and started verbally attacking gays.
Only liberals measure the truth of an ENEMY'S statement by who's saying it.
Remember the child sex slavers and tax evaders of ACORN...
Nathan Hale is a chump for falling for this Alinsky crap.
I am thinking......WHAT TAPE? Is there a tape? Has anyone SEEN this supposed tape? Where is the evidence that there is such a tape? Everyone jumping on the bandwagon to trash her when there has been NO EVIDENCE. Let’s wait to see this tape, IF it even EXISTS.
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