Carrie PreJean is a beauty pageant contestant who spoke her truth and was attacked for it. For that brief moment her star shown bright and nothing that happens from that point own will change that. Larry King is a washed up has been and nothing that happens from that point own will change that.
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Well put.
And in addition, when she spoke the truth, she was basically repeating what Obama had said on the campaign trail: she repeated the Democrat talking point on this issue.
The difference is that when she said that marriage should be between a man and a woman, she really meant it. That's why they had to destroy her. When Obama said the same thing, he was lying and his followers understood that. That's why they praised him.