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The Top Story: Now that she's the former Miss California, how is the media covering it?
Carrie Prejean was pushed back into the news cycle when she was fired from her job as Miss California yesterday for not living up to her beauty queen duties. While the story -- and the potential for hilarity -- is still developing, there are already a few media moments worth noting. Let's take a look, shall we? Larry King Live I usually don't care for Larry King's interviews but I have to give him credit for trying to cover the different sides of the story, letting Prejean's pastor dispute claims that the firing was over her job performance, followed by Miss California pageant director Keith Lewis getting to explain his experience (as the guy who actually had to manage Prejean until he just couldn't take it anymore.) "I'm a Right Wing Tool... Get Me Out of Here!" Always quick with a satirical response, Huffington Post blogger Andy Borowitz suggested that Prejean could move on to a reality show about conservative talking heads facing tests of their right-wing sensibilities. So instead of having to endure bugs crawling over them, they have to sit through a Michael Moore film festival. That could actually be entertaining. Julie Chen talks with Tami Farrell Since the new Miss California, Tami Farrell, didn't get a chance to speak on Larry King Live, I think it's worth noting Farrell's appearance on The Early Show. After hearing too many attempts by Prejean to make questions fit her prepared talking points (resulting in interviews that sounded like Prejean was actually testing a new version of ELIZA), it's a relief to hear a Miss California who can hold a conversation that, well, sounds like a conversation. Carrie Prejean: Best Person in the World Olbermann brought up Prejean's firing on his facetious "Best Persons in the World" segment, saying Prejean got the "Best Comeuppance" and then wondering why anyone paid so much attention to her opinion about anything. However, as much as I approve of the snark, I also enjoyed that Olbermann included footage of Billy Bush talking to Prejean about her firing. When Prejean tries to turn it into another excuse to claim that the world is just full of Carrie haters, save for Donald Trump, Bush quickly responds with, "And he gave his blessing to terminate you." (It almost makes me forget about how Bush annoyed me on Larry King Live.) Meanwhile, I'm thrilled that Olbermann realizes you don't have to throw around insults like "dumb bitch" when you have clips that demonstrate her lack of intellect. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Jezebel translates the Lewis/Prejean emails for you In response to Fox News getting the emails between Lewis and Prejean, Gawker media empire blog Jezebel delivered the snark by translating Lewis' professional tone and Prejean's, uhm, less carefully worded messages. I know those emails are going to be a goldmine of snark and this is a great first step. Basically, Prejean's emails reveal the former Miss California as that nightmare co-worker who just scans your emails, looking for a reason to turn things confrontational. I have a feeling this story isn't going to go away for at least a couple more days, who knows what kind of goldmine of funny will come next? Submitted by on Thu, 2009-06-11 17:17. |
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When I lose my job...
I agree and that's just what I said yesterday.....
She's keeping them
They're going to be the central characters in her new Christian puppet show.
Mrs Jellicoe, the spokesperson for a group defending *opposite marriage*, and the Rev. Pat, a fire and brimstone preacher. Two bags of spineless nothing you can see right through.
Jezebel blog
I can't say I'm devastated by the fact that this Prejean-person is gone. She's irritating, regardless of her position on gay marriage.
I had a lot of fun with that link to the 'translation' of the emails, but I cannot help but wonder if it's a joke. (though I fear it's not) Because, seriously, Prejean is supposed to have sent this as a reply to the pageant director:
I'm sorry, but how stupid are you if you formulate a repy like this. (She should get fired for the spelling alone.) She's isn't talking to a friend, she's talking to pageant director. Í mean, seriously? "ur crazy". If I wrote that to MY director, he'd have my head examined, just to make sure that I couldn't plea temporary insanity when he fires me!
But even that aside:
This HAS to be a joke. (but probably
isn't. is not.) :DA few light bulbs short of the Norther Lights.
IMO the girl has always seemed a little dim. Seems more likely she's taking her orders from her "spiritual advisors" than her actual boss. You know, the ones that were until recently paying her tuition and enabeling her to make any appearances at all.
And of course the fact that she was the last to find out that she'd been fired is due to her position on gay marriage. No communication problems at all there.
People that actually whistle while they work deserve what they get.
The most shocking thing
The most shocking thing about all of this for me was realizing she's only 22. She looks like she's been left in a Ronco dehydrator that was set to "Ann Coulter".
Not that that has anything to do with anything, aside from my being shallow sometimes.
Is it wrong...
...to feel a little bit intellectually superior to this woman? If only because of my grasp of the English language?
Please advise.
Ms. Farrell seems poised and... smarter. Best of luck to her.
ummm
i was watching FOX yesterday (because i was bored) and the new Miss. Ca was on along with another man...uhh....wtf was his name? anyways, he was the one to fire her i guess.
anyways, he was asked if he sent her out to some same sex marriage thing...and he said "yes, but it was optional" (something along the lines of her not having to go)
I had to ask "well, she's against same sex marriage, so why would that even be brought up to her in the first place? to change her mind?"
i thought that was dumb of him or whoever came up with that idea
ding dong...
Let's not forget...
How embarassing it must be to be Alisyn Cameratta in between the two male co-anchors of Fox and Friends in the morning! They fawned over Carrie Prejean and gave her so much screen time and pretty much soft-balled every interview they ever gave her. I'm sick of those guys acting like prepubescent preteens who open a swimsuit calendar for the first time. It's like that lingerie football game they played two days after sniffing about how offensive the Bruno/Eminem stunt was.
This is a prime example of why people should listen to the GLBT community - when we rant about something or someone, there's a point. Trump could've saved himself a lot of trouble and humiliation if he'd listened to us when we said she wasn't playing with a full deck.
Also, snicks is right - she looks a lot like the reverend's wife on True Blood.