Carrie Prejean, her opinions, and some rather prosaic seminude photographs have received entirely too much attention in the media.
Look: she has an opinion on same-sex marriage, and she’s absolutely entitled to. She didn’t express that opinion too gracefully when it was solicited, but it wasn’t a beyond-the-pale hateful opinion. I’m not impressed with her subsequent behavior, but I’m also absolutely appalled at Perez Hilton’s. (Calling her a “dumb bitch” is beyond the pale.)
And if she’s fired for lying about those photos, isn’t that a pretty small fig leaf? The claims of the California pageant officials that she’s furthering her own agenda at the pageant’s expense may hold water, but in the end that may not matter. Prejean has managed to capture all the fame, or at least notoriety, available in this venue, without earning it in the least.
There’s precedent: does anybody remember who became Miss America after Vanessa Williams was disqualified?