Miss California loses pageant, retains self respect

I believe beauty pageants are pointless and lame. I'm sorry if that's not "PC" but that's my uninformed, pedestrian opinion. I'm not even going to say I'm entitled to it, it's really kind of a mean thing to say. I just don't understand the point, maybe I don't "get" them. But Sunday's Miss America Pageant gave me a new reason to watch - Miss California gave "one of the worst answers in pageant history."

That's a direct quote. And while I assumed she was being criticized for not giving the normal "I love puppy dogs, rainbows and world peace" speech, I was surprised to learn the extent of her alleged "un-PC-ness" [/sarcasm]. I was expecting "I totally, like, empathize with the skinheads and understand their plight," or maybe "Oh yeah, product testing on animals is both an economic, as well as socially responsible solution to meeting FDA requirements." No no, what Miss CA said was even worse. At least according to Perez Hilton. Worst answer in pageant history? Hardly. We got that little gem 2 years ago in the Miss Teen USA pageant - remember Miss Teen South Carolina?

As you can see on several talk shows (including the one I posted here) covering this event (or non-event depending on who you ask) it's clearly hard for them to contain their contempt for Perez Hilton. Can you blame them? Holy Taco describes Hilton:

"He spends his days making up gay rumors about celebrities, then attending award
shows at night and pretending to be annoyed when reporters ask him questions.
His blog is basically just a series of pictures with [expletive] finger
painting on them, followed by two paragraphs that seem to be written like a
fourth grade child who moved here from Vietnam.

Holy Taco is the site that presented this year's Douchebag Tournament (running concurrently with March Madness, naturally), pitting the nation's biggest tools against each other. Perez barely edged out Spencer and Heidi (of The Hills... fame?) gaining 52.4% of the vote in the first round:





Hilton would go on to lose to OctoMom in round 2 who is poised to win the whole thing. Who knew?


Anyway, without getting into the nitty-gritty of the firestorm that is the "same-sex marriage debate," I will say this without reservation: Somebody needs to develop the cure for stupid, fast. This is why you are a tool Mr. Hilton:


1. Miss CA answered your question. Don't act so surprised and outraged. Calling her "politically incorrect" because she doesn't agree with your agenda is both an immature emotional response and a very convenient fallacy. I have yet to figure out why Miss CA's comments were "politically incorrect." Calling someone a "dumb [expletive]" on national television is politically incorrect. Classy.


2. Who made you the arbiter of national morals and standards? Judging from your reaction, you seem to think the phrase "I don't believe in same-sex marriage" is the moral equivalent of saying "I believe in slavery." Although same-sex marriage is an issue still being debated in this country, the fact that you don't even acknowledge the public discussion going on is disturbing. You give the impression that everyone in support of gay marriage in America believes that the rest of us who don't share your conviction are a bunch of backwards, gay-hating homophobes that aren't "getting with the program" - like it's a matter of time and the majority of America is waiting on us. You assume everyone thinks like you do. Do you even understand what kind of amazing opportunities and freedoms you have living in this country, much less appreciate them? I'm sure you don't. You're focused on gossip.


3. You're a hypocrite. Miss North Carolina's question wasn't that hard. Who is going to side with big business and agree that the bailouts were a good idea in this political and economic environment? Nobody. How did you give Miss CA the "easy way out?" - by expecting her to give you some middle-of-the-road, wishy washy, vapid response like, "I think that states should be able to decide for themselves... Uh, because... that's what's going to end up happening anyway, right?" You asked. By expecting her to give some canned response that panders to your political thinking and shallow agenda, you were judging her based on her moral, political and religious views. Exactly what you told Matt Lauer you hoped we wouldn't do in the future when asking contestents questions like this. Good job. So you vote her out - not because of the way she carried herself throughout the competition, and not because of the way she answered the question. She lost because she's Christian? Awesome. Just stop feeding me this "the ideal Miss America should be this and that" crap and have the cajones and security to admit that not everyone agrees with your tiny view of the world.

Your little temper tantrum made her a martyr for the cause and helped a lot of people find out who you are. But I guess you're loving it - any attention is good attention for an attention whore.

Go see what Britney is up to, we don't care what you think about politics.