Posted by
Patrick Henry on Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:03:30 PM
Miss America used to be a national heroine, beautiful, talented, reigning in
majesty while championing causes benefiting children or the challenged. She
was everyone's darling daughter, apolitical, non-controversial, and the winner
of one of the year's most spectaculr pageants. But it all came crashing down one
night in April, 2009.
Behind the disaster was "celebrity blogger" Armando Levandeira, who calls
himself "Perez Hilton," although the only thing he shares with Paris is the air
between the ears. Violating the explicit rules of the pageant, Levandeira asked
Carrie Prejean, Miss California, whether she thought other states should follow
the first four to legalize gay marriage. When she answered that in her own
value structire marriage was for a man and a woman, Levandeira went ballistic,
calling her vile names both in his blog and on interviews for days after. Making
matters worse, another judge stated that for her snwer Miss California should have
been made 51st runner-up instead of first. The head honchos of the Miss California
pageant were no more supportive, and the straight-bashers in Hollywood wasted
no time piling on. The incident was so distasteful, so politicized, so obnoxious
as to forever taint what has long been an American institution. Gone is the
possibility that we can ever expect honest answers from the candidates again. They
will always choose the politically correct answer over what they may privately
believe, because they know that (a) they won't win if they don't, and (b) they'll
be called foul names and publicly ridiculed if they speak their minds. The thrill is
gone!
Some intersting questions should be raised, however. What good is a pageant that
sets rules for judges and then sits on its thumbs when judges break them? What
qualifies Hilton, a virulent gay activist, to judge beautiful young women? The
cretan doesn't even like women. And why would the morons Lewis and Moakler
not stridently back Miss Prejean when California residents solidly voiced their
own disapproval of gay marriage in the much written about Proposition 8 election?
Is political correctness now an official judging standard for contestants, and were
they told that in advance? The answers to these and a plethora of other questions
are blowing in the wind.
But a few things are obvious. Levandeira (aka "Hilton"), reprehensible, bigoted,
tasteless slob that he is, had no business whatever being a judge in the Miss
America pageant. If his distaste for women didn't disqualify him, then his blatant
political agenda and transparent lack of class should have. So the people who ran
the pageant were about as adept at it as Tim Geithner is at doing his taxes. Just like
the old computer maxim, "garbage in, garbage out."
Some good legal minds believe that Carrie Prejean has a solid basis for a big
lawsuit against Levandeira, and perhaos even the pageant. Personally,
I hope she pursues it. They ought to pay more for slandering and humiliating her
than she did for telling the truth they didn't want to hear. Gays have a clear double
standard. You can't say one word against their right to be, have or do anything
whatsover that they want, no matter how perverse you consider it. But there are
no boundaries whatever around what they can say about you. It's time for a change!
Sue their butss off, Carrie. You go girl!