The insta-celebrity Carrie Prejean, right-wing heroine and defrocked beauty queen, has been brought low by that most embarrassing of all self-destructive acts…a sex tape.
According to Google Trends, her (unreleased) sex tape was the hottest search item on Google Trends a couple of days ago, and the chart still looks like a rocket going up.
Believe it or don't, newspaper editor Rod Dreher reports she made this tape…while hiking the Appalachian Trail!
Defying Google and the nation, Prejean claims she wasn't having sex, by which she means apparently sex with other people.
"It was me by myself. There was no one else with me. I was not having
sex," the controversial beauty queen told TODAY's Meredith Vieira in
New York.
Prejean admitted to making the video of herself and sending it to her boyfriend when she was 17 years old. Sounds almost Clintonian, doesn't it? Sex with yourself for someone else is not sex.
Oh, okay.
Here's how Marin Cojan of Double XX put it, more thoughtfully:
Conservatives love their beauty queens, I think, in part for the
obvious reasons—the pageant fetishizes the traditional values
conservatives go gaga over—not only strictly prescribed gender roles
but also moral rectitude, patriotism, and charity. But there’s a
victimization element at work here, too: Prejean is the brave and
besieged outsider standing up to the know-it-all elites. It’s an image
they see as representative of, and mirrored in, themselves. This was evident in the ad
that the National Organization for Marriage cut with Prejean when it
tried to portray the controversy as a case of liberal intolerance, as
it is portrayed in the title of her book, Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks.Of course, as John McCain learned the hard way, there are great
risks in aligning yourself with the right’s flame-throwing bombshells.
Like Palin, Prejean can always be counted on to fire up a crowd, but no
one can keep her from going rogue—as evidenced by last night’s tantrum
or, more obviously, the sex tape itself, which reportedly caused her to be dropped from a “Defenders of the Family” event last week.
Anyhow!
What is it with Republicans and the Appalachian Trail?
They hit the trail — real or virtual — and turn into sexpots!
Bewildering, one might say…here's Carrie indoors, on her way to great fame:
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