Palin defends Miss Calif. from ‘malicious’ attacks

[WillParkinson]

Source: Associated Press

Palin defends Miss Calif. from ‘malicious’ attacks
By The Associated Press
05.18.2009 2:47pm EDT

(Anchorage, Alaska) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is defending Miss California USA Carrie Prejean.

The former vice presidential candidate says in a statement, “The liberal onslaught of malicious attacks against Carrie Prejean for expressing her opinion is despicable.”

Prejean created a stir at last month’s Miss USA pageant when she said marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

Questions about her work with gay marriage opponents and nearly nude photos taken of her when she was a teenager had put her title in jeopardy, but pageant owner Donald Trump decided to let Prejean keep her state crown.

Palin says she respects Prejean for staying true to her beliefs and can relate to her “as a liberal target myself.”

Palin was a runner-up in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest.

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Yeah, I know it's been done to death, but c'mon, it's SARAH!

[mix]

1. it's nice they have each other n/t

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[derby378]

3. Well, slap me conservative if Carrie hasn't just been vindicated!

:rofl:

[Booster]

4. Never thought I'd say this, but I agree with Palin (shudder).

She was asked a question and she answered it. First, I don't think that was the forum for that question to even be asked, and second, we can't pick and choose what we consider free speech anymore than the opposition can. What I despise about Prejean is that she broke the rules of the pageantry and Trump let her get away with it because she's pretty. Her crown should have been taken away for that but then she continued to lie saying it was windy, it was the photographer's fault, and on and on. For that, she's disgusting.

[Beavker]

7. I agree, she's entitled to her opinion.

And so are the 'judges'. That's why they are called 'judges'. They judge you. She got judged. It's not an objective contest, otherwise they wouldn't ask them questions, and they wouldn't have the biggst capitalist pig running the thing. I'd have to say that if there is such a think as a Miss American "purest" out there, they had to have jumped ship when Donald was handed the reigns. I'd quit watching the NFL is Donald ran it.

[bobburgster]

25. This statement says it all!

"...having a freedom of speech does not mean that you are free to give your opinion without being criticized for holding it.

The whole thing is being blown out of proportion because it is fodder for the pols....

[varkam]

15. What? No one is trouncing her freedom of speech.

She can say whatever the hell she wants to. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution only applies to the government, though - not private actors. If the beauty pageant wants to shut her up or boot her out of the competition, they are will within their rights to do so (seeing as how they are a private organization).

Additionally, having a freedom of speech does not mean that you are free to give your opinion without being criticized for holding it. Her "opinion" is bigoted and backwards and has the unmistakable stench of hypocrisy about it, and I feel that I should be able to express my own free speech rights in asserting as much.

[eagleswing963]

20. Well of course he let her go

I bet anything she Monica'ed him till he said "keep the crown baby!"

Like she is the last "christian" who would do something like that!

[Missy Vixen]

30. TMZ noted that Miss Prejean carries a remarkable

resemblance to his second wife, Marla Maples.

I'll bet the current wife's getting long in the tooth. Time to trade her in on a new model, huh?

:rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. LOL. titles like ms universe etc do get asked social and civil rights questions

no one is throwing her in jail. no one has to crown you because of free speech though, we are free from imprisonment but not free from judgement.

[snowdays]

35. I agree with you. And with Palin on this one.

[xchrom]

5. a marriage made in heaven. nt

[HopeHoops]

6. PREJEAN/PALIN 2012!

Dumb and Dumber, GOP style!

[closeupready]

11. That's a GOP ticket I would support 100%!

:rofl:

[Stellabella]

8. Yep. Every time a repuke is criticized, it's a 'malicious attack'.

Every time they malign a Democrat, calling them everything from a terrorist supporter to anti-American, that's 'constructive criticism'.

They're just two-year-olds. All of them. (Apologies to two-year-olds).

[MurrayDelph]

9. The "Religious Right" never understands the other half of the equation:

yes, they have the right to spout their views.

What they want to deny is our right to denounce their views as bullshit (when appropriate).

[catrose]

17. And we think

they should follow the rules they agreed to, instead of whining that we're being MEAN to point out that they're not.

You don't think a lesbian would have been deprived of her crown in a New York minute.

A lesbian beauty queen...now wouldn't that be super.

[mitchum]

10. Pageant LOSERS of a feather stick together...

and apparently contract violation is a "belief" in fundy world

[Downwinder]

37. Not limited to pageant contestants.

Include Military contracts. Come to think of it sworn statements aren't much good either. All of those things just apply to lesser mortals.

[tularetom]

12. How did Miss CA suffer from these "vicious attacks"?

I don't get it. She broke the pageant rules, she lied to the pageant organizers, she was allowed to keep her title in spite of lying.

Seems to me the "vicious attacks" worked out pretty well for her.

Of course everything comes with a price. Now she has to do the horizontal hokey pokey with a guy with a dead varmint on his head,

[Dawgs]

13. "The liberal onslaught of malicious attacks...for expressing her opinion is despicable."

Don't you just love it when Republicans defend racists and bigots by using the 'expressing her opinion' argument.

I wonder if she would defend the KKK, or David Duke, that way.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

24. See also Hannity defending Don Imus, Mark Fuhrman, Prejean, Trent Lott, Dr. Laura, Falwell

But it's Jeremiah Wright who's "Full of hate," you know

[tclambert]

36. She wasn't attacked for expressing her views. She was attacked for the stupidity of her views.

A subtle but significant difference. It's like if one believed the value of pi wasn't 3.14159 . . . but was 3.0 even because it says so in the Bible. (It actually does say that in the Bible.) It is one's right to believe it and to express that belief. But it is also the right of others to express their belief that one thereby proved oneself to be a stupid idiot.

I bet if you asked Sarah Palin the value of pi, she'd answer, "Apple or cherry?"

[Aristus]

14. I wouldn't have denied her the crown for expressing her views.

I would have denied her the crown for expressing them so BADLY. "Opposite marriage"? Why do we give these bims a microphone in the first place?

[bowens43]

16. bigotry is despicable .............................. nt

[sallylou666]

18. Laughing/ridicule

Malicious? I'm laughing at Miss California and the whole "scholarship" pageant system. If ridicule is malicious, ok.

[Somawas]

19. Getting defended by Palin really has to suck.

[SkyDaddy7]

22. LOL!

You made me laugh...That is sooo true!!! If the Bronze Age Darling of the Republican Party is defending you then something has gone terribly WRONG!!!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. God forbid people should be judged on what they say and do

rather than just be allowed to coast along on pageant queen looks

Sarah thought she could campaign by posing with guns and winking - and still is stunned she was asked real questions about her qualifications

[jeremyfive]

26. Superbimbo - calibimbo - expialibimbo!

Superbimbo - calibimbo - expialibimbo! (X2)

Where was Anita Bryant when the Bimbo Convention was called to order by Grand Poo-bah Sara Palin?

Time to defend Ms. Plastic-Jugs-Nudie-Pin-Up from her own mouth. ("My" country? "Opposite marriage?" How about throwing in a little English language into your beauty contest speeches so we can all follow along?)

[Stinger2]

28. I can see my old Boobs from Alaska!

Palin and Miss Calif. For President and Trump for Vice President, what a ticket, I can see my old Boobs from Alaska!

[LuckyLib]

34. "Boobs" being the all-inclusive operative word here.

[Revolution9]

27. the list of oppritunist politcians trying to pile on this contraversy........

.....despicable.

[truthisfreedom]

29. So when are the Draft Dodger, the Druggie, the Adulterer and Miss Vote Fraud going to pipe in?

I mean seriously, it's time for cheney, limbaugh, and gingrich to shrilly pipe in, right? Where's mann coulter?

[Tikki]

31. RW's and repugs lower the bar again...and then scream of their righteousness.

bush lowered the election process to a give me by scotus
cheney lowered the bar by a torture free for all
palin lowered the bar for no experience needed and MY family values are off limits
prejean lowered the bar so trump can now have his little t&a show in the future..

all this in the name of whatever...

Tikki

[LuckyLib]

32. Guv Palin, a "liberal target" means that the target is liberal. Liberal is an adjective.

You meant a "target of liberals"???? In addition to your amazing family values platform and your incisive intelligence and wit, you have no clue about how to formulate your thoughts into language.

[tclambert]

33. BTW, here's the winner of the 1984 Miss Alaska contest:

[bumblebee1]

39. Now there's a beauty. eom

[Downwinder]

38. I don't know that I'd like the wicked witch of the North on my side! n/t

[ForrestGump]

40. Sarah Palin thinks that 'malicious'

is what the Second Amendment supposedly guarantees us.