Comments on: Pageant Paid For Miss Calif. Implants

Miss Calif. Organization Sought To Help Carrie Prejean In Miss USA Pageant; She Wound Up As Runner-Up

[jsf14]

I heartily recommend renting the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous! Skewers beauty pageants.

[butterflync]

<i>What is really really sad is that if she had made a statement affirming that she was in support of gay marrige she would have won. </i>

We DON'T know that she would have won. She has been all over TV spouting that it cost her the title. As if Miss North Carolina is chopped liver of something. Geez, maybe MIss California just wasn't as pretty or as good as she thought, and just MAYBE that's why she didn't win. Also, regardless of her answer, she was pretty inarticulate when she answered .... not exactly Miss USA worthy to get so completely tongue tied.

As far as the breast implants goes - who cares? This chic is so yesterday's news, lets move on - she lost! She is blaming it on her stance rather than looking for an opportunity to improve her speaking abilities. This is her 15 minutes of fame now so she can become a conservative poster child. Maybe now she can also become a breat augmentation poster child too and get paid double.

[leegolden]

This is ironic. When I was a little girl (50 in AUG) the dream of every WHITE girl was to be miss america. The year of my birth along came barbie. I am almost 50 and am shocked when I SEE SOOOOOOOOOOO MANY MEN & WOMEN

(NOT ALL)
IN THE MEDIA (NOT JUST)
LOOKING LIKE PLASTIC
THESE ARE THE FACES OF THE TELEVISION AND MOVIE SCREENS ACROSS THE GLOBE.
I personally find it frightening that so many people are convinced that somehow there is something better for them than what mother nature delivered you up as. Now I know that some surgeries are necessary for prolonged life in some instances but come on, especially women, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, we are in the 21st century and no one needs to be judging us becausewe are okay with the vessels our mothers and fathera gave us regardless of our perceived flaws. Miss California should have won the competition hands down with all the make-up and her beauty but, she was judged on her ethics by a gay man asking a pointed question that she spun into a highly charged political debate. Perez Hilton clearly gives an excellent statement to the media the day after this contest and he said beautifully what she could have said and didn't. It is a pageant. A contest. Don't people try to cheat at times to win things? HAPPINESS COMES FROM WITHIN AND LIKE BUDDHA SAYS; IF YOU ARE NOT HELPING, YOU MUST NOT HURT. I think of all the gay population that probably lovingly, excitedly, tirelessly, helped miss california get to the pageant and how heart broken they must have felt when her answer fell upon their ears. GODDESS BLESS EVERYONE.

[Slrman]

horse1231, please explain to all of us how gay marriage threatens you or anyone else? Or maybe it's because your antediluvian belief system might be shown to be wanting in facts and logic? That's probably far more threatening to you than gay marriage.

Any religious argument is automatically void of any rational content. So let's hear a factual response.

[phil84109]

This is typical of mainstream journalism these days. When someone disagrees with them, they go "dumpster diving" and try to find anything embarrassing in that person's life.

This whole thing wouldn't be an issue if the judge had not lashed out at her like he did. He should be the center of this whole controversy. He's the one who asked the question and then viciously attacked her personally because of her answer. If he's mad at her for giving a political answer, then why did he ask the political question? Why isn't the mainstream media going after him?

The real victim here is Miss North Carolina. She won the pageant and no one is talking about her.

[docpeter1953]

this is akin to professional athletes taken steroids for better performance!
Posted by Indeptex4 ------------------------------ Posted by Indeptex4


Isn't putting on makup akin to using an artificial substance or prostetic to enhance ones physical appearance?

Posted by DaVicar5 at 7:51 AM : May 1, 2009

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Possibly true on both accounts, BUT I always viewed makeup as more closely akin to camoflage

[Slrman]

I think that this is the real story. That pageant officials gave her some "help". Was that help given to anyone else? Or was the playing field tilted a bit?

As far as her personal opinions, as wrong as they might be, she at least gave an honest answer. If we failed everyone who was an air head, could there even be beauty pageants?

[horse1231]

I think it's sad that she felt that she had to have bigger boobs to be competitive. Blame our society for that, and the media. Plastic is all you see any more. The gal who did the story on this this morning probably has fake ones too. My husband said to me the other day, "Just wait, the media will try to find any dirt on her they can." Sure enough, they have come up with this great story about her implants. How pathetic. Especially when 90% of all women have them. Their calling it cheating? Hows that anything like performance enhancing drugs? Is make up cheating too? How about botox ect, is that cheating too, or only when your in a beauty pageant. If so they should require contestants to be totally natural. The media in this country sucks, for lack of a better word. It's because of the main stream media the majority of our country is so ignorant of the truth. and yes, I agree with Miss CA, marriage needs to stay as it always has been!!!

L.M.

[staycalm]

While I don't advocate anyone changing their body or even competing in something as shallow as a beauty pageant, I do respect Prejean for having the courage to voice her deeply felt opinions. I have the deepest contempt for members of the gay community who have tried to censor her and all those who feel compelled to follow their conscience. Their behavior is profoundly unAmerican and shameful. Perez Hilton and his ilk are the standard-bearers for a sillyboy lifestyle where grown men behave like wild adolescents engaged in the headstrong pursuit of no strings $ex with anything or anyone. The utter immaturity of the gay lifestyle is what makes them unfit to raise children. Their movement is only about one thing...placing their unfettered desire for wierd $ex on par with civil rights. It is astounding that these people think their "suffering" is equal to what African-Americans have suffered throughout the centuries in this country. Read about how an African slave spent a day on the plantation and compare it to a day in the life of a sillyboy trolling for $ex and decorating.

[cmnsense]

Reporting this story on this one girl is definitely "bashing", "gossip", and only done for hype.

If you MUST pursue the beauty pagent story instead of more relevant work, doing a little research to find out how MANY were similarly augmented, how MANY augmentations were similarly funded, etc. Then you might begin to approach some level of journalism.

[tnnstime]

It is just a matter of time before someone buys these vile hateful networks, walks in and cleans house. America is fed up with this spewed cancer day after day after day. Unfortunately it will increase the unemployment rate by 2 points.

[tommynutz]

What is really really sad is that if she had made a statement affirming that she was in support of gay marrige she would have won.

So her beliefs robbed her of an accomplishment that had nothing to do with this issue. Not so "free speech" if you ask me.

In addition, we would have never ever heard anything about this breast thing.

TO ALL PAGEANT CANDIDATES: When faced with a policital question, no matter what you believe, answer like Michael Moore.

[Peggy73]

Does the media have no shame??????????? First it was Sarah Palin's daughter & now Miss Calf.!!!!!!!!! And this story would not have been news except for the fact that she doesn't agree with the leftist media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tnnstime]

Shame on you CBS! Get off this poor girl's back. Why didn't you report to your millions of viewers that Kristen Dalton, NC, who won Miss USA 2009, also added breast implants to her physique before the national competition? Why didn't you report that Chrystle Steward, Miss USA 2008 also had breast implants? Does anyone on your staff have breast implants? Face lift? Nose job? Hair implants? Let's tell the world. Who cares? Must have been a slow news morning for the crew today.

Ditto

[grinditt]

I think it is crap that you are trying to bash her because she is anti- gay marrige

[AuNatural]

Shame on you CBS! Get off this poor girl's back. Why didn't you report to your millions of viewers that Kristen Dalton, NC, who won Miss USA 2009, also added breast implants to her physique before the national competition? Why didn't you report that Chrystle Steward, Miss USA 2008 also had breast implants? Does anyone on your staff have breast implants? Face lift? Nose job? Hair implants? Let's tell the world. Who cares? Must have been a slow news morning for the crew today.

[ubrew12]

Indeptex4 said: "maybe mainstream media supports that but not mainstream america. "

She has enough support from well-placed people to get them to PAY for her operation. I would say she represents a value system shared by almost half the country. And, yeah, thats a value system that values appearances over love, finding, I guess, appearance in short supply and an overabundance of that 'love' stuff.

[tnnstime]

While I must say that I found her answer to be "not very pc" she did speak her mind in regards to her personal beliefs . . . but isn't the point of these things to represent all the people and not just yourself? Now my biggest problem is the fact that sports stars can't take "enhancement drugs" but getting a boob job for a "beauty contest" is some how different?!? If any one can explain that one I would be more than happy to listen cause it sounds like a double standard to me!!!

Steroids are illegal and implants are not for starters

[batcomp]

While I must say that I found her answer to be "not very pc" she did speak her mind in regards to her personal beliefs . . . but isn't the point of these things to represent all the people and not just yourself? Now my biggest problem is the fact that sports stars can't take "enhancement drugs" but getting a boob job for a "beauty contest" is some how different?!? If any one can explain that one I would be more than happy to listen cause it sounds like a double standard to me!!!

[tnnstime]

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