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Does Hannity get royalties for having written the forward to her book?
Again, I could not care less what this woman has done in her life, sexual or otherwise. None of my business. The only relevant point here is that if one decides that the way to fame and riches is to set themselves up as a role model for young girls by preaching wholesome Christian values, then don’t complain when sexually graphic pics and videos surface and the media points out the obvious hypocrisy.
You can also add liar to her list of non-Christian traits. Prejean was not fired by the Miss USA pageant because of her stance on gay marriage. She got canned for violating the conditions of her contract on a number of points. Rolling out “the liberal media is out to get me” shtick is getting old.
As my grandmother was fond of saying those many times I sat on her lap as a toddler “mario, you live by the sword, you die by the sword!”
Ok, she never actually said that but I have no doubt she would have told Prejean those very words. Of course it would have been in Italian and Prejean would not have understood a single word and…ah, forget it.
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I saw her on the Today Show this morning and noticed that she took a very defensive posture during the whole interview. And Viera was not asking hard questions or making accusations. Prejean blames her situation on the fact that the media has a “liberal bias” – I guess compared to Fox News, anything else seems biased against her. She claims she’s been under “constant attack” from people who hate her for her religious beliefs.
I have to ask, though, how many truly religious girls think it’s okay to send their boyfriend videos of them masturbating. I’m sorry, but it’s kind of like George Costanza in the “Sweater With The Red Dot” episode of Seinfeld. When confronted by his boss about having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk, his defense was, “You mean that’s not done? Becauase every other office I’ve ever worked in…”
No Carrie, if you were half as straight-laced as I was at 17, you would have been mortified for anyone to know – let alone your boyfriend that you were “touching yourself in an unholy manner”. Since when is it okay for a 17-yr-old professed “Christian” girl to pose for nude photos and send erotic film to her boyfriend? Things just don’t add up. If she is a shining example of a good Christian girl, then I’d hate to see a bad example.
Frances, that was my reaction. What kinda girl is filming herself like that?
But she’s an idiot. I never met a pageant contestant who didn’t know EVERYTHING about their judges. If she said what she said to Paris Hilton, she wanted controversy.
Hannity, you can publish everything I did in my 20′s nudes and all. I’m not ashamed of who I am.
Lancaster hits it on the head. Every “man” is thinking the same thing, while castigating her.
Are any of you actually trying to say the “Liberal Media” and “Liberals” in general are not out to “get her”? Of course they are. They want to make an “example” of her. And to what end? To make certain the next person that speaks out about one of your pet, radical liberal policies thinks twice.
Waiddaminnnit – Sean Hannity says at around 4:15, “I gotta be honest. If we go back and dig into MY teenage years, and when I was in my early twenties…” What would we find out Sean? That you’ve done things that you would never forgive a liberal like Barack Obama for? Is that it?
Remember Sean, from this moment on, Pres. Obama’s teens and early twenties are a closed book for you – off limits. How many others have you held up to public scrutiny for their youthful indescretions or for their utopian naivete or for their anger and indignation? It shouldn’t be too hard to follow that trail.
TN, I think she’s lying now. It won’t take long for the other shoe to drop if so. As for the “liberal media” being out to get her, to make an example of her – that’s just an attempt to villify the people who are simply reporting the news regardless of whether it’s done with animosity or not.
After a bit more thought, and upon finding Carrie did win her attorney fees to the tune of around 100K, did it ever cross your little liberal minds that possibly, she dropped her suit because she didn’t want people like….well…..people like you guys, to have access to video of a 17 year old Prejean pleasuring herself for the benefit of her boyfriend??
And your silence about the boyfriend’s betrayal of trust is deafening.
Not that it was the brightest thing (video) in the world to do anyway, but maybe she felt discretion to be the better part of valor??
Here’s the thing, certainly the boyfriend betrayed her trust, beyond that though — Carrie knew the tape existed and even though she is young, she has grown up in an era of technology where nothing is private and where similar instances have happened before. It is naive, at best, that she didn’t think this tape would see the light of day sometime. Be that as it may, the issue is that Carrie set herself up as a moral authority based upon Christian biblical values, of course there’s going to be comments about her because her private life doesn’t reflect her public stance
janine, so let me make sure I understand you correctly. You are saying that if one takes a “Conservative” position, then everything about their past life is fair game and sufficient cause for ridicule. Up to but not necessarily limited to a trusted person from their past, betraying that trust, most likely for financial gain and no other compelling reason.
But delving into the past associations and racist statements of an African American, Liberal, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency of the United States is simply done because those doing the “delving” are racist?? And there is no redeeming value in the effort?
TN says: “Frances, but when Fox News or any Conservative Source reports the truth on some Liberal faux pas, it’s “Hate and/or Fear Mongering”? I got it now.”
No you don’t got it now. Keep trying. Better yet, Google Logical Fallacies. Your statement above has got to be a textbook case.
@Tennessean: Prejean wants media attention. Now, she has it. What’s the problem? Her prayers were answered. As my Mom used to tell me, “Be careful what you pray for.” ;-)
The thing that really surprises me is that all of you exhibit a deep aversion to admitting that one bias is truly no different than the other.
You seem to truly think your “bias” is somehow “righter”.
And Frances, I think you would have to look long and hard on this blog to find more than a few comments that did not utilize a logical fallacy of some sort.
“No Carrie, if you were half as straight-laced as I was at 17, you would have been mortified for anyone to know – let alone your boyfriend that you were “touching yourself in an unholy manner”. Since when is it okay for a 17-yr-old professed “Christian” girl to pose for nude photos and send erotic film to her boyfriend? Things just don’t add up. If she is a shining example of a good Christian girl, then I’d hate to see a bad example.”
She never claim to be a prude, sinless, or holier than thou. Those are straws and words liberals put into her mouth and into her views she never claimed she held to.
Christians don’t claim to be sinless, don’t claim to be exempt from falling into lust from time to time, don’t claim even to believe they will never fall into disgrace at some point in their lives. David, the man who sought after God’s own heart, fell into adultery and murder. Peter chopped off a man’s heart, and he was Christ’s apostle at the time, too.
Who knows? Maybe, she was more of a liberal Christian then. Holding to marriage is for man and woman does not in of itself make a conservative- since liberals like Obama held to that as well (and funny thing he has real power, but those attacking her are not digging up dirt on him or throwing the kind venom at him that they throw at her, which show they are the real hypocrites in this matter).
For all we know she might have come to faith in recent years. Being raised in church does not make one a Christian- coming to faith in Christ makes one a Christian. We don’t know when she became a Christian or when she first have any conservative values.
What we do know is that she is standing tall against all the attacks on her, at the age of 22. I doubt she could have been half as a graceful at age 17.
“The only relevant point here is that if one decides that the way to fame and riches is to set themselves up as a role model for young girls by preaching wholesome Christian values, then don’t complain when sexually graphic pics and videos surface and the media points out the obvious hypocrisy.”
She took a stance for one view- on gay marriage. Same view as Bill Clinton’s. Did any of those who attack her call him out for worse sins than hers? Think not. Who is being hypocritical there?
In actuality, if those are past sins and she is not doing any of them, then your claim to her being hypocrite is very weak and nonsense. Unless you want to call yourself a hypocrite for saying something a person does is wrong when you do it yourself years ago but come to realize with age it is wrong.
One would be a hypocrite if one preaches one thing but does the opposite at the very same time. The things she did in high school are past tense things. If she is not doing them now, then you have no case to call her a hypocrite unless she says there is nothing wrong with what she did. But even then, you would have to see if she preaches against those things.
One can be liberal in these matters and oppose gay marriage on religious grounds. Like I said, see Obama and the Clintons.
“You can also add liar to her list of non-Christian traits. Prejean was not fired by the Miss USA pageant because of her stance on gay marriage. She got canned for violating the conditions of her contract on a number of points. Rolling out “the liberal media is out to get me” shtick is getting old.
In actuality, those trashing her on this are lying not her. And she did not roll out the liberal media is out to get her. The liberal media with the likes of Olbermann, Velez-Mitchell, Musto, etc., did that to themselves.
The facts are that Lewis openly threatened to fire her long before she got fired because she attended a church that is not for gay marriage. The fact is that Moakler is twiting and posting on her myspace blogs bashing her as if she does not belong there. It was the pageant that outed her on the breast implants.
And their repeated attacks on her continued days in and days out, while they say she would violating her contract to speak on her own behalf.
Guess what? By attacking her and saying she cannot defend herself in the media, they themselves breached the spirit and letter of any fair contract.
If she had said she is a liberal Christian who is for Christian values and support gay marriage, none of you folks would attack her for her past.
That’s where the real hypocrisy and dishonest comes in.
I saw her on the Today Show this morning and noticed that she took a very defensive posture during the whole interview. And Viera was not asking hard questions or making accusations. Prejean blames her situation on the fact that the media has a “liberal bias” – I guess compared to Fox News, anything else seems biased against her. She claims she’s been under “constant attack” from people who hate her for her religious beliefs.
I have to ask, though, how many truly religious girls think it’s okay to send their boyfriend videos of them masturbating. I’m sorry, but it’s kind of like George Costanza in the “Sweater With The Red Dot” episode of Seinfeld. When confronted by his boss about having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk, his defense was, “You mean that’s not done? Becauase every other office I’ve ever worked in…”
No Carrie, if you were half as straight-laced as I was at 17, you would have been mortified for anyone to know – let alone your boyfriend that you were “touching yourself in an unholy manner”. Since when is it okay for a 17-yr-old professed “Christian” girl to pose for nude photos and send erotic film to her boyfriend? Things just don’t add up. If she is a shining example of a good Christian girl, then I’d hate to see a bad example.
She is only 22 years and she can now do it standing. She did a serious mistake and her redemption is to write a book and make money out of it.
That’s what prostitute do,isn’t it ? Do it and make money afterwards
What hypocracy ? She could always become a reborn christian thirty other times.
“Of course it would of been in Italian and Prejean would not have understood a single word and…”
It could be in English and she probably wouldn’t understand it…
“It could be in English and she probably wouldn’t understand it…”
lol
Frances, that was my reaction. What kinda girl is filming herself like that?
But she’s an idiot. I never met a pageant contestant who didn’t know EVERYTHING about their judges. If she said what she said to Paris Hilton, she wanted controversy.
Hannity, you can publish everything I did in my 20′s nudes and all. I’m not ashamed of who I am.
“What kinda girl is filming herself like that?”
My kinda girl!
Lancaster hits it on the head. Every “man” is thinking the same thing, while castigating her.
Are any of you actually trying to say the “Liberal Media” and “Liberals” in general are not out to “get her”? Of course they are. They want to make an “example” of her. And to what end? To make certain the next person that speaks out about one of your pet, radical liberal policies thinks twice.
Brooke, I guess if she was more “liberally” inclined, she would have just lied.
Waiddaminnnit – Sean Hannity says at around 4:15, “I gotta be honest. If we go back and dig into MY teenage years, and when I was in my early twenties…” What would we find out Sean? That you’ve done things that you would never forgive a liberal like Barack Obama for? Is that it?
Remember Sean, from this moment on, Pres. Obama’s teens and early twenties are a closed book for you – off limits. How many others have you held up to public scrutiny for their youthful indescretions or for their utopian naivete or for their anger and indignation? It shouldn’t be too hard to follow that trail.
TN, I think she’s lying now. It won’t take long for the other shoe to drop if so. As for the “liberal media” being out to get her, to make an example of her – that’s just an attempt to villify the people who are simply reporting the news regardless of whether it’s done with animosity or not.
Frances, but when Fox News or any Conservative Source reports the truth on some Liberal faux pas, it’s “Hate and/or Fear Mongering”? I got it now.
You know, if I keep listening to you guys I’m gonna really get smarter!!
After a bit more thought, and upon finding Carrie did win her attorney fees to the tune of around 100K, did it ever cross your little liberal minds that possibly, she dropped her suit because she didn’t want people like….well…..people like you guys, to have access to video of a 17 year old Prejean pleasuring herself for the benefit of her boyfriend??
And your silence about the boyfriend’s betrayal of trust is deafening.
Not that it was the brightest thing (video) in the world to do anyway, but maybe she felt discretion to be the better part of valor??
@Tennessean
Here’s the thing, certainly the boyfriend betrayed her trust, beyond that though — Carrie knew the tape existed and even though she is young, she has grown up in an era of technology where nothing is private and where similar instances have happened before. It is naive, at best, that she didn’t think this tape would see the light of day sometime. Be that as it may, the issue is that Carrie set herself up as a moral authority based upon Christian biblical values, of course there’s going to be comments about her because her private life doesn’t reflect her public stance
janine, so let me make sure I understand you correctly. You are saying that if one takes a “Conservative” position, then everything about their past life is fair game and sufficient cause for ridicule. Up to but not necessarily limited to a trusted person from their past, betraying that trust, most likely for financial gain and no other compelling reason.
But delving into the past associations and racist statements of an African American, Liberal, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency of the United States is simply done because those doing the “delving” are racist?? And there is no redeeming value in the effort?
@Tennessean
No, that is not what I am saying.
and there you go throwing straw all around, yet again
TN says: “Frances, but when Fox News or any Conservative Source reports the truth on some Liberal faux pas, it’s “Hate and/or Fear Mongering”? I got it now.”
No you don’t got it now. Keep trying. Better yet, Google Logical Fallacies. Your statement above has got to be a textbook case.
TN says: “And your silence about the boyfriend’s betrayal of trust is deafening.”
Maybe it’s because we might think the boyfriend story is a load of crap?
Me again. :(
@Tennessean: Prejean wants media attention. Now, she has it. What’s the problem? Her prayers were answered. As my Mom used to tell me, “Be careful what you pray for.” ;-)
The thing that really surprises me is that all of you exhibit a deep aversion to admitting that one bias is truly no different than the other.
You seem to truly think your “bias” is somehow “righter”.
And Frances, I think you would have to look long and hard on this blog to find more than a few comments that did not utilize a logical fallacy of some sort.
“No Carrie, if you were half as straight-laced as I was at 17, you would have been mortified for anyone to know – let alone your boyfriend that you were “touching yourself in an unholy manner”. Since when is it okay for a 17-yr-old professed “Christian” girl to pose for nude photos and send erotic film to her boyfriend? Things just don’t add up. If she is a shining example of a good Christian girl, then I’d hate to see a bad example.”
She never claim to be a prude, sinless, or holier than thou. Those are straws and words liberals put into her mouth and into her views she never claimed she held to.
Christians don’t claim to be sinless, don’t claim to be exempt from falling into lust from time to time, don’t claim even to believe they will never fall into disgrace at some point in their lives. David, the man who sought after God’s own heart, fell into adultery and murder. Peter chopped off a man’s heart, and he was Christ’s apostle at the time, too.
Who knows? Maybe, she was more of a liberal Christian then. Holding to marriage is for man and woman does not in of itself make a conservative- since liberals like Obama held to that as well (and funny thing he has real power, but those attacking her are not digging up dirt on him or throwing the kind venom at him that they throw at her, which show they are the real hypocrites in this matter).
For all we know she might have come to faith in recent years. Being raised in church does not make one a Christian- coming to faith in Christ makes one a Christian. We don’t know when she became a Christian or when she first have any conservative values.
What we do know is that she is standing tall against all the attacks on her, at the age of 22. I doubt she could have been half as a graceful at age 17.
“The only relevant point here is that if one decides that the way to fame and riches is to set themselves up as a role model for young girls by preaching wholesome Christian values, then don’t complain when sexually graphic pics and videos surface and the media points out the obvious hypocrisy.”
She took a stance for one view- on gay marriage. Same view as Bill Clinton’s. Did any of those who attack her call him out for worse sins than hers? Think not. Who is being hypocritical there?
In actuality, if those are past sins and she is not doing any of them, then your claim to her being hypocrite is very weak and nonsense. Unless you want to call yourself a hypocrite for saying something a person does is wrong when you do it yourself years ago but come to realize with age it is wrong.
One would be a hypocrite if one preaches one thing but does the opposite at the very same time. The things she did in high school are past tense things. If she is not doing them now, then you have no case to call her a hypocrite unless she says there is nothing wrong with what she did. But even then, you would have to see if she preaches against those things.
One can be liberal in these matters and oppose gay marriage on religious grounds. Like I said, see Obama and the Clintons.
“You can also add liar to her list of non-Christian traits. Prejean was not fired by the Miss USA pageant because of her stance on gay marriage. She got canned for violating the conditions of her contract on a number of points. Rolling out “the liberal media is out to get me” shtick is getting old.
In actuality, those trashing her on this are lying not her. And she did not roll out the liberal media is out to get her. The liberal media with the likes of Olbermann, Velez-Mitchell, Musto, etc., did that to themselves.
The facts are that Lewis openly threatened to fire her long before she got fired because she attended a church that is not for gay marriage. The fact is that Moakler is twiting and posting on her myspace blogs bashing her as if she does not belong there. It was the pageant that outed her on the breast implants.
And their repeated attacks on her continued days in and days out, while they say she would violating her contract to speak on her own behalf.
Guess what? By attacking her and saying she cannot defend herself in the media, they themselves breached the spirit and letter of any fair contract.
If she had said she is a liberal Christian who is for Christian values and support gay marriage, none of you folks would attack her for her past.
That’s where the real hypocrisy and dishonest comes in.