INTERVIEW: Former Miss California Carrie Prejean

Apart from the fact that she’s a smoking hot California babe and I’m a 47-year-old mother of two teenage sons, Carrie Prejean and I do have some things in common. We’re both from San Diego. We both attend The Rock, an urban mega-church pastored by former San Diego Chargers defensive back, Miles McPherson. And we’ve both been slammed as raging “homophobes” by the New Media left. 

So when Andrew Breitbart asked me if I’d interview Carrie about her new book, Still Standing, out November 9 from Regnery, I chuckled and thought: The liberal faithful will think this is perfect: One “fanatical homophobe” interviewing another. 

Except that they would be wrong.

In case you’ve been living under a rock this year, Carrie Prejean is the former Miss California who became an accidental lightning rod in the spring. At a glitzy pageant held April 19 at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Carrie appeared poised to be crowned Miss USA. But during the final segment of the contest, a Q&A with pageant judges, Carrie drew as her questioner the gay gossip aficionado, Perez Hilton. 

Ignoring the longstanding pageant tradition of steering clear of politically charged questions, Hilton launched this salvo: “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”  (more…)

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Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Carrie Prejean, gay marriage, interview, Keith Lewis
Posted Nov 12th 2009 at 12:41 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Featured Story, Political Humor | 260182347 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lvincent/2009/11/12/interview-former-miss-california-carrie-prejean/INTERVIEW%3A+Former+Miss+California+Carrie+Prejean2009-11-12+20%3A41%3A24Lynn+Vincent

Gay Marriage and Homophobes!

A lot of Republicans may feel that we’d be best-served to avoid this issue altogether.  As a Conservative, however, I feel compelled to explain why many of us out there are opposed to the currently proposed same-sex marriage bills and not to civil unions.  Plus, it’s not everyday that I get to put on a Leprechaun costume!

Note: No tasteless holiday parades were actually performed during the making of this video. (more…)

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Tags: bigotry, civil unions, Elton JOhn, gay marriage, homophobia
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 at 5:49 pm in Political Humor, Politics, Religion, Video | 217770235 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/09/03/gay-marriage-and-homophobes/Gay+Marriage+and+Homophobes%212009-09-04+00%3A49%3A27Steven+Crowder

‘Entertainment Weekly’ Hearts Perez Hilton

The folks at Entertainment Weekly see little wrong with the tabloid exploits of blogger Perez Hilton. The fevered mind behind Perezhilton.com, a site that makes US Weekly look like The Economist, gets a glowing feature article in this week’s edition. The mag allowed Hilton, known for scribbling angry/hateful/pornographic images all over celebrity pics, to decorate his own portrait with terms like “Zexy,” “Faboosh” and “Hawt.”

But that’s nothing compared to the kid glove treatment Hilton gets in the accompanying text.

For the uninitiated, Hilton runs one of the most popular tabloid sites on the Web, and his most recent claim to fame was grossly insulting Miss California, Carrie Prejean, after she dared to oppose gay marriage during the recent Miss USA pageant. (more…)

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Tags: Carrie Prejean, Obama, Perez Hilton, same sex marriage
Posted Jul 16th 2009 at 1:37 pm in Celebrity News, Political Humor | 18368251 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2009/07/16/entertainment-weekly-hearts-perez-hilton/%27Entertainment+Weekly%27+Hearts+Perez+Hilton2009-07-16+20%3A37%3A02Christian+Toto

Is America Waking Up?

Why has America done so well in world affairs since 1776?  Selfishness?  Divinity?  Ruthlessness? Sheer luck?

If you believe the current batch of Democrats who are turning Washington into a permanent liberal fiefdom, divinity has had no hand in world affairs.  And if it did, we’d surely be the receiver of its wrath.  America is mean.  America’s selfishness is all that is wrong with the world, says the left.  We are not the shining city on a hill, as a wise old man once told us we were.

The mainstream press got a real rude awakening this week as the Washington Post attempted to do publicly what they have always done privately: sell influence.  Further to that, Helen Thomas and Chip Reid of CBS gave Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs an earful for the administration’s canned YouTube town hall.  Hand-picked attendees and staff-picked YouTube videos does not a town hall make.  Gibbs flubbed over that one like a teenager getting caught sneaking in to an R-rated film. (more…)

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Tags: Cap and Trade, God, liberty, Obama, same sex marriage
Posted Jul 7th 2009 at 3:46 pm in Politics | 177598124 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/07/07/the-american-ocean-society/Is+America+Waking+Up%3F2009-07-07+22%3A46%3A28John+Romano

Embryonic Stem Cell FUN! (Crazy Pete Returns)

I know that embryonic stem cell research can be a touchy subject, so I opted to handle this one with both sensitivity and tact. Those are just the ABC’s of me. However, the truth of the matter is that our “opinions” on the subject don’t really matter. Embryonic stem cell research has never gone very well and few people have shown an interest in investing in it.  Logically, that alone should make it an open and shut case…

… But who needs logic when you’ve got big Government, right? (more…)

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Tags: adult stem cells, Crazy Pete, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, medicine, same sex marriage
Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 11:52 am in Entertainment, News, Politics, Video | 164906One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/06/19/embryonic-stem-cell-fun-crazy-pete-returns/Embryonic+Stem+Cell+FUN%21+%28Crazy+Pete+Returns%292009-06-19+18%3A52%3A58Steven+Crowder

The Republican Case for Gay Marriage

“I am a little to the right of Rush Limbaugh. I’m so conservative that I approve of San Francisco City Hall marriages, adoption by same-sex couples, and New Hampshire’s recently ordained Episcopal bishop. Gays want to get married, have children, and go to church. Next they’ll be advocating school vouchers, boycotting HBO, and voting Republican.” — P.J. O’Rourke, The Atlantic, July/August 2004

Thanks to Dave Konig for addressing the topic of gay marriage here on Big Hollywood the other day. As he pointed out, the issue itself might not cause most to lose sleep, come what may. But perhaps it should.

As a nation we’re at a crossroads, no question. Our banking industry scrambles to escape quasi-nationalization, our auto industry is in the process of being nationalized, and we have instituted, of all things, a Car Czar (note: it took Russia roughly 300 years to stack up so many czars). If that isn’t bad enough, nationalized health care is on the table again.

So as the Republic devolves and those with the means contemplate hightailing it to the Caymans, it’s probably time to ask ourselves what it is to be “conservative.”

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Tags: Car Czar, Dave Konig, gay marriage, Rush Limbaugh, same sex marriage
Posted Jun 10th 2009 at 4:58 pm in Politics | 1572026 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mflynn/2009/06/10/the-republican-case-for-gay-marriage/The+Republican+Case+for+Gay+Marriage2009-06-10+23%3A58%3A04Maura+Flynn

Think Pink

YouTube Dave Konig Roasts George Takei

As usual, Dick Cheney is right and Barack Obama is wrong.

It’s time to wave the pink flag and drop opposition to gay marriage.

I’ve changed my thinking on this one. Personally, I admit my opposition to gay marriage has always been on the same level as my opposition to the death penalty: I understand and appreciate the arguments against both intellectually – but in actual practice, I simply don’t lose any sleep over either. With the death penalty, I sympathize with moral opposition – but when a Ted Bundy takes that final ride on “Old Sparky” (or that final big sleep on “Old Lethal Injectiony”), my only real objection is that it isn’t televised. (more…)

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Tags: Bab Ba Booey, Big pussy, Brad altman, broadway, Cory Kahaney
Posted Jun 5th 2009 at 4:58 pm in Entertainment, News, Political Humor, Politics | 149462No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkonig/2009/06/05/think-pink/Think+Pink2009-06-05+23%3A58%3A02Dave+Konig

‘NewsBusted’ 6/02/09 — Fake News from the Right

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, New York Times, Clarence Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, General Motors, Al Qaeda, The Goode Family, CNN, Larry King, Same-Sex Marriage, and Zac Efron.

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Tags: "The Goode Family", al qaeda, Clarence Thomas, CNN, General Motors
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All-American Girl

All right, it’s a press conference about a beauty contest.  It’s not a world summit – it’s a beauty contest!  Should it really garner this sort of press coverage, this sort of media scrutiny, this sort of public attention? 

Well, yeah.  It should.

Aside from affording us a chance to gaze for long moments at a dazzling woman, the runner-up to the Miss U.S.A beauty contest, Miss California, Carrie Prejean; there actually was great import revealed at this morning’s Trump Trump, Donald Trump, The Donald, Trump-Trump-Ta-Trump news conference.  (I’m not sure I mentioned that it was a DONALD TRUMP news conference?)  (more…)

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Tags: Carrie Prejean, Donald Trump, Miss California, Miss USA, Obama
Posted May 12th 2009 at 1:43 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 1337669 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/05/12/all-american-girl/All-American+Girl2009-05-12+20%3A43%3A25Gary+Graham

Is Miss California the New Leo Penn?

Leo Penn, the father of famous actor Sean Penn, was hauled before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (the McCarthy hearings) during the 1950s and harassed, spied upon and ultimately blacklisted for his political views (he attended a pro-union meeting called to support other black- listees.)

He refused to accuse others, and lost his livelihood for a period of time, but went on to direct many TV shows including Star Trek, The Law and Mr. Jones, and I Spy.

Now Carrie Prejean, beauty queen and determined supporter of marriage between a man and a woman, finds herself smeared on the Internet, castigated in public, on TV, (Chelsea Handler on E! channel has taken aim with a vicious gleam in her vodka-stoked eyes) and her parents have been dragged through the mud as well.

So where are the free-speech warriors? How about Sean Penn and the rest of the Hollywood elitists who think the First Amendment was written solely for their benefit? Penn has made millions playing everything from a stoner in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” to gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was slain in a horrific attack in San Francisco that also resulted in the death of San Francisco mayor George Moscone. (more…)

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Tags: Carrie Prejean, First Ammendment, Leo Penn, Miss California, prop 8
Posted May 12th 2009 at 8:36 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 1323384 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmorgan/2009/05/12/is-miss-california-the-new-leo-penn/Is+Miss+California+the+New+Leo+Penn%3F2009-05-12+15%3A36%3A19Melanie+Morgan

Defending Wanda — Kind Of

So why is it, that a joke about kidney failure is funny, but a joke about two bullets in an elevator needs an apology? Even though both punch lines suggest death, in the two bullet scenario the victim is a Democrat. Suggesting the Death of a Democrat is a far more serious matter. (I’m also not sure why TWO bullets would be necessary, although my Mom hunted alligators once, and claims that smaller brained animals can withstand more headshots.)

I’m not mad about Wanda Sykes recent diatribe against Rush Limbaugh and other Republicans. Today, you expect this kind of nonsense at the Correspondent’s Dinners. It is modern tradition to spare no mercy for the attendees. Being an edgy comic myself, I often find that the meat is much sweeter when it’s closer to the bone.  Edge comedy means that you are trying to land that punch line so close to the precipice of good taste that it is very likely to fall over. On more than one occasion I have personally felt the plummet after I misjudged where the line stopped. (more…)

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Tags: comedy, Obama, Paul Wellstone, same sex marriage, Wanda Sykes
Posted May 11th 2009 at 3:22 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 1324025 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/05/11/defending-wanda/Defending+Wanda+--+Kind+Of2009-05-11+22%3A22%3A03Tim+Slagle

A Matter of Opinion

According to my wife, I have a tendency to state my opinion as fact.  She suggests that I begin my sentences by saying “It’s only my opinion, but…” and go on from there.  It’s my opinion, however, that people already understand that it’s my opinion and that they share it if they’re smart, or don’t, if they’re not.  Furthermore, I don’t see my main function as a communicator to convince liberals, who are notoriously as blind as bats, to see the light, but to provide my fellow conservatives with ammunition to use against left-wingers and, whenever possible, to amuse. 

Gloria Steinem

In any case, in the spirit of compromise, let us pretend that each of the following paragraphs begins “It’s only my opinion, but…” 

When Gloria Steinem, who had been lionized by the ladies of NOW for her rather dumb remark about women needing men like fish needed bicycles, finally got married at the age of 66, I thought people should have sent her greeting cards complimenting her on having belatedly grown gills.  (more…)

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Tags: Ahmadinejad, bow, Castro, chavez, French
Posted May 6th 2009 at 6:35 am in Politics | 126982No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/05/06/a-matter-of-opinion/A+Matter+of+Opinion2009-05-06+13%3A35%3A20Burt+Prelutsky

We’re Here, We’re Queer and We’re Hypocrites

This week’s Washington Times column:

Greetings, from a poolside cabana at a trendy boutique hotel in Santa Monica. Oh, how I love these overpriced overnight stays. The sleek designs. The ambient music. The uniformly attractive and stylishly dressed young staffs. The plush beds with sheets of an absurdly high thread count. Weird faucets and weirder sinks. I bask in the attention to detail. W is my favorite letter. Philippe Starck is a personal hero.

As a realist, I’ve built into my mindset that the majority heterosexual population is less than exclusively responsible for creating this and countless other high-end consumer and artistic experiences. Plus, I have a ton of wonderful gay friends – even ones “married” and with children. If gay activists created “A Day Without a Gay” (as they promoted Dec. 10 of last year), I’d be the first to cry “uncle” – even before Cher. So, accordingly, I make philosophical and political accommodations. I’m – as the MTV generation says – “gay-friendly.”

But lately, color me “gay perturbed.” “Gay-friendly,” a term once manifestly redundant, now seems a glaring contradiction. (more…)

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Tags: A Day Without a Gay, Carrie Prejean, Donald Trump, Miss California, Miss USA Pageant
Posted Apr 26th 2009 at 8:11 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics, Religion | 117634No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/04/26/were-here-were-queer-and-were-hypocrites/We%27re+Here%2C+We%27re+Queer+and+We%27re+Hypocrites2009-04-27+03%3A11%3A19Andrew+Breitbart

Cultural Apologetics: A Holy Chastising

The God of this age has declared someone un-holy.  Take up your stones and follow me.

The reigning Miss California, Carrie Prejean, has sinned mightily.  Not in any of the traditional ways, at least, not that we know of, but that is no matter because she has not sinned against a traditional God.  She has done something far worse.  She has sinned against the true almighty.  She has sinned against Pop-Culture.  For those of you who still cling to antiquated, intolerant, patriarchal religion, you may have a difficult time understanding why Miss Prejean must be made example of.  First, you might not understand how she has made herself unclean to begin with, and even if you could understand it, you might not understand why she must be cleansed with her own suffering and blood.  Of course, that is because you believe in a loving, righteous God who is full of grace.  Please, grow up.  Quit trying to force your religion on the rest of us.  The only good evangelicals evangelize in the name of our new King, and She is right displeased with Miss Prejean.

In fairness, Miss Prejean was already on pretty shaky grounds with The Culture.  After all, she is a beauty queen.  I will readily admit to not knowing much about beauty queens, other than what The Culture has allowed me to know, of course, which is that they are, to a person, uniformly white, upper-class, insecure, and vapid creatures with hardly a thought in their pretty little heads.  Most of them, if not all, have overbearing, hypocritical stage mother’s who don’t so much love them as they objectify them and live their own lost youth’s vicariously through them.  They have no personal values, of course–any pretense to the contrary is merely a contrivance meant to earn them points with the judges, a series of sex-addled male miscreants who are themselves secretly doing drugs and sleeping with half of the young fools anyway.  So, clearly Miss Prejean was already in need of some serious penance.  At a minimum, she needs to get an STD, make a sex-tape, and grow up, as one Cultural Rabbi recently prescribed a wayward daughter, but there was still hope.  Not anymore. (more…)

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Tags: Carrie Prejean, Keith Lewis, Miss California, Miss USA Pageant, Perez Hilton
Posted Apr 21st 2009 at 5:03 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 1113663 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/revwoodyhol/2009/04/21/cultural-apologetics-a-holy-chastising/Cultural+Apologetics%3A+A+Holy+Chastising2009-04-21+12%3A03%3A36Reverend+Woody+Hol

Euroweenie Finals: Spain Topples France

The end of an era in world history is always an occasion to note. The results are in and Spain has replaced France as the top Euroweenie country.

France has long held the title coveted by liberal socialist as the European country that most loves kowtowing to dictators and terrorists. France has been at the top of the heap without a serious challenge since the beginning of World War I. Their long history of puckering up for despots from the Kaiser to Kadafi made them a powerhouse. Their willingness to lay down their culture and country to the recent flood of immigrants from the Middle East made them seem unbeatable. (more…)

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Tags: appeasement, Denmark, Euro weenies, france, Judge Baltasar Garzon
Posted Apr 9th 2009 at 11:31 am in Political Humor, Politics | 97942No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/04/09/spain-topples-france/Euroweenie+Finals%3A+Spain+Topples+France2009-04-09+18%3A31%3A31Jeffrey+Jena

Let’s Call It ‘Untraditional Marriage’

Sean Penn scolded opponents of something he called “Gay Marriage.” Apparently, he thinks gay marriage was made illegal in California. Certainly Sean, a lifelong resident of Hollywood, should recognize that gay marriage is perfectly legal and has roots all the way back to Cole Porter and Rock Hudson, both of whom are gay men who married (and wasn’t Penn married to Madonna?).

What’s not legal is same-sex marriage. (more…)

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Tags: gay marriage, same sex marriage, sean penn, States Rights
Posted Feb 26th 2009 at 7:41 am in Politics | 65642126 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/02/26/gay-marriage/Let%27s+Call+It+%27Untraditional+Marriage%272009-02-26+15%3A41%3A45Tim+Slagle

Spicoli’s Rant

Though seeing Sean Penn deliver a “best actor” Academy Awards acceptance speech that was more taunt against political enemies than expression of gratitude toward industry friends made me click off, reading Ben Shapiro’s transcription of Penn’s graceless tirade clicked on a few neurons. “I think it is a good time for those who voted against gay marriage to contemplate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes.  We need to have equal rights for everyone.”

Contra Sean Penn, and speaking as a Massachusettsan and not a Californian, I think it is a good time for those who imposed gay marriage to contemplate their great shame and the shame in their grandparents’ eyes. Liberals, perhaps out of contempt for what has come before or an agnosticism in the afterlife, don’t care or think about how they appear to the past. The imaginary future, where Sean Penn’s every view is conventional wisdom, instead serves as the anchor of their morality.

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Tags: Gay Mariage, oscars, prop 8, same sex marriage, sean penn
Posted Feb 24th 2009 at 6:21 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 64966230 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dflynn/2009/02/24/spicolis-rant/Spicoli%27s+Rant2009-02-24+14%3A21%3A54Daniel+J.+Flynn

Prop 8: I’m Spartacus! No, I’m Scott Eckern!

That’s what I felt like yelling during last November’s horrifying public shaming of a theatre executive in California.  Scott Eckern, the Artistic Director of Sacramento Music Theatre, was forced to resign after the public revelation that he donated $1,000 to the Prop. 8 campaign.  I felt like calling all of my friends in the theatre industry and saying “I’M SCOTT ECKERN!”  I felt like responding to all of the e-mails I received from my colleagues urging me to join the drive to remove him from his post by saying:  “I’M SCOTT ECKERN!”  “If you take him, you should take me! ” Like all those slaves standing in solidarity with Spartacus.  I was also an executive in the industry with similar views.  There but for the grace of God….

But I didn’t stand up and shout.  I didn’t because I am a coward.  I didn’t because I have children and a mortgage and I might need the next job that comes along so I keep my mouth shut.

But make no mistake, there are many of us working in the theatre industry and the spectacle that was Scott Eckern’s ouster was terrifying and enraging to us.  Many readers of Big Hollywood suggest that as long as we are effective in our jobs and we “put butts in seats” then we should have the courage to speak out and fight for our beliefs even if we are a minority in a hostile environment….  I hope this morality tale speaks to you…

I was fortunate enough to witness this witch-hunt from inside the Facebook bubble that helped create it.  You see, one of my friends, actress Susan Egan, circulated an open letter to all of her friends.  And then her friends circulated it to their friends and well, by now you know what happened.  Her letter has been reported many times and she seems proud of her involvement in this episode.  She actually wrote her initial letter and then, within 24 hours wrote a follow-up.  The full text of Susan Egan’s original letter can be found here.   Her follow-up letter is harder to come by, but it contains much more revealing information.  In the spirit of “full context” I include the entire second letter here:  (my comments follow below)

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Tags: broadway, proposition 8, same sex marriage, scott eckern, susan egan
Posted Jan 9th 2009 at 9:14 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 1192561 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/01/09/im-spartacus-no-im-scott-eckern/Prop+8%3A+I%27m+Spartacus%21++No%2C+I%27m+Scott+Eckern%212009-01-09+17%3A14%3A52Stage+Right