As far as “poise” goes, on a scale of 1 to 10, I give her an 11.
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“I know that I can go out and talk to young people and tell them to stand for what they believe in.” That was great. She is a gem. I predict that she will do very well for herself. Someone said that if the Miss North Carolina/USA wins the Miss Universe contest, then Miss California becomes Miss USA. What a wonderful twist of fate that would be. |
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We have this from Mr. “Hilton”: He admitted to giving Prejean a zero score. In a follow-up interview on MSNBC, the flamboyant judge was asked if he had apologized for his reaction, but instead he added to it. “I don’t apologize,” Hilton said on air. “Over the course of the past 24 hours, the more I’ve thought about it, the more – you know what? – No, I’m going to stand by what I said just like she’s standing by what she said. And I called her the ‘b’ word, and hey, I was thinking the ‘c’ word.” On his blog, he takes a photo of Ms Prejean and draws a phallic symbol. The homosexual community has done an amazing job of keeping guys like this out of the news. Now, we are seeing clearly the ugly side. It is very helpful. |
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I think (with the perfect poise of someone who is not under that pressure) I might have said something like, “As Miss California, I support the position of the majority of the people of California, and the majority of the states in America who have voted on the issue, and banned gay marriage. We do live in a democracy and the will of the people should prevail.” That would have been my politically nuanced answer. Mr. Perez wouldn’t have liked that answer either. But really, her answer was better. She let her ‘yes’ be ‘yes,’ and her ‘no’ be ‘no,’ from her heart, informed by her faith. Well done. She did great in her interview with Matt Lauer. |
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Just one more gorgeous San Diegan with poise and principles (HINT HINT SINGLE SEMINARIANS…). All joking aside, we all know that all publicity is good publicity. It’s the kind of press you really can’t pay for. Even if you could pay for it, you’d never get a buyer out here in California. Thank you, Perez. |
Do you care that perhaps telling Christians that they can’t talk about Jesus is offensive to them? Let’s please not pretend that you actually care about unintentionally offending someone when you clearly offended her intentionally. |
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Perez interjects the politics and then blames the contestant for the answer to HIS question. What a dork. Too bad it’s all on video and rational people can see the truth of his rudeness and stupidity. On the whole, it would appear that those providing names for these Hiltons (chuz here and his sister)as prophetic in describing brain contents in the first letter. Welcome to the reality of disagreeing with what’s his sole concerns and his only permissible opinion. By the way Perez you are not the only person with an opinion. Get a real life. |
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robroy (#1,2,9), As usual, I couldn’t agree with you more. You nailed it. As I keep trying to say here at SF, this revealing incident is symptomatic and shows that the momentous challenge we face is coming to grips with what it means to be Christians and Anglicans in a Post-Christendom culture that has moved beyond the separation of church and state to an ugly divorce between Christianity (in any biblical form) and public life. The culture has turned against us, and given our state church heritage, it’s going to be extremely difficult for us to make the traumatic transition to accepting our new minority status and becoming comfortable with having an openly adversarial relationship with the surrounding culture. David Handy+ |
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What’s so laughably obvious is that if you reverse the speaker and the comments (with Mr. Perez as the victim of the YouTube invective), Ms. Prejean would be facing lawsuits for slander and probably also facing prosecution for hate speech. He, as the spewer of bile, however, is coated with teflon. Nice. |
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Have the pageant directors come out with any comment regarding the appropriateness of one of their judges calling the 1st runner up a “B” or a “C”? No? But we have seen plenty of comment about how her truthful answer to a loaded question was inappropriate by pageant organizers and her so-called CA reps. Just how pathetic is that? |
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And upon review of the video, we see a former contestant/winner & current judge say Miss CA should’ve come up with some sort of neutral answer if she wanted to win. Really? You mean don’t tell the truth but instead lie if you want to win. Is that the message the pageant wants to send? No wonder it’s on the ropes. Much like in TEC the revisionist “winners” have lied and lied to gain control of the organization, but the popularity is shrinking everyday. |
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I’m loving the stark contrast between the two individuals—on one hand, we have beauty (inner AND outer), poise and honesty and, on the other hand, we have unattractive (inside and out), whiney and vindictive. Gee, which one appeals more?! The honest beauty queen will curry the most public favor. Good for her! |
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Mr Hilton has to realise that everyone can get married. But marriage is the union of a male and a female human to create a family. Male and female are the two halves of what it means to be human; they can jointly produce more humans; and marriage forms the best context for adults to live in society and to raise children. Two people of the same sex living in a relationship can’t relate to the whole of humanity like a married couple; can’t have children of their own; and can’t have a full experience of humankind, because half of what it means to be human is missing. It’s not marriage. |
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Why is there an obviously miscogynistic judge of a beauty pageant to begin with? I would think he would be better qualified to judge the supposed beauty pageant down in the “Quarter” on Fat Tuesday. Good for Miss Prejean to have the courage of her convictions. She could have taken the easy way out and given a PC answer. Instead, she chose to be honest. She realized the ramifications of what she was saying. This young woman is to be admired, not condemned. |
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I’ll bet she gets some nice contract offers for PR gigs out of this. I didn’t think it was a brilliant answer, but clearly it was a trap placed for her. I agree that the “liberal” community has overall taken a blow over this issue. Most people don’t want to see a society where only one opinion is allowed to be spoken in public. |
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* Hilton says he expected Prejean to be prepared for this question and to have a better answer in mind. Does that mean only a pro-gay marriage answer was acceptable? Who says Prejean wasn’t prepared? * Hilton asks a politically-charged question, then berates Prejean for not leaving her politics out of the answer. Am I missing something here, or is this just naked political thuggery? * Hilton wanted Prejean to leave her religion out of the answer, neglecting the fact that she never once mentioned it. Hilton is dishonest. Related: http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=407 |
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Matt Lauer is asking if this will usher in a new era of questions for beauty pageant queens…lobbing up softballs for that nauseating Perez. This is the first I’ve ever heard of this Perez, and don’t care what he calls himself queen of, he’s a predictable cliche. However, M. Lauer is either reprehensible or simply the king of all dipsh*ts. He never fails to dismay me. |
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HOORAY FOR MS. PREJEAN!! WHO ARE THE SPOKESPEOPLE FOR CHRISTIAN TRUTH? GRAB ONTO HER. WE NEED HER TO GET BACK ON TRACK. THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION—LIKE IT OR NOT. IS RICK WARREN HIDING? IS PRESIDENT OBAMA LYING? I KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS. DO YOU? GOD BLESS MS. PREJEAN FOR HER HONESTY, HER TRUE BELIEF AND HER COURAGE. WHO WILL JOIN HER? |
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