Miss (Liberal) USA?

I’ve never been a big fan of beauty pageants.

The glitz and the glamour isn’t why I flip the channel – it’s the overall fakeness of the contestants. I know the pageant industry insists the competitions are all about representing the “real” American woman, but most of us get a laugh from that argument.

I didn’t watch this year’s Miss USA pageant, but when I heard about it, I had to laugh in disbelief.

For those of you who don’t know, Miss California Carrie Prejean was asked by a judge to describe her views on gay marriage. (This wasn’t just any judge, mind you. It was Perez Hilton, an openly gay gossip blogger.) Miss California disagreed with legalizing gay marriage.

Asking the question was an appropriate move by the Miss USA program and Hilton himself. It’s important that the millions of teenage girls watching get a dose of controversial politics.

However, the fact is that most mothers and fathers, regardless of their personal beliefs, would rather not expose smaller children to such a mature topic.

Hilton’s personal agenda obviously trumps all broadcasting standards. (They should put him in charge of getting Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake to perform next year.)

The question was obviously relevant. It’s important that all contestants disregard their ability to decide their own opinions upon entering the competition. The interview questions are not, as many believe, supposed to assign meaning to the intellectual skills of the contestants.

They’re designed so that the young women competing for the crown can provide free advertisement for Hollywood’s liberal elite.

Oh gosh, there I go. I just got so caught up with being a “real” American woman that I forgot I had a brain of my own (I also forgot to mention world peace).

Beauty pageants already present an inaccurate representation of American women.
Now that political correctness and liberal views are a requirement, the contestant pool is shrinking even further. Besides having a great set of teeth and possessing some sort of talent, contestants must agree to stifle even moderate political beliefs.

Again, our country has allowed an egotistical leftist radical to start a witch hunt on a person who didn’t agree with him. Prejean has claimed religion as her reason for answering as she did – but why should she have to provide a reason at all?

She answered a question dripping in blatant bias with a respectable and honest answer. I feel her guts alone should have been enough to win the crown. I’d feel the same if a conservative activist had asked an equally biased question and received a differing response.

The fact that the question was even asked is a disgrace, and the way the pageant community has hounded the poor girl is just shameful.

“I think it’s ridiculous that she got first runner-up,” a gay man in the audience said to Fox News. “That is not the value of 95 percent of the people in this audience. Look around this audience and tell me how many gay men there are.”

It’s Miss USA, bud. Not Miss Liberal Audience. Prejean represented a view many young American women hold, and I thank her for doing so.