April 20, Mixing a beauty pageant with politics is a recipe for disaster. You could make a strong case for it, anyway. Both times the non-winner of a pageant got all the attention the next day. But unlike the pageant two years ago, the contestant in the crossfire didn't give a nonsensical and wildly entertaining answer. The contestant last night, California 's Carrie Prejean , was too articulate in the minds of many and led to some flaring tempers similar to Janeane Garofalo's flare-up on Keith Olbermann 's show the other night.
It was the workload. Prejean, the smiling blond Southern Californian, a runner-up in the national competition who became a conservative pinup after stating her opposition to same-sex marriage in the tense closing moments of the pageant, was fired Wednesday by pageant organizers, including Donald Trump , who cited dereliction of duties. The move to remove came a month after Mr. Prejean and said she would keep her tiara. His comments on Wednesday were less supportive. Trump said in a statement.
Miss California sparks outrage over gay marriage remarks
When the world seems to be teetering on the brink of one disaster or another on a daily basis, it seems silly to bother myself with the fate of Miss California, Carrie Prejean. But here I am, having lots of feelings about what has happened since the night she became first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant. As most people know by now, on April 19th, Miss using "Ms. Some believe Prejean's loss, at least in part, was precipitated by her answer to a question posed by Perez Hilton. He wanted to know if she believed the rest of America should follow Vermont's example and legalize gay marriage.
British Broadcasting Corporation Home. The runner-up at the Miss USA beauty pageant says her outspoken opposition to gay marriage cost her first place in the competition. During the televised event, Carrie Prejean - Miss California - said she believed that "a marriage should be between a man and a woman". She had been asked for her views on the subject by one of the judges, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.