The insta-celebrity Carrie Prejean, right-wing heroine and defrocked beauty queen, has been brought low by that most embarrassing of all self-destructive acts...a sex tape.
According to Google Trends, her (unreleased) sex tape was the hottest search item on Google Trends a couple of days ago, and the chart still looks like a rocket going up.
Believe it or don't, newspaper editor Rod Dreher reports she made this tape...while hiking the Appalachian Trail!
Defying Google and the nation, Prejean claims she wasn't having sex, by which she means apparently sex with other people.
"It was me by myself. There was no one else with me. I was not having sex," the controversial beauty queen told TODAY's Meredith Vieira in New York.
Prejean admitted to making the video of herself and sending it to her boyfriend when she was 17 years old. Sounds almost Clintonian, doesn't it? Sex with yourself for someone else is not sex.
Oh, okay.
Here's how Marin Cojan of Double XX put it, more thoughtfully:
Conservatives love their beauty queens, I think, in part for the obvious reasons—the pageant fetishizes the traditional values conservatives go gaga over—not only strictly prescribed gender roles but also moral rectitude, patriotism, and charity. But there’s a victimization element at work here, too: Prejean is the brave and besieged outsider standing up to the know-it-all elites. It’s an image they see as representative of, and mirrored in, themselves. This was evident in the ad that the National Organization for Marriage cut with Prejean when it tried to portray the controversy as a case of liberal intolerance, as it is portrayed in the title of her book, Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks.
Of course, as John McCain learned the hard way, there are great risks in aligning yourself with the right’s flame-throwing bombshells. Like Palin, Prejean can always be counted on to fire up a crowd, but no one can keep her from going rogue—as evidenced by last night’s tantrum or, more obviously, the sex tape itself, which reportedly caused her to be dropped from a “Defenders of the Family” event last week.
Anyhow!
What is it with Republicans and the Appalachian Trail?
They hit the trail -- real or virtual -- and turn into sexpots!
Bewildering, one might say...here's Carrie indoors, on her way to great fame:
