Carrie Prejean is no martyr
No doubt some of you have already seen this. What happened here?
During an interview on Larry King Live, former almost-Miss USA, Carrie Prejean determined that King’s questions were becoming inappropriate:
The show continued, but Prejean refused to take any phone calls. Did she not know that Larry King Live is a call-in show?
Let’s assume that Prejean can’t, for some reason, discuss her motivation to settle in a lawsuit with the Miss USA pageant. Larry King still is far from being “inappropriate.” Asking questions is his job. And, honestly, his question is kind of a good one.
Clearly she was expecting something a little more soft and leading. Like – oh, I don’t know – this:
Carrie Prejean seems confused. It appears that she wants become a martyr for the defense of heterosexual marriage, due to her ordeal of being attacked for what she later deemed to be – as King says – “religious discrimination,” but only if it can be on her terms. There are problems with that. Problems like questions. And problems like the fact she’s defending her religion for profit and personal gain, which isn’t really a martyr’s motivation. Not answering King was probably as revealing as anything she might have possibly said.
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Prejean, being the tease that she is, only does a partial electronic disrobing, but that’s it. She’s got product to push; she stays on the air. If you’re really ticked off, you do a Tom Tancredo walk out — out with the ear plug, off with the mic, and out of the camera shot.
Prejean is nothing if not calculating. I give her credit for doing the media math.
Good point.
In response to another comment. See in context »The threat to leave is actually pretty good. King would, I suppose, rather have her there and placate her than to have no show. Calculating, yes… in the short run. Don’t know how long she can keep it up.