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Beauty Queen + Drama Queen = Freedom of Speech?

 (If the video doesn’t show up-try clicking and watching here.)

Watch that.  Then Watch this:  Mr. Hilton expresses his discontent for her answer.

Why am I blogging about this?  Well two reasons.  First it gives me a reason to post this:

(don’t expect me to apologize for that either)

And second:  While I, arguably, have a different opinion on same sex marriage (SSM) than Ms. California  Carrie Prejean (I bet we all could find a common ground with this one) I’m fully committed to this idea:

Perez Hilton is an ass-hat and should refrain from trying to be taken seriously on any level.  Ever.  

Imagine yourself there-millions of people watching you, each one of them quite literally judging you (including those, you know, judges) and the entirety of everything you’ve spent years to achieve is right in front of you.  All you have to do is say you believe Y, when in your heart of hearts you believe X.  Could you do it? 

Maybe SSM is easy for you.  What about belief in God?  Gun Control?  Abortion? What if you knew that someone wanted one answer-and it was the answer you weren’t inclined to give.   

Prejean sucked it up and said what she believed.  For her, God was testing her faith-and honesty became more important than winning.  To use some vernacular:  For a beauty queen, she’s got balls.  And, according to some reports anyway that’s why she lost.  

A beauty pageant is decided based on what the contestant thinks.  Perhaps for the first time in recorded history. 

I’m not sure why it riles me up-it’s a tempest in a teapot, for sure.  I have this thing about defending the unpopular opinion-or at least, in this case, the right to have and express an unpopular opinion.  And Mr. Hilton should have been prepared for the possibility that she didn’t have the same views she did.  Of course (as Roland Martin points out) that would mean Hilton was an actual journalist (or otherwise person of consequence) and not an otherwise fully grown man who makes a living drawing penises and writing foul words on pictures of people. 

I think Prejean went out of her way to give a reasonably good, non-judgmental answer to a loaded on the spot question that clearly threw her (“Opposite marriage” indeed!).   And there in is why Hilton will only ever be a drama, and not a beauty, queen-he couldn’t keep it together.  Well that, and he ‘s just not nearly as hot.