Topless Photos Of Miss California Carrie Prejean Hit The Internet

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When contemplating the white trash Lollapalooza that is the strange tale of Carrie Prejean, this year's Miss California and first runner-up to the Miss U.S.A. 2009 crown vs. the Coming Storm of Gay Marriage, it's best to acknowledge the bikini-waxed elephant in the room, which is that the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) considers a bleached blonde 21-year-old girl with artificially augmented breasts who's apparently never had a serious long-term relationship in her life to be the ideal spokesmodel for their cause.

There, we've said it. Never mind the easy metaphors, all of which are too obvious. Instead, let's bite right into the Velveeta-stuffed center.

Cue the circus music and send in the clowns.

Only in America would the notion of a nearly-naked fundamentalist Christian beauty queen tossing her processed hair as she parades brand new, pageant-bought plastic breasts across a Las Vegas stage in front of millions of television viewers with all the modesty of a blue ribbon heifer at a county livestock fair (the same fundamentalist Christian beauty queen who would later tell a television reporter that she heard God whispering in her ear as she answered a celebrity-worshipping Internet gossip columnist's question about gay marriage) be treated as anything other than an occasion for high comedy and mirth.

Were these times any other than the politically charged times they are, the subsequent media firestorm set off by Miss Prejean's carryings-on would be similarly laughable. But since these are the only times we have, it's worth noting that there's been a metallic aftertaste of self-serving manipulation to this story from the beginning. Furthermore, there's more than enough of that cynical opportunism to go around, and it encompasses everyone: from Perez Hilton, the Internet gossip columnist who asked her the question in the first place, to the organizers of NOM, to the pastor at Miss Prejean's "home" megachurch, to the Miss U.S.A. pageant, to the media who are covering a story that has legs in every sense of the term, and of course, to Miss Prejean herself.

To recap, for anyone who hasn't turned on a television or computer, or read a newspaper in the last week: on April 29th at the Miss U.S.A. pageant, "celebrity blogger" Perez Hilton asked Miss California if she thought that the equal marriage ought to be extended to gay and lesbian couples across the country.

"I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other," Prejean famously replied. "We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there," she tittered, knowing full well that she was offending millions of people watching and maybe rooting for her. "But," she trilled, "that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be between a man and a woman."

Some members of the audience booed, surely a first for the Miss U.S.A. pageant. Maximizing the Jerry Springer quality of the situation, a brawl broke out in the lobby after the show with Miss New Mexico's mother, Bianca Matamoros-Koonce, shrieking "In the Bible it says marriage is between Adam and Eve, not between ADAM AND STEVE!"