Imagine If Someone As Ignorant And Bigoted As Carrie Prejean Were Running Around The World Representing Our Country

Pretty on the outside

You may have thought DWT would be the one blog where you would be absolutely safe from having to hear about Carrie Prejean and her quest for Miss Americadom. Miss Dumb America, for sure, but thank goodness this ignorant, empty-headed bigot won't be representing our country in anyway that could embarrass us and remind people overseas about the past 8 years of clueless Americans. So why is that video looming below? Well if you haven't seen this bimbo making a fool of herself on national TV, you should take a look before I share my little story:



Forget for as moment that Fox and the Republican Party are struggling to turn this poor dimwit's loss into a cause célèbre for the Neanderthal base-- and even a law suit. She's a victim now. Always on the right the bigots are the victims. And the rest of society's put upon victims will claim her as their own.

This morning I was hiking around Los Feliz with one of my neighbors. She had paid more attention to the Miss America kerfuffle than I had. She said it reminded her of something that happened at her sorority. A very attractive and popular girl, a cheerleader, pledged and everyone was enthusiastic about having her join. Except one person. That person blackballed her. She told her sorority sisters that if they accepted the pledge, who is Japanese-American, none of the fraternity boys would come to their house parties. My friend was thunderstruck and she and several other sisters argued with the racist. But she was unmovable and they had to reject the pledge. That happened here-- in Los Angeles, California, USA. It's what Republicans are all about; it's part of the essence that makes someone think of themselves as a member of that rapidly shrinking political party.

Now wash that ugliness away with something beautiful:




UPDATE: Alabama Speaks

It probably won't surprise you to know that the state of Alabama has, once again, endorsed bigotry and prejudice in it's hundreds of years of unblemished endorsement of bigotry and prejudice. Go 'Bama! Jay Love was the wingnut who lost last year's congressional election to what is now the worst right-wing Democratic slug in Congress, Bobby Bright. But Love proved today that his name doesn't go further than his nose. The Alabama House approved a resolution he proposed to "support" Carrie Prejean's ignorant bigotry.