Donald Trump, Miss California, and Barack Obamaby John Aravosis (DC) on 5/12/2009 02:51:00 PM
I know it sounds like the bad beginning of an even worse joke. And you're tired of hearing about the wicked witch of the west coast. But this is really a story about Barack Obama and whether he's smart enough to avoid the coming buzz saw.
Today, Donald Trump - who is possibly the only person in America a bigger media whore than Miss California (well, okay, not counting Chuck Schumer) - jumped in to the fray and invoked Barack Obama, no less, in an effort to defend (read: get some of the media attention himself) the beauty queen turned religious right pin-up girl who simply wants a chance to flash her breasts for Jesus.
In a press conference with the embattled Miss California, Trump invoked President Obama to the beauty queen's defense. Specifically, Trump - and Miss C herself - both cites Obama's supposed views on gay marriage:
At a press conference addressing Carrie Prejean’s disputed title in the Miss USA competition, pageant owner Donald Trump compared Prejean’s stated views on gay marriage to Obama’s.
“It's the same answer that the president of the United States gave,” Trump said. “She gave an honorable answer. She gave an answer from her heart.”
In her own remarks moments later, Prejean echoed Trump’s statement, telling reporters: “The president of the United States, the secretary of state, and many Americans agree with me in this belief.”
Let's put aside for a moment the utter idiocy of Trump's comments. The controversy isn't about Miss California being anti-gay. It's about her posing for nudie photos and lying about it, and about her joining up as a spokesperson for an organization just this side of a hate group, while shirking her official duties as Miss California. And, is Trump now saying that no future pageant judge can vote against a contestant if she invokes God in her answer and the judge disagrees? But hey, far be it for me to get between Donald Trump, a blonde's fake breasts, and a camera...
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