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Pro-Gay Beauty Pageant Still A Fucking Beauty Pageant

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Yesterday, Keith Olbermann and Michael Musto took five minutes out of their busy schedules to skewer anti-gay-marriage Miss California Carrie Prejean after the “news” broke that the Miss California Organization had paid for Prejean’s breast implants. Olbermann and Musto choose to shame Prejean by tearing into her body—riffing on boobs as “performance enhancers,” saying the Miss California Organization’s comments “added saline to the wound,” and comparing her breasts to basketballs.

A blogger at the Conservative XPress responded to the Olbermann segment, writing, “Anyone know of any women’s rights groups defending this woman yet? Nope? Didn’t think so.”

I’ll do it.

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Perez Hilton Nabs Miss California on Gay Marriage

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Last night, NBC aired the 2009 “Miss USA” pageant, and apparently about a minute of the telecast was actually kind of interesting. Among the pageant’s barely-recognizable celebrity judges was gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who managed to emerge from the pageant’s cloud of spray tan and tacky gowns to ask Miss California Carrie Prejean a real question (above): What are her thoughts on gay marriage?

Here’s what Prejean had to say:

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