Women of the Week

Wow! It's been quite a week for two controversial women: Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean.

Palin is using the media to promote a false screed about David Letterman. Seems Letterman made some off-color remarks about Palin and her family. I have seen the Letterman speeches. I have seen the Palin rebuttals, including the several that keep getting issued by Sarah's husband, Todd. The Palin's intimate that Letterman wants to rape their 14 year old daughter Willow. Again, having seen the remarks made by Dave, he NEVER NEVER NEVER once said anything even remotely like pedophilia. And, again and again, over and over, on and on, ad nauseum, Sarah Palin is on every news source that will give her a moment under a Klieg light, to push this ridiculous accusation. She has done every show from the east to west coasts that she can promoting her outrageous claim against the talk show host. I saw her interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show and when he alleged that her charges were false, she adamantly stuck by them and, at one point, read an email from a women's group from her cellphone. Class all the way. Letterman has publicly apologized for any harm done and invited the Palin's to his show to air their grievance, to which Palin declined, saying she would never want to expose her children to a child molester. I rather think Letterman did not invite her children - just mommy and daddy.

I believe that beauty queen reject Palin is so hungry for media attention, she will do anything to get a microphone and an audience, including using her own children as bait and lures. And with the flurry of press statements coming from Todd Palin, it seems rather apparent on his end as well. The press has been unkind to Palin from the beginning, granted, but she has done more damage to herself by actively seeking out the press and controversy. Her actions come across as desperate and starved for the national spotlight, as if she would simply whither and die if not for the light of the camera. However this whole stupid mess plays out, and with Palin clamoring for more press time, it is not likely to go away for a while, David Letterman has at least taken the high road and not given any more air to this situation. It will only antagonize Sarah Palin and keep her in front of our nation until the next stunt she pulls. Maybe next time, she will intentionally endanger her own children for the sake of a press conference.

Woman #2 is Carrie Prejean, the Miss California cunt who lost Miss America but sparked controversy a few months back by being a bible thumping bimbo who posed nude with her pageant-bought tits. Now, she is being stripped of her title of Miss California due to breach of contract. According to pageant officials, she has failed to show up for different functions and reneged on her engagements. What could she possibly do as a beauty pageant winner? Attend the opening of a new strip mall? Wave from a parade float? Appear half naked wearing a tiara and sash at a grocery store? Such intense work.

Prejean says she was let go because she had an opinion about gay marriage. While she did express herself, thereby causing her to be thrust into the national spotlight, Donald Trump, owner of the pageant, originally decreed that she keep her crown while every one in the US was clamoring for her bleached blond head. Her firing now has nothing to do with her opinions. It has to do with her not fulfilling her duties as head ditz of California. I watched her on the Today Show, and she claimed to have been told of her dismissal by a radio deejay, and was never informed by pageant officials. She also claims that she begged officials to send her to things such as the Special Olympics and they would not take her calls. I think that is a load of rubbish. Her body language in the interview was tense and I could see that she was obviously lying, but I got the impression that she truly does believe she was let go for having an opinion, and that her truth is all that matters.

My future prediction for Prejean is a couple more times in the public spotlight, maybe during an arrest for drunk driving, or being caught in a love triangle with an older wealthy man, or marrying a decrepit old geezer moments before he dies so she can get his money. Either way, she will not be retiring from the spotlight any time soon. Like Palin above, I think Prejean has found that she adores the news camera, and that kind of attention is the highest you can get in this country.

Both Palin and Prejean share so very much in common. Both are beauty pageant veterans, both crave the attention from the media, and both will do anything and everything to get that constant focus. They are desperate women, slaves to their own ego. Palin will mortgage her own family to get a moment on a newsfeed. Prejean, I think, really has no idea how to go about grabbing media attention, but has been lucky so far. I think her thirst for attention is so deep that in the coming years, we will see an Anna-Nichole type slide into pop culture obscurity, and years from now, when she is a footnote to a footnote, we will be surprised to read her name in an obituary and realize we thought she had already died.