Just when you thought Carrie Prejean had all but faded into obscurity following her drawn-out eventual de-throning as Miss California, she’s back with news of a new job and book deal. Prejean, 22, has signed a deal with a conservative publishing house to pen what sounds like more of the defensive “I can’t speak my mind” response she gave following the controversy. Carrie of course rose to fame following her muddled answer against same sex marriage during the Miss USA pageant. A whole media circus ensued, Carrie violated her pageant contract by refusing to show up for scheduled events and becoming a spokesperson for one of those “marriage protection” groups, owner Donald Trump initially defended her, but eventually realized that she was unwilling to work with pageant officials and delivered her marching papers. Carrie complained that she was set up, and that the firing was still about her opinion despite all the chances she was given to make nice. She’s not going away, though, as the title of her upcoming book, “Still Standing,” suggests. Wherever Carrie is standing, maybe at a Glamour Shots in a mall in some mid-sized city, people aren’t paying much attention at this point:
Ultraconservative publishing house Regnery Publishing announced yesterday that it has inked a deal with the dethroned Miss California for her first book, Still Standing.
So what will it be about? And will Prejean actually write it herself?
The 22-year-old former lingerie model will rehash the gay marriage controversy that eventually left her tiara-less but a superstar of the right wing.
“It’s not a book about gay marriage,” Regnery president and publisher Marji Ross told me earlier today. “It’s not a book about traditional marriage…She wanted to write a book about freedom of speech and the double standard that seems to exist when someone speaks their mind and doesn’t happen to be politically correct or consistent with what a crazy Hollywood celebrity thinks is the right answer.”
Ross insists Prejean will not have a ghostwriter. “It’s not one of these things where she’s only the face and it’s not her words,” she said. “She’s writing it.”
With an initial print run of about 100,000, Still Standing will be released in November.
[From E! Online]
There are plenty of people who buy into Carrie’s excuse that it was about her non-PC opinion, but if you read the obnoxious e-mails she sent pageant officials, andlisten to their statements about how they were repeatedly shut down while trying to work with her, you can tell that excuse is bogus. Carrie still continues to get jobs as a spokesperson despite all the evidence that she’s too full of herself to do a decent job. She was just hired by the Republican party in the state of Florida to recruit young members. Will Carrie’s role be similar to those women in the booths at the trade shows - get ‘em in to hear the pitch?
As if Florida and the Republican party didn’t already have enough of a history (think back nine years), the queen of controversy Carrie Prejean is now in the mix.
The state’s GOP has tapped the former Miss California –who morphed from San Diego beauty queen to the unofficial spokesperson against same-sex marriage — to recruit young voters (18- to 35-year-olds) in the Sunshine State to get more involved politically active.
Prejean will speak about the future of the Republican Party at a gathering in Florida in August.
The move, considering Prejean’s polarizing views, had already raised eyebrows amongst state Republicans such as Broward committeewoman Sandy Steen.
“It doesn’t seem like the smart thing to do,” said Steen. “She’s in the right age bracket, certainly, but they’re going to turn off some of the young people who are moderates — that is not how you reach out to young people. She’s got every right to her opinions, but she can’t be the spokesperson for all the young people.”
[From Radar Online]
Carrie will probably alienate even more Republicans in Florida and screw up this job somehow. She’s not able to work well with others and her self righteous attitude usually gets in the way. I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt after the Miss USA scandal, and thought that she was definitely entitled to her opinion. She ended up shooting herself in the foot by refusing to work with the Miss California pageant, even after Trump gave her another chance. The girl lost her crown for a good reason, and the Republican party should definitely be wary of being associated with her.
Carrie Prejean is shown on 5/12/09. Credit: WENN.com
