I'm sure you all heard of what happened with Miss California Carrie Prejean so I won't rehash.
David Axelrod, a very senior adviser to President Obama and his lead campaign strategist, was talking on NPR about a range of issues. Among other things,he talked about how important "image" was to Obama (who knew?) and how even the White House dog was a carefully made choice. When Mr. Axelrod was asked how involved he was in the selection of Bo, the family's Portuguese water dog, he jokingly answered that he "only got called in for the final three." The interviewer then asked asked about the two runner-ups. "One was Miss California," Mr. Axelrod cracked to the audience's laughter.
Classy guy.
I thought one of the ideas of this Hope and Change® was to "elevate the discourse beyond the partisan squabbling during the Bush era". Way to go.
Quick note - It's ironic that one of Obama's closest aides would be laying into her like that given that the President shares her views on 'that issue'. For that matter, the majority of Miss California's home state also agrees with her according to the results of the vote on Prop 8.
For anyone still under the impression that MSNBC is a reputable source of news by the way, I'm not going to digging through my archives and find the exact dialogue, but when the reports of "nude pictures" of Carrie Prejean erupted, their anchor was quick to note as he was telling the story that the picture leaked was "too shocking for them to broadcast". This is the picture:
I'm not convinced that's 'going too far' but if they say so... Oh, wait that's right They had no problem showing this picture when the Miley Cyrus / Vanity Fair story broke:
For the record, she was 15 years old at the time.