The Daily Show has historically gotten a lot of mileage out of Fox & Friends' Gretchen Carlson's "troubled mom" persona, which basically involves wrinkling her nose and innocently wondering what this Obama fellow is up to with our country.

Stewart employs Carlson's own hard-hitting research tactics (Google!) to learn that she may not be as simple and hair-twirling as she lets on. Dumbing yourself down is bad enough when it's to work an audience into a populist frenzy. But disingenuously playing into gendered soccer mom, gee whiz cliches? Evil brilliance.

Earlier Fox News Host Screens Next Generation Of Miss Americas

What's shocking about Fulbright's advice isn't its premise — going to strip clubs as a couple isn't really all that kinky, though I'd question whether said clubs are usually "somber" or "reserved." It's her "9 Reasons" why couples should engage in this "threesome of foreplay." To whit:

1. There's no work involved.

Foreplay becomes a breeze even before you take your seat. Lovers often find themselves sexually excited at the mere prospect of going to a strip club. Yet this arousal goes far beyond pre-game show titillations, with lovers already anticipating what will happen once they get back home.

Really? You have to drive to the strip club, watch a show, drive home*, and then have sex, at which point the woman will probably have cooled off enough that some actual foreplay is still required. Is this really less work than just going down on her a little?

Then there's this:

4. The experience can make them feel sexier.

By identifying with the stripper's sexuality or desiring it, lovers can feel more wanton in the process. In other cases, where a stripper looks particularly haggard, a woman may come away from the experience feeling confirmed (and relieved) that she's more attractive than the gal on stage. After all, the slight jealousy that can be fueled by the experience acts as inspiration to outdo the stripper at some point.

So basically the point of going to a strip club is to reassure yourself that you're hotter than the used-up old slutbag on the pole. Nice.

9. It puts a woman's mind at ease.

Even if they don't like watching their men get turned on, some women would rather know what their partners are doing than be left wondering. Accompanying him to a strip club makes her feel like she's more on top of his sexual liaisons.

[...]

Remember, flexibility is key, as the rules may need to change once you're inside. Seeing strip club fantasies become reality can be difficult for some. It may tap insecurities for some, while the sight of often sad, blank-faced strippers evokes pity from others.

For an article that initially seemed like it would be stripper-positive, Fulbright's piece actually presents one of the nastiest views of stripping I've ever read. Apparently strippers are "often sad, blank-faced" vehicles for the harmless titillation of nice girls — girls who have boyfriends and husbands and would never think of taking off their clothes for money (they do it for exercise! In pole-dancing class!). The whole article carries a whiff of classism and moralism even as it advocates something the author claims is "taboo." And Fulbright's claim that going to a strip club "puts a woman's mind at ease" seems totally flawed. The experience a man has at a strip club with his partner is likely totally different from the one he has by himself or with male friends — by going with him, a woman is creating a whole new sexual situation, not eavesdropping on an existing one. This isn't to say that seeing a stripper might not be hot for some couples — but those who would do so out of mistrust or a desire to feel superior might be better off seeing a therapist. And anyway, the best way to get "on top of his sexual liaisons" is probably the most literal one.

* I guess this doesn't apply if you have sex in the strip club bathroom. Or if the strip club is actually a sex club — but somehow I don't think Fox News endorses those.

FoxSexpert: 9 Reasons Strip Clubs Can Spice Up Your Sex Life [Fox News]

Accepting a Young Student Activist Award from the Young America's Foundation at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara this past weekend, Giles — best known for posing as a prostitute to try and bring down ACORN — was greeted with adoring cries. The Los Angeles Times just called her "a rock star of conservative activism."

Giles, 20, dreamed up the scheme that brought her and friend James O'Keefe, dressed in some very bad outfits, to ACORN offices around the country, to get some very bad advice from employees. In her handful of appearances so far, Giles has stayed cheerily on message. "When I found out that there was an ACORN housing, I was just like, ‘My goodness. This is why we're in the foreclosure crisis and the mortgage crisis and let's study,'" she told Sean Hannity. "There's obviously bad things going on in these houses."

The Free Republic crowd is salivating. But first they have to contend with her goth-surfer-punkesque father, Doug Giles, a minister, author, and radio host who describes his interests as being "guns, big game hunting, big game fishing, fine art, cigars and being a big pain in the butt to people who dislike God and the USA."

Last month, Doug Giles went on Fox News' Red Eye, not long after his daughter appeared on the show, and discussed how his weapons arsenal and his daughters' jujitsu training should keep away "the dweebs and the dorks and the wimps and the punks and the welfare brats" in favor of the "lawyers and wild men, providers, protectors, hunters and heroes."

Young Conservative Activist Hannah Giles Speaks In Santa Barbara [LA Times]

However, last night, Stephen Colbert, at his grumpy, grouchy, contrarian best, showed that he is onto Sesame Street and its producers' agenda, and no amount of placating sound-bytes would mollify him! Or the happily counting kids in the vintage clips he produced as evidence.

‘Sesame Street' Producers Respond To ‘Pox News' Dispute [NY Times]

Stephen Colbert Mops Up ‘Sesame Street' [NY Times]

I don't know what was in the head of the producers, but my guess is that this was one of those parodies that was too good to resist. But it should have been resisted. Broadcasters can tell parents whatever they think of Fox or any other network, but you shouldn't do it through the kids.

Yup. It's especially unfortunate timing, because it politicizes Mrs. Obama's appearance, in which she'll promote her healthy-eating message. As the NY Times describes the upcoming episode,

Mrs. Obama's message on the anniversary episode isn't an exhortation to future soldiers, scientists and presidents to be all that they can be, but to tiny consumers to eat the freshest food they can find. "Veggies taste so good when they come fresh from the garden, don't they?" Mrs. Obama tells a rainbow coalition of children gathered around a soil tray, an echo of her White House kitchen garden. "If you eat all these healthy foods, you are going to grow up to be big and strong," Mrs. Obama says, flexing her fists. "Just like me."

Now, you could certainly argue that since any such joke goes over a kid's head, and it probably does. But the truth is, we live in a politicized world and, while Sesame Street has always been an aspirational nirvana - and, plenty would add, Free to be You and Me progressive - it can be that, philosophically, only by keeping their genuine care for kids' learning at the forefront. If it justifies critics' claims of politicization, well then, some kids are going to miss out on its valuable lessons in the process. And playing into O'Reilly's hands isn't a lesson any kid needs.

Grouch Trashes Fox News [YouTube]
PBS Ombud: Sesame Street Producers Should Have Resisted 'Pox News' Joke [Politico]
Michelle Obama Guest Stars on Sesame Street [Wall Street Journal]
Same Street, Different World: ‘Sesame' Turns 40 [NY Times]
To Get To Sesame Street, Hang A Left, Says One Blogger [NY Times]

White House has targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest-spending pro-business lobbying group in the country; Rush Limbaugh, the country's most-listened-to conservative commentator; and now, with a new volley of combative rhetoric in recent days, the insurance industry, Wall Street executives and Fox News.

Obama aides are using their powerful White House platform, combined with techniques honed in the 2008 campaign, to cast some of the most powerful adversaries as out of the mainstream and their criticism as unworthy of serious discussion.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs has mocked Limbaugh from the White House press room podium. White House aides limited access to the Chamber and made top adviser Valerie Jarrett available to reporters to disparage the group. Everyone from White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has piled on Fox News by contending it's not a legitimate news operation.

Yes, Faux News is a terrible excuse of programming and I would love if their racist, sexist, homophobic anchors and executives would suddenly vanish from the Earth, Left Behind-style, but instead of going to Heaven they were deposited in the scenario described by that old Got Milk? commercial:

But, that being said, I'm not thrilled with the Administration aggressively going after its opponents in this way. I'd much rather see some aggressive action toward keeping the base engaged, thinking up catchier hooks for these policy mandates, and reaching out to the communities that helped to elect Obama in 2008.

The GOP does a fine enough job digging their own grave - kicking dirt into their eyes while they're shoveling isn't really necessary.

Obama Strategy: Marginalize Most Powerful Critics [Politico]
Left Behind [Wikipedia]

Gerhart pegs her story to Charisse Carney-Nunes, who uploaded a YouTube video of schoolkids singing about Obama that quickly got the attention of Fox News. Though Carney-Nunes neither wrote the song nor asked the kids to sing it, she was deluged with hateful messages from "You're a dirtbag commie propagandist trying to infect children with your failed Marxist ideology" to "your Obama chant is right out of Africa." Is the vitriol she received — and the related ire that greeted Obama's address to schoolchildren — evidence of a culture that's forgotten how to be civil? Not really — Gerhart maintains we never really knew how.

Of course, the children's songs Republicans call "indoctrination" would have been "patriotism" if they were about Bush a few years ago. But Bush obviously had plenty of haters too, who, as Gerhart points out, didn't shy away from calling him names and comparing him to Hitler. And really, American rhetoric has a long history of nastiness. Gerhart mentions that a Jefferson supporter once called Adams "a hideously hermaphroditical character," and that Alexander Hamilton called Aaron Burr "bankrupt by redemption except by the plunder of his country," resulting in their famous duel. She even argues that the Internet may make our arguments less bloody:

If the Internet and cable TV amplify and spread vile personal assaults, they may also, paradoxically, minimize the physical danger. Duels as an acceptable way to settle a score went downhill after Burr and Hamilton. Benson notes that Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) gave a thoroughly modern explanation for shouting "You lie!" during Obama's speech: He had to get something off his chest.

Gerhart points out that because of how modern media work, many more of us than ever before have the opportunity to get something off our chests — and to become briefly famous for it. In some ways, this may be healthy. Rhetoric professor Thomas Benson tells Gerhart,

[W]e get this puzzling image of Senator Specter in my home town, and some big guy bulging out of his shirt says, 'I've read this [health-care] bill!' And he is so angry it's a declaration of his impotence as an ordinary citizen, but at the same time he's asserting his participation as a citizen, and both things are right.

It is our right as citizens to get angry, and that's a right Americans have never felt shy about exercising. The only difference is that now we have the opportunity to do it on a grander scale. This may be good in that it makes people feel as though their views do indeed matter. It may also be destructive, insomuch as the most extreme and inflammatory views are the most likely to be heard. But while Carney-Nunes's experience is disturbing, and she deserves protection from those who would malign her, what Gerhard makes clear is that bemoaning "the end of civility" is neither accurate nor useful. We'd be better off learning how to harness and interpret public anger than trying to get people to stop expressing it.

In Today's Viral World, Who Keeps A Civil Tongue? [Washington Post]
Elementary School Children Praises Obama "The Great Leader!" [YouTube]
Glenn Beck: Creepy Barack Obama School Kids Indoctrination Song Video [FOX News] [YouTube]
Indoctrination: New Jersey School Kids Instructed To Sing Praises To Barack Obama [YouTube]

What is that, The Secret for the GOP? If we say it's so, we make it so? And he's quoting both Gallup polls and Faux News, meaning: I wasted three minutes of my life on this crap.

However, the health care battle continues to rage onward. As we roll towards reconciliation, all of our lawmakers have their eye on one thing: cost. Attempting to make the bill as cost-effective as possible, the House and Senate are both looking at taxation. But who pays?

Legislation emerging from the House would slap a surtax on upper-income people. But many Democrats, especially in the Senate, fear the political fallout over voting to raise anyone's income taxes.

The most prominent Senate bill would impose a tax on insurance companies that provide expensive policies, sometimes dubbed "Cadillac" plans. But labor unions — a powerful force within the Democratic Party — bitterly oppose the idea,
saying the tax would be passed on to workers in the form of higher premiums or shrunken benefits. [...]

Legislation approved by the chamber's Ways and Means Committee would impose an income tax surcharge of up to 5.4% on individuals who make more than $280,000 and on couples with more than $350,000 annual income.

That, however, did not sit well with centrist Democrats and others from high-cost regions. So House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has called for raising the bill's thresholds to $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for couples. [...]

A bill being debated in the Finance Committee would impose a 40% excise tax on insurance companies for plans whose cost exceeds $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for families.

Proponents argue that such a steep tax would create an incentive for insurance companies and employers to stop providing such expensive plans, thus helping to slow the growth of healthcare costs. And though companies may drop expensive plans, the CBO has said, the proposal nevertheless would raise revenues because it assumes employers who scale back coverage would repay workers by raising salaries or increasing taxable compensation in other ways.

And the battle continues.

In the meantime, here's part of Keith Olbermann's special comment where he illustrates his frustration with health care reform using the tale of his father's journey through the health care system:

The GOP Is Winning The Health-Care Debate [WSJ]
Democrats Face Dilemma On Taxes To Pay For Healthcare [LA Times]

• Their movie's finished, so Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler went back to L.A. and had a "quiet dinner" on Wednesday. A source says:

They "appeared incredibly affectionate with one another" and were "kissing, hugging and leaning in to talk to each other for over two hours. But! They left separately and drove off in different directions. [Page Six]

• Victoria Beckham, who had been accused of leaving Medieval Times without leaving a tip, has sent a "generous gratuity" to her server, apologized for the mix-up, and all is well. [TMZ]
• More mixed feelings about Ellen on American Idol. [E!]
• Paula Abdul Tweeted: "I think Ellen will b a gr8 judge on Idol. She is wildly funny, talented and I wish her the best of luck!" [People]
• Oh Lord: Record labels are suing The Ellen DeGeneres Show, claiming that thousands of songs were played without permission. Boo, WTF, srsly? [Variety]
• In the Tila Tequila case, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department has handed off its evidence to the D.A,, and the D.A. has the power to file or reject charges against Shawne Merriman. Meanwhile, TT Tweeted: "A real man is able to apologize. A real woman is able to forgive and accept the apology......." [E!]
• Tila appears to have bruises all over her arms. [ONTD]
• This report asks, "Did a spurned request for a foursome lead to the fight between Shawne Merriman and bisexual girlfriend Tila Tequila?" The gist of it is that she walked in on him with two women, he asked her to join them, she got pissed and threatened to have sex with one of his friends; he choked her and threw her to the ground. [Page Six]
• Reports that Uma Thurman would be married at Kensington Palace in London: Wrong. [Daily Express]
• Picture this: Kanye West taking his first spinning class. FEEL THE BURN!!!1!! [Page Six]
• Either Stuart Townsend wears skirts or Charlize Theron likes to think he does. [NY Mag]
• If Penelope Cruz is pregnant, she's not saying. [Mirror]
• Looking for a job? Justin Timberlake is in search of an "Executive Vice President of Big Ideas" for his 901 Silver Tequila brand. The position comes with a signing bonus of $25,000. [Page Six]
• Courtney Love, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl are not happy that players can unlock the Kurt Cobain character in Guitar Hero 5 and make him play songs by other artists like Bon Jovi and Bush. Novoselic and Grohl released a statement which read: . "It's hard to watch an image of Kurt pantomiming other artists' music alongside cartoon characters. Kurt Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world. We feel he deserves better." Courtney's Twitter feed contains similar outrage, but as this column notes: "we warn that the messages contain excessive profanity and demonstrate very poor grammar." [LA Times]
• Fashion's Big NIght Out saw Mary-Kate Olsen bartending at Bergdorf; Rihanna doing a five-minute lap around Intermix; and Ungaro's "artistic adviser," Lindsay Lohan, picking out a leather jacket at the store - then wearing it out the door after salesgirls ripped the tags off. [Gatecrasher]
• David Cross's new memoir, I Drink For A Reason, has an "amazing" author bio, which announces that he is "currently fucking Amber Tamblyn" and features a photo of her father, Russ Tamblyn. Cross says: "I cleared it with her, of course. She has an amazing, great sense of humor. She told her dad and her parents are super cool. Her dad laughed even harder than we did… So now we have to, like, stay together for a while." [NY Mag]
• Do what you must to prepare yourself: A Tinsley Mortimer reality show is in the works. [Page Six]
• Dancing With The Stars' Karina Smirnoff on her breakup with Maksim Chmerkovsky: "It comes with the territory that everything is in the public eye, but again, it is a private matter, it is a private relationship, and it should totally stay private." [ET]
• Ghostface Killah is dedicating some tracks on his new album to Natalie Portman. "I read in some interview she did in something called Interview magazine that she likes obscene rap music," Killah says. "When I read that, it was, like, 'Oh, shit, she would love the shit I got right here on this album!' It was wild, 'cause I remember her as the little girl in The Professional, and now she's all about the wild shit." Killah added, "Yo, if you see her, give her my number. Tell her we gotta make some music together." [Page Six]
• Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno is a web sensation! [AP]
• The Michael Jackson tribute concert that was supposed to be in Vienna has been canceled. A new event will take place in London next year. [AP, Reuters]
• Maura Tierney has left the NBC show Parenthood, because of her ongoing treatments for breast cancer. [Variety]
• A woman went to see Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig on Broadway in A steady Rain and says: "They were great, but we could have done with more nudity." [NY Daily News]
• As you may recall, Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica Seinfeld, wrote a cookbook called Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food. Missy Chase Lapine wrote a book called The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals, and accused Seinfeld of copying her. A judge has thrown out the lawsuit and Seinfeld's lawyer says: "Jessica did not copy anything from anyone and created her best-selling cookbook in her own kitchen from her own experiences." Case closed. [USA Today]
• LaToya Jackson owes $745,670.27 on her "swanky" condo in Las Vegas, and could lose her home unless she comes up with the cash by the end of the month. [TMZ]
• Yee-haw: "Josh Hartnett has signed on to star in Gunslinger a revenge-driven tale set in the near future in the snowy wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America." [Variety]
• Fran Drescher is in talks with Fox News; she wants her own talk show. She's A Democrat, but says: "A lot of my fans watch Fox News." [US News & World Report]
• "I enjoy teaching. There is no stress. The students are great. Making movies is a nightmare. It's all about time management and stamping out brush fires. With this one, I'm just lucky I got it made and wasn't sued. I guess that means it's a success." — Todd Solondz, on his quasi-sequel to Happiness, Life during Wartime. [Guardian]
• "To have him pass away, I'm sure the term has been used before but you could actually feel a light go out.... All of a sudden, I had a responsibility [with] the only movie adaptation, and that's something I never wanted. His work will always be, and I mean it with all due respect to the movie and the cast, his work will always be better than the movie could have been. The fear was that this project that had been such a passion project now has a responsibility." — John Krasinski, on directing a film based on the short-story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, by the late David Foster Wallace. [WSJ]
• "When I first read the script, I said, 'I know why they are calling me to do this — because they need a hunk to justifying why this woman is with him.'" — Antonio Banderas, on his role in the film The Other Man, which stars Laura Linney. [LA Times]

Karolchyk wore a "No Chubbies" t-shirt on Fox — yes, really — and told host Neil Cavuto that Benjamin is "50 pounds overweight, she is obese." When Cavuto questioned the seemingly arbitrary figure, Karolchyk replied, "I have a lot of experience with this." Sounds like he should work for US Weekly, gauging celebs' weight just by looking at photographs. In fact, he might have to — because he's basically the male Tracy Anderson (minus the celebrity clients, plus some real silly hand gestures).

According to a profile in the magazine 5280, Karolchyk idolizes Holden Caulfield and, in his heyday, gave out condoms as business cards and enjoyed filming commercials where he slammed pies into overweight women's faces. He used to run the Anti-Gym (link NSFW, due to pics of a guy taking of lingerie with his teeth, the word "sex" in huge letters, obnoxious music, and being generally horrible), which boasts that "With live DJs, cage dancers, and our elite co-ed Ravish Room, Anti-Gym boasts the hottest facilities and clientele in Denver." And which, in fact, we've written about before! Moe said,

The Ravish Room turns out to be a sauna that admits only members who have reached a sufficiently low body mass index, but you also have to be screened to so much as join his gym, where motivational techniques include having cupcakes hurled at you on the treadmill

But Karolchyk apparently hurls cupcakes no more — his gym/sex-cliche horror show was shut down in January for nonpayment of "at least $184,078.76" in taxes. After the shutdown, stacks of documents about Karolchyk's clients — including not just their names and credit card numbers but also personal information about their cancer diagnoses and helpful descriptors like "fatty lazy" and "lazy piece of shit" — were found in a dumpster. Karolchyk swears he didn't dump his clients' personal information in such an unsecured location, but since he's the kind of guy who describes his customers as "fatty lazy," we somehow doubt he has all that much consideration for them.

Karolchyk says (based, again, on the scientific method of Watching Video Footage) that Benjamin is "lazy" and makes "poor food choices." He asks if we'd want "the head of the Fed Reserve to be a guy in a cardboard box" or "Michael Jackson's doctor" as the head of the DEA. By the same token, we don't want a cupcake-hurling, tax-evading, self-described "chubbyist" to tell us who's qualified to be Surgeon General.

Fox News: Surgeon General Too Fat [Talking Points Memo]
Fox Lashes Health Pick As 'Too Fat to Serve' [Newser]
Anti-Gym's Michael Karolchyk Gets Flayed In Channel 4 Report [Westword]
'Anti-Gym' Personal Records Found In Dumpster [Channel 4 News, Denver]
Anti-Gym [Official Site]
How Much Does Anti-Gym's Michael Karolchyk Owe To The IRS? [Westword]
This Man Thinks You're Fat [5280]

Earlier: Is Your BMI Low Enough For Michael "No Chubbies" Karolchyk's Co-Ed Sauna?? Oh No!
Female Nominees Continue To Face Scrutiny Over Their Size, Weight

1.) "God, Guns, Guts, and American Pickup Trucks"
That's this guy's motto for his truck dealership in rural Missouri. He gives away a free AK-47 with each vehicle purchased. While being interviewed on CNN's American Morning, he made some compelling arguments for his business model:

"The only 911 call I need is chambering a round."
"There is a tremendous crime problem with people doing meth and these people – they've lost their souls."
"You don't have a problem with God, do you? I'm just curious…"
"We're a Christian nation."
"You don't think God wants us to defend ourselves? I'm confused."

2.) Paris Hilton: "I'm Not Retarded"

3.) Me: "Yes You Are"

4.) Barbara Walters' Speech Impediment
I've finally cracked the code to the cause of Barbara Walters' "accent." She says her R's backwards, so they come out as "raw" instead of "arh."

5.) Big Brother

I'm so obsessed with these turds. This sums up how I'm feeling right now:

6.) Gay Penguin Dramz
After a six-year relationship, Harry and Pepper, two gay male penguins living in a zoo in San Francisco, are no longer an item. Harry left Pepper for a woman. (A penguin one, not a human one.)

7.) And This

8.) Things Are Different in Canada

9.) Who Does Jon Gosselin Think He Is?
Remember when the father of eight said that he was sick of doing the show and sick of paparazzi? He's so sick of the celebrity life, that he just needed to get away from it—by sipping champagne on a private yacht floating in the French Riviera.

10.) Wrap It Up, Linda

Ms. Roth — who was, unsurprisingly, more interested in mocking the width of the seat of a size 24 pair of pants and showing off how small she is by comparison — ended up sputtering by the end, no doubt wondering how it is that she came on Fox News expected to provide reasonably cogent commentary on the issues or back up her assertion that fat people don't deserve to work. Can we finally just accept that MeMe Roth's entire "anti-obesity" shtick has nothing to do with health and everything to do with her own obese, diseased ego?

Fox News Set For Best Year Yet [The Hollywood Reporter]

[Images via Getty.]

In the clip at left, Prejean stumbles through an interview with Van Susteren, who seems to have made it her mission to profile (and defend) controversial right-wing female beauty queens. Earlier in the day, Prejean gave a press conference on behalf of the National Organization for Marriage and unveiled her new ad for NOW, which will be airing in several states. Currently, the only way to watch online is to head to the organization's website, as gossip blogger Perez Hilton has forced the ad to be removed from YouTube.

Prejean said she was calling in to promote traditional marriage, but when Van Susteren asked her about civil unions she said, as transcribed by U.S. News and World Report:

You know what, Greta? I don't have the answers to everything. I'm not running for political office. I don't have the answers to everything, you know, in the world out there.

But I think that there should be rights for people, you know, especially in California. I think that people that are homosexual should have some rights, you know, hospital rights, and things like that.

Rights for hospitals and things like that - generous! Then, when Van Susteren proceeded to ask Prejean about gay adoption, the beauty queen seemed to think the anchor was trying trick her and scolded:

Greta, I am focusing on marriage right now, not adoption, not civil unions, just traditional marriage, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to promote that.

At the press conference earlier in the day (clip below, via Pandagon) Prejean didn't fare much better. She explained that she is passionate about her cause because "marriage is good" and "unless we bring men and women together children will not have mothers and fathers." Then, during the question and answer segment of her press conference, following a reporter's question as to whether Prejean will be going into politics she laughed and said, "I think that is a silly question." AT this point, we're just relieved that Prejean finds the idea of her starting a political career is as silly as we do.

NOM Launches "No Offense" Religious Liberty Ad Campaign! [NOM]
Why Carrie Prejean May Not Be An Effective Spokeswoman for the Anti-Gay-Marriage Cause [U.S. News and World Report]
Miss California On Presser: If We Don't Save Marriage Kids Won't Have Moms And Dads [Pandagon]

Earlier: Perez Hilton Forces NOM Off YouTube
Both The Beauty And The Blogger Make Beastly Representatives