She is also a self-righteous prig more than willing to make pronouncements about how other folks should live their lives, and was eager to portray herself as a victim of religious intolerance when she was fired for failing to honor the contract and code of conduct she’d agreed to in accepting her oh-so-important crown as a beauty queen. Since she’s hot, religious, self-righteous, and crying victim-hood, she has of course become one of the more recent poster children of the far Right in this country.

She was suing Miss USA in a fine moral snit, claiming religious persecution, when the Miss USA folks pulled out a tape of self-made porn she’d produced for a boyfriend at some point and ran it for her and her mom. Voila. Instant settlement.

Apparently there are at least eight such videos that have come to light, and it seems inevitable that they’re going to wind up on the Internets. Under normal circumstances, I frown on such things, because they’re immense invasions of privacy. But in a case like Carrie’s, I have to admit to enjoying some schadenfreude, much as I do when rabidly anti-gay GOP leaders get caught blowing dudes in bathrooms or texting dirty messages to teenage boys. The only thing that might make this better would be a porn tape Carrie made with Sarah Palin.

For the interested, two NSFW stills from one of her home movies have been leaked already, and can be seen here and here.  And, yes indeed, Carrie Prejean is a beautiful woman.