Fox analyst says losing Miss USA contestant should sue

Has America become the land where you can just sue every time you lose at any endeavor?

For those who follow conservative ideology, apparently so.

Like Bush suing to have the 2000 election awarded to him, Fox News legal analyst Mercedes Colwin says Carrie Prejean should sue the Miss USA pageant because she lost.

Colwin (the biggest sore loser in all of this) said of Prejean, "If she really feels some tremendous stress as a result of losing ... she can articulate a viable claim for monetary compensation for psychic injury."

So Fox News says Prejean should sue because she lost and had her feelings hurt by this? This reminds me of the episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Lisa wrote a letter to President Clinton to get him to overturn the result of a music contest at a state fair that she lost.

Colwin claims Prejean was discriminated against because of her conservative political and religious views.

Bull. And shit.

This is another story full of manufactured outrage by the wingnutosphere. Carrie Prejean wasn't discriminated against. End of story. But she's not taking her defeat much more gracefully than the Fox analyst is. She said that if she had been given any other question to answer, "I know I would have won."

For what it's worth, here's a little tidbit that you can draw your own conclusions from. Prejean attends San Diego Christian College, a right-wing institution founded for the purpose of promoting creationism. One of its founders was longtime right-wing agitator Tim LaHaye, who has ties to Washington Times founder and convicted tax cheat Sun Myung Moon.

The obvious conclusion is that Prejean is yet another movement conservative wriggling her way into the national conscience with the help of the rightist noise machine. But this carries with it a lot of suspicion about what went on here.

I have to ask myself whether right-wing leaders actually encouraged Carrie Prejean to help manufacture this story by giving a conservative answer, so that the freeposphere would cry that the contest was rigged if she lost - thus making conservatives appear to be victims when they're not. I'm not absolutely certain that's what happened, but I'd bet that it was, because it has the telltale signs. And stuff like this has happened before.

The Far Right brain trust has had this racket going on for years. They agitate (even hire) right-wing students to whip up controversies at their schools so they can play the victim. So why would they not similarly stir up a contestant in a Miss USA pageant?

I'm only speculating - but this racket has enough of a history that this public speculation is fair.

As for Mercedes Colwin's lawsuit suggestion, any lawyer who files this case ought to be disbarred immediately. Courts have more important things to do than hear the complaints of everyone who loses a Miss USA pageant.