Still Sitting?

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These days it seems that you’re not someone in the news until you’ve had your sex tape discovered. Not surprisingly, media darling, Carrie Prejean, is not exempt. With all the bad press this poor girl has gotten, I would be very surprised if they hadn’t dug up some dirt about her.

The ever-tenacious media waited patiently for 7 months after the pageant for their find. And what dirt they finally dug. They found a really steamy sex tape in which a 17 year old Prejean was a solo star.

“They can call it whatever they want to call it, but it was the biggest mistake of my life,” Prejean told Sean Hannity. “I was all by myself and I was sending a boyfriend at the time who I loved and cared about a video of me … I was not having sex with anybody and you call it whatever you want.”

She can only be glad that “the biggest mistake of her life” fell into the noble hands of the TMZ staff, who, purely out of the goodness of their hearts, held on to it for a few months before releasing it, “because of the graphic nature of it.”

She had been pining over a guy, and decided to win him over by making a sex tape. As with many of these cases, it ended up being used against her. We have seen many people who should have known better make similar mistakes.

“I was a teenager at the time and never did I think it would ever come out. But it was bad judgment and it’s embarrassing and it’s humiliating to be talking about this now on national TV if you can imagine.”

Everyone likes to be judged based upon what they did when they were 17.

I’m not faulting the media for this, mind you. They are just doing their jobs. Vocal Conservative Christians with a past will never cease to be hot topics.

The tape was the tour de force which ended a bitter legal battle between Prejean and pageant officials with regard to her firing. She says it was because of her unpopular beliefs about gay marriage. They claim lingerie photos, which reportedly were a “breach of contract” of her surfaced.

She sued the pageant for discrimination. The pageant countersued last month, demanding that she repay $5,200 in pageant money spent for her breast implants and give them all proceeds from a book she’s written.

Prejean is not shying away from the issue. She is dealing with this very directly. In her book, Still Standing, she addresses the young girls and tells them to be careful with these first “loves.”

“Be careful. Nothing is private any more. Nothing is private. With Facebook, with MySpace, with all that going on, I mean, you have to be so careful.”

She tells Hannity. “Well, my attackers would love for nothing more but for me to be hiding in a corner right now and be crying. But I’m still standing.”

And, she’s also apparently still sitting on the Larry King Live show. After a bizarre exchange, where she called King “inappropriate” for asking a valid question, she took off her microphone and continued to sit on the set, talking to an unseen person who appeared to be coaching her. I’m sure she was trying to make a point of some sort, but I am unclear as to what it was.

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Brooke Musterman is the author of Reptiles on Caffeine.