What I wrote on the NYT's website days after the Miss CA scandal broke:

The Q&A segment counted toward her “grade,” or score, or U.S.D.A. ranking, or whatever it is that determines the winners of beauty pageants. Her answers didn’t sit well with the judges, and… it may have cost her, and it may be why she lost. And losing was the best thing that ever happened to Miss CA, frankly, and to the Miss USA Pageant.

I couldn’t have been the only person in America who was unaware that the Miss USA Pageant had happened, or was happening, or was still in existence, until this incident occurred. And Miss CA is going to be dining out on this “attack” for the rest of her life. I see a book deal in her future, lots of speaking gigs at evangelical universities, etc.

Ahem:

Miss California and Miss USA runner-up, Carrie Prejean, tossed around in the battle over gay marriage, will be a one-day guest host for Fox News Channel's popular morning show Fox & Friends, Whispers learns. She will host the 6 a.m.-to-7 a.m. slot on May 27, filling in for Gretchen Carlson—the 1989 Miss America—who will be off that day.