Miss California to guest-host Fox show

SORT of figured this eventually would happen: Carrie Prejean, the runner-up in the Miss USA pageant whose important opinions on gay marriage have been discussed by any number of media outlets that can post pictures of her in a bikini next to the story (see left), is subbing as a co-host on the morning show Fox and Friends on May 27. It's a one-time thing, Fox executive Suzanne Scott told U.S. News, but also said "We'll see what happens with it."

Sarah Palin, also a beauty-pageant contestant back in the day, came to Prejean's support Wednesday, saying that "the liberal onslaught of malicious attacks against Carrie Prejean for expressing her opinion is despicable . . . Our Constitution protects us all - not just those who agree with the far left."

SatTatt never thought she'd say this, but she's kind of with Palin on this one. That's excluding her assumption that it's only a small number of politcal mavericks supporting gay marriage: just a couple of weeks ago, a nationwide poll done by the Washington Post and ABC showed 49 percent of Americans in favor of gay marriage and 46 percent against, and reputable polls tend to have the figures neck-and- neck.

But Palin's larger question is a valid one: Why is everyone freaking out about the fact that one woman said she thinks marriage is between a man and a woman? If you believe the polls, about half of Americans agree with her. What did Prejean say that got everyone so riled up, exactly? Let's see:

"Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. You know what, in my country, in my family, I do believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman."

Regardless of the wince-worthy phrasing, SatTatt's immediate reaction upon seeing what Prejean said was, "What, that's it?"

Prejean didn't say gay people were going to hell, she didn't use insulting language, she didn't do a lot of things that are, frankly, done pretty casually in American society. Someone asked her whether she was in favor of gay marriage, and she said she wasn't.

Honestly, SatTatt felt kind of bad for Prejean (at least, before she started her unflattering Hot Conservative Martyr PR tour), because there is no way this would have been a story, much less the feeding frenzy that it became, if it had been some dude or a woman without readily available bikini pictures.

The national obsession with Prejean's breasts, both in the coverage of her boob job and TMZ's posting topless pictures that had been taken of Prejean years earlier, is creepy and ultimately irrelevant. Calling someone a slut or a "dumb bitch," as pageant judge Perez Hilton did, or pointing out that she has fake breasts, isn't the same as explaining why you disagree with her, although it is much easier.

If pictures of Prejean secretly getting married to a woman turn up, that would be a different story. Until that happens, those who don't share Prejean's views should keep in mind that it's possible to disagree with a woman's ideas without mentioning her breasts.*

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.