Sarah Palin isn’t the only former beauty queen to have gone rogue lately. Carrie Prejean, the ex-Miss California who was stripped of her title for not fulfilling contractual obligations, recently appeared on Larry King Live to promote her new book – an interview that destroyed any credibility she had in the political world after her tumultuous year.

Prejean’s ten minutes of fame started last year when she told media blogger Perez Hilton that she defined marriage to be between a man and a woman during the Miss USA pageant. Hilton then took to his blog to bash Prejean and even claimed that her answer was the reason she lost.  Her refusal to back down from Hilton’s attacks elicited sympathy from many, considering Proposition 8 passed in California, and she became an icon of freedom of speech for social conservatives.

Until it emerged that she wasn’t the squeaky clean role model she pretended to be.  First, a controversial photo of a partially nude Prejean surfaced on the web.  Then, her feud with the Miss California pageant organizers turned very ugly as a suing war ensured and she lost her crown. To top if off, bloggers found a sex tape she made for her boyfriend on the ever-handy Internet, which many speculate led to a settlement in the suing war.

But Prejean of course, didn’t want to sink back into anonymity, and following in the footsteps of her role model Sarah Palin, wrote a scathing, “tell-all” memoir titled “Still Standing”. And like other fame-chasers, she appeared on every single talk show she possibly could to promote her novel, including Larry King Live.  And on the show, she repeatedly told King that his question about why she settled with Miss California pageant organizers was “inappropriate.”  And she took off her microphone and her equipment in the middle of the interview, without any provocation from King, while continuously flashing a beauty-queen smile at the camera.

In that one interview, whatever credibility she had left after the nude pictures, the sex tape, the pageant scandal, was completely and utterly decimated.  King’s question was harmless and she could have always politely refused to answer the question instead of throwing a controlled hissy fit in the middle of an interview with a reputable journalist. Her actions in stopping the interview reveal just how self-centered she is.  Whatever Carrie Prejean wants is what Carrie Prejean gets.

And in her delusional state, Prejean is still clamoring about a liberal conspiracy, a plot to destroy her reputation, and a double standard against conservative women.  Well, it’s not a liberal media conspiracy, it’s not a plot to discredit her, and it’s not a double standard against conservative women – at least not anymore.  It’s simple self-destruction.  And what a pity too considering just how few nationally known women there are these days willing to speak out for the social right.