Some Conservative Media Use Miss USA For Immigrant Attacks

A year after gay marriage became the controversy at the 2009 Miss USA pageant, immigration is now the sticking point following Sunday night's 2010 pageant.

When a contestant who spoke in favor of the controversial Arizona anti-immigration law, Miss Oklahoma Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, came in second and the winner, Miss Michigan Rima Fakih, became the first Arab-American to win the crown, the doors opened for right-wingers to pounce on the event.

ThinkProgress.org tallied some of the conservative media who used the pageant outcome to take shots at winner Fakih and turn the immigration question into some kind of issue.

Among its findings: Conservative radio host Debbie Schlussel describing Fakih's win resulting from a “politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate” in America and calling her a “Lebanese Muslim Hezbollah supporter with relatives who are top terrorists.”

It appears nothing is too far-fetched for them to grab on to.