Sometimes, the unlikeliest Internet content can surface from the unlikeliest of online sources. Take today’s Op Ed from the Austin, TX newsroom of CreditCards.com, actually one of the more legitimate players in this field rather than a purveyor of search engine cluttering SEO content.

In pointing to upside-down SoCal big spenders such as Timothy Busfield, Heidi Montag (pictured) and Lenny Dykstra, contributor Ann Brenoff makes the very valid point that the public’s tolerance for such behavior in today’s decimated United States of Jobless Recovery America has waned. But what really caught our attention is the famous sidekick she tied the public opinion shift to.

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So Donald Trump finally noticed that Carrie Prejean was an irresponsible brat and stripped her of the Miss California crown. Prejean will be replaced by runner-up Tami Farrell. According to a statement by the Miss California pageant’s executive director Keith Lewis, Prejean was not fired for her homophobic remarks but her “contract violations, including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization.”

Last month pageant officials had complained publicly about Prejean’s failure to appear at Miss California events while making unsanctioned media appearances, and her refusal to return the pageant official’s phone calls. When Trump undermined his employees by calling Prejean’s contract violations a “misunderstanding” and allowed her to keep her crown, pageant director Shanna Moakler resigned in protest.

Previously on FBLA:
Carrie Prejean Did Fill-In on Fox and Friends
Shanna Moakler Resigns From Miss California In Protest
“Opposite Marriage” is the New “And Such As”

At Donald Trump‘s press conference yesterday- where he defended Carrie Prejean‘s stance on gay marriage and announced that, despite the revealing photos that recently surfaced, she would keep her Miss California crown- Shanna Moakler sat by and smiled politely. Because it was her job. And listening to Trump blither like an idiot and make excuses for a vapid homophobe isn’t a job Moakler wants anymore. The statement she gave to Usmagazine.com:

I cannot with a clear conscious move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it, or the contracts I signed committing myself as a youth. I want to be a role model for young woman with high hopes of pageantry, but now feel it more important to be a role model for my children. I am sorry and hope I have not let any young supporters down but wish them the best of luck in fulfilling their dreams.

Previously on FBLA:
California’s Prettiest Bigot Defends Nudie Pics
Miss California Organization Bought Miss USA Contestant Big Fake Boobs

Rabbi Rushfield Quotes Hardy: We are totally and completely in love with Rabbi Richard Rushfield and his ever-weirder recaps of American Idol. This week, he quotes Thomas Hardy’s poem Convergence of the Twain and generally makes us wonder whether he’s writing under the influence of God or scotch.

Kiss of Death: Richard Widmark, the dashing leading man of 40 films (and father-in-law of Sandy Koufax) died after a long illness. He was 93.

Clint Eastwood Canned: Clint Eastwood and Bobby Shriver have a laugh about the fact that their friend (and in Bobby’s case, brother-in-law) Arnold Schwarzenegger yanked them from the state parks commission.

“I talked to him the day we were not reappointed, or as Donald Trump would say, ‘You’re fired,’ ” Eastwood said in an interview, his gravelly impression of Schwarzenegger’s Austrian accent producing a kind of Dirty Harry-meets-the Terminator effect.

We live in a weird state.

CBS canceled Viva Laughlin after two episodes. Just because it’s on British TV doesn’t mean it good.

The BBC just bought Dragons’ Den a reality series with aspiring entrepreneurs pitching their ideas to various millionaires. See above.

Donald Trump is in talks with Reville and Fox for a daytime syndicated show. The tousle-haired millionaire will adjudicate money disputes. See above.

Bravo anoints Niki Taylor and Tyson Beckford as hosts for its new competition reality series Make Me A Supermodel. See below.

Lifetime Television has a doc.-style pilot called Club Gastronomique that focuses on

an invitation-only culinary club and its female participants who will get to meet interesting people in New York City while dining at fantastic places.

Yes, that’s right. You get to watch other people eat.

MTV offers a new reality series–Pageant Place–Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA will room together for a year in an NYC apartment. Donald Trump will stop by, hoping to catch the girls in their underwear.

HGTV has The Fixer, with contractor Peter Marr in charge, will help homeowners who’ve had sloppy work done by their old contractors, their brothers-in-law or some guy with a truck.

NBC gives us Criss Angel and Uri Geller searching for the next great fake, er, mentalist. FBLA thinks this would be a really great road-trip movie, with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

CMT’s new makeover reality series, I Want to Look Like a High School Cheerleader Again fails to answer the question:

Good God, why?

Donald Trump is teaming up with Fox to remake Ladette to Lady aka Lady or a Tramp where party girls sent to charm school. Will Rosie sneak into a casting sesssion?

Why not a male version called Tramp or Trump? Oh wait, that’s the same thing.

Fire in the Hollywood Hills.

Quinceanera might become a series.

Mia Farrow doesn’t seem too worried about starring in E.T.: Back on Planet Earth or any other Spielburg opus.

John Travolta is ready to move back to the mothership, if global warming gets worse.

Courtney Love cares only that her self-esteem is limitless and intact.

The LA Times might think Donald Trump is a figure of fun, but wait til he’s the boss. Or some other rich guy takes over.

Britney and Kevin are finally split up.

Persecution of Christians goes on–Chris Sligh booted from American Idol.

The LA Times should get an online game–Be An Editor–just like Seventeen.

Miss America dumped by CMT. Second Life, anyone?

It’s fitting that in an e-mail describing the continuing selling-out of the LAT, ed David Hiller invokes an old hair color ad:

Folks,

The Los Angeles Times is making an appearance on this
Sunday’s episode of The Apprentice Los Angeles (10
p.m. on NBC).

In the show, the contestant teams compete to create
the best advertising preprint insert for distribution
in our Sunday paper (the winner will be in this
Sunday). I’m told there’s a scene with Donald Trump
and his daughter at our Olympic Plant as they’re
launching the competition.

Nice, and natural, that when people think of reaching
consumers in Southern California, they turn to only
one place — to us. Btw, if you’re curious, the Trump
people approached us and we get this nice TV exposure
for free.

Also, this is a good reminder to all the viewers,
including our current and potential advertisers, about
the great preprints they can find in the paper. As
you know, that’s a big and growing part of our
business.

If you watch, I hope you enjoy it.

David

Earlier: Trump Wannabes To Create LA Times Supplement

A reader writes about last night’s Apprentice:

Donald Trump made a really strong stand against the words “white trash” being used last night on The Apprentice. He did not give the potential apprentice a chance to explain why he used the word “white trash” on himself. Donald Trump showed his disgust and contempt for the word and booted the contestant off the show as soon as that word came out of his mouth. The Apprentice “tent city” has gone to a whole new modern level. At the start of the show Arrow ended up in tent city the first two task, Arrow didn’t like living like a “third world” country, that they work themselves into the mansion. Kinetic was too comfortable in the mansion, and now they have fallen apart in the tent. Donald Trump is on to something with the have’s and the have not’s.

Now, if we could just get the word classy banned, we’d be all set. Remember:
When the going gets tough, the tough get a comb-over.