Larry King and the Beauty Queen

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So Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California, guested on Larry King Live last night. And the results were…horribly, weirdly, painfully awkward. Just…yeah. Larry’s half-baffled/half-dismayed face in the freeze-frame below pretty much says it all.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.