How come we get commentators like Carrie Prejean and the French get Carla Bruni? From the Daily Mail:

French First Lady Carla Bruni today launched an astonishing attack on the Pope — accusing the Catholic Church of ‘damaging’ countries like Africa with its birth control proclamations.

The Italian-born former supermodel said she was so dissatisfied with the Pontiff that she no longer practised the religion she was born into.

Her outburst, made at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, caused outrage — not only among France’s millions of Catholics, but also among those who do not believe it is the job of an unelected First Lady to criticise a world figure, least of all the Pope.

Miss Bruni said: ‘I was born Catholic, I was baptised, but in my life I feel profoundly secular.

‘I find that the controversy coming from the Pope’s message – albeit distorted by the media — is very damaging.

‘In Africa it’s often Church people who look after sick people. It’s astonishing to see the difference between the theory and the reality.’