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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I would happily watch most of these people die. No, all of them.
Just what IS bigot rehab like? Repeated viewings of Philadelphia, Gentleman's Agreement and In the Heat of the Night?
I know when *I* get drunk I do lots of silly things -- but suddenly developing a desire to hop on IM and hit on under aged employees is not one of them. Am I unusual in this?
What WOULD be the euphamism for Faggot? "F-word" is already taken.
How nice of Clarissa to explain it all. When she knows nothing.
Really, an ad hominim attack? An instant analysis of who I am and what I do? Seriously, you are clearly outclassed here. This is discussion at a higher level. Discussion where you actually have to say something. The other stuff belongs in the talkback columns on "Ain't It Cool News."
Clarissa's "frenching" also is a reminder that people quite often hate in others what they hate in themselves. Which might explain a lot of this celebrity nonsense. Having raised people like Mel Gibson and Britney Spears high on the celebrity pedestal, removing all imperfections from their visages, it must anger celebrity syncophants to see that these idols are as flawed, racist, and dissolute as they are.
All this was said, with much better and elegant language than I can muster, in the book "Intimate Strangers: The Process of Celebrity" by Richard Schickel. He also touched on assassins, both of celebrities and Presidents, in his exploration of what this celebrity nonsense is all about.
...next time wipe the spittle off your screen and run the spell-check so when you use a big word such as "sycophant" you don't look like a fucking retard for misspelling it midstream...stick to your weekly Heather H. ranting next time, because it's just hilarious to see someone bitch every week about how poorly Heather H. writes.
(We know she does, but it says even more about you that you find it necessary to read her every week then offer up an equally facile commentary about a bad writer who writes about bad television.)
That the people who seem to scream the loudest about bad spelling are more often than not the same people who want everyone else to work for free in poor rural counties teaching poor kids to spell. I admit it, I spell poorly. Sorry to short circuit your rage but I am neither black nor poor nor rural. Find something else about me to hate. Thanks.
Speaking as a non American I have always been fascinated by the US culture's treatment of public celebrity sinners. I've come to the conclusion it may have a lot to do with the influence of the puritans who founded some of your early colonies. Here in Australia where most of our early settlement was by convicts we have quite a different attitude to public lapses. Here we just snigger at their stupidity for getting caught.
It seems in the US no matter how gross and obvious a mess I've made of my life, how bad I've acted and how low I've sunk as long as I go and sit on Oprah's couch and talk about how I was abused as a child or fell into drug abuse because of the pressures of my celebrity life I will be redeemed. I imagine we'll be seeing Mel sitting with Oprah or Barbara before long spilling all. "My hating jews grew from the fact that my father was away from home a lot when I was a kid, Oprah I realise now this is wrong, wrong I tell you!" Not only will Mel be redeemed he will get a new role as a spokesperson against antisemitism.
God I'd love to hear somebody come out and say when Barbara askes them why they took drugs? "Oh Barbara I took them because they made me feel good and I had a lot of fun unfortunatley I went too far because I could afford too."
The whole checking into rehab seems to be in some way saying that being an idiot/slag/racist/homophobe is somehow the same as being addicted to alcohol or other drugs and just as uncontrollable without professional treatment.
I'm not saying people shouldn't get a second chance but when its done with a view to save someones bankability as a celebrity please!?
David Edler
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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