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Saturday, June 9, 2007 12:00 AM

Paris isn't free -- and neither are we

Paris Hilton's strange celebrity hits a new nadir after Friday's chaotic perp walk. Will we ever be free from her now?
By Heather Havrilesky and Rebecca Traister

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  • Sunday, June 10, 2007 07:55 PM

    Hmmm..

    blithely bobbing above the law...working the system to her advantage...look, I'm not saying its not wrong. In fact, in just recent history a wealthy man bobbed blithely above the law as he bought his way out of college, skipped out on the air force, and weaseled his way into not one, but two terms of a presidency.

    My only question is: how can it possibly surprise us that a) Paris gets away with it or b) she gets the attention she does because of it?

    The only irony is that the fools who called complaining about her probably voted for the idiot king both in 00 and in 04...

    —doglady Read doglady's other letters

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