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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Denouncing DUI is one thing,
but Havrilesky and Traister's brand of derision reads more like the zealous rants of fanatical fundamentalists rather than two reporters' opinions regarding drinking and driving.
Thou shalt not be rich, famous, young, and beautiful...
else face the lash of spiteful, sadistic, editorial critique.
; )
To those of you who want to blame things on Bush...think about Clinton...he was and is a leader in inmorality....and to think people are considering putting him and his clueless wife back in the white house for another four years...To the person who mentioned Martha, Scotter Libby and the non whites that are treated unfairly..did you happen to notice that all the people you named are WHITE!!! oh Yeah...the non blacks are treated so unfair..life is not fair...a lady gets 210 days for killing her husband..a young man got 10 years for being involved in a robbery...because he is not RICH enough to afford a good lawyer...and PARIS got 45 days for putting hundreds of peoples life at stake...but you know IF... LIFE WAS FAIR....JESUS WOULD NOT HAVE DIED ON A CROSS FOR OUR SINS...what this country needs to do is GET SOME JESUS..then and only then will things get better for this country that was founded with GOD at the forefront..
When they sent her back after releasing her, I must admit I felt just a little bad for her. To have freedom snatched away like that is pretty tough and rich heiress or not, that to me just didn't seem right.
The thing is, she is a convicted drunk driver and as such should be afforded only those priviledges necessary to ensure her safety in jail. That's it. If the time is two hours or six months, she needs to serve it. Apparently, from what I have read here, and heard on televison, an average person under similar circumstances would have been released after 4 days. In that case she should be released.
I am no fan of hers but for some reason I get little pleasure from seeing her pain (I know, she's never really encountered any adversity in her life so it's about time, okay, okay). Actually, there are quite a lot of people that go through life relying on inherited cash, family connections, and other priviledges that other common folk don't seem to have access to. Sometimes they manage to become President of the United States.
All this fuss over a couple of days in jail. You'd think she'd been sentenced to death, the way she's going on. What makes her think other drunk drivers who are locked up *enjoy* it? You think they don't get sad, lonely, miss their family/friends/dogs etc.? Why is her plight so much more profound than anyone else's? Just do your time, you spoiled, annoying, brainless, racist little twit. Do your time and learn from it so you never do the crime again... that's supposedly the *idea* of being sent to jail.
I don't even know what this stick insect is famous for, besides having sex on camera and spending her father's money on garbage. What a country.
"I also realised [sic] that my own outrage about Paris's antics has been fuelled [sic] by that part of me that is also attention-seeking, frivolous, lacking responsibility, lacking a sense of self."
And lacking spell-check too.
(Paraphrase) "For the first time, seeing Paris in that police cruiser, I felt compassion for her."
That's funny, because when I saw Paris in the cop car with that hideous, contorted face, I felt just the opposite.
I only wish that the press had also set their unblinking eye on Paris' idiot mother too. The two of them, puking and mewling like drowning kittens in a hail storm just because for once, just one time, in their whole pampered lives, they had to come down and deal with life just like the rest of us.
For once they couldn't curl up their noses at the prospect of suffering some inconvenience and then have a servant, or lawyer, or fixer of some kind, come to their rescue.
That's the way it is baby. It is true, the old saying, "Life is a shit sandwich and the more bread you got, the less shit you have to eat."
But no matter who you think you are, you still gotta eat some, sometime. Hubris is like that. You can only go so far before fate sends you the bill.
Come on all you Paris weepers and apologists, this isn't going to kill the kitten. She just got a little wet. She had to eat a little poop. By July no matter what, she'll be back in our faces again, bigger and more creepy than ever, with endless possibilities offered by her publicists on how she can make even more millions by doing absolutely nothing.
She'll laugh this off in less than eight weeks and be back in Vegas tooting some of the finest Peruvian flake and drinking $50 martinis and you can go on worshiping her and cheering on her demise until she gets behind the wheel of her Mercedes and kills somebody. I would rather she drove the damned thing off a cliff on the 101 and joined the pantheon of spoiled reckless idiots America craves. I might even buy a black velvet portrait of her from a roadside vendor near the scene to put next to the kitty litter box.
You write: "While the rest of us are more than passingly familiar with deprivations and things not going our way, Hilton could actually blow a fuse from what would look, to an outsider, like a mildly unpleasant experience."
Even a night in jail is more than a mildly unpleasant experience, even for those of us born lower middle class.
joebuck20, you write: "You think she'll be crying when she drops the soap in the prison shower?"
My question is how she could be anally raped by another woman?
I admit I've been sucked into the Paris Jail Vortex. It astonishes me that, like a train wreck, I can't look away. I think my issue is that I want there to be some kind of justice in the world (legal or karmic) so that Hilton must face the consequences of her behavior -- and I'm not just talking about the DUI/suspended license behavior. She sounds like an imbecile -- and here's someone who's had every opportunity to make something of herself and contribute to society and she's chosen -- this?
Is she being unfairly treated? I don't know. As MacK said she broke the law, agreed to the sentence, then TWICE was stopped doing exactly what she had promised she wouldn't do. Sister needs someone to give her some boundaries. Apparently her parents aren't capable.
Which brings me to Paris's parents. What a couple of enabling idiots those two are. Had I made of sex video that was widely distributed, flashed my privates, or for that matter, had I driven while drunk, I doubt my parents would continue to finance, nay DEFEND, my lifestyle. But then, I'm just a middle class schlub.
Being rich is a hard karma, and it's reassuring that we have to pay, one way or the other. Paris can be shielded from a lot of unpleasant things, but apparently she can't be shielded from herself. Hope she grows up, then maybe she'll take herself out of the limelight (this will probably happen when GWB admits he's been the worst president ever.)
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