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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Garry:
Fuelled and Realised are both acceptable spellings for those words, so no need to insult people over it.
Okay, back on topic:
What a farce this all is. I live in the area and was thus subject to the drone of helicopters beginning at an ungodly early hour. I have sympathy for Ms. Hilton insofar as I have sympathy for anyone who goes to jail. I think the judge is being an ass but a lot of judges are asses and a lot of folks in questionable mental and physical health go to jail and do their time without mercy from the likes of Sheriff Baca.
Ms. Hilton has grown up in such rarified air that she hasn't been required to grow the same outer "skin" nor inner strength to muster in uncomfortable (let alone horrible) situations. It's a sad situation. I'd love to send her some books to read while she's in there (longer than is really fair considering what normally happens). I hope during her hour out of solitary she is able to meet some other folks in there who are just as freaked or surprised or just depressed as hell to find themselves in there - good people she can talk to. She might learn a thing or two about the rest of the world.
This woman doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. She's a "christian" and the jail is the lion. And we're the decadent spectators who can't tear our eyes away. Scary.
...that one day, Paris Hilton will show mercy on us all, and go away."
Nope. Doesn't work like that. You have to ignore her first.
J.C., I don't hate Paris Hilton "for her sexual freedom". Her "sexual freedom" is another word for lack of self respect, and I feel badly that she thinks she has to have boring sex (she answers the phone or something in the middle of it, doesn't she?) with some asshole who would tape and distribute it, but I'm certainly NOT jealous of her sexual freedom.
I'm free to have sex with whoever I want to also.
I don't "hate" Paris Hilton. What I hate is what Heather and Rebecca are talking about - that our society is at a point where someone completely devoid of any native talent (or not displaying any) and completely divorced from the reality that most of us live every day, and lacking any drive to add one positive thing to the world nor any glimmer of recognition that the rest of us exist, can capture our attention while things that really matter (Romney thinks the inspectors weren't in Iraq? Cheney directed the wiretapping thing? Our judiciary is being stacked with neocon fundamentalists who threaten our voting rights? People are dying by the millions in Africa?) go ignored.
Paris Hilton is a symptom of the death of any real news media in the U.S., a seriously ominous sign regarding the state of our Democracy at its core. The rich/poor thing is interesting, but people aren't using this as a launching point to improve the situation (why not solve the deplorable conditions instead of avoiding putting "soft" rich people in there?).
It's a frightening symptom of the deteriorating state of discourse, knowledge, and engagement in things that really matter to our way of life. It doesn't portend well for the election next year that the lies and misrepresentations of our would-be leaders go unchallenged and lives around the planet go unsaved while we jaw on about the "plight" this poor, foolish woman. Will we be voting for the best media image next November, or the best candidate, and how will we know?
Do the writers and editors of Salon not realize they have a choice?
Look, they're in this business to make money. And right now they're able to make a little bit off Paris.
Plus, Rebecca and Heather to get put this byline on their resumes. It's important for a professional cultural critic to have written something ironically and cleverly hateful about Paris Hilton.
That's like money in the bank, too.
They've got to get their payoff before the public gets bored and turns on somebody else.
I wonder if her sexy vacant persona isn't a coverup for Asperger's or something in the autism spectrum. I did that when I was in high school. I found out that if you're attractive enough, people will overlook a lack of social skills. Attractiveness can be a social skill in and of itself.
That could explain her remarkable cluelessness, her astounding lack of social awareness, and it would also explain why so many people enjoy bullying her verbally in public.
It could also explain why Sheriff Baca is so relentlessly adamant that she has a serious problem that Lynwood wasn't equipped to deal with.
Her meltdown seems severe enough to be autistic rage.
I wonder what's really going behind the scenes.
I'm betting on Tourette's, since she seems to spew out "nigger" and "bitch" a lot.
she is literally crumbling into nothing, mascara all bleeding, for our sins
Why won't Salon say that its pages are a "Paris free zone"? I bet you won't get a single complaint. I'll bet you get a Webby.
I don't have a TV, I don't read the tabloids, I don't gossip, and I don't care about Paris Hilton. The only place I find out about her is here, in Salon. I don't always click on Paris-related articles, either. But when I do it is almost always with the hope that THIS time the founder or editor or just good 'ol Heather is declaring, "I'm sorry I went there, and I promise never to do so again."
Surely you don't need to cover the antics of Paris Hilton - it can't be that your audience demands it. Click through is not necessarily a reflection of what people want, demand or prefer - Salon MUST know this by now. Yeah, I clicked on the article - I would have also clicked on: Do Mormons Haver Better Sex? Romney Speaks" and "Greg Brady, Fallen American Icon of Boyish Innocence, On Having Sex With Every Female on "The Brady Bunch" (Even Alice!" and even "Hilary's plastic surgeon reveals all". I have a tolerance for fluff. But then again, I know you wouldn't be forcefeeding me THESE stories and their variants and offshoots for the next 5 years. God knows why you do so with Hilton.
Just put the camera down. Don't write about her. Take the attention away. We really, really, really don't care. And though you say the same, the amount of virtual ink makes methink thou doth protest to much. You MUST care - why else are we forced to stumble on your Paris Hilton stories every couple of weeks.
I am declaring my life a Paris HIlton-free zone. If she is mentioned in conversation I will not react; I may yawn, I may change the topic, I may drift away. Never again will I click through an article with her name or likeness featured. I will not buy a magazine in which she is present - I will scan the pages first, and if she is present, I will write the editors that I regret I can no longer buy their magazine unil they, like me, are Paris-free.
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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