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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
She did the crime...She already did the average length of time served on a 45 day sentence for ALL prisoners in the LA County Jail system...which is 10 % off the length of sentence. The is because LA jails are under a Federal order to eliminate overcrowding so they routinely release non violet offenders early. In the case of Paris, that would be 4 days...and Judge Sauer would not be able to do anything about it. You watch...she will get an early release also, just like everybody else with similar violations of probation in the LA County system. And it won't be special treatment.
I have never wanted to see anyone go to jail so badly in my life.
I have no doubt that Paris Hilton deserves her prison sentence for endangering others' lives by driving drunk and on a suspended license, and that her emotional "thin skin" is a result of her being coddled endlessly by her vapid family. Assuming she actually survives her prison excursion, she will probably be a better person because of it.
But I cannot help feel a twinge of sympathy for a woman who was told that she was being released from jail, albeit provisionally, only to be sent right back in without having done anything else wrong.
It is kind of hard to laugh at a person like that- at least while they are enduring the experience. Your article does so.
"All we can do is pray that one day, Paris Hilton will show mercy on us all, and go away."
Are you attempting to goad her into committing suicide?
It's not about the spectacle that she has presented to everyone.
It is about her facing real consequences for real actions that everyone else does.
She can't face the reality. We have to face her being a spoiled little brat, throwing temper tantrums and crying for her mommy.
I truly think that the jail sentence (if it is actually all the time ordered) might make a dent in that little empty head.
After all, that is what adults do-and maybe she might even grow up after all these years of aimless celebrity.
Welcome to the real world of real people. Hope you enjoy your stay.
PS: Stop dragging the family name through the mud, will you? It's bad enough when you get busted for being stupid, and I have to tell everyone that I'm not related to you, you insipid fool!
Almost. She is being used by the media to symbolize all the national angst that makes so many bucks for those who charge to see it on TV. In print, otherwise so called respectable journalists write long diatribes, dialogues, dissertations, dismissils, dish, dirt, deliberate falsehoods and sensationalisms, to cash in on that gravy train like the guy who jumped into the market to make accessories for the Pet Rock.
I can't feel totally sorry for her, in the way Elton John sang dirges for Norma Jean. Unlike Marilyn, Paris chose to be a celebrity for the attention. Norma Jean actually chose a career. Unlike Norma/Marilyn, Paris knew what she was getting into.
The great thing about all of this is that if we the people are going to use her and her foibles it could not have come at a better time or under better circumstances. This week, I suffered listening to the far right pundit talking to the moderately far right pundit on Dian Rehm's show about the abject unfairness of Scooter Libby's punishment. If anyone wanted to teach a class in how a normally sentient and sane being could hold so many contradictory beliefs simultaneously and not yet cross the line to being exposed as an obvious fraud and shill, that was the radio program to teach.
Yet, just when the neocon spin machine was pulling out all stops and puting up its best faux logic to garner sympathy for such an unsympathetic man, Paris Hilton had to go and get special treatment.
To the masses, and even, or especially, the base the Libby supporters hoped to appeal to, it was the legal equivalent of "Hey! Look at the shiny object over here!"
Hilton's sad tragedy was 9/11 to Scooter Libby's Intifada II. And like Yassir Arafat said on 9/12 "Nobody gives a shit about us now."
I can only imagine that Scooter, watching FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Spike, The Food Channel, and whatever station was showing the Stanley Cup, came to the same conclusion: "Scooter who?"
Scooter might have hoped for some last minute reprieve the day he is scheduled to walk into the graybar hotel, but I suspect that only his lawyer will be their to see him off as everyone else will be filming or watching Paris walking out of the same type of facilities.
It's ragtime, Scooter and its not your time, but time you will serve.
who only serve 10% of their sentences due to overcrowding. If she were anyone but Paris Hilton, she'd be out of jail by now.
If you despise her so much, stop watching her, writing about her, and talking about her. Yes, she's vapid, yes, she's a convicted drunk-driver, yes, she's a bit of a slut. But she doesn't seem to be a mean person, just vain, silly, and immature.
But all you other people piling on, yeah, I'd say you're mean.
This is a human being, a flawed human being, but a human nonetheless. Twenty-six is a little young to experience having the whole world hate you. Her humiliating public breakdown isn't entertainment, her being jailed isn't a joke, and this isn't a reality show.
"Are you attempting to goad her into committing suicide?"
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Well, lessee, the total dollar value of all of the FTE consumed just today on Parisite Hilton's banal little saga would probably suffice to feed every starving child in Somalia for a year,
So, yeah, that might be a value-adding proposition.
Wilson's article missed it. We want her ass in jail. Too bad if it's overcrowded. Jail sucks.
I think the writers don't need to be so pessimistic. Our culture has never been conquered by Paris. Have we? I believe that majority of the sane people, just like you and me, have never paid serious attention on Paris. It is all media generated noise for some profit-driven motive (viewership, eyeballs, etc.). I have long decided that not to take media seriously.
If the writers, as they said in this article, really want Paris to go away, then why they bothered to join the bandwagon, writing this article--which is all about Paris.
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
