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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:00 AM

The year in celebrity scandal

From attention-seeking celebrities to roving nut jobs with automatic weapons to the self-deluded editors of mean-spirited gossip rags, this is the year that media-savvy lunatics took over the asylum.

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  • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 09:14 AM

    I've always wondered

    Now, though if celebrities were smarter, if they really wanted some distance from the blood sucking parasites that are TMZ, Gawker and well, us they would hire these folks to go to Washington DC and submit our congresspeole and senators to this treatment. They are also public figures, they go out to dinners and do other things that celebrities do, they could start their own, what's your Congressperson doing today paper. Sure it wouldn't make the money that In Touch does, but profit wouldn't be the motive. There would be a bill on the house floor in a few short weeks stating that half this crap that paparrazi do is harrasment and should be illegal.

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