Letters to the Editor
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Just who's "addicted" again?
Here's a news flash for Katie Couric. Devoting an entire CBS News segment to some pampered over-hyped party girl's careless and irresponsible behavior just might be a good part of the reason why CBS Evening News is bringing up the rear in the ratings race. To suggest that someone of Lohan's ilk needs sympathy is revolting enough for me to turn the channel. This spoiled brat isn't "suffering" from a form of sickness. She's acting clueless and irresponsible because she doesn't have to be held accountable for failing to address a weakness. I could care less if Lohan blows every penny she's ever "earned" up her nose. Easy come, easy go when one plays that game, but there's absolutely no excuse for another overpaid celeb like Couric carrying the latest bimbo screwup's water.
Wanna feel sorry for somebody? Try Hurricane Katrina survivors that live day-in and day-out wondering if they will ever someday be able to live in a real home again instead of some trailer or even a school cafeteria. Those people are victims. The 8 year old girl having to take 12 different medications while having to face an organ transplant due to her mother's drug use while pregnant is a victim. Someone just happening to be in the errant path of the boozed up and coked up Lohan's out of control car could certainly have the misfortune of being a victim. Victims often are dealt thier fate without having any choice in choosing that fate. Lohan has had a choice, and the second she got behind the wheel of her car after her usual nightclub hopping she selfishly put herself above the safety of anyone and everyone in the vicinity.
I never thought I'd ever even be tempted to say it about another human being but I think it's time Lohan be checked into a different kind of facility for treatmant. I believe it's called Guantanamo.
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No, I won't take responsibility for this one
But when we're done batting these women around like mice who've become too exhausted and weak to hold our feline attention any longer, they will be left with nothing but bad chemical dependencies and a yawning, insatiable need to recapture our imagination, since we've taught them that it's our interest that gives them value.
I take no pleasure in LL addictions or arrests - she's too pathetic and I do feel sorry for her. I hope she recovers but frankly, I'm not losing sleep over any of it. And I'm not taking responsibility for the fact that she used the media and the public to advance her "celebrity". The fact that she was too young and too stupid to realize that it was all a fraud that was going to blow up in her face is not something I feel any guilt for. I didn't worship her before (but boy, wasn't she cute back in the Parent Trap days?): I didn't put her on that pedestal and I won't take the blame for knocking her off. She, and her addiction, did it all herself.
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Not inclined to sympathize...
...after reading on MSN.com that when she was stopped by police, she tried to say that she wasn't driving, the "black kid" was. That's just despicable.
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I'd have a lot more sympathy....
If Couric had shown Elizabeth Edwards and her cancer more sympathy than this pampered train wreck celebrity.
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Give me a break.
Wah, wah. She had a bad childhood. She had shitty parents. So did 75% of the country. And I don't see THEM toting around ten Birkin bags, driving a Mercedes SUV, and carrying $200K worth of jewelry around in a knapsack.
Do I feel compassion for her? No. She's been given more opportunities and more free passes than anyone of us would get.
Let her wrap her pampered, spoiled, coke-addled Marc Jacobs-clad self around a tree tomorrow. And she can take Katie "Walter Cronkite is rolling in his grave right now" Couric with her.
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If You Can't Take the Heat...
Dear Rebecca,
For Katie Couric to hold the public responsible for consuming Lindsay's fall from grace is to shift blame away from the cottage industry of "journalists" that exploit her travails every chance they get for the sake of big page turns and high circulations. The simple fact is Lindsay and the rest of her hard-partying ilk can easily avoid the situations they find themselves in on a regular basis. How you might ask? Stop living in La La Land for Godsakes. We don't see Julia Stiles constantly getting into trouble. Why? She spends most of her time in New York. Brad, Angelina? How about Namibia? The point I'm trying to make is that there has to be some level of personal responsibility and I have little sympathy for tabloid fixtures that constantly put themselves in the way of paparazzi. Sure, they're followed much of the time, but guess what? They and their publicists use the attention to generate headlines that are favorable to them. And when they're not, we're supposed to feel sorry for them? Every celebrity and their handlers know fame is a two-way street. Lindsay put herself in this situation. And yes, I'll agree that when she was under 18, she suffered from bad parenting. Dina and Michael couldn't stay away from a TV camera if they tried. But we send people to war at 18 so I think now that Lindsay's of legal drinking age, we can stop siding with the poor little girl Katie Couric would like to take hold of and give a great big hug and enact a strict regimen of tough love. That's what is going to benefit her in the long run. She's an adult and if she can't start acting like one, she'll have to learn the hard way. Do the crime, do the time. So please, spare us the sympathy card.
From a fellow "entertainment journalist"
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Empathy? Yes. Sympathy? Not so much, in fact, no.
And mscatfu posted: "...after reading on MSN.com that when she was stopped by police, she tried to say that she wasn't driving, the "black kid" was. That's just despicable."
Yes, indeed, mscatfu, and you know Lohan may, to save what's left of her poor over-tanned face, claim that she thought she was saying it was "the black kid" who OWNED the car, that she thought she was being asked by the police whose car it was in which she was behind the wheel.
Saying "the black kid" - why? Drunk or sober, that is...well, actually, it's quite a common choice of phrase. "The black kid." "The black man." "The black guy." "The black boy."
I'd guess she didn't much like being identified by her color when Greasy Bear called her "firecrotch, as Paris Hilton stood laughing beside him as he said it, if I didn't know that another thing to which Lohan is hooked is any reference which keeps her in the public eye. Because, as they say in Baltimore, she's just not right.
As for Katie Coric - gah. Persia pointed out Coric's hypocrisy regarding Elizabeth Edwards as compared to Coric's pretty little speech about Lohan, a speech in which I think Coric was really referring to her own predicament at CBS. Despicable was how Coric behaved towards Elizabeth Edwards, under the guise of "hard-hitting journalism."
Oh, lord, why do I care? Probably because it gives me a brief reprieve from Cheney/Bush and the horrors inflicted in our name, and who doesn't enjoy a bit of schadenfreude every now and then, given that Lohan hasn't killed anyone, yet.