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Forget Paris

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Hilton, Schmilton, speaking of let-them-eat-cakers who got a get out of jail (mostly) free card, Bush just let that momser Libby off the hook.

Yes, I know, we’re, what: surprised by this? But really, you know, talk about thwarted schadenfreude. Can we at least all start cracking terrible jokes about his sexuality? Here, I’ll start: something or other uh-oh Scooter scooted, better hide the the deer and the bears. Something. eh, I can’t be bothered.

Goddam. I wonder how many of the people who were gloating over the celebutante who got hers (poor lambkins, now she’s comforting herself with a multimillion dollar summer house in Hawaii, apparently) even know who the hell Libby is? Or why this matters?

Oh well. I love right now, I really do. “Why, no, the peasants didn’t get any more bread, and the Revolution is a no-go. But check it: we totally made Marie cry. Schweet.”

(x-posted at fetch me my axe)

30 thoughts on Forget Paris

  1. I know this isn’t really the subject of your post, but am I the only one who doesn’t really dislike Paris Hilton? Don’t get me wrong–I have no tolerance for drunk driving. But that’s not really what any of this is about, is it? From the few comments I’ve heard from her here and there, she seems to be to be perfectly self-aware and playing all of this quite self-consciously and shrewdly. She seems pretty bright, at least for a celebrity, and that makes me like her. And I don’t really find her all that physically attractive (though I do think she has intelligent eyes), so I don’t think that’s even part of it. And besides, she was on an episode of Veronica Mars, and played her part, basically a parody of her public persona (more evidence that she’s fully aware of what she’s doing and playing her role in the media more or less ironically), quite well.

    But, more on point, your observation that few of the people humping the air with glee over Hilton’s imprisonment probably even know who Libby is is spot-on.

  2. Nothing really about the post, as it says it all, but I’m really glad BD is posting here. And this:

    “Why, no, the peasants didn’t get any more bread, and the Revolution is a no-go. But check it: we totally made Marie cry. Schweet.”

    Rocks. 8^D

  3. Personally, I just–she seems like a vapid and thoroughly unlikeable person, but mostly I just really resent that I even know who she *is.*

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  6. I don’t dislike Paris. And I don’t even feel bad about how much/little of a sentence she received. She didn’t get any less than anyone in my po-dunk little town would have received for the same thing, probably even more than they would have received.

    I did see a poll out already and 60% disagreed with Bush’s decision.

  7. hey lookie up there: case in point. apparently, someone or something pingbacked on a celebrity site: more news about (yes: i’m saying it again: Jehovah! Jehovah! Paris!!) PARIS HILTON.

    which was totally the point.

    yay! yay.

  8. I read this earlier today and thought about the Paris Hilton link right away. All the people who were so pissed about Paris Hilton getting sent home early will start exclaiming their outrage about this as soon as… oh yeah, they won’t, ever, because they didn’t really give a shit about someone using their influence to flout the law of the land so much as they did want to see a YouTube video of her cavity search.

    I think that Paris Hilton got a fair sentence, in the end, but the people who think her getting sent back to jail somehow means that the system works are fooling themselves because: look at Libby. He was the fall guy anyway, and now even HE won’t spend a day in jail, so there’s not even the SEMBLENCE of justice being served. It’s fucked, I tell you, fucked.

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  11. Paris Hilton is a flapper, whose antics will seem quaint in 20 years when we all have our personal porn videos posted on our myspace pages. Last I checked, she never lied about a national security matter to a grand jury. Another plus!

  12. Libby got his sentenced commuted (not a pardon!) because he had to have had something on the Bush people. Because this whole “the sentence is excessive!” bit would have just a wee bit more credence if you kinda let the appeals court have a crack at the verdict to see if it was excessive.

    Plus, it’s a slap to Patrick Fitzgerald, and any other prosecutor who comes down the pike: you try putting any of us in jail, we’ll fuck you.

    I don’t think Paris got an unfair sentence (I mean, 45 days for driving after your license was revoked for drunk fucking driving is nothing), but the tenor of most of the coverage about it was just fucking distasteful, as if being a woman who has sex was a crime in and of itself.

  13. Because this whole “the sentence is excessive!” bit would have just a wee bit more credence if you kinda let the appeals court have a crack at the verdict to see if it was excessive.

    I’m sure it’s deeply shocking, zuzu, but the DOJ manual actually addresses this! I, for one, will have to fetch my smelling salts.

    A commutation of sentence reduces the period of incarceration; it does not imply forgiveness of the underlying offense, but simply remits a portion of the punishment. It has no effect upon the underlying conviction and does not necessarily reflect upon the fairness of the sentence originally imposed. Requests for commutation generally are not accepted unless and until a person has begun serving that sentence. Nor are commutation requests generally accepted from persons who are presently challenging their convictions or sentences through appeal or other court proceeding.

  15. Paris Hilton actively encourages young girls to act stupid because it’s “cute” and boys will “like them more.”

    No, I don’t like Paris Hilton. And I likely never will.

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  18. Of course, the worst part about all of this is how, yet again, the Dem. leadership cannot manage to spin well and enable the GOoPers to come up smelling like roses.

    You’d think Sen. Reid might make some comments about the President being soft on crime by commuting the sentance of a convicted criminal, etc. But no … Sen. Reid makes some comments about the President overstepping his bounds in protecting someone from his administration, which comments immediately set up the GOP to make some spin about how the President is a tough leader who sticks his neck out to protect his friends and hence will stick his neck out to protect our country, etc.

    A key part of leadership is communicating to people where you want to lead them. OTOH, the Dem. leadership couldn’t even manage to sell a timeline to disengage from an unpopular war (when all they had to do was point, pace Bush & CO, there was nothing at all unprecidented about for what the Dems. were asking … indeed, everybody gets timelines to do their jobs or else funding gets yanked … why should the President, of whom we the people are the boss, be treated any differently by our reps. in Congress than our bosses treat us?) because they failed to engage us (although in fairness to the Dems. that time around, Dem. leaders may very well have been spinning well, but the media conveniently only reportedBushCO spin … this time, however, the media’s been reporting what the Dems. are saying, so you can’t blame them) in language to which we could relate, thus allowing Bush & CO to spin things their way. Why hasn’t the Dem. “leadership” learned the importance of communicating?

  19. well, I just got an email from Howard Dean, sputtering about what an outrage this is. The solution: send the DNC more money, so they can win and avoid such future travesties. surprise.

  20. Requests for commutation generally are not accepted

    Okay, accepted by whom? in this case. I mean, i have a feeling this Prezdint doesn’t think he made a -request-, you know. Can that be overridden?

  21. evil fizz, pass the smelling salts.

    I loathe Paris Hilton and, like BD, loathe the fact I know who she is. This is only the second time I’ve written her name. The first time was on my “blogue” because she happened to be the CNN poll of the day.

  25. No, the harm that Miss Hilton does is that she makes girls believe that they can freely express their sexual desires, as men do, and has Hollywood men do to the max, without getting punished (much). Because we know from reading this blog that other girls who flirt with boys, wear provocative clothes, drink too much at parties, and don’t ask anyone’s permission to have what they consider fun end up dead in dumpsters with everyone saying they had it coming. Miss Hilton angers people because she normally does not face such consequences, and many determined sexists, persons who have internalized sexual shame, and jealous people who wish they could do the same thing, think there should be consequences. The problem with her as a role model is that most young women don’t have a ton of money, cadre of body guards, lawyers and publicists to patch things up when they get too out of hand. Please tell me what Miss Hilton has done that Keith Richards, Rudy Gulliani, or Donald Trump has not done besides having a vagina while doing it.

  26. Jeff Lomonaco called it a couple weeks ago in an op-ed submitted to and rejected by the L.A. Times. The suspected reasoning for the commutation is both compelling and stomach-turning.

  27. No, the harm that Miss Hilton does is that she makes girls believe that they can freely express their sexual desires, as men do, and has Hollywood men do to the max, without getting punished (much).

    I think that’s part of it, but I dislike her more because she’s a racist, homophobic, horrible person who mocks poor people and abuses women and “lesser” people.

  28. Yeah, Jill, but that’s not why MOST people don’t like her and wish her harm (not that I think you do). And again, see the list of the guys I mentioned above. Haven’t seen any of them with a pink triangle pin, marching on Selma, supporting domestic violence victims, or agitating for social justice so recently. Maybe they are a tad more discrete about it sometimes (except when they aren’t).

  29. But at least Keith Richards, Donald Trump, and Rudy Giuliani have done SOMEthing besides be horribly distasteful people. Paris Hilton is literally famous in part for being stupid–that was the whole shtick behind The Simple Life. And it’s not stupid like low IQ, it’s like totally uninterested in learning anything about anything at all.

    Plus to my knowledge Richards et al. have never made headlines for actively laughing at homeless people. I may be mistaken, and if I am do let me know, but–seriously! She mocks homeless people!

  30. Well, as compared to Giuliani’s record on homelessness, mocking is looking pretty good:

    “The Thanksgiving street sweeps represented the most visible part of the Giuliani administration’s latest crackdown on the homeless. More far-reaching are its efforts to deny shelter to people who violate public-assistance regulations. Its new rules were supposed to go into effect Jan. 1, but have been held up by three separate lawsuits. Hearings on the lawsuits were held early this month, and decisions are expected soon. ”

    From an article last year. Just google Giuliani and homelessness. Given the choice, if you care about street people you’d rather put Paris in charge because she might just get bored and go to a club and let someone else run it instead of actively trying to hurt people. As far as I know you are right about Richards, but aside from not flapping his mouth, he and Paris are equal on the homelessness front.

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