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PARIS HILTON PAYS FOR GEORGE BUSH’S SINS
- By Will Durst
- June 12, 2007
Poor poor Paris. Okay. Admittedly, she’s as likable as fingernails on a blackboard. Fingernails that have never been chipped in the normal pursuit of an actual day’s work AND brandishing an exclusive not-for-sale Chanel sparkle enamel sheathing a recent and impeccable French manicure. But holy moley! People have jumped on the Kick Paris When She’s Down train like there were free stacks of 100 dollar bills secreted in the seatback pockets.
Oh sure, I get the whole schadenfreude as a spectator sport. Our fascination with the train wreck of supercilious celebrity. Build them up to tear them down. It was cumulative. Year after year of exposure to her pirouetting down the runways of the world collecting obscene amounts of cash for supplying a face to smug. Perfecting the art of being famous for being famous. My theory is part of this gleeful piling on can be traced to our built up frustration with Dubyah. We’ve got blue balls for accountability and are kicking this poor poodle of a person as a Presidential proxy.
Last September she blew the illegal minimum of .08 after being caught driving erratically on what she described as a “midnight burger run.” Yeah. Right. Burger run. Redeeming her maxed out frequent burger card at the Fatburger on La Cienega I’m sure. She was fined fifteen hundred bucks, given 36 months probation and had her license suspended. Then in January, she was caught driving on that suspended license… twice. The second time clocked doing 70mph in a 35mph zone. Should have been enough right there.
The 26 year old wannabee pop star/spoiled heiress/fledgling actress or whatever the hell she is, pleaded ignorance about the whole driving with a suspended license being illegal. Apparently unfamiliar with the definition of “suspension” or like Leona Helmsley, convinced the law only applies to we little people. Either she wasn’t a good enough actress to sell the stupidity defense or ran into a judge who just didn’t like her attitude. Probably not the first time, but quite possibly the first time anybody was in a position to do something about it.
Forty-five days in prison. Reduced to 23 days which she surrendered to serve but then the sheriff released her after 3 days due to an undisclosed medical condition, which remains undisclosed. General consensus is she suffers from an allergy to icky coupled with a severe aversion to yuck. Whereupon all kinds of Hollywood hell broke out. The judge flipped out. Sent her back to jail. And much doubling over with undisguised merriment ensued. News anchors couldn’t hide their delight: “Ha ha, rich girl. Welcome to the real world.” Which they are familiar with how? Oh that’s right; by regularly reading stories based in it.
We’re guilty as well, of pasting George Bush’s face onto her emaciated frame. He is the Paris Hilton of Presidents. The two of them share the smirk and the obliviousness and the trust funders’ undying belief in their eternal impunity from culpability. If you were asked who better fit the definition… “clueless upper class twit marinated in an overwhelming sense of entitlement and never held accountable for a single thing they ever did,” would you pick Paris or George or both? Payback is a bitch. Especially proxy payback. Pardon Scooter Libby? Hell with that, Bush should pardon Paris. After all, she’s paying for his sins.
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Her original sentence was for careless driving, not dui, she just needs to learn from this and move foward. As for all you that hate Paris, you are also the People that make her so popular. you are the people that buy the magazines and products when you see her name on them so stop bashing her
526 days ago by Janice
While I can see where you are trying to draw similarities between Paris and George Bush, I don’t think it’s a correct comparison to make. In fact, I think that making such a comparison just adds to the overall problem of glossing over issues that real middle- and lower-class citizens have to deal with on a regular basis. The outrage comes not from her being spoiled and rich, but from being spoiled and rich, thinking she is above the law, and then apparently showing that the law does treat the citizen classes differently. You allude to this in the article, but blame it on another ostentatious, careless person doing something similar. Instead, why don’t you use that journalism degree and start investigating the real, deep-seeded issues of class disparity in our country? There are problems with how our legal system operates, but stories like this keep shifting attention and blame without exposing the corruptness of both elected and appointed officials.
And in response to Janice’s comment, there is nothing wrong with making someone popular and supporting them for entertainment value. However, there is a real problem when such people don’t understand that popularity does not preclude them from obeying the law. There is a clear reason as to why so many people are angry about this public debacle, and knocking down someone rich is not that reason.
525 days ago by Phil
My cynical side makes me think that with celebrities, as with politicians, appearances mean much more than reality. So let Paris serve out her full term. She’s taken as such a “role model,” for our girls and younger women. Let her play out our fantasy of justice in America even as she plays out our fantasy of carefree glamor girl.
At the same time, my humanistic side whispers, “equal justice under the law.”
I try to listen to my latter side.
522 days ago by Zach
Come on Durst. It’s easy to see you have joined the Hollywood crowd in it’s campaign against the administration. Your series of commentaries leave no doubt as to your political agenda. That’s ok. Every air-head in show business has an opinion exactly like their friends. Hate Bush. Object and you don’t get invited to the ‘best’ parties. A fate worse then death. I see you have had to stretch logic past the breaking point to postulate a connection between Paris Hilton and George W. Bush. That’s also ok. Everyone and their writers have a right to their opinion, however ludicrous it may be.
522 days ago by James E. Fish