What is up with the fascination with a spoiled little rich girl

[proud2BlibKansan]

who got in trouble and has to go to jail?

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was fired yesterday, people! Or maybe he quit. I don't know for sure because my news shows are covering Paris HIlton. Anyway, he is gone and will someone please explain why that is NOT more important than the blonde being dragged to jail!

Paris even makes the sports headlines. I turned on local news and heard the sports reporter say that the Phillies are in town and the last time they played the Royals was "before Paris HIlton was born". :eyes:

Even Keith Olberman led his show off with PARIS. He spent 15 minutes on Paris before he mentioned any other story. :grr:

Now on my TV I see her lawyer is standing on the street giving a press conference and people are standing behind him holding signs in support of Paris!

"Apocolypse Paris"

Obama 08
Hilton

Would someone please explain what Obama and Hilton have in common?

Is it because I don't watch American Idol? Is that why I just don't get this shit?

Other than being rich, what exactly has Paris ever done to earn her celebrity status?

Now the LA County sheriff is on my TV and he looks like he is going to have a nervous breakdown. "I have to take care of this woman because that is my responsibility. Not getting much help from anybody else let me say." And he is fucking shaking!

Robert Shapiro is on screen now saying "No one has ever heard of anybody else being treated as badly as they are treating Paris.".

Oh really, Bob? So I take it the detainees at Guatanemo are being treated better? Leonard Peltier is being treated better than Paris Hilton??

Will someone please wake me up when the insanity ends or when Paris is released, whichever comes sooner?

[jobycom]

1. I don't know, I keep thinking the story will die, but people keep starting threads about her.

And then other people kick those threads while complaining about others starting those threads...

It's a story about a celebrity. Probably the day of the Battle of Marathon some popular actor in Athens was arrestd for goat harrassment, and that story displaced the story about the Persian Army.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. This thread is not about her

It's about the fascination with her.

[jobycom]

3. Kind of like

The Iraq Invasion wasn't about oil, it was about the need for oil? :rofl:

Everyone is fully aware there are other stories more important than Paris Hilton (even Paris Hilton), but somehow this is what everyone (including you and I) is talking about, even if it is only to wonder why everyone is talking about it. Kind of like Paris Hilton in the first place. Like Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton is mostly famous for being famous, and no one really knows why everyone knows who she is.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. So what did she ever do?

Other than being rich, what is her claim to fame?

[jobycom]

7. Nothing, really. That was my point. But you and I are still talking about her. nt

[Cleita]

5. Well, when others of us do get caught with expired licenses or

driving with suspended licenses or just driving because we need to get to work without a license, it does make us sit up and wonder. Why didn't the blonde bimbo just hire a limo to get around? The rest of us would have if we could have.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. But according to Robert Shapiro,

Paris is being treated WORSE than anyone else. :eyes:

[Cleita]

9. LOL!

:rofl:

[Truthiness Inspector]

11. I think he might have a point

In the interest of not wanting to appear too lenient, one can go overboard in the other direction.

I think she deserves to be in jail. She flouted the law.

The argument, I believe, is how her treatment compares to the treatment of others in the same situation violation-wise. Her public humiliation is world-wide news, where most such cases are far more private.

As to why Paris Hilton is news: She's young, she's pretty, she has inherited wealth, and most of all: she's self-satisfied to a point that simultaneously intrigues you and disgusts you and in both cases evokes feelings of envy, subconsciously or consciously. And in "you" I mean the public at large, not you personally.

Celebrities, heirs/heiresses, etc have always been news. It will not change just because there are more pressing issues in the world. People are fascinated by other people, even on a small scale. If you don't believe that, consider petty office gossip that engulfs an entire small company. There's work to be done, deadlines to meet, but...so-and-so had an affair with the boss, the "priorities" often go by the wayside.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I have friends who have served time for DUIs who have been treated worse

Just sayin . . .

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. She's a trendsetter for empty-headedness and outrageous fashion and lifestyle spending

Ever since the Reagan-led "revolt of the haves" shifted the wealthy's income-tax burden onto poor and middle-class people's payrolls, Republican nouveaux riches and those who fantasize about emulating them have been trying to find ways to spend additional millions and billions.

They want to know, what kinds of bags is Paris Hilton carrying? Do they cost over $10,000, or only $3,000? Where did she go on her latest vacation? Did her non-Hilton hotel suite cost $25,000 a night, or only $5,000, when she could have stayed at any Hilton for free? How many millions did she pay for her houses and condos?

Other media icons from the world of fiction, such as the hideously garish Carmela Soprano, reflect similar concerns.

The Wall Street Journal's weekend "Pursuits" section, Trader Magazine, with ads for $50,000 watches and $400,000 cars, and other media outlets focus on these matters. Meanwhile, issues such as Republican opposition to raising the real minimum wage from its historic low, the billions in windfall income Paris and her ilk would get from repeal of the "death tax", and the fact that Paris Hilton is a work-averse airhead who barely got a GED, fly under the median voter's radar.

"Reagan Democrats" no longer have the sense to put two and two tegether, and realize, for instance that the handbag paris is carrying costs more than a year's work at the minimum wage.

[sam sarrha]

10. leonard was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder with 2 guys that were proved innocent of murder

i dont support Bill Clinton for NAFTA, GATT and Not Pardoning Leonard.. doest make any difference what other good he might have done.. the sin of those 3 things will send him straight to hell.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Who is Leonard?

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. Leonard Peltier

Native american activist. Google him.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Duh! I mentioned him in my OP

I was thinking that was a last name. Sorry for the confusion.

[sam sarrha]

18. the Feds tried to assinate him 2 or 3 times in prison

[sam sarrha]

17. leonard peltier.. untill 1982 it was illegal for the plains Indians to practice their religion, he

and several others were there to protect the People during the Sun Dance, some FBI were killed and the people charged were found innocent by reason of self defense, leonard was found of guilty of conspiracy to kill the FBI who were shot in self defense.

if i didn't get that correct someone correct me..

read 'Bury my heart at wounded knee'.. the history of the genocide of the native peoples

[BlooInBloo]

12. DUers happily go apeshit about whatever tripe is on tv: The View, Paris, etc.