Karel calls out Perez Hilton

[mitchtv]

http://www.inlamagazine.com/1107/columnists/karel.html




An Open Letter to a Hilton

by Charles Karel Bouley II

Dear Perez:

You don’t know me and I do not know you personally. I have occasionally read your blog, but find it far too sexist and unnecessarily vulgar for my taste. But still, I was happy for your success. You parlayed a mediocre gossip blog into a TV show for VH-1 and several other ventures. And I applaud any time an openly gay or lesbian person makes it in mainstream media. As one of the first “Queens of all Media,” as you call yourself, I delight when we make it in a business not really accepting of us in front of the camera or microphone yet.

Often I have thought you have gone over the line in terms of representing gays and lesbians in the media, but the last thing I want to do is draw a line for you. However, recently, you have done something that simply has gone too far and I now must denounce you. And I hate that. But you have sold your soul for the fame you write about—you no longer wish to be the observer, you wish to be the star. And when you cross that line, what you do publicly matters.

Recently you proudly attended the annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Now, you don’t cover politics or the White House, so I gather you attended as a guest of a magazine that had tickets. Gone were your trademark purple hair and outrageous fashions. Instead, you butched it up as best you could to fit in with all the “respectable” people, I suppose.

You sat silent while George Bush made jokes at the expense and blood of our nation. You remarked how odd it might be to run into Karl Rove. But my question is—what were you doing there? Was the salmon dinner you were eating while there are food riots around the world from this administration’s failed energy and food policies worth it? I mean, this was no stale chicken dinner.
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[madrchsod]

1. well someone finally called out this guy....

i do`t care how over the top someone is if they do it with style ,humor,and intelligence but perez has none of those qualities.

time to find another over the top to entertain the clueless

[Caoimhe]

2. I adore Karel

and he's right to point out hypocrisy when and where it exists.

:applause:

[hulklogan]

3. The only person Perez represents is himself

and I have no problem with that. Perez has always been a sellout, so why attack him for attending the correspondents dinner?

I think we sometimes go too far calling out the members of our own community when they reach a certain level of mainstream success (Perez is guilty of this too in the way he makes fun of TR Knight and his younger boyfriend). Is it jealousy?

[mitchtv]

5. Karel Jealous? I doubt it

I am pretty nuetral on this affair, But I love and reapect Karel and have little of either for Perez

[swimmernsecretsea]

4. Perez Hilton whoring himself out to get a seat at a prestigious affair? Hmmm.

When has Perez Hilton NOT whored himself out for something? The needle on his moral compass spins as fast as the Super Collider. He disgusts me. Maybe he thought he'd get a blowjob backstage from Matt Drudge or Jeff Gannon.