All my feelings of the Paris Hilton story has changed...again: Media is having a Seizure

[MadBadger]

Yesterday I thought this was a semi news worthy story because it showed the injustices with rich people getting special treatment. Now though, the media has indeed turned this into another circus. Breaking news on CNN, Faux, and MSNBC. I dont know if Im about to pull a Paris and go Insane because of all the uneccessary coverage, or if Im going to choke on the venom that is forming in my mouth towards this woman.

[NightWatcher]

1. I was on the fence about this, but after seeing how she is being used

I love her and hope that she walks and/or sues LA for harassment or overzealous prosecution. This back and forth for a dui and probation violation is a joke.

Me thinks this is a foulup on the scale of OJ. LAPD scares me.

Liberate Paris :rofl:

Me also thinks that this is a HUGE distraction- look out Iran!?!

[MadBadger]

2. Well, I wouldnt go that far. Her ass belongs in jail

But the media coverage is insane. Breaking News on MSNBC, Fox News Alert on Faux, and Just In's on CNN.

[AndreaCG]

4. That's total crap

She was cited TWICE for driving with a suspended license. She blamed it on her publicist giving her bad advice. But she's a moron or arrogant for doing it a second time! You can't blame the publicist for that .

And the sherrif's department violated the judge's explicit order not to allow her to have electronic monitoring. That's UNDERZEALOUS on their part.

[King Coal]

19. THEY TRIED TO MAKE HER EAT BEANS AND GET GAS!!!!!

[mondo joe]

3. I have no particular venom for her. The problem is the system that allows

her to get away with what she does.

It's hard for me to blame anyone for doing whatever is legally in their power to not go to jail -- but I have plenty of blame for those who make it possible.

[MadBadger]

5. Wait, I just saw the CA Attorney General on C-Span 2. Has this story reached Capitol Hill?

:sarcasm:

[sandnsea]

6. Fifth and Sixth Chances

A lot of people get an unbelievable number of chances on drinking and drug arrests before they do any time. And even then, its week-end time so they can work and support their family. She was on the brink, a regular person could have gone either way in most jurisdictions.

[Cleita]

7. Is Paris Hilton a democrat?

It seems that the only rich women, who end up in jail are democrats, like Martha Stewart. I'm sorry this is why I can't get on the jail for Paris Hilton bandwagon.

[MadBadger]

8. Who the hell cares about her political leanings

You Paris Hilton defenders think of some of the shittiest reasons to defend her.

Im going to doubt she gives a damn about politics too.

[Cleita]

12. Which means she's not a Republican either.

It seems to me that a certain set of twins have committed a lot of alcohol related breaking of laws, like underage drinking and drinking with a phony ID, as well as many social blunders and I haven't seen them in jail and I haven't seen the news covering it 24/7.

So if Paris Hilton goes to jail for something that other celebrities get community service for, it ups the ante for our poorer brothers and sisters also being treated the same way without the access to lawyers and psychiatrists that rich celebrities and heirs have access to. Did Mel Gibson go to jail for drunk driving? Oh, but he's a Republican Jesus freak isn't he.

[MadBadger]

13. Paris went to jail because she drove and got caught a couple of times AFTER being caught for DWI/DUI

Not sure which one.

[Cleita]

16. They took her driver's license away from her and she

violated probation by driving without a license and that says she's a spoiled rich brat, who considers herself above the law, not a felon. As I said on another thread, picking up trash along the freeway every week for six months should be sufficient punishment. Everytime she violates probation add hours and months to her community service until she gets the picture. But putting people like her in jail whether rich or poor is a waste of taxpayer's money and not addressing the real issues of alcoholism and personal responsibility.

If anything she should be punished for stupidity. People with her money can well afford to hire limos, cars and cabs, where they can get as wasted as they want to without getting pulled over on the road and being a danger to other drivers and their passengers. It seems to me the girl belongs in rehab, something else her family can well afford.

[MadBadger]

18. I heard on MSNBC today that if she were in CT, she would get 30 days for what she did

Under mandatory sentences. So I dont agree with the argument that she was unfairly ruled against.

[Cleita]

23. Well, she wasn't in CT, she was in California, my state, and

usually we try to make the sentence fit the crime. I don't believe in this paternalistic type of judgement anyway. The judge is only a law person, who interprets the law according to the codes and delivers sentences in line with them. Jail should really be reserved for the worst among us. There are many ways to bring people in line, who flaunt the law but aren't felons, without incarcerating them. It's just so telling to me that they are throwing the book at a retard in many ways and many other celebrities, men especially, have waltzed off with paying fines and doing community service without any hard jail time.

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. I don't think she believes she is above the law.

I think she has no concept of what the law is. She's not the brightest bulb in the chandelier - I understand she did not graduate HS because it was such a bother and, face it, as rich as she is she doesn't need to work for a living so why bother with education?

That said, she HAS attempted to have a career, as a model and actress. She undoubtedly has very few real friends who will tell her the truth, but instead has sycophants and paid advisors for whom money solves everything - when she says an advisor said she could drive on her suspended license, I don't doubt she is telling the truth, because those advisors know that money can make virtually any problem go away.

She may need a good dose of reality, but nobody deserves the kind of hatred I've seen spewed here in the last few days.

[Cleita]

22. She is stupid. Someone as rich as her could afford to hire

cars, limos or cabs, but the kind of vitriol against a female with money is kind of over the top to me. The spewed the same kind of vitriol to Martha Stewart, who may be a bitch on wheels, but she certainly didn't deserve the sentence she got considering that men get away with insider trading all the time and no one sends them to prison nor has the feeding frenzy on their problems that the public had with her.

[LSK]

9. meanwhile the immigration bill did not pass cloture

Any news on it?

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00204

[MadBadger]

10. They showed immigration news earlier this morning, and this story built up to now non stop coverage

[slackmaster]

21. Roger Hedgecock (filling in for Rush Limpballs) was all over it earlier

He's ecstatic.

[malaise]

11. I'm more worried about Bushco escaping crimes than

I am about paris. When MSM pays more attention to the crimes of Bushco, I'll take them seriously.

[Cleita]

14. Yes, and if photographic evidence is correct that was posted here

today, he is drinking on our time and he's got his finger on the nukes. We should be much more worried about him.

[OHdem10]

15. Bill O'Reilly and Fox(The TV Version of National Enqujirer)

started this in their witchhunt to exact a pound of
flesh out of every Celebrity.

O"Relly goes after Judges which I believe in time will
prove dangerous. There is something McCarthyish about
siquing the people on the Jusice System just because
jyou do not agree with the "values of a state".

Today it is celebrity--tomorrow it is you.


I have no synmpathy for Hilton but as many attorneys
and the reporter from TMZ stated Paris Hilton is
the only person who would have received her initial
sentence. It is because she is Paris. That is not
justice either.

I have never seen so much envy of the rich as as at
the Fox(Enquirer Channel)

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

17. AFAIC, the media "frenzy" over this is ridiculous...

Geez, now even the BBC is covering this. Enough already. :puke: :puke:

Bread and circuses for the masses, that's all this is.

[wellstone dem]

24. This is like watching the Daily Show live

I got home from work and turned on MSNBC which had a guy pointing at a parking spot and saying this is where the police car was, and showing a tarp, "This is the tarp...." Telling us he was the most damaged by the media frenzy, but he was ok. (Never cracking a smile.) At that my 19 year old said, "can I go beat him up, I can't stand this."

[King Coal]

25. What was the poor girl's intention?

Whatever they say she did, I doubt that she meant to do it.

[spanone]

26. CNN had helicopter coverage of the police car she was riding in. Fuck me.

[Marie26]

27. It's unbelievable

Fox News covered the story for more than an hour as "Breaking News." This "breaking news" consisted of live shots of a police car parked outside Paris Hilton's house. That's it.