Damn... We've Got Some Serious Pro-Paris Hilton DUers... Who'd A Thunk THAT ???

[WillyT]

Maybe we could get Skinner to start a special Groupie Forum, er... Group Forum.

:wtf:

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[Redstone]

2. Surprised the HELL out of me too, it did. But hey, the surprises help make

DU that much more interesting a place, yes?

Although in this case, I have to addd: por fucking qua? I simply do NOT comprehend the attention, nor indeed the fascination.

Redstone

[WillyT]

6. That's True !

:shrug:

[Ghost in the Machine]

44. I read somewhere today where she was referred to as "America's Princess Di"

I coughed up my adams apple! Comparing Paris to Princess Di is like comparing Courney Love to Mother Theresa.

[yurbud]

56. If she's princess di, our buckingham palace is a double wide trailer.

[Madspirit]

86. Mother Theresa

Yeah...a women who went into one of THE poorest cities in the entire world...Calcutta...and preached against, not just abortion but birth control. I would much rather be compared to Courtney Love than to that old hag Mother Theresa.
Lee

[Warren DeMontague]

98. .

:thumbsup:

[Warren DeMontague]

97. Yeah. I don't really like Courtney Love, who some nasty stuff about Jerry Garcia when he died..BUT..

she's far preferable as a human to Mother Theresa, who was a self-serving shill and an anti-birth control nut.

[question everything]

115. Can't be. This "title" belongs to Anna Nicole

How limited people minds are, when they cannot think beyond the obvious.

If she is admired, why does she have to be compared to anyone?

[bicentennial_baby]

120. I assume that you meant

Pour quoi? :evilgrin:

[sandnsea]

3. Pro TRUTH

And pro equal justice no matter who it is.

[question everything]

116. Agree. Olbermann had Shapiro last night

and I thought that Shapiro provided interesting point of view.

First of all, that such felony charges never merit this punishment. That she did receive a severe jail time because of her being who she is.

Second, that it is up to the Sheriff to run the jail, to determine who stays and who goes free, especially with LA notorious over crowded jails.

She should have been sent to community service: cleaning the side of the freeways, but doing this someplace in the desert, in secret, so the roads won't be crowded, and the skies not be filled with helicopters.

[NaturalHigh]

4. It kind of surprised me too.

Everyone's entitled to an opinion, though. Mine is that she's a spoiled, rich tramp who finally got in a situation she couldn't buy herself out of.

[SOS]

77. She just needs better lawyers, like Tracy Morgan's....

Tracy Morgan was convicted twice for DWI within 11 months with blood alcohol levels much higher than Hilton:

"Tracy Morgan pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge.

Morgan submitted the plea in Manhattan Criminal Court in exchange for a conditional discharge.

Judge Ellen Coin ordered Morgan to enter a doctor-supervised alcohol program, do community service to be determined later, and avoid being arrested again within the next six months. The judge also fined Morgan $1,000 and suspended his driver's license for six months.

Morgan was stopped about 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 28, 2006. Police said he smelled of alcohol and later failed a Breathalyzer test.

On Dec. 2, 2005, Morgan was arrested in Hollywood on impaired driving charges after police stopped him for speeding. Authorities there said his blood-alcohol level was 0.13 percent, over the legal limit of 0.08 percent. He leaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, fined $390 and ordered to attend an alcohol education program."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=287522...

No jail. Hilton should hire Morgan's lawyer.

[RB TexLa]

5. We also have a huge group of them ready to burn William Jefferson at the stake

you know because of ethics, ethics, ethics. :banghead:

[yurbud]

57. white chick with money, poor black guy play country club corruption game...

one of the two doesn't know their place. That must be it...

[Trajan]

7. Argumentum ad lazarum

Yeah ... she is rich ... she is snobbish .... but is that enough to hate ?

Is it that easy for someone to hate another ?

Hate shouldn't come so cheaply ....

This thread is not DU at it's finest, by any stretch ...

[Breeze54]

9. I haven't read one post here that said they hated her.

[WillyT]

10. Did I Say "Hate" ??? - I Did Not !!!

:shrug:

[Connie_Corleone]

67. That was a reply to Trajan's post that mentioned hating her.

[OneBlueSky]

52. Illigetimi non carborundum! . . . n/t

.

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Some of us hate dogpiles, special punishments, and Two Minutes' Hates

She's a rich young woman who's a bubblehead. She broke the law and ought to do her time. Fine by me.

But ...

Instead, she gets a special sentence, handwritten by the judge on a stock legal form; a media feeding frenzy; and an outpouring of spleen and bile.

And that's cool?

:shrug:

--p!

[incapsulated]

12. Look

Getting a 45 day sentance in LA for driving with a suspended license (TWICE) is not a special sentence, it is common.

What is uncommon is this spoiled bitch thinks she doesn't have to serve her time like the little people do, she is above the law because she has money. And she is Paris Hilton, Heiress.

That is why she has bile directed at her.

She is the female Bush when he was a frat boy.

Maybe one day she will be President, too.

[aquart]

13. Better than she deserved, duckie.

He was trying to save her worthless life.

As for the outpouring of spleen and bile, that may well be healthy for her, too. Most of us learn to cope with rejection in kindergarten.

[Dogmudgeon]

65. "Pain Is Good"

And life is so rigorous that we all need it. In kindergarten. In adulthood.

Well, not ME. And maybe not YOU. But certainly everyone else.

Right?

I never thought I'd see that espoused as a serious philosophy at DU. Defending the errant Ms. Hilton isn't even a blip on the screen compared to this zeitgeist.

Yes, yes, the judge was acting out of the highest concern for human life. Like a loving parent who must administer corporal punishment to make their child a better person. Good god, it's such necessary work that many parents even have to get roaring drunk first. And the worse the pain, the better! Even God approves of it. But at least they won't become worthless whores like Paris. No, they can grow up to become corporate executives or even the President!

I guess that soon we will hear that rogue cops beat the shit out of poor people (in whose name we hate Paris) to make them better people ... or that we're in Iraq to improve the place, maybe whip a little democracy on them.

Pain Is Good -- but only when giving it, and not receiving it.

It's the American Way!

--p!

[Madspirit]

89. Thank-you!...n/t

[Jed Dilligan]

71. The judge is a fucking primadonna

with a hardon for his own authority. I'm sick of attention-seeking judges creating these media circuses.

:grr:

[Madspirit]

90. Yes he is!...n/t

[Cleita]

11. Amazing that only the guys answered this so far.

*whistling*

[Justitia]

14. After seeing "skank" & "bitch" so many times, I guess we females are just laying low.

oops - forgot "tramp"

[AlCzervik]

18. he forgot "Whore!!!".

i'm sure that will be here soon.

[WillyT]

21. "He" Who ???

I've not used any of that language here, nor will I.

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

25. not you.

[incapsulated]

20. I call her that

And I'm a female.

I don't give a flip for being PC when the shoe fits.

Then again, I don't care much for verboten words that must not be uttered lest someone get their panties in a twist.

She is a spoiled bitch and acts like a 'ho.

You know, when you take off your panties and spread your legs for the cameras as you get out of cars you kind of earned the right to be called a tramp.

[WillyT]

24. I'm Sorry... But Wasn't The No Panties\Car Thingy Brittany Spears ???

I can't believe I just asked that, LOL!

:banghead:

[Justitia]

27. Yes, it was, but hey, I'm sure she thinks all cu**s look the same!

:grr:

[incapsulated]

30. lol

Actually theirs look very different.

If ordinary language upsets you this much I don't know how you get through the day.

[WillyT]

32. Whew !!! - I Was Afraid There Was Some New Pantyless Trend Hitting The 20 Somethng Crowd !!!

Sorry.

:spank:

[Dogmudgeon]

60. STOP PRESS! This just in ... Lindsey Lohan update ...

Lindsey Lohan goes pantyless!

--p!

[Breeze54]

33. Did you just contradict yourself??

:shrug:

[Justitia]

35. It's called PISSED OFF sarcasm, duh. -eom

[Breeze54]

36. OH, it is?? I thought it was POT-KETTLE-BLACK!

;)

[incapsulated]

29. She did it first

Hard to believe but it's true. And this happened with Britteny after she she started hanging out with Paris, lol.

Her, I actually have sympathy for, because it's clear the woman has lost her mind.

This is just a brat having a tantrum.

[Breeze54]

31. Word is Parris taught Brittany how to 'get' attention on

her big night out. The pantiless squad.

[bamacrat]

124. Paris did it first.

Then Britney did it with Paris...the no panties thing that is.

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[leftynyc]

61. Whore also.

Don't forget whore. I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that.

[Breeze54]

17. Ah.hem!

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

15. i am pro---this story going away.

i am neither for or against her, she did the crime, she showed up for court late which probably didn't help her case much, her mom went off on the justice system and said her daughter was being persecuted so i'm all done. I'm sure it'll go away in a week or so (please) and then she'll reintegrate into society (hah) and get on with her life.

[Quixote1818]

16. I wouldn't call myself a supporter but I think once they let her out she should have stayed out

They are kind of fucking around with her emotions. Happiness is based on expectations. For example if you tell a little kid that they are going to get a big, sweet, yummy ice-cream cone and get them all excited and anticipating it, then you go as far as putting it in his hand. THEN, just as little Jimmy is about to take his first lick, you yank the ice-cream cone away from him and say "FUCK YOU LITTLE JIMMY!" :spank:

Now, what do you think little Jimmy is going to do? :cry: Little Jimmy is going to go NUTS!!!

Personally, I think the sheriff should have stayed out of this but once he stuck his big nose in and let her out then she probably should have been left out. She deserves jail time but not to be a fucking ping pong ball between two groups flexing their muscle. They need to make up their minds as to where she is going to be and leave her there.

Then again, I think she will survive and she does have a very cushy life and will one day be a multi millionaire so she really should pull it together and grow up.

I would trade her places right now if I knew I was going to be loaded one day. BRING ON THE JAIL TIME!!!:woohoo:

[WillyT]

19. Oh I Agree... The Sherriff Really Fucked Up Here...

If I were incarcerated and the Sherriff told me I was free to go, he would not have to tell me twice.

Apparently, the Sherriff should have conferred with the judge, no?

:shrug:

[RaleighNCDUer]

39. He didn't need to. There is a federal mandate to relieve overcrowding

in that jail, so it is SOP to give inmates who can afford home monitoring, which they cover the cost of, that option if they are non-violent offenders. She fit that profile, and the sheriff acted on it as he has done in many, many similar cases, without regard to the inmate's celebrity status.

What was unusual was the judge going back and overruling him - once in the sheriff's custody, it is out of the judge's hands. It was the judge who overreached himself.

[Quixote1818]

40. You make a good point

I think the Judge felt the pressure from the public and was worried about his reputation.

[WillyT]

41. Interesting...

Apparently the system needs some fixing, because the Sherriff and the Judge had this thing blow up in their faces politically!

And I can just imagine what poor people and people of color are thinking right about now...

That in America, the Justice System is for Just Us!!!

:shrug:

[gemlake]

43. All of DU should read this post

The idea that the sheriff was giving Paris "special treatment" is ridiculous. Prisoners are released before the end of their sentence every day. They just aren't rich and famous enough to get the judge and prosecutor up in arms about it.

And no, I'm not a "Paris fan." But the behavior of many DUers today was sickening.

[Ghost in the Machine]

48. The judge denied her house arrest and ORDERED her incarcerated.

Obviously he didn't trust her being on house arrest. Didn't a big party supplies truck pull up today while the news cameras were there? Didn't she say she was supposed to have a party tonight? Just how sick was she?

She shouldn't be treated any differently than anyone else. In some most states, if you violate your probation, they lock you up for the remaining time of your probationary period, NOT just the time you got for the crime that violated you. In other words, if you have 2.5 years of probation left, you go to jail for 2.5 years. They gave you a chance... YOU blew it.... it's time to pay the piper.

[gemlake]

49. No, you're wrong about her sentence

no one in California has received as long a sentence as Paris did, for the same offense.

Why are DUers being so ignorant of the facts in this case? I don't understand it.

[Ghost in the Machine]

51. Maybe you need to go down to the L.A. County Jail and ask how many

african americans and/or hispanics are serving out the rest of the probation in jail because they violated probation.

I'm not condoning nor condemning her personally. I'm stating a fact.

FACT:

• She got arrested for some reason that put her on probation in the first place.
  
  
• She was arrested twice while on probation.
  
  
• People who violate probation normally get locked up for the remainder of their probation.

Why are some DUer's being so wilfully ignorant of the Rule of Law in this country, when it's what we've been screaming for for the past 5 or 6 years? I don't understand it either...

[gemlake]

54. Completely false

It's been reported many times that Paris' sentence was far longer than anyone in her situation in California

[Ghost in the Machine]

68. Just *you* saying I'm wrong doesn't make it so.

Where's a link to all of these reports? Sit down, breathe, don't get sucked into the hype of Parismania.

I guess facts don't phase you any.

"It's been reported many times that Paris' sentence was far longer than anyone in her situation in California"

BTW, there were also reports that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. They weren't true either, were they?

[ShaneGR]

121. You're wrong, there's two....

The sheriffs department has already stated several times her sentence was unusually harsh and they've also stated that the vast amount of non violent offenders are released from jail before serving even 10% of their time.

[Ghost in the Machine]

122. No friend, YOU'RE wrong...

What part of "The judge already fucking DENIED her request for house arrest" don't you seem to understand???????

Jesus Christ on a crotch rocket. Can't anyone read anymore? This is just as pitiful as when someone posts a thread saying "AL Gore said HE IS NOT RUNNING"... and 90 people post oh, he's running.. he's just being coy!

Take baby-steps. Start with the small words.

The
Judge
DENIED
her
request
for
house
arrest.

She had already proven a willingness to NOT FOLLOW ORDERS OF PROBATION. WTF makes anyone think she's gonna obey house arrest restrictions?

[ljm2002]

76. Got facts?

You call other DUers "ignorant of the facts in this case", yet you provide no facts to back up your assertion that Paris got a longer than usual sentence. So please, point us to your source for this information. Remember, when comparing sentences, we would want to compare against others that include all of Paris' infractions, from the original DUI, to the not living up to terms of her probation, to being cited not once, but twice for driving without a license during her probationary period, to her mouthing off in court... I'm sure the rest of us peons would never get jail time for any of that, right?

Believe it or not, I do have some empathy for her. Solitary confinement, even if meant for her own protection, is hard to deal with. I would certainly find it hard to be in a room for 23 hours a day, with no TV or other distractions. But if it forces her to deal with herself, and learn the art of self discipline, this could do her a world of good in the long run. Easy to say, of course, when it is someone else who gets to have their growth experience in the slammer!

So here's my wish for you, Paris: you are obviously either "spirited" or "out of control", take your pick: (a) If it is "spirited", then please find a way to channel that energy in more positive ways. You could, for example, join the quest to bring the poorest of Africa's people up from desperate poverty (just one example). (b) If it is "out of control", then recognize that you lack discipline in your life, and that you will have to learn to provide it for yourself, since your family clearly did not give you that important underpinning. The good news is, you can provide it for yourself. A good goal for initial practice with self discipline, would be to actually live up to any remaining legal obligations from this bout with the law, and then to (gasp) actually avoid further bouts with the law by (double gasp) the simple step of not actually breaking any laws. Give it a try, the world ain't that bad a place, especially for someone like you with money and good looks. There is so much you could do, Paris; please, do yourself a favor and find "the good Paris" before "the bad Paris" takes over forever.

[leftynyc]

63. People are refusing to see this.

They're blaming Paris Hilton for being released when that really is what usually happens in overcrowded jails.

[mondo joe]

81. Not EXACTLY. In this case, the judge ordered that she not be released to home monitoring

before she was in the custody of the Sheriff. Because of that, the Sheriff did not have the customary authority to put her on home monitoring.

I'm not saying the judge should have done that -- to the contrary, it seems he went overboard in doing so.

[ContraBass Black]

83. The Judge preempted that with an order specific to Hilton's case

That she could not move to home monitoring. The sheriff ignored the order.

[Shakespeare]

45. Considering she was planning a big party for tonight, I think her emotions are just fine.

I do NOT think she's on the verge of some kind of breakdown; I do think she's outraged to the point of tantrum-throwing that she's being forced to suffer the consequences of her actions.

A fucking party. She was going to have a big, boozy blowout to celebrate her "upgrade" to house arrest. Makes it kind of hard to feel much sympathy for her.

[proud patriot]

23. Blows the mind

:smoke:

[WillyT]

28. Hey Beautiful !!!

Any DU Gatherings in our future???

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[proud patriot]

38. Hi Handsome

I have the week of june 15 thru 22 off so I'd love to maybe plan something
for Sat.16th :beer:

[WillyT]

42. That Sounds Good To Me !!!

Man... I wonder if there's any way to get ahold of Cassandra and Karen.

I wonder how they are doing these days.

:shrug:

[proud patriot]

69. I'll see if I have any numbers for them

:hi: If it's just a small group we could BBQ at my house .
but it's a bring your own chair situation .

[WillyT]

72. Also Sounding Good To Me !!!

I think I have a collapsible chair or two I could round up.

:bounce:

[Colobo]

34. I've learned today that we are so diverse that

many people think my views about certain topis are just out there.

[Quixote1818]

37. I actually think it's a good thing

Some people are extremely empathetic while others are a little harder. Neither side is right or wrong, it's just a matter on how they are built and how their heart reacts when something happens. I find it interesting.

[nsd]

46. What I find shocking is the level of vitriol some DU posters ...

are willing to level at Paris Hilton. Where the heck is this coming from?

Sure, she's a spoiled brat, she's selfish, she's self-important -- whatever, I'll stipulate to all that. But why are some people so angry at her? It's bizarre. Reading the threads tonight, I've seen her all but accused of being responsible for the Iraq war and poverty in America and global warming. That's just ridiculous. She's a rich kid who had a stupid TV show and goes to a lot of party; she's no monster.

Some people actually seem angry at her for crying about being sent back to jail. Why?! What's wrong with that? I'd probably cry if I were being sent to jail -- even if I deserved it.

[Justitia]

47. You missed a few threads...

She WAS accused of being responsible for the Iraq war AND poverty in America. I kid you not.

I haven't seen global warming, but that could be out there too.

It's a hate-a-thon that is probably some of the most disturbing stuff I've seen on here, and I survived the '04 primary season.

I may give up on this place for a few days, it's really sickening.

[Madspirit]

111. I agree

I hate to disrupt this thread with all the usual..."Door...ass" comments I will get but I actually have thought about leaving this place over this. I haven't even seen vitriol like this at Ann Coulter's forum or any of the other Hate Sites. It is truly stunning...esp. the people laughing at her crying, comparing her to Bush and calling her a Monster. It's like what kind of Bizarro universe do you hate-mongers live in? I haven't ever seen such a huge amount of hate. It's like a Klan rally or something. It is truly stunning.

...and I haven't yet decided whether to stay or go and it will be my decision so don't take up Skinner's bandwidth people, with the "door...ass" comments. I make my own decisions.
Lee

[Warren DeMontague]

50. I don't agree with the people who say she ought to be guillotined

I guess that makes me another "Paris Hilton Fan".

[mondo joe]

78. The armchair-French-revolutionists have vivid imaginations, and a whole

lot of resentment.

[Warren DeMontague]

84. What strikes me as funny, too, is that I never saw anything like that level of rage here directed at

Ken Lay or Jeff Skilling, for instance.

Weird, huh? :shrug:

[Madspirit]

112. Thank-you!...

Ultimately, this makes most of these people seem 42,000 times worse than Paris will EVER be. I've never heard her spew bile like this.
Lee

[ToeBot]

59. It's really twisted isn't it, maybe even disturbing. n/t

[LisaL]

74. This woman has done absolutely nothing to warrant the kind

of attention. She also got a small jail sentence for violating her probation. She got time off for good behavior before she even showed up in the jail.
But the way she is crying, whining and carrying on one would think she got the death penalty. And the way some posters are carrying on in support of her one would also think she got a death penalty. It's not fair for Paris to go to jail because she is "extroverted."
She is not treated like everyone else. Hello? She was never treated like everyone else, why start now?

[TheWatcher]

106. I think if you saw some of the candid videos of her floating around the Web

You'd quite disagree.

She's a racist bigot. Absolutely poisonous.

[Madspirit]

110. Exactly

If I was in jail, then told I could leave and then stuck back in...I would definitely be crying.
Lee

[Richard Steele]

53. No matter how they came to be the way they are, they need our pity more than they deserve our scorn.

At least that's what I keep telling myself, in an attempt
to overcome my desire to slap the shit out of their stupid
asses.

So far, it's not working as well as might have been hoped for.

[yurbud]

55. when you've got enough money you can buy friends

or maybe they are just former co-stars.

[dEMOK]

58. Please -- No More of this Inane Shit!!!...

Stop posting about PH. We're at friggin' (unnecessary) war! Anyone got priorities!!!???

[Jed Dilligan]

73. The penal system and the war machine

are two tentacles of the same monster.

Unfortunately, PH-mania on DU doesn't tend to examine such subtleties. It's not as much fun as mocking her.

[earth mom]

62. I haven't been watching the news-just read about the Paris saga here on DU.

I've been of the mind that she deserves her sentance, but after waking up in the middle of the night here and watching the NBC news where they talked about Paris TWICE in the past hour, I started to feel a twinge of sympathy and thought WTF?! and realized that the manipulation by the corporate media whores is on in full force and EXACTLY why I hate them so damn much! :puke:

IMNSHO, Paris needs to grow the HELL up and do the time like Martha did.

[retread]

64. I feel sorry for her. I can't help it. I'm a "bleeding-heart liberal." n/t

[Madspirit]

118. Me too! I'm also a BLEEDING-HEART LIBERAL

...and proud of it.
Lee

[KG]

66. good idea, a place where the imus and ron paul admiration societies could meet.

[Jed Dilligan]

70. Maybe it's the misogyny

or the way the media seem to packaging this as s and m porn?

:shrug:

I hope against hope that this will call attention to the dreadful conditions in our jails, but that message seems to be lost in the schadenfreude storm.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

80. Yes, Cause Everything Always Boils Down To Misogyny.

:crazy:

I'd say that has to be the most overused DU word LOL

[Jed Dilligan]

107. What would you call

the repeated use of "bitch," "tramp," "whore," then?

If I call you "honky," "cracker," "peckerwood," is it not racism?

I'm off now for about a week, so don't expect a response to your (likely flippant and pointless) rejoinder.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

109. Like I Said: Most Overused Word On DU.

Misogyny is having hatred of women. Misogyny is NOT having hatred for ONE woman.

The terms you describe above are words used to criticize someone generally of the female gender. Using them does not make one a misogynist.

And your analogy was fundamentally flawed. Calling someone a honky or cracker is disparaging an entire race. It is a putdown based on the overall race, not a description or attack on the person themselves. Calling a woman a bitch is NOT a putdown that criticizes women as a whole, but instead is limited exclusively to the individual being attacked. That is a huge difference.

Now if someone said a statement such as "I gots to get me some bitches" or "screw those women, they's nuttin but stupid ho's", then I can understand your case for misogyny. That's the context it would require in order for it to be misogyny. Just calling a woman a bitch, based on that one woman's individual characteristics and used as a personal adjective, not an overall entire gender description, is not even close to misogyny.

Maybe you thought it was due to a lack of an understanding of what misogyny actually is. I'll repeate for you: Misogyny is hatred towards women, as a group. It is not hatred towards A woman, based on a dislike for the ONE woman.

And I don't mind that you're gone for a week and can't reply. The only correct reply to this would technically be "Oh ok, I see what you mean OMC, you were right. Sorry", but I wouldn't expect you to be able to say that anyway. So enjoy wherever it is you are going. Hope ya have fun!

[AZBlue]

75. I'm most appalled at their defense of her actions: driving drunk.

That just floors me.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

79. I Haven't Seen Any Personally. Did I Miss Something?

I saw some railing against some of the level of vitriol spewed here and childish resentment, but I don't think I saw any that would be classified as pro-paris or a groupie etc. I might've missed those posts though.

[bamacrat]

82. She sucks, I love that she is in jail.

She deserves every day that she got, shes not being taken advantage of or abused because of her money. But finally her money cant save her like it has so many times before, and I am sure there are alot of instances we just dont know about. Thought her crying was funny. Sara Silverman was hilarious.

[Bluebear]

85. 'Thought her crying was funny.'...real sensitive type ain't ya?

[bamacrat]

91. Where its warranted.

Here it is not.

[Bluebear]

92. Someone who enjoys someone crying? Not cool. nt

[bamacrat]

102. All she does is try and use her "fame" to get out of things..

and obviously doesnt think she should get into trouble, so why I find it amusing is the fact that her money or "fame" didnt help, and she is realizing it. hahahahahahahahahahah, call me cynical or mean I dont care, people like this deserve to be treated like you and me.

[Bluebear]

103. She's panicking and crying. Hahahahahahahaha

:eyes:

[PeaceNikki]

104. Be sure to let us know next time you're sad/upset/scared so we can point and laugh at you.

k?

Oh wait, I wouldn't do that because I have compassion for other people, regardless of how heartless THEY are.

[bamacrat]

123. Oh well arent you so high and mighty..

I dont pitch a fit like a child when I have screwed up and get punished for it. Well atleast not since I was a child. I have compassion for others when it is necessary, not just because.

[Jed Dilligan]

108. I think the technical term is

"sadism," isn't it?

[mondo joe]

94. I can't see feeling too bad for her, but taking glee in it doesn't seem right to me either.

If she's getting fair and customary treatment, that's a good thing.

But I don't see why anyone anguishes or rejoices in her unhappiness.

[Bluebear]

99. Bush making fun of Karla Faye "boo hoo hoo, please don't kill me!"

Same mentality.

[PeaceNikki]

87. Hmm. I think it's a real stretch to say that those who don't like laughing at other's misery is a

groupie. In fact, I'd like to think of compassion as a rather progressive trait.

[Bluebear]

88. Not anymore, apparently.

[PeaceNikki]

93. Maybe not on DU, but I know that compassion IS a liberal/progressive/democratic trait.

DU is not real life. It's clearly a corner of a microcosm.

[Bluebear]

95. Thank you....

the people here taking glee over this admitted twit crying is unbelievable.

[Madspirit]

113. Thank-you!!!

I have actually been accused of being a Republican...here I am, an ol' hippie, leftist from the Viet Nam war era, lesbian, etc...living in poverty, have been homeless...and some people have had the NERVE to call me a Republican because I feel compassion for this clueless, freaked out girl. Jesus, I had no idea so many mean people hung here.
Lee

[PeaceNikki]

117. That is far ore accurate than stating there are Paris "groupies".

No, there are a lot of mean-spirited people who take pleasure in other people's pain. That, to me is far more shocking than finding compassion on DU.

Peace and love...

[Ariana Celeste]

96. I'm not going to criticize someone for crying and being scared.

I've been in jail. I cried like hell, too. She's rich, maybe not too bright, whatever- but she's still a human being.

[Bluebear]

100. Namaste. nt

[Madspirit]

114. Me too!

I've been in jail more than once and I cried every single time...a lot. I feel for her.
Lee

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

101. It's not even so much about Paris...

It's about bigger things, like the dumbing-down of the MSM (which has been going on for years), and the concurrent dumbing-down of our justice system (ditto). Paris is just kind of a scapegoat for the whole thing because she's famous/notorious/rich/whatever. I'm not really pro- or anti-, but I think this situation is going to open a lot of people's eyes up to what's fundamentally wrong with these institutions that the public has come to trust over the years.

[dogday]

105. She should do the time like everyone else

Same treatment is fair.. Anything above or below that is not... They should not treat her worse than anyone else for the same crime, and in that respect not treat her any better either...

At this point, since I don't know the jail system and what the regular practice is for others at the jail, for the same crime I am withdrawing all comments made previously..

I am not for or against... Justice is all that I seek...

[MedleyMisty]

119. Can someone link the posts with all the hate that equals a Klan rally?

Because I haven't seen it. Seen a lot of people complaining about it and hating on the people who expressed hate like that, but honestly I haven't seen the original hate. Not saying that it's not there, just that I haven't seen it.

Complaining about the media focusing so much on her and not really wanting to send her a sympathy card does not equal actually wanting to beat her to death or hang her or drag her behind a car.

[Bluebear]

125. 'She sucks, I love that she is in jail. Thought her crying was funny.'

Look up about two inches. One example.