Paris Hilton Banned
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James Joyner | Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove has banned Paris Hilton from his space.
Even a gossip columnist has limits. Paris Hilton has finally abused mine. Over the past five years - without any discernible talent, education, scruples, manners, modesty or underpants - the pretty blond great-granddaughter of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton has waged a terrifying campaign for world domination. The arc of Paris’ “career” - from rich, witless party girl to rich, witless party girl with a hit television show - is an insult to the American sense of fairness: the idea that you get ahead by working hard, playing by the rules and acquiring a skill of some sort. Paris has bothered with none of the above, and yet society continues to reward her with money and fame.
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Make no mistake: I plead guilty to having been one of Paris’ enablers - encouraging and even celebrating her silly ways through countless boldface mentions. I admit that Paris and I have been snared in an ugly web of mutual addiction: She to all the lurid ink, me to all the pointless drama. But on the “Today” show this morning, I’m planning to announce my New Year’s resolution: going cold turkey. No more Paris Hilton.
We’ll see how long it lasts.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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I guess 'we'll always have Paris' whether we like it or not. Don't play it again, Sam. Please!
Who?
(If you ignore these people long enough and hard enough, they just... melt away and disappear, like the Wicked Media Witch of the West. I seriously have no clue who "Paris Hilton" is, and I don't want to know.)
Maybe the world needs just one socialite who doesn't insist the rich are inherently more cultured and sophisticated merely by being rich.
If only everyone had the morals and common decency of Lloyd Grove.
That's quite a statement.
I HATE Paris Hilton. I am SOOOO sick and tired of hearing about that stupid, fake, orange, flat ass, flat chested, vain, greedy, talentless, raised b**ch. Can people PLEASE move on and talk about someone worth talking about. PLEASE
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