10 | Autor: Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [130] — Who Is This "They" Obama Speaks Of?
Since we took last week off to correspond with something patriotic for Independence Day weekend, we’ve got two weeks to account for today. Fortunately, every other week in Washington (or so it seems) is vacation spell for Congress, meaning they were only in session (or “working”) for one week of that. Add to this the really that Congress usually defines “a work week” as from noontime on Tuesday to noon on Thursday (nice work if you can get it, eh?), and it puts it all in position.
But since it’s still going to take a while to cover all this (and we’re not even bothering to travel crazy Republican statements , other than Michael Steele’s), we’re prevailing to skip this whole “intro” section this week, and move candid to the awards. Then, in lieu of Friday Talking Points, we’re prospering to take a look at a speech by President Obama and an interview acknowledged by Rahm Emanuel, with a bit of commentary. So let’s get right to it!
I have to give a dollop mini-shout-out to Vice President Joe Biden here, for traveling to Iraq and forcing the intelligence media to pay a shred of attention to the country for a brief stretch (after calling on them to do just that last week). Biden
Perez Hilton on Ke$ha: America's scold strikes again
There's certainly reside in The Dialogue for all kinds. I'm often pretty burned out on the celebrity overexposure of the week trend myself. (Money can't buy class, but it can buy underpants.) So if you want to make a anyway a lest for how Ke$ha's social life says something about youth and sexuality and the worsen of civilization, I might not agree, but at least I'd know you'd given the matter some contemplating. Hilton doesn't want to do that, though, not when he risks alienating his equally holier-than-thou audience. Not when it's easier to scarcely assume everybody's a whore.
Instead, like an disproportionately evangelical politician or priest (Hilton, interestingly, is an alum of the Belen Jesuit Grammar), he spends his time obsessing on the sins of others -- but without the mannerly curtailment those other guardians of our good behavior are obliged to show. He's closer in mettle to those abortion clinic protesters brandishing posters of fetuses, preferring to stomp around and white horse his vivid shows of outrage in our faces. Look at this! Isn't it Outrageous? Here, let me get another eyeful. Still HORRIBLE!
Is Hilton's ongoing froth all only a clever act, a way of serving up smut with a cleansing side order of principles outrage? Or is that wide streak of Puritanism the real buy? Hilton's famous viciousness, his seeming delight in inspiring the hatred of his favorite targets, would suggest something deeper than the garden species Hollywood attention-seeking he so fondly chronicles. It looks in place of for all the world like ... a crusade -- a fight awash in seminal fluid, revulsion and judgment. Way to go, sir -- Fred Phelps himself couldn't have done it cured. Who, after all, enjoys making enemies more than a man with an unshakable sense of his own righteousness? It's consoling to over that despite his daily fresh crop of censure, Hilton's victims like Ke$ha in a general way manage to do a fine job of going right on living their lives. But, Monarch, save the rest of us from the sanctimony, Perez Hilton.
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