Celeb Justice

America is obsessed with celebrities. Celeb news has replaced actual news and it's absurd. There are these 'news shows' that are literally completely dedicated to reporting things like rehab stints, weight gains, and dining locations of stars. It's embarrassing. No one has ever said it better than this:





I know I haven't said anything new here. My only distinction I like to throw up there is that I don't actually mind someone being famous if they've accomplished something. Acting in a movie is an accomplishment. It's not an amazing one, but it's something. Being a singer or actor isn't as cool as say, this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/science/19carb.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

What I really hate is when someone is famous for no reason, then uses said fame to do things that others can't. So when Heidi Montage makes a music video and sells on itunes, that is literally stopping a deserving artist from getting air time. The morbid fascination that we have with talentless people that have been thrown in our faces never ceases to amaze me. Reality tv participants have agents and I can't get a call back.

Example: Lindsay Lohan has been in movies. Before she was a gong show on stilts, she was in the Parent Trap. She had talent. Now, she hasn't used it well and hasn't gotten much better, but you know what? I have no problem with her being famous.

Paris Hilton: She participated in seggsual acts on videotape. She is the daughter of a rich dude. She has since parlayed this into a multinational corporation on her own (clothing, handbags, shoes, music career, movies and tv appearances). This is a steaming load of bull-shite delivered to every front door in a wicker basket.

It is certainly a bit excessive how we obsess over the 'Bradjelinas', the Cruise wives, and all the rest. I can kind of forgive that because they've all done something with their lives. They all worked before they got big. They put in some dues; not the same kind of dues as lots of us, but they worked. Hacks like this b*tch on the right have literally had fame thrust upon them and they are milking it for all that's worth. The lead story on the news for months last year was Anna Nicole Smith and what was going to happen to her bastard child.

She posed naked. She got fat then lost wait. This was after the gold digging cologen unit married a 100 year old dude that couldn't walk. Ask yourself: why did I care?