Category: Celebrities

Another Shocking Republican Scandal! ‘Redneck Romeo’ Jason Aldean Goes Wild

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While we were at Mitt Romney’s rally in Toledo last week, I remarked to Ali Akbar that the warm-up music for the Republican’s events includes some country-rock songs that aren’t quite what you’d usually associate with GOP family values, for example Luke Bryan’s “Country Girl (Shake It for Me)“:

Get up on the hood of my daddy’s tractor,
Up on the toolbox it don’t matter,
Down on the tailgate, girl, I can’t wait
To watch you do your thing.
Shake it for the young bucks sittin’ in the honky-tonks,
For the rednecks rockin’ ’till the break of dawn
For the DJ spinning that country song
C’mon c’mon c’mon . . .

Well, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s just slightly incongruous to hear it while nice Republican folks are assembling for a presidential campaign event.

Another of the country rock tunes on the Romney warm-up soundtrack is Jason Aldean’s “My Kinda Party“:

Oh baby, you can find me
In the back of a jacked up tailgate,
Sittin’ ’round watchin’ all these pretty things
Get down in that Georgia clay.
And I’ll find peace
In the bottom of a real tall cold drink,
Chillin’ with some Skynyrd and some old Hank.
Let’s get this thing started.
It’s my kind of party.

Again — not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s upbeat downhome music, and if it helps get the good old boys fired up, great. But the media loves to make wild guilt-by-association charges and you’ve got to be careful. Today, while I was looking at updates for the story about the GOP staffer partying down with Lindsay Lohan (the staffer once had his photo taken with Paul Ryan), I saw another story about a shocking celebrity scandal:

Country music superstar Jason Aldean says his very open public display of affection with a former “American Idol” contestant — who is NOT his wife — was a huge, drunken mistake.
Jason released a statement today, apologizing for his indiscretion, after TMZ posted pictures early this morning of the country singer and “A.I.” castoff Brittany Kerr getting up close and personal — hugging, touching, and flirting at a very popular, crowded bar on the Sunset Strip.
Jason — who has been married since 2001 — says, “The truth is that I screwed up. I had too much to drink, let the party get out of hand and acted inappropriately at a bar.”
He says, “I ultimately ended up embarrassing my family and myself.” And then adds, “I left alone and that’s the end of the story.”

See there? One of these hillbilly yodelers gets rowdy and starts making out with some floozy in a bar, and next thing you know, BuzzFeed and Politico will be all over it, demanding that the Romney campaign comment on the incident. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure Mitt would get a 2-point bump in the Ohio polls if he began his next speech by saying, “You can find me in the back of a jacked-up tailgate . . .”

 

King of the Hill: GOP Congressional Staffer Parties With Lindsay Lohan

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Christian LaBella’s hands will be sore from all the high-fives he’ll collect today from his buds on Capitol Hill after his epic weekend:

Lindsay Lohan just can’t stay out of trouble, but this time the drama queen is pinning the mess on a party pest with a cell-phone camera.
The “Mean Girls” actress mixed it up with a starstruck congressional staffer in her Manhattan hotel early Sunday, prompting cops to step in.
Police say Lohan took Christian LaBella’s cell phone so she could delete dozens of pictures and videos of her partying — and she claims he got physical with her trying to get it back.
After Lohan, 26, called the cops, LaBella, 25, who works for an Illinois Republican, was initially charged with misdemeanor assault in the blowup at the W Hotel Union Square.
But law enforcement sources said the assault rap has already been dropped. . . .

Poor Lindsay, always the victim — and check out the absurd quote from Lindsay’s brain-damaged mom:

“She’s very shaken up,” Lohan’s mother, Dina, told the Daily News Sunday afternoon as she comforted the troubled starlet. “Thank God he didn’t have a weapon.”

What idiocy! If you read the rest of the article, you’ll get Lindsay’s self-serving side of the story (undoubtedly vouched for and embellished by her friend “celebrity booker Claus Hjelmbak”) when clearly all that was happening was two 20-somethings quarreling at 6 a.m. over photos of their all-night-long entertainment.

Lindsay evidently threw a conniption because she didn’t like the photos LaBella had taken, and her vehement rage — rather than any criminal action by LaBella — was the source of the dispute.

There’s a lot of this unfortunate attitude going around: “I’m angry at you, therefore you must be guilty of a crime.”

Lindsay Lohan needs to be advised that her anger-management issues don’t entitle her to have the objects of her wrath arrested.

So, Other Than All That, Mr. Levin, What Did You Think Of Conor’s Article?

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by Smitty

A friend of the blog points to a carpet bombing of Wee Conor’s article the other day. Levin on FaceBook:

A mind is a terrible thing to twist
This puny stalker writes and thinks like a Trotskyite, reading people in and out of the conservative and libertarian movements. He has accomplished nothing significant. He has written nothing intellectually compelling or coherent. He has built nothing. Yet his conceit knows no limits. Eric Hoffer said of such people that they are driven like the teenager going through puberty but never mature to adulthood.
. . .
There’s so much stupidity, incoherence, arrogance, and fascistic thinking in his column, I’ve already tired of commenting on it.
But I am generous to a fault. He wanted attention so here is his 10 seconds worth. Ladies and gentleman, I introduce you to a complete idiot.

RTWT. It’s probably more attention than Friedersdorf deserves.

Topless @MsAlisonPill? Meh.

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In case you didn’t know it, there is an HBO show called The Newsroom, one of the stars of which is a blonde young actress named Alison Pill who, as we might say, “pulled a Weiner.”

That is to say, she had a Twitter accident in which, she explained, she was attempting to delete a topless photo of herself and instead sent the topless photo to her 30,000+ Twitter followers.

Oops.

Also, not impressive

Kate Middleton’s topless photos — blurry, taken with a telephoto lens — were more impressive, and they weren’t all that impressive.

Listen up, celebrity ladies: We’re tired of these unimpressive topless photos. Unless you’ve got something that’s really worth our time to click the link — e.g., a pair of natural D cups with aureolas the circumference of a Moon Pie — don’t bother us. Keep your top on.

Pat Dollard has the (unimpressive) NSFW photo of Alison Pill, and I’ll just say this: She’s no Alyssa Milano. IYKWIMAITYD.

If The Sitting President Says Michelle Obama Is Qualified For POTUS, Then @SarahPalinUSA Surely Rates

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by Smitty

The Blaze:

President Barack Obama offered a boost for his wife on Friday, saying first lady Michelle Obama could “definitely” win the presidency but that she has “too much sense” to run for office.
“She definitely could be the president but she will never run for the presidency ’cause she’s got too much sense,” Obama said Friday in an interview on Washington, D.C. hip hop radio station WKYS.

Why, David Frum?

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This is just embarrassing. Grant that he’s already burnt a lot of bridges behind him in an apparent quest to become the Most Famous Republican Who Hates Everything About Republicans — a tough competition with Peggy Noonan these days — but did David Frum really have to go after Michelle Malkin?

As Ace of Spades points out, Frum makes reference to his recent novel, and his novel was brutally panned by Mark Judge.

Having expended much energy lately in an attempt to prevent a thermonuclear blogwar meltdown — evidently with no luck, given the latest ugly incident — I feel a need to emphasize once again just how much I hate this kind of stuff.

There is no rule that every conservative must like (or agree with) every other conservative, but why permit mere dislike or disagreement to become the basis for an all-or-nothing vendetta?

Why push it to the point that your friends feel so embarrassed — indeed, mortified — by your purposeful insults to their other friends?

David, you’re wrong, and I don’t mean incorrect, I mean wrong.

You ought to apologize and re-think whatever the hell you were thinking that got you so far down this road, or else you’ll finish your career guest-blogging at Little Green Footballs.

Update (Smitty): thanks, Instapundit and Daily Pundit!

OMG! @ParisHilton Gets Wrongly Tagged ‘H8R’ for Talking About Gay Sex

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Paris Hilton: So Rich, She Don’t Need You

Political Correctness requires that no one ever say anything to hurt the feelings of Designated Victim Groups, and even mega-celebrities are not exempt from this stupid rule:

Paris Hilton has been caught on tape making homophobic and derogatory statements about gay men who have random sex with strangers even stating “most of them probably have AIDS.” . . .
[A] spokesperson for Hilton said:
“Paris Hilton’s comments were to express that it is dangerous for anyone to have unprotected sex that could lead to a life threatening disease. The conversation became heated, after a close gay friend told her in a cab ride, a story about a gay man who has AIDS and is knowingly having unprotected sex. He also discussed a website that encourages random sex by gay men with strangers. As she was being shown the website her comments were in reference to those people promoting themselves on the site. . . . Paris Hilton is a huge supporter of the gay community and would never purposefully make any negative statements about anyone’s sexual orientation.”
On the audio Paris says at one point: “Gay guys are the horniest people in the world. They’re disgusting. Dude, most of them probably have AIDS.”
The heiress was in Manhattan for New York Fashion Week and in the early morning hours of Friday, September 7, Paris’ remarks were caught on tape by a cab driver, when her pal, who is an openly gay male model, is heard in the audio clip describing Grindr, an app that gay men use to locate other gay men for hookups.

A few relevant factual reference points:

  1. In describing men who hook up with complete strangers via the Internet, Paris said “most of them probably have AIDS.”
  2. This was not offered as a scientifically valid estimate, but a rather common-sense health concern, related to the promiscuous behavior described.
  3. Butt-fucking isn’t healthy. Excuse the blunt language, boys and girls, but the rectum is not a sexual organ. It is foul and unsanitary, and if you have some kind of weird obsessive-compulsive fetish about doing it in the hiney-hole, you need to seek help.
  4. Yes, Point 3 applies equally to you hetero guys who, to satisfy your porn-influenced kinky craving, coerce or cajole your girlfriends into taking it up the poop chute.
  5. The Gay Thought Police who are trying to turn Paris Hilton into a latter-day Anita Bryant, merely for expressing a revulsion at the promiscuous indulgence in anonymous sex, are engaged in a form of dishonest fascistic propaganda.
  6. Attempting to take a single de-contextualized comment and turn it into evidence of “hate” — to define people according to selective distortion — is probably not going to endear you to any honest person who has hitherto been your ally.
  7. Paris Hilton has so much money she doesn’t need to kowtow to political pressure groups, and if she’s being nice to gay people, it’s not because she can be blackmailed. Even if she never again appeared on TV, she’s still richer than you.

You people need to get a life, stop harassing @ParisHilton and — please! — seek help for your weird hiney-hole fetish.

Tamara Holder: Should Malkin Get Laid In The Marital, Or Amb. Stevens Sense?

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by Smitty

The Lefties just keep it classy, but we should press for elaboration: does Tamara Holder think that Michelle Malkin’s spouse is inattentive, or, alternatively, does Holder mean ‘laid in a grave’?

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