BUMP: We’re finalizing the “Deceiver March Madness” brackets soon, so put your suggestions in the comments. The four brackets will be “Stars and Starlets”; “Political Animals”; “Activists”; and “Douchebags.” (Note that political animals can include real politicians as well as politically outspoken celeb-u-tards.) We’ll start with 16 Deceivers in each bracket, just like the real thing.
JANUARY 5, 2009: Personally, we can’t decide which famous people have been making the hottest hypocritical messes of themselves. There are just too damned many candidates to choose from.
So help us out, would ya?
In about two months we’re going to be hosting a “March Madness” bracket-style poll. It’ll run during the same weeks as the NCAA basketball tourney, but votes — not hoops — will decide who moves on from one round to the next.
The “winning” celeb will get a framed certificate, which we expect will be promptly turned into some publicist’s kindling.
And every time you vote, you’ll be entered in a drawing for real prizes! Gift cards that you definitely want. Trust me.
So who’s the biggest Deceiver of them all? I dunno. You’re going to pick.
And the Selection Committee at Deceiver Central Command hasn’t even filled the bracket yet. So we’re accepting nominations. Leave ‘em in the comments — tell us who deserves to be in the field of 64, and why. And feel free to drop in a link to your favorite Deceiver stories from the past year.
If you’re wondering whether or not PETA will make it, I think it’s a safe bet. We may actually give PETA celebs their own bracket.
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I nominate Al Gore for the AGW nonsense.
I nominate Paul McCartney for his idiocy in telling the Dalai Lama how to practice Buddhism.
I’m with Dave. And any peta supporting celeb, or peta itself.
And my favorite links from the past year are any I’ve commented on. Just because I’m so damn cool.
I nominate Bono
I hope it is someone I’d sleep with…
I would have to nominate Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt, for being the most worthless celebrities for now good reason. No talent and ridiculous, they deserve to be big deceivers this year.
Also, I would have to add Kanye West & Rachael Ray should be burned also.
Thanks.
Silky Pony, aka Mr. John Reid Edwards, loving father of Frances Quinn Hunter, (also the daughter of Rielle Jaya James Druck/Hunter), who’s due to have her 1 year birdthday party on February 27, 2009!
Will Johnnyboy come to his daughter’s first birthday party? Of course he will. It will be a little harder now that Fred Baron’s private jet can’t spirit him off to Puerto Rico to meet with his missus in private, but hey, Rielle ain’t too proud for the Newark Best Wester, is she?
Probably lots of VW Jettas parked in the lot there.
Robert Deniro’s also a prime candidate, serving endangered Tuna at his Nobu restaurants while simultaneously hosting environmental benefits.
His Tribeca film festival was co-sponsored by “Save Our Selves, Campaign for Climate Change, yet all three of DeNiro’s restaurants were busted for serving endangered Tuna:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/06/eatuna106.xml
DeNiro campaigns (2:30 of video) about “leaving millions of our friends and neighbors in poverty.. …families denied basic medical care and decent education…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akApqZPnyf4
yet gets sued for stealing employees tips???:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/lf_nm_life/newyork_restaurants_tips_dc_2
Please add Pamela Anderson to the list of blonde twats whose 15 minutes was up a long time ago.
Madonna because I can.
And you can add Ted Stevens or Governor Blago under the political category.
I nominate Kloe Kardashian for Douchebags – because that is the only category she can be placed, and Barbara Streisand for washed up Douchebag.
Damn, there’s so many to nominate I can’t pick just one.
I’m nominating Pam Anderson and Hayden Pantaloons.
I second nominations for Pamela Anderson, and PETA as a whole, as they are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
I also would like to throw in a nomination for Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, also known as Twit and Twat.
There are sooo many. Wow.
Oprah in the political hypocrisy category.
Perez Hilton after his little butt boy scandal that got him sue happy since he’s the only one allowed to sue people who say mean things about him, true or not.
Big butt Kardashian and her furs.
Al Gore and Sting for the carbon footprint that needs to be planted firmly in their bums.
Ok, I will shush now.
Gwyneth Paltrow, despite her Spanish food show being a guilty pleasure, for:
1. PETA infractions (http://goop.com/newsletter/9)
2. Offering lifestyle tips because she knows how to live better than the little people do
Hollywood Posers: Britney Spear’s Mom, Lindsay Lohan’s Mom and Dad, Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife
Phony Politicos: John Edwards, John Edwards’s hair
Douchebags: Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney’s ex-wife
Anti-fur Carniwhores: Hayden, Pam and Jenna (from last to first)
If I was going to bet, I’d put my money on John Edward’s hair, it just doesn’t move, its unphased by anything, always under control. How can you hope to defeat that?
Noooo, please not Twit and Twat because they will win and I dont want to see them anymore!!! Make them go away!!!!
I want a douchbag to win cause I really love saying the word douchebag.
So many douchebags – Al Gore,John Edwards, Pamela Anderson,Gwyneth Paltrow were the first that leapt to mind. I am looking forward to playing!
Ok everyone is forgetting the person with the most gaffes, broken promises, lies, scandels and all around grandious Hypocrite on a National Level. You know him, you love him, you were convince to vote for him by the MSM………………..PEBO.
So far no one can top Obama on a world wide scale.
Wow, what fun, some many names….
Hollywood Posers= Alec Baldwin, just because he seems to think he is an authority on everything from politics to education
Phony Politicos= the entire Obama campaign, with John Edwards and Al Gore a very close second
DoucheBags= McCartney, Sting, Bono (any entertainer) that seem to think because they are rich they can solve all the worlds problems
Anti-fur Carnivores = this was a hard decision narrowed it down to PEtA Pam and Oprah, and after a great deal of soul searching I have to nominate Pamela Anderson with all the silicon, collagen, and Hepatitis meds, she uses and is made of she just seems a natural
choice
I know he’s only a douchebag-come-lately, but how about Herb Sandler? I think dude deserves a spot on the bracket for bilking millions (and Wachovia) and then trying to cover it up.
In the same vein, how about Richard Fuld and Madoff? We could have an entire conference devoted to the scumbags of the financial crisis…
I nominate:
Pammy Anderson
Heather Mills
Jenna Jameson
Tila Tequila
PETA
Khloe Kardashian
Kim Kardashian
Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt
Jeremy Piven
Perez Hilton
Dina Lohan
Michael Lohan
HRH Princess Gwyneth Paltrow of The Upper West Side
Jennifer “I’m Over Brad, Really” Aniston
As for the pols:
John Edwards
Rod Blagovich or however the hell you spell his name
Al “Manbearpig” Gore
General douchebags:
Madoff
Everybody who is asking the taxpayers for a bailout
Thanks, Aleric, for bringing Obama in–I didn’t want to be the first one. In fact, he’s the most effective hypocrite America’s seen so far because it’s still working for him!
Al Gore for 2nd place. Because he makes me laugh. Al Gore. Hahahaha.
I nominate Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, for being a big fat (I mean REALLY fat) liar and a cheat, and for setting the poor city of Detroit back twenty years.
My second nominee is Carlita (Mrs. Kwame) Kilpatrick, because she’s still with this *sshole when she should have kicked him to the curb as soon as he humiliated her in public.
On that same vein, let’s nominate all these wives who are cheated on, then stand there next to their man like a doofus while he tries to explain it to the press: Silda Spitzer and Dina McGreevey come to mind.
I nominate Angelina Jolie for hating her father for cheating on her mother, and then going ahead and f*cking another woman’s husband.
I nominate Gwyneth Paltrow for her obvious PETA hypocrisy.
I nominate Sting, Bono and Madonna for touring the world in private jets and gas-guzzling tour buses while shouting “Save the Planet.”
I nominate Al Sharpton (whom we don’t pick on nearly enough) for blathering on about the perils of rap, and then posing for pictures with famous rappers to show how “hip” and “cool” he really is.
I nominate President Bush rallying the people against Saddam Hussein in order to divert attention away from Osama Bin Laden. 9/11 happens, Osama takes credit, and suddenly Saddam is the top priority?
I also nominate Arnold Schwarzenegger for his prop 8 flip flopping.
First he rejects legislation authorizing same-sex marriage, then he says he doesn’t care if gays marry but it should be up to voters, then he publicly opposes prop 8 and tells backers of gay marriage not to give up hope.
I second the vote on Mangelina Jolie.
But the President Bush thing? Seriously. Could we find something remotely recent? (I repeat my vote for Obama–the only vote that hypocrite could get out of me. His supporters got to vote for him twice! I want to, too.)
Please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE include Scientology and all their cronies! (Tom Cruise, John Travolta, et al.) It just wouldn’t be a proper showdown without them! (And, of course, PETA, but come on, we all know they’re gonna be there! [as they rightfully should be!])
I nominate Ashley Judd, Pam Anderson for buying cars with leather and posing with leather, but leather is bad, Hayden Panitterre (Sp?) for being her, President Obama, John Edwards, PETA as a whole, Dashale. Al Gore for don’t do as I do, but as I say (similar to Obama) Did I leave anyone out?
No one has nominated the One yet? Well chalk me up for that because nothing says change like more of the same. Oh and we all need to lower our thermostats but the Man don’t have to
OH MAN. Choice paralysis!
Obama for just about every category,
Angelina Jolie for trying to be Mother Theresa with eyeliner and unholstered melons,
Gwyneth Paltrow because I hate her with the seething intensity of a million enraged bees,
Ashley Judd for being a hypocritical self-regarding chocolate starfish,
Oprah for being so utterly narcissistic and hypocritical (especially when it came to the election), aaaaaaaannnnnd
Al Gore for making us look at his increasingly large face. If there were EVER a reason not to get HDTV, that would be it. No, wait–that and Madonna’s continued insistence on jamming her Paleozoic bony snatch, literally, into the public eye.
And PETA. And Christian Bale. Because this is, today at least, still a free country.
so many worhty nominees…
Al Gore
John Edwards
PETA
Michael Lohan
Sting
Obama
D- The Great One was nominated awhile back. Aleric did in fact and so did I.
I think the Holy Anointed One deserves it twice as much as anyone else, especially after making a snotty remark to Matt Lauer about Jessica Simpson’s “weight battle”, while ignoring the obvious non-celebrity-svelteness of his own wife and that of Oprah.
I mean, it came as a complete shock to not me, but still.
I’m throwing in as well.
Put me down for the following:
Leona Lewis and Pam Anderson for valuing the Almighty Dollar than those precious wittle animals they don’t eat or use for seats in their Dodge Vipers.
Brad Pitt for saying that sold out during his years with Aniston, then selling out himself to any magazine about how “enriched and beautiful” his new life is. STFU Please.
Speidi for being f**king stupid.
And lastly, me, an American citizen because I hate celebwhores’ behaviors but I still make snappy comments about them on this site and DListed during my class breaks while I feast on Banquet White Turkey Meal.
After listening to Cher’s political catharsis at some ‘Feed The Peasants’ fundraiser or feel good get together, or whatever it was, I think Douchebags win easily.
How about Teddy “I’m all for clean energy but not if it ruins my view” Kennedy (D-A**hole). And recently elected Eric Massa (D-Douchebag) that drove 2 electric cars and 2 SUVs to DC for his swearing-in ceremony.
All the celebrities in that video promising to make the world better… mostly in the douchebag categories. Plus, maybe Ashton will Twitter about it.
Sarah Palin for all 4 categories!
angelina holie!
Chele: Could we have some details? A reason, maybe? Everyone else I get, but . . .
Good luck.
I’m going to have to put all my money on Al Gore. You can’t help but admire a man who doesn’t even bother to disguise the hypocrisy between his “real” life and the “green/climate change” agenda he’s trying to cram down our throats. And making a mint off it all to boot. And winning an Oscar for a documentary full of errors. And winning a Nobel Peace Prize for…er…well, I guess I don’t really know why he got that. But anyway, I think he should get top prize for the sheer chutzpah of his hypocrisy.
And maybe Gwyneth too. Her acting sucks.
winewife – What! You did not like her in “View to the Top” or “Shallow Hal?” I thought those performances were Oscar worthy
Ugh. Gwyneth Paltrow can’t convincingly act BLONDE. Or female. And AFAIK, she IS blonde.
In the politicial arena I would like to nominate all of Obama’s cabinet members who “forgot” to pay their taxes.
Here’s who I like for the brackets:
John Edwards
Brad and Angie
Heidi and Spencer
The Aniston (I’m just tired of hearing about how so over it she is.)
The Entire Church of Scientology
PeTA
Anyone named Kardashian
Jeremy Piven
Sir Paul
Tom Cruise
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes’ parents
Pam Anderson
The Beckhams
That’ll be fine for now.
“…ignoring the obvious non-celebrity-svelteness of his own wife”
I don’t understand, do you think Michelle Obama is fat?
Hollywood Posers: Denise Richards, Speidi, Jennifer Aniston, Brangelina
Phony Politicos: John Edwards, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Blagogevic, Oprah Winfrey
Douchebags: Heather Mills, Michael Lohan, Dina Lohan, Ashton Kutcher, Perez Hilton, Jeremy Piven
Anti-fur Carniwhores: Pamela Anderson, Hayden Pannatroll, Khloe Kardashian, PETA as a whole, Ashley Judd
@Lyteup: No, I didn’t say Michelle was fat, exactly. She’s about the same size as, oh, say, Jessica Simpson.
I dunno, I always thought Michelle Obama was a bit lanky and gawky. She looks sort of straight up and down from most of the pictures I’ve seen of her.
Add Al Franken to my previous entries – he could be a wild card.
DUDE. Forgot about Franken. He needs his own category: “Guys You’d Like to See with Flaming Arrows Through Their Goolies”.
To anyone who gets all hysterical about “threats”: I do not own any arrows, flaming or otherwise.
Maybe Major League Baseball will qualify for Deceiver of the Decade:
Fans are unsure whether Madonna will test positive also.
Al Gore. I’m still for him. Can I stuff the ballot box? Al Gore, Al Gore, Al Gore, Al Gore, Al Gore.
OOH! And Prince Charles! I forgot about him.
Are lying sports athletes excluded?
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Barroid B*onds – I’ve never “knowingly” used steroids. (trial begins March 2)
Roger Clemens – prosecutors are asking a federal grand jury to decide whether to indict him.
Alex Rodriguez – “60 Minutes” interview, 2007 – “No” when asked whether he’s ever used steroids, human growth hormone or any other performance-enhancing substance. Feb. 2009- “….ya, I guess I was using that stuff…..”
Go Pasta! How many of the royal family can we vote in here? But Chucky for sure.
hollywood posers: any of the many non deserving fools on those fake reality shows and the offspring of celebs who contribue nothing to society, but breathe the same air as me…
phony politico:rush limbaugh (the true head of the rnc)…right…and john edwards…
douche bag: jeremy piven
anti fur: pammy anderson
Has Limbaugh ever actually claimed to be the true head of the RNC? I mean, in a non-joking way?