Gossip BlogAds Network Bargain BlogAds Network

Archive for May, 2009

29
May

She’d Know: Paris Hilton Calls The Hills ‘So Lame and Fake’

28887PCN_SmoochParis Hilton, without a trace of irony, called out MTV’s reality hit The Hills (on which her boyfriend Doug Reinhardt rose to celebutard fame, or at least tabloid-worthiness):

“The show is, like, so lame and fake. He doesn’t even want to be a part of it. They make up relationships when they’re not there, and he just thinks it’s lame. I’ve never seen the show in my life. I have no idea what it’s about. But he just thought it was cheesy.”

Do I really need to spell out the angle here?

Paris Hilton: purveyor of champagne in a can, designer of hideous plastic shoes, sex tape star turned “role model.”

Paris Hilton, the woman who hired a monk for a publicity stunt. Accomplished faux lesbian. In talks to open her own club in Vegas — a city, I’ll have you know, that is the opposite of cheesy and fake.

Paris Hilton: The picture of class. She simply exudes “reality.”

Plus, you just know Heidi Montag Pratt had acrylic claws implanted at some point, so Paris better watch her back.

29
May

A Bold Fresh Piece of Hypocrisy

The other night Bill O’Reilly, guardian of the All-Smug Zone, criticized HotAir.com for saying the following about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor:

Unqualified, militant and socialist. NEXT, please. The GOP has to block any of Husseins [sic] extremist picks.

Pretty harsh stuff! Only one problem. Even though O’Reilly labeled this as a “blog posting,” it was actually a blog comment. Which means, as every American in 2009 but Bill O’Reilly knows, that it does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the blogger. This is like claiming that Holly Won’t likes Kate Gosselin’s hair because I left a comment saying I do.

Last night O’Reilly apologized for the error. Sorta:

YouTube Preview Image

There you go. If you try to log onto O’Reilly’s site and spew hateful stuff, such as referring to the President by (gasp) his actual middle name, it’s outta there. O’Reilly doesn’t just say, “I didn’t do it.”

Oh wait, yes he does. That’s exactly what he says. As blogger Patterico discovered, when you sign up for a premium membership at billoreilly.com, you must accept the following terms of use:

BillOReilly.com does not control or pre-screen the files, information, or messages (collectively referred to as “Information”) delivered to or displayed in the Message Boards, unless otherwise noted therein, and BillOReilly.com assumes no duty to, and does not monitor or endorse Information within the Message Boards.

Translation: Now that I’ve got your 5 bucks a month, you can post stuff here. But if anybody gets ticked off, I’m not responsible for it. Which is amazingly similar to the setup at Hot Air and most other blogs, except for the “5 bucks a month” part.

We realize you’re flummoxed by the Internet and most other inventions after 1965, Bill, but maybe you could take a Learning Annex course or something. Do they offer Not Being a Pinhead 101?

Update: O’Reilly just created a whole lot more work for his Internet guys.

29
May

Elizabeth Edwards Sounds Ready for a Do-Over

Courtesy of Mickey Kaus, here’s Elizabeth on The Charlie Rose Show the other night:

CHARLIE ROSE: How would you have lived your life differently based on what you know now?

ELIZABETH EDWARDS: Boy, I mean, there’s so many — I certainly would have gotten mammograms more often. That was an easy one.

CHARLIE ROSE: Yes, of course, right.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS: You know, I would not have voluntarily put myself in a position where I thought I would lose a child…

CHARLIE ROSE: Of course not.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS: … and that I would feel so betrayed. I wouldn’t have done that voluntarily. I would…

CHARLIE ROSE: What does that mean? I don’t know what that means.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS: That means I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else and done something else …

Wow. Are there still people holding out hope that John Edwards’ political career can be resurrected? Besides John Edwards, of course.

28
May

Since We’re Talking About Hunting Seals…

I didn’t know beans about Canada’s annual seal hunt until our new bloggress Britney Smears brought my attention to it this afternoon. The only time I’d ever really encountered it was when a girl in my sixth-grade class had a “save the harp seals” pin that she wore everywhere. It showed a cute, flufy, pure white baby seal. I think I saw that same seal (or a similar one — they all look alike to me…) in a PETA fundraising letter some years later. Lord knows why they were trying to get money out of me. I guess everything’s worth trying once.

Anyway, I spent five minutes today with my research assistant, trying to learn something about the seal hunt that wasn’t filtered through PETA’s lens. And here’s what turned up:
Continue reading ‘Since We’re Talking About Hunting Seals…’

28
May

We’re Going On A Seal Hunt, Eh?

Hooray! Endless entertainment! It’s seal hunting season again in Canada!

On Monday, Governor General Michaëlle Jean took part in native tradition by killing a seal and eating its heart. Raw.  You know where this is going.

Our good friends over at PETA weren’t too thrilled to hear that the Queen of England’s representative in Canada is slaughtering (and, gasp, eating) animals. PETA gave its usual blah blah blah on seals and according to the Toronto Star:

PETA yesterday likened Jean’s sampling of seal heart to “taking part in the beating of women in the Middle East because it is part of local practice.”

michelle-jean-normal1PETA has no qualms about blaming Canada but obviously overlooked the fact that killing animals by the gajillion is “local practice” inside its own organization. Canada, don’t you dare hunt seals, but please don’t yell when we kill dogs and cats.

Kudos (does anyone still say that?) to Jean for defending her right to re-enact scenes from Dances With Wolves:

“These are ancient practices that are part of a way of life,” Jean said, framing her gutsy gesture as an act of solidarity with the Inuit. “If you can’t understand that, you’re completely missing the reality of life here.”

Reality is a foreign concept to PETA.

No kudos to PETA. Ever.

28
May

Janice Dickinson: Tyra Talks Out Both Sides of Her Face

tyra_antm9When word of judge Paulina Porizkova’s unceremonious dumping from American’s Next Top Model reached Janice Dickinson’s ear, she merely nodded and grimaced. (Or smiled. It’s hard to tell these days.)

Let’s just say “The World’s First Supermodel” has a few opinions about why Tyra Banks keeps firing the lady judges:

“That’s how Tyra rolls,” she told MTV News at the American Idol finale on Wednesday. “Tyra rolls like that. She likes to fire people just about when she’s promising them large amounts of money, [then] they get the ax, like I did. And then she takes the money and runs.”

But the Examiner rightly notes that the boy judges aren’t losing their jobs for budgetary reasons or for “having an ego problem,” like Porizkova was and Twiggy before her. Nigel Barker has been a judge since nearly the beginning, Benny Ninja is the Puck in this Shakespearean drama, and the Jays aren’t going anywhere.

Which might lead a casual observer to wonder whether the pro-women messaging that Tyra likes to hype on ANTM and her talk show is all an act. It would not surprise me in the least if she gets threatened by the rising popularity of a female judge on her show and then guillotines them out of insecurity.

27
May

Ashton Kutcher, Unclear on the Twitter Concept

ashton_demi2Twittering fiends Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are just SHOCKED and APPALLED that there might be a reality show about Twitter:

Ashton Kutcher and his wife, Demi Moore, who have more than 3 million Twitter followers between them, have posted Tweets to the effect that a TV show based on Twitter would equate a sellout on the Web site’s part.

“It’s all fun and games until somebody gets stalked,” Kutcher posted Monday on Twitter. “I really don’t like being sold out. May have to take a Twitter hiatus.”

Moore followed suit with a post that read, “Hope this isn’t true — if it is our Twitter time may come to a quick and sad end!”

But a few facts were omitted from the MSN article about the jackhole who is so nervous about stalkers.

Ashton has updated his profile 33 more times since Monday — including streaming video of the set where he is currently filming his next project — for a total of 2,240 tweets since he joined the site. He instigated a Twitter battle with CNN to see who could get to a million followers first. (He won.) He’s even posted Twitpics of his wife’s behind.

And after all that he is suddenly concerned about his Twitter privacy?

(A curtsy to Angry Army Wife for the tip!)

27
May

Chris Brown Not a Monster, Says Chris Brown

The R&B (rampaging & battering) artist’s new album is dropping, and so is his credibility:

YouTube Preview Image

Here’s my best attempt at a transcript:

Yeah, I’m tellin’ you. We not, we not. And I don’t do all this talkin’ on the thing, this just some new stuff I’m doin’, I wanna say what up. ‘Cause I ain’t been out there in a minute. But. New album gonna be comin’ soon. We workin’ on that right now. It’s called Graffiti, got everything on it, know what I’m sayin’? So y’all be ready for that. I’m about to drop a single this summer for y’all, so. We ain’t goin’ nowhere. Everybody that hate us, they just been haters. All my real fans, I love y’all. I ain’t a monster.

This is valuable new information. We now know that Chris Brown has three things: his own bowling alley, at least one friend left, and a complete inability to accept responsibility for his own actions. Oh, and locution worthy of a Shakespearean stage actor. Make that four things.

(Hat tip to The Superficial)

26
May

Hayden Panettiere May Come to Regret This One

hayden_tattoo

Hypocrisy? Maybe not until she gets it removed, but this tattoo typo is ironic as all get out:

The tattoo on Hayden Panettiere’s left side is apparently spelled incorrectly.

Her tattoo reads “Vivere senza rimipianti” (”Live without regrets” in Italian) but there’s one too many i’s!

The 19-year-old Heroes starlet’s tattoo says “rimipianti”, but it’s spelled “rimpianti”.

Perhaps I just have a soft spot for gossip about this smug midget, but seriously, she can’t pay someone to proofread her ink?

26
May

Denise Richards Handled Her Divorce With Poise and Maturity

denise_richards3Denise Richards would like you to know that she has totally moved on from Charlie Sheen and their divorce drama was all the media’s fault:

“I don’t have a choice but to get past [the divorce]. You know, I don’t read a lot of that stuff obviously — I’m not stupid. I know what’s said in most of it but it’s just moving forward in my life and at that time when it was really bad in my life, I didn’t think about that stuff. I had to think about ‘I’m a Mom, I have two daughters that depend on me so I put all that stuff aside’ and I kind of just live in a little bubble …

“I think anytime you go through a divorce it’s so a huge change in your life and obviously in my divorce was very public and it got very nasty… Charlie and I didn’t want that, it’s we didn’t want all the conflict and this and that and that’s just was the situation was.”

Which is all well and good except the two of them — and she in particular — waged a nasty battle in the media to detonate each other.

Remember when she accused Charlie of molesting their young daughters? I bet he does. Or how she pimped out those kids on her reality show because the $25 million she got from him in child support and alimony just wasn’t enough?

Over/under on when she will stop acting like somebody’s victim? Because I don’t know whether she’s better known for that or for her funbags.




May 2009
S M T W T F S
« Apr   Jun »
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
Deceiver Atom Feed
Bookmark and Share
About Deceiver
CafePress
  • Recent Comments

    • California Dave: Part of the problem is that they badly...
    • Patrick Of Atlantis: Well, Hollywood is all for same-sex...
    • Bruce: I saw the first episode of “Marriage...
    • nic: Ha ha, yes Pasta, that’s a train wreck...
    • TRACY: Dear Sarah – although I’ll agree with...
    • Pastafarian: If you get tired of watching that nic, just...
    • Uzi: @Tengu…Good point! At least Mel hasn’t...
    • skippy: That show looks ridiculous. The LAST people I...
    • Herandar: As I told my wife when the commercials aired...
    • Pastafarian: My basement?
  • people like you crave deceiver

    • "When it comes to rounding up John Edwards news and links, I can’t hope to compete with Deceiver."Mickey Kaus, Slate

    • "Thank you for your awesome posts. Deceiver is by far the best new blog I discovered this year."Yeeeah!

    • "I love you. This site is like Dlisted if MK read newspapers."  – reader Nanners

    • "Thank you for having the balls to cut through the spin and hype" – reader Kim Hee

    • "OH … MY … GOD … Can I come and work for you people?" – reader Spengman

    • "There must be some hardcore vegans running this site" – reader David

    • "It is nice to get intellectual about something that really has no bearing on anyone’s life"Normality Restored

    • "Another blog filled with the angry ramblings of the jealous and envious" – reader wfc123 at Metafilter

    • "Interesting that most of the hypocrisy comes from popular and attractive women" – reader Joey at Metafilter

    • "Our new guilty pleasure blog"BigHeadDC

    • "Love your site btw, i’m so through with all that nasty perez-like gossip based on nothing…" – reader Nathalie

    • "How did I ever live without the keen insights and cutting observations of Deceiver!? And I mean that sincerely... I love your blog. " – reader Teresa

    • "Deceiver.com is our newest obsession" – reader Judi

    • "I don't visit Perez Hilton anymore. I like Deceiver for the solid content, and the lack of spelling errors. Deceiver has a head on their shoulders, whereas Perez Hilton just has head!" – reader Stella