Comments on What He Said

She explained it in her video: because she's hot.

Because she's fucking smart. Maybe not in a "I can do a Rubik's Cube with my feet" smart, but smart enough to hire the right people to promote her and smart enough to make the right decisions financially to make millions on her own (which is good cuz she apparently ain't gettin' any of grampa's dough).

She may have a vapid front, but that woman is formidable. And she makes my gay go away...I'd totally hit that.

I'm not a Hilton apologist by any means, but she majorly scored this time, and more at the expense of McCain, thankfully. It was also the perfect response to help obfuscate her breakdown re: her arrest a year ago. (Oh whoops, I wasn't supposed to mention that.)

Well, for one thing, she's not so old that she flew a biplane like John McCain did.

And she'd make a great VP for Obama, and finally pull all the Clinton diehards back to reality.

She can paint the Naval Observatory hot pink for all I care ... and use the walk-in safes that Cheney got to store her jewelry in.

uh, this is what she does for a living; selling herself, or at least an image of herself...she'd better be expert at it.

i'm not so sure she was reading a teleprompter. i think she might have memorized all that stuff. girl's got more going on than i gave her credit for.

the new york post today said that the mccain camp really liked her energy policy. it's a little cringeworthy. i guess they didn't get the joke.

As a stupid floozy I hate her. As a talking head I love her.

I am more impressed that Paris even knows how to read.

Her energy policy sounds coherent because she can talk well, but it doesn't make any actual sense. Her "compromise" on offshore drilling, which is Obama's compromise, might possibly have the benefit of getting the troglodytes to vote for it, which is not inconsiderable, but it is by no stretch of the imagination a short term solution. Even if offshore drilling produced a massive, unexpected windfall of new oil, that oil wouldn't show up at refineries for a decade.

Still, it's positively Churchillian compared to the meaningless squirrel squeaks emitted by McCain on the subject.

"she makes my gay go away"

i have to take a moment and ponder that one for a bit... :)

@5:

"uh, this is what she does for a living; selling herself, or at least an image of herself...she'd better be expert at it."

FYI, McCain does this for a living too...

Also apparently Hilton did not use a teleprompter or cue cards, she memorized her lines.

lindsay lohan went from my most hated to my most loved when she came out, and now paris makes me like her with this. what's next, britney hijacks the blue angels??

Think about it - Paris would be our first bi VP who's a woman.

Hard to beat that.

I was thinking the same damn thing. Girl can actually make sense, yo. And was she reading a teleprompter or did she have it memorized? Either way she kicks Grampy McSame's ass. Awesome.

Well as usual, I am on the other end of the argument, unless of course you count Andrew Sullivan and his " I'm very tired " feeling of writing and casual ease with which money aspires to rub elbows with the Super-Rich heiress types...

and of course " others " who wish to rub other ideas next to Rich Heiresses....

As for the Super-Rich Heiress types... I think I am way to jaded to give Miss Hilton a review and critique for The Stranger here, for a couple of reasons....

One:

Some Asshole who I have forgotten the name of SOLD her image to the ASSHOLES who published it WITHOUT her PERMISSION.

Two:

Having worked last year in Alaska and having seen a SHACK with the words spray painted on the side

HOTEL HILTON

... and knowing what I know about privacy and keeping a cool head between old law and friends and aquaintances in a work enviornment, discussing Miss Hilton in the same article would be akin to picking on

Andrew Sullivan without inviting him to critique my reasons for excluding Miss Hilton from this SLOG post while at the same time challenging him not to get defensive about my slant at HIS WRITING STYLE.

note to Dan Savage: Webmaster can verify that I clicked thru Andrew Sullivan on the way here from his site.

There might be a relatively simple explanation for why Hilton's add goes into much more detail than McCain's, and it might not need to raise my (admittedly low) opinion of Hilton or raise my (admittedly low) opinion of McCain.

Paris' fake ad was three times longer than McCain's real 30 second spot. Real ads need to fit into real ad slots. Internet web videos just need to catch someone's interest and keep it until the end. (Paris almost lost me at the full five seconds she spends reading Conde Naste just know that I'm less important to her than the magazine.)

Maybe that is the really brilliant aspect of Hilton's ad. She uses a new medium (embedded flash based video) for its potential while McCain's ad clings to the older medium's rules.

That was the first time I actually liked Paris.

Paris sounds intelligent - unless you know anything about off-shore drilling. If you do, then you know that what she's saying is as fluffy as anything you might expect would come out of her head.

"Paris almost lost me at the full five seconds she spends reading Conde Naste just know that I'm less important to her than the magazine."

Apparently her rather blatant display of self-parody was lost on you. I thought the pause was spot-on and quite funny.

She didn't read it off a teleprompter, she memorized her lines. She is a trained actress, after all (ok, maybe not ready for an Oscar, or even a Golden Globe, but she does have some training delivering lines).

And though I know y'all are just joking, she's only 26. Too young for the Constitution minimum of President or VP (35), or even the US Senate (30). But she is old enough for the House of Representatives (25). Maybe there's a trogladite Rep in Orange County she can take on. Fierce!

I think the parody is brilliant. As someone on another blog commented, when Republican friends comment, of McCain, how "when Paris Hilton makes you look shallow..." Absolutely brilliant.

@19 Not "lost on me", but "lost me."

My point was that internet video is a different medium than a TV commercial. It has to grab and keep attention or else the viewer will go somewhere else. Although I understood the humor in the five second pause, by the time the five seconds were done I was moments away from clicking away from the video and finding something else to amuse my self.