Paris Hilton gives John McCain a piece of her mind …
Expresso,
Portugal
John McCain:
Sadly, More Out of Touch than Paris Hilton
"In the archaic mind of John
McCain, calling his opponent a 'celebrity' will bring him disrepute. Poor
McCain: in the 21st Century, it is disreputable not to be one."
Some time ago I read an article about the remarkable photographer Nick Ut. Who is Nick Ut? The best way
to introduce this creator is to recall one of his creations. For that we need
to look back 35 years. In Ut’s most famous
photo [below], we see a group of children in Vietnam fleeing a bombing
attack. And in the middle of the road, with open arms, is a small nine-year-old
girl, completely nude, with an expression of shock and horror.
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Nick
Ut's 1972 Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Vietnamese
children
fleeing
a bombing attack.
The picture was published
around the world and Ut won the respected Pulitzer
Prize. Then there was 35 years of silence which was only broken by a
recently taken photograph. Now we have a new girl. We also have a new girl
crying. But this time the person in question is not a Vietnamese child. It's
Paris Hilton in the back seat of a police car on the day she learned that
prison bars awaited her due to some infraction [below]. That photo, too, was
shown around the planet - and Nick Ut had suddenly
returned to the kingdom of the living. A Pulitzer cannot be ruled out.
Nick Ut strikes again: Paris Hilton
laments her fate.
And why would that be? Thirty
five years ago, the "seriousness" and "brutality" of the world
required witnesses capable of showing it to an attentive and willing audience.
Today, with the inevitable exception of Islamist fanaticism, there are no major
military or ideological narratives to write about or photograph. History has
come to an end - and the West wholeheartedly approves. And because of this it
is consumed - as it has never been consumed - by the joys and sadness of
"celebrities." In this phase, Paris Hilton has no equal. In her
sensual and sexual vulgarity, in her visible, festive and even
self-congratulatory lack of brain mass, and in a certain ethical, aesthetic and
even spiritual nihilism, Hilton is a success that the masses never ignore or
forget.
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That is why I am stupefied
with John McCain’s attitude in comparing Barack Obama to Paris Hilton - a feat
that Hilton has already responded to with a video (watch below) that is as inevitably burlesque as it is vacuous, and which has proven a
great success among the weak-minded masses. In the archaic mind of John McCain,
calling his opponent a "celebrity" will bring him disrepute.
Poor McCain: in the 21st Century, it is disreputable not to be one.
PARIS STRIKES
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