Comments on: Who’s trying to kill Britney? http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/ I used to be in the middle, but they keep moving the line! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:28:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: etee's Blog http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57617 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:12:51 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57617 <strong>Local woman claims to be father of Anna Nicole's baby!...</strong> BREAKING NEWS - In a statement released yesterday on her web site, noted political commentator Polimom has joined the hundreds... AND HUNDREDS!!! of men who have claimed to be the father of the late Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter. The following ... Local woman claims to be father of Anna Nicole’s baby!…

BREAKING NEWS - In a statement released yesterday on her web site, noted political commentator Polimom has joined the hundreds… AND HUNDREDS!!! of men who have claimed to be the father of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter.
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]]> by: CLG http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57497 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:51:41 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57497 Along with what everyone else has said (except Jess): I think celebrity media coverage going through the same growing pains that Presidential media coverage went through around 1996-97. The President lies? He has sex? In the Oval Office!! There was a big debate over whether the President was allowed to have a personal life, and yet celebrities went about their drug-addled, closeted ways with no one else the wiser. And we were shocked, SHOCKED, when Kurt Cobain put a gun in his mouth or Chris Farley died of a drug overdose. Who knew? Thanks to more immediate media coverage, we know everyone's dirty secrets. Watch Lindsay coming out of rehab and head straight for the clubs! Look at the white powder residue Nicole Richie left behind in a bathroom stall! I think it gives the average citizen a sense of foreshadowing. A sense of, "Well I saw this coming a mile away!" A sense of superiority even, "My boring life is a lot better than THAT!" Along with what everyone else has said (except Jess):

I think celebrity media coverage going through the same growing pains that Presidential media coverage went through around 1996-97. The President lies? He has sex? In the Oval Office!! There was a big debate over whether the President was allowed to have a personal life, and yet celebrities went about their drug-addled, closeted ways with no one else the wiser. And we were shocked, SHOCKED, when Kurt Cobain put a gun in his mouth or Chris Farley died of a drug overdose. Who knew?

Thanks to more immediate media coverage, we know everyone’s dirty secrets. Watch Lindsay coming out of rehab and head straight for the clubs! Look at the white powder residue Nicole Richie left behind in a bathroom stall!

I think it gives the average citizen a sense of foreshadowing. A sense of, “Well I saw this coming a mile away!” A sense of superiority even, “My boring life is a lot better than THAT!”

]]> by: Polimom http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57485 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:10:41 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57485 <em>I am the father of Anna Nicole’s child!</em> Hey... how 'bout that! So am I! I am the father of Anna Nicole’s child!

Hey… how ’bout that! So am I!

]]> by: Glide http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57477 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:09:49 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57477 I am the father of Anna Nicole's child! I am the father of Anna Nicole’s child!

]]> by: marc http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57476 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:37:43 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57476 Celebrities are personifications of everything that we think is missing in our boring, uninspiring lives: beauty, sex, drugs, alcohol, parties, glamour. If we got up from in front of the idiot box and led more interesting lives we'd have no need of Britney and her ilk. Celebrities are personifications of everything that we think is missing in our boring, uninspiring lives: beauty, sex, drugs, alcohol, parties, glamour. If we got up from in front of the idiot box and led more interesting lives we’d have no need of Britney and her ilk.

]]> by: Jack http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57473 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:43:08 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57473 As Stephen Colbert put it, celebrities are our nation's most precious natural resource. As Stephen Colbert put it, celebrities are our nation’s most precious natural resource.

]]> by: Polimom http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57470 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:13:46 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57470 Jess -- no offense taken at all. I think you're right, actually, that the mere act of posting this adds to the clamor -- yet it was that very clamor that triggered the thoughts themselves. I had a decent headache already from from the Anna Nicole foolishness, and in combination, it becomes unfathomable (to me). How does one ask these questions without naming names? And I have to agree with Matt. She's broken, and in ways not dissimilar from the afore-mentioned Ms. Smith. Jess — no offense taken at all. I think you’re right, actually, that the mere act of posting this adds to the clamor — yet it was that very clamor that triggered the thoughts themselves. I had a decent headache already from from the Anna Nicole foolishness, and in combination, it becomes unfathomable (to me). How does one ask these questions without naming names?

And I have to agree with Matt. She’s broken, and in ways not dissimilar from the afore-mentioned Ms. Smith.

]]> by: Matt Bramanti http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57463 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:42:51 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57463 <i>I admire her for shaving her head - she’s showing people out there that it’s okay to live outside the box and not to conform to society’s ridiculous beauty standard.</i> She's also showing how she refuses to live up to society's standards for sobriety, decency, safety, marriage, parenting and even business. That's not some admirable form of non-conformity. That's a failed person. I admire her for shaving her head - she’s showing people out there that it’s okay to live outside the box and not to conform to society’s ridiculous beauty standard.

She’s also showing how she refuses to live up to society’s standards for sobriety, decency, safety, marriage, parenting and even business.

That’s not some admirable form of non-conformity. That’s a failed person.

]]> by: Jess http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57460 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:56:43 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57460 I absolutely agree that the media is out of control. But even if they are the ones creating the demand, there is still a demand. People will watch whatever is put on tv or read whatever is in magazines - the more disgusting, the better. However, and please don't take this the wrong way, by writing a post on it, you're (in a way) feeding the frenzy, even though you're talking about how bad it is. I feel that the only thing that can be done about the media is to ignore it. And, as for Britney - her actions may not be the greatest, and her clothing choice may not be appropriate for young viewers, but I like her. Who cares if she shaved her head? Or got divorced (twice)? Britney is a strong woman who does what she wants to do and not what everyone tells her to. I admire her for shaving her head - she's showing people out there that it's okay to live outside the box and not to conform to society's ridiculous beauty standard. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but since I can only think of a few celebrities (out of millions) that would be good role models, I don't understand why the focus is on Britney. I absolutely agree that the media is out of control. But even if they are the ones creating the demand, there is still a demand. People will watch whatever is put on tv or read whatever is in magazines - the more disgusting, the better. However, and please don’t take this the wrong way, by writing a post on it, you’re (in a way) feeding the frenzy, even though you’re talking about how bad it is. I feel that the only thing that can be done about the media is to ignore it.

And, as for Britney - her actions may not be the greatest, and her clothing choice may not be appropriate for young viewers, but I like her. Who cares if she shaved her head? Or got divorced (twice)? Britney is a strong woman who does what she wants to do and not what everyone tells her to. I admire her for shaving her head - she’s showing people out there that it’s okay to live outside the box and not to conform to society’s ridiculous beauty standard. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but since I can only think of a few celebrities (out of millions) that would be good role models, I don’t understand why the focus is on Britney.

]]> by: Polimom http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57454 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:02:02 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/02/22/whos-trying-to-kill-britney/#comment-57454 machine -- That really is the simplest answer, and it's where I started in my thought process. But it feels (to me) like the industry mags are only a drop in the bucket these days. The frenzy has gone viral, infesting the news, the internet... all aspects of normal social discourse. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. machine –

That really is the simplest answer, and it’s where I started in my thought process. But it feels (to me) like the industry mags are only a drop in the bucket these days. The frenzy has gone viral, infesting the news, the internet… all aspects of normal social discourse. It’s like a cancer that’s metastasized.

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