In the last hour Perez Hilton has taken down the photo shown here and amended his original post so he doesn't look as bad, but here's the text of what he originally posted.
We knew something like this would happen!!
Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance from his Holmby Hills home to a nearby Los Angeles hospital on Thursday afternoon!!
Supposedly, the singer went into cardiac arrest and the paramedics had to administer CPR!!!
His mother is even on the way to visit him!!!
We are dubious!!
Jacko pulled a similar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in ‘95 when he "collapsed" at rehearsal!
He was dragging his heels on that just like his upcoming 50 date London residency at the 02 Arena, of which he already postponed the first few dates!!!
Either he's lying or making himself sick, but we're curious to see if he's able to go on!!!
Get your money back, ticket holders!!!!
Yeah, you too, PerezHilton.com advertisers!!!! If this comment is really Will.I.Am, 'nuff respect to him:
Perez Hilton has officially jumped the shark. Buh-bye, now!
Is it wrong that I'm really, really glad the Black Eyed Peas manager belted Perez Hilton, and that I wish to God I could move to Toronto and become a Canadian citizen just long enough to be on that jury, solely for nullification purposes? If it is, consider this my apology. Or not.
To recap: it all started when Hilton, real name something Lavandera, or something, blasted through his 15 minutes of fame by getting into a fight -- literal and Twitteral -- with the entire population of the Black Eyed Peas (whom my son informed me today actually consists of FOUR people. Who knew!? I thought it was just Will.I.Am, Fergie and that Latino guy with the long hair...! But I digress...) So rather than call 911 himself, Perez, for whom EVERYTHING is done mostly for publicity, Twitters his followers to do it for him. And they being the lefty-celeb-hating equivalent of Dittoheads, proceeded to do so, probably clogging up 911 for people with real problems. Per @perezhilton on the night of "the incident..."
--" I'm in shock. I need the police ASAP. Please come to the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel now. Please."
-- "I was assaulted by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke."
--" Still waiting for the police. The bleeding has stopped. I need to document this. Please, can the police come to the SoHo Met Hotel."
--" I spoke to my lawyer. I really need to talk to the authorities. Please come to the SoHo Met Hotel. Have called the police. Need them here."
-- "The Toronto police are here now. Thank you. Please stop calling them."
Well, at least he told them to stop.
Meanwhile, Perez's claims that Will.I.Am had beaten him up, went viral, causing Will.I.Am to feel the need to make his own video denying he'd touched a pink hair on Perez's head. ... oh, and Perez called Will a "faggot." To which Hilton responded with a 12-minute rant about what a bad person Will.I.Am is. Dude -- you're a blogger fighting with a pop group after you've just finished fighting with a beauty pageant contestant ... Which leads us to two conclusions. First, Perez Hilton is an idiot. He Twitted that Will.I.Am assaulted him, which it turns out, he didn't actually believe, since it's the BIP's bodyguard who has been charged with assault (presumably, Perez is the one who pressed the charges.) Second, Perez Hilton is an idiot. A gay guy calling someone a "faggot?" Does that even make sense??? Gay activists are not amused (and neither is John Mayer, which is a whoooole nother level of Perez jumping the shark-dom.) The story makes its way all the way to ABC News:
The openly gay blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, caught heat from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, Monday for his use of the anti-gay slur.
"These are vulgar anti-gay slurs that feed a climate of hatred and intolerance toward our community," Rashad Robinson, GLAAD's senior director of media programs, said in a statement, adding that the organization had reached out to Hilton for an apology.
In response to Hilton's latest statement, Robinson said, "Perez Hilton's acknowledgement that words can hurt is an important step in the right direction, and while his change of tone is welcome, he still seems to be justifying the use of the slurs. ... Now that Perez Hilton has acknowledged that words can hurt, GLAAD calls on him to take this opportunity to reflect on his use of demeaning and defamatory language against many different communities on PerezHilton.com."
And now, of course, Perez is suing ... although he can't sue the Black Eyed Peas and make soem REAL money, because despite his initial Twittering, none of the members of that group hit him. So, he's down to suing the bodyguard. Sure hate it! And as for that 12-minute rant? Breckin's is funnier.
Prescription: somebody else famous could belt Perez in the other eye so he can stay famous? Or ... let's just pretend he isn't there...
UPDATE: For the love of God make it stop! There's video of the alleged "confrontation":
Miss California, Carrie Prejean, tossed around in the battle over gay marriage, will be a one-day guest host for Fox News Channel's popular morning show Fox & Friends, Whispers learns. She will host the 6 a.m.-to-7 a.m. slot on May 27, filling in for Gretchen Carlson—the 1989 Miss America—who will be off that day.
Don't say I didn't warn you. You're going to be seeing a lot more of Ms. Prejean, and I'm not just talking in dirty pictures...
I will admit right here and now that I often can't stand hardcore activists, on either side of the political spectrum. They tend to attempt to persuade by tantrum, rather than by reason the way Dr. King or Ghandi did (think the truly psychotic Glenn Beck on the right, and the nasty Perez Hilton on the left...) So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say ENOUGH. Enough already with the war on Carrie Prejean. She's a freaking pageant contestant, for chrissakes. Can we stop trying to take her down like a roped mule? I mean, it's not like the woman stormed onto the Miss USA stage, grabbed the mike and made an empassioned speech opposing gay marriage. She was asked a question, and she answered it, in her own, Sarah Palin-y form of English (which is what bothered me more than her answer) but with her own, hardly unique opinion nonetheless. She didn't call for gay people to be burned at the stake as witches, or deported. And even if she had, who CARES??? SHE'S A PAGEANT CONTESTANT!!! Why do you need her approval so very badly? Can gay people no longer enjoy pageants anymore because of her? Does this woman have some secret power to nullify gay marriages in Vermont or Iowa that I don't know about???
Earth to lefties: the culture wars are over and our side won. Put down the bayonets and walk away slowly! Or at least tell me this: what could Ms. Prejean have done differently? As far as I'm concerned, there are only three alternatives:
1) Lie. She could have told Perez what he wanted to hear, and pretended to favor gay marriage (assuming she even knew who Perez Hilton was) or given a muddy non-answer that didn't indicate how she felt one way or another but which was more politically correct. The problem, of course, is that such an answer wouldn't have been good enough, and she still would have been attacked as an intolerant wench, and pummeled until she dropped to her knees and vowed to campaign for gay marriage in every state in the union...
2) Refuse to answer the question (on the grounds it might case The Dirty to release semi-nude pictures of her -- possibly as a minor -- and the entire Progressive Movement to declare her Public Implant Enemy Number One.) Problem: same as above.
3) Storm off the stage in tears (thus engendering the kind of sympathy that wins crowns.) Problem: wouldn't that have disqualified her?
If none of these is the answer, than the answer must be that despite her apparently silly assumptions, Ms. Prejean actually doesn't have the right to her own opinion if that opinion is politically incorrect. Right? So I guess by that standards, the left AGREED with ABC's decision to fire Bill Maher for speaking politically incorretly after 9/11? At that time, his opinion about the hijackers was in the distinct minority, and went against the grain of the country. Should he have been ostracized the way he was? Educate me, people. I'm stumped. This lady might not be the most progressive or articulate banana in the bunch, but the attempts to utterly destroy her, including by the Miss USA pageant itself, have, I think, crossed the line.
Meanwhile: Miss Cali vows to fight back. Good luck with that. That crown's as good as gone, lady.
Far be it from me to start agreeing with Matt Drudge's assistant, but Andrew Breitbart is right on this one. Perez Hilton's gutter-level attacks on Miss California were out of line. I don't care how celeb-fab you think you are, or how passionate you are about gay rights. You shouldn't get to call any woman the c-word (or the b-word for that matter,) and get away with it (how desperate was the Miss USA pageant for cool points that they put such a controversial, to say the least, celeb hunter on that dais in the first place...?) If say, Mel Gibson, or Don Imus, had called a beauty contestant, or any woman for that matter, a c---, the hew and cry would have lasted for weeks, and careers would be hanging in the balance. African-American actor Isaiah Washington lost his gig on "Gray's Anatomy," alon with his career and livelihood over an anti-gay slur that doesn't come close to the "c-word" in terms of sheer repugnance (when word leaked that he and his wife would soon be kicked out of their home, Perez cheered his misfortune...) Michael Richards, formerly of "Seinfeld," committed career suicide by using the "N-word" at a comedy club. And yet, the "Queen of Mean" gets away with his slur because ... what ... Carrie Prejean's a religous rightie? ... Because she's "just a pageant girl"...? Because ... he's gay? Well he shouldn't have gotten a pass for any reason, and shame on the media, and on my side of the political spectrum for not calling him out.
Meanwhile, while onstage, she mangled the syntax, and while there is clearly growing support for gay marriage in the U.S., and Republicans risk even further diminishing themselves by continuing to harp on it, Miss Prejean's views (and those of fellow gay movement scourge, Rick Warren,) are hardly shocking. In fact, they turn out to be precisely the same as those of the president of the United States. Remember him? And millions of religious Americans, who by no means "hate" gay people, are conflicted on the issue, indeed, many struggle sincerely with it. Are all of these people c---t's and bitches, too? Or in the vernacular of a certain British MP, maybe they should all just be killed.
One thing Breitbart gets wrong in his Washington Times column, is his contention that there was no comparable backlash from pro gay marriage groups against African-Americans, who mostly oppose same-sex marriage and voted mainly in favor of Proposition 8. In fact, the attacks on African-Americans in the wake of Prop 8's passage, particularly online, were often vicious, accusatory, and sometimes, downrightracist, (and sometimes scary,) repleat with cries of "you people owe us!" ... and yes, the gay community's anger WAS directed against Barack Obama, too.
Like any movement, the gay marriage cause has two sides: one reasonable and thoughtful, the other ranging from snarky and entitled to downright nasty. (Perez Hilton, it seems, belongs to the latter, and you can throw in a rather awful strain of mysogyny in his brand, too.) And yet, both sides lay claim to the civil rights movement of the 1960s (which is one reason blacks often shut down on the issue.) On that score, it's helpful to remember history with a sense of proportionality. During segregation, whites who opposed integration and "intermarriage" weren't "uncomfortable" with blacks, they wanted blacks to remain a servant class, physically separated from society and denied the basic rights of citizenship, and they held literal life and death power over an entire class of people whom many literally thought to be subhuman. Opponents of gay marriage don't want to turn gays into servants or property, they simply hold to traditional religious notions of human coupling. Not exactly equivalent. Meanwhile, the movement the gay marriage cause hopes to emulate was one Dr. King patterned after Mohandus K. Ghandi, whom I suspect would never have called even the worst of all colonialists a c---.
Prediction: Miss California will get a show on Fox News
She stood down Perez Hilton, stammered her support for "opposite marriage," and lost the crown. And yet, to a Fox News exec, she's pretty, she's conservative on family values (maybe she could do a national traditional marriage tour with Rudy Giuliani ... and his three wives, including his ... cousin ... and his wife Judy's ... other husband??? ... ahem...) and she's blonde. Done deal.
Miss California, Carrie Prejean, previously famous for maybe, possibly dating our favorite, medaled-down pot-head, Michael Phelps, is in a full-on girl fight with Perez, who broke all prior pageant protocol by being a former judge who refers to a contestant a "dumb bitch," and well on her way to her own show on Fox, which is already distributing the talking point that she lost the Miss USA pageant over her opposition to gay marriage. The controversy unfolded as follows:
Prejean picked celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who is openly gay and calls himself 'queen of all media'.
Hilton asked her: 'Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalise same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?'
Prejean paused for a moment before replying: 'Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage.'
She continued: 'And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.
'No offence to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be - between a man and a woman. Thank you very much.'
No, thank YOU very much. ... And then Perez:
... went on to describe Prejean as having 'half a brain' and said he would have stormed onto the stage and ripped off her tiara if she had won.
Which he followed by...
In an expletive-laced online video blog, the gay self-proclaimed “Queen of All Media” said after the telecast that Prejean should have just avoided the question. “She lost not because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage, she lost because she’s a dumb (expletive)..."
The expletive in question was "bitch." (Ahem.) At least for a time...
So ... question ... what was the Miss USA pageant thinking, hiring a madcap entertainment blogger who named himself after Paris Hilton and styles himself the "Queen of All Media" as a judge in the first place? Is this an admission that the only people who watch these silly pageants anymore are 90-year-olds, gay men, creeepy pageant moms and entertainment bloggers? Even then, is it ever appropriate for a judge to call a pageant contestant a bitch ... and worse ... even if he's mad at her over gay marriage? Here's the worse. It starts with "C" ...
Paris Hilton just lost this fight. Throwing out the c-word ends the conversation, and makes Ms. Prejean look reasonable by comparison, on-stage stammering aside. Meanwhile, Fox News executives await Ms. PreJean's answer...
