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Porn Star for Obama
Paris Hilton shouldn’t be telling anyone how to vote.
So, as we all know, Senator McCain has finally found his campaign footing. With his commercial showing Paris Hilton and some other starlet then showing Obama with German crowds saying “O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!” and a voice saying, “He’s the biggest celebrity in the world…but is he ready to lead?” McCain has limned the key weakness of Obama: or maybe the key weaknesses: He’s young and he’s more of a rock star than an experienced leader. Maybe he’s also a bit exotic.
Anyway, it’s a devastating commercial. If you pull on the threads in the commercial, lots of Barack Obama disappears.
How do the Friends of Barack Obama respond? They have Paris Hilton in a tiny bathing suit making fun of John McCain for being old. That’s right. Too old. Too wrinkly. Too much gray hair.
Now, this is perfect. First of all, Paris Hilton was a total nobody party girl in West Hollywood until she and her boyfriend made AND then “someone” SOLD a hard core video of Paris Hilton having sex. So basically, she got her start as a porn star. And she’s being trotted out by the media barons to smear John McCain, as brave and patriotic a man as lives in this nation. This little tramp, who isn’t even close to being pretty, is belittling a man who spent six years in brutal captivity for defending his country.
Paris, get this: in modern day America, we don’t mock people because of things they have done that are unavoidable and not in any way blameworthy. We don’t make fun of blacks for being black. We don’t make fun of women for having breasts. We don’t make fun of old people for being old. This is uncool from any source. It is downright disgusting coming from a porn star — and not a very good porn star at that (yes, I have seen the tape). And we especially don’t like being told how to vote by porn stars. If this is the best the Hollywood pals of Barack Obama can do, maybe John McCain has more of a shot than I thought he did.
Oh, by the way, Paris, there are a few more of us gray haired people registered to vote than there are porn star party girls.
And Senator McCain, a little note you might be familiar with: the flak is always heaviest when you’re right over the target.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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Allen| 10.23.08 @ 3:17AM
What's really sad about this is that more people in this country can tell you about Paris Hilton and her father than can tell you about John McCain and his father.
I'm not a John McCain fan, but if Paris Hilton is mocking a candidate, that gives me reason to vote for said candidate. I don't want someone who she thinks is cool to be CIC. Hell, I don't want my CIC to be "cool". I want them to be wise, just, and valiant.
louis vuitton | 4.27.10 @ 4:57AM
writer McCain (relative?) uses hundreds of words to end with the line..."But wouldn't it be fun?" He wants us to have fun this November while we pull the lever voting.r canada goosethe ills of the major cities in the lammunity have been poorly served by decades of black leadership. They continue to reelect the very people whose policies keep them in poverty. No debate presence is going to change that. The MSM.