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Where's the Love?

8.8.08 @ 12:01AM

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Her reply was a funny and well done. It took nothing away from the original ad and may actually have underscored it in that her response was more effective than anything Team O or the DNC has come up with so far. Ms. Hilton's response was not on behalf of Obama but rather a defense of herself. Using the same Pop Celebrity. It warrants a chuckle or laugh and maybe even praise for its cleverness but not a serious response. She is what she is complete with all the antics that brought her to her current status.

If we lose the ability to laugh at our selves and each other we are no better than the over sensitive victims on the left. Lighten up laugh a little... life is way to short to take something so trivial so seriously.
-- Bob Kasper

After reading Ben's porn obsessed Paris Hilton column I suggest he take a break before his head explodes. And can I suggest that next time instead of trying to watch Paris Hilton porn and type at the same time he does just one thing at a time.

Two hands are always better than one.
-- Alan Kennedy
Sydney, Australia

I like Ben Stein. I did not like his editorial about Paris Hilton and John McCain in The American Spectator.

Stein is right when he says that John McCain has achieved distinction for his service to his country and his courage in captivity. But McCain degraded himself by proclaiming his "pride" for trashy campaign ads that mock Obama and distort his record. And if Paris Hilton and a couple comedians feel inspired to respond to McCain's trashy ad about Paris Hilton with some trash of their own, he has nobody to blame but himself. If Paris Hilton is the filthy wretch you think she is, what does it say about McCain to compare her to Barack Obama? And what were you doing watching her porno?!? (Wait, I don't want to know!)

This campaign should be about the issues facing Americans rather than gutter politics, something that McCain had once made a centerpiece of his campaign. But now that he is trying to catch up in the polls, he has broken his own ethical commitments and insulted the public.

Thanks to John McCain's own decisions, we are talking about Paris Hilton and "the One," instead of taxes, foreign policy, the economy, education, health care, and security.

Do not blame Barack Obama for this unfortunate turn in the campaign. If you don't like trash politics, you should use your celebrity pulpit to ask John McCain to shift back to issues that matter.
-- Davin Heckman

Ben Stein can take his shots at Paris Hilton, but John McCain tried to slander his opponent in this presidential race by direct comparison to her. That's pretty shallow politics, as far as I'm concerned, but it also means that he started this little fight with Paris. She said some nasty things -- she may even be a nasty person, though who of us passing judgment has ever met her -- but you can't blame her for feeling offended herself.
-- Blair Chafe
Ottawa, Canada

Ben Stein, as usual, is spot on. Even more enjoyable is his righteous indignation. Wow! Ben, get angrier! Paris is a hairy wart on Hollywood's sagging bum.
-- Jesse Milligan

PERSONAL STAND
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s My Olympic Boycott:

Well said. I boycott the Olympics for the same reasons.
-- Roger Gehle

Olympic athletes have to deal with the local culture of the host country. I suppose that many athletes from other parts of the world were offended during their stay at Salt Lake City -- not everyone wants a free condom shoved in their face every 30 seconds.

In Rome of 1960, the hairless male swimmers, Mr. Somers excluded, may have been off-put by the hirsute European ladies.

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