Sorry if this has made the rounds already, but via Newsbusters, I see that a February 2005 Washington Post article contained the following quote:
“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”
This should put to rest the moronic accusation that McCain was injecting race into the campaign in his recent ad by flashing images of white party girls before a black candidate. Clearly, Obama himself once used Paris Hilton as an example of an overexposed celebrity — the exact context in which she was used in the ad.
