Two girls cry for their mothers...

[Fridays Child]

[melody]

1. And there are millions of young girls in the US crying, with no one hearing them

As well as everywhere else in the world.

The tiny cares of the rich are all we'll ever hear about.

[Kikosexy2]

2. Well ...

Gay Leno, David Letterman & Conan the barbarian are gonna have a field day tonight....Paris jokes in full swing!!

[Catherine Vincent]

14. Gay Leno?

Was that a typo? lol!

[whistle]

3. You know, multiple DUIs followed by another DUI while driving

...with a suspended license. I'm afraid this young woman has a serious problem with alcohol. The judge has actually doen Paris Hilton a favor this time by sending her to jail. Maybe this time this young woman will wake up and realize that something very serious is wrong here. I hope she does for her sake and the sake of those who do care for her and love her.

[Fridays Child]

4. Waking up will include considering the plight of little girls who really have lost their mothers...

...as well as other tragedies and injustices in the world. I saw a video shot of the inside of Paris Hilton's house. She had photographs of herself everywhere--dozens of them. It was the most disgustingly self-centered display of ego I've ever seen.

[Tanuki]

8. I hope so too, for the sake of those she might otherwise kill or maim

through her irresponsibility and negligence.

[monktonman]

9. no,no,no not HER irresponsibility....

She did what she was supposed to do.
Took her parents money, bought a fancy car and went out and got a DUI with it.
The cops did their job and arrested the dumb bitch.
The judge threw her in jail....

The state of California is negligent for not making DUI a jail time offense THE FIRST TIME!!!!!! and every time after that.
No pot head ever scared me, no hooker ever threatened me, no illegal alien ever broke into my home but everytime Paris gets behind the wheel of a car we're all in danger.
How many people does she get to kill before California changes its DUI laws? one, two, six?
Here in Vermont, if you drink and drive, YOU GO TO JAIL!!!!!

[Error]

5. flamebait Pallywood material?

I found out the other day that anything that evokes sympathy for Palestinians is called "Pallywood" - in other words, all of the atrocities are fake, only staged by Palestinians to make Israel look bad...

check it out on wikipeida. I don't decide, I just report.

[Fridays Child]

7. The child could have been from anywhere that marauding, dominant forces...

...destroy innocent lives. The point lies in the juxtaposition.

[ck4829]

17. Sure, those Palestinians live the life of luxury

Even though they make up one of the largest refugee populations in the world, they are living the good life.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Too late - she should have asked her mother instead of her publicist

whether she would be breaking parole if she drove.ve.

[calimary]

10. Not 100% clear that her mother would have known either.

The way Kathy Hilton exploded at the judge at an earlier Paris hearing - I dunno...

[peacetalksforall]

12. Understand. Proves that I shouldn't speak up about something I

haven't been following.

What I can comment about is the media - the big five corporations - they will cover her instead of the crimes of this admin for months to come.

[calimary]

15. Hey, who can say? But your point about the media whoring here is unimpeachable.

They'll beat this one to death til damned near Doomsday, because it's "what the people want."

I shared this story elsewhere here from my old career, when I was a reporter for the AP here in L.A. and went through something similar to this. MY version was the Zsa Zsa cop-slapping trial. We in the press corps referred to chaotic, idiot, tabloid stuff like this as "pig-fucks." Which they were. That one brought out the mad-dog paparrazzi and the tabloid reporters and the primordial "infotainment" crowd, back when "Entertainment Tonight," CNN's "Showbiz Today," "The Today Show" and "Good Morning America" were about it. It was just absolutely nuts. Surreal. I forget what-all else was going on, but who needed to know what else was going on, to begin with? ALL ANYBODY WANTED was Zsa Zsa. It was All-Zsa-Zsa-All-The-Time. Nobody cared about anything else. The folks at the main bureau in Washington DC were very annoyed by it. All the other stuff they were working on, from Capitol Hill and the White House and New York and London and Moscow and ANYWHERE ELSE - it was all trumped by Zsa Zsa. That's all ANY of our affiliates wanted. It's all they called about. It's all they requested. Anything else we can offer you? Naaahhhh... nobody cared. All they wanted was more Zsa Zsa. It got to be embarrassing when I'd call in with some report or update or soundbites. I knew they all were rolling their eyeballs when somebody said I was on the phone from the Zsa Zsa front. And I did, too, because in the scheme of things it WAS rather ridiculous and trivial. But it was all anybody wanted out there in listener/reader/viewer-land, and there was simply no such thing as too much Zsa Zsa. Go figure. Maybe if Elvis came back from the dead, that would have sent me to the back of the line with my Zsa Zsa tape. But that's about what it would have taken. Like I said - go figure.

It was Zsa Zsa then. It just recently was Anna-Nicole Smith. It's Paris Hilton now. In a few years (or, hell, at the rate we're going, probably just a few months - maybe Lindsey Lohan next), it'll be some other blonde bimbette as the over-indulged attention-hog.

[TahitiNut]

11. God forbid we don't eliminate the inheritance tax. After all, how would Paris survive?

Talk about the poster child for a 50%+ inheritance tax!

How does she possibly cope with only 2700 sq' of home? After all, doesn't every 26-year-old deserve more? There's hardly enough room for her servants!

[Miss Chybil]

13. I've cried a few times over the last few months.

I suppose my reasons were frivolous compared to all the suffering in the world, but I did it all the same. I was really sad. Is there some kind of law against it, now? Must we align ourselves with some moral measuring stick before allowing our feelings to come out. If our family hasn't been blown up, raped or set on fire, are we still allowed to cry? All things cannot be measured against the worst things. Our own feelings can only be measured against our own comparative experience. If a parent beats a child, would it be acceptable for him to say, "Don't cry, baby. The guy down the street just killed his kids and they cried just like you. Aren't you ashamed of yourselves? You're not dying."?

[Fridays Child]

16. I am more concerned with the plight of the girl who saw her mother murdered by soldiers.

If you see Paris Hilton's problems as being equally deserving of the world's attention, I doubt that anything I might say could change your mind.

[piesRsquare]

18. Oh, okay...

Though I do hope you're equally concerned with the plight of this young woman, who also saw her mother (and her daughter) murdered:



Original caption reads: "Pnina Eisenman was injured in the suicide bombing attack (in Jerusalem) that killed her mother and her daughter."

[Fridays Child]

20. Did I give you some reason to think I would not be?

[Miss Chybil]

19. Not equally "deserving of attention," but equally "deserving" to cry.

Neither of these women can help that someone snapped their picture for profit at their moment of despair. The cause of their pain is a by-product in the world of sensationalistic journalism. Each picture makes money. Paris' photo will probably make more because hers is less painful to look at than the other. We know - barring anything more sensational happening to her - she will be alright. Just as we know a girl who sees her parents murdered will never be. The point of my post, however, was not to measure the pain of each of these women and to justify their feelings based on the severity of their circumstances. It was only to point out we all have a right to cry when we need to. Luckily, we all don't have cameras in our face when it happens.

[Fridays Child]

21. Then, your point and my original point were completely different.