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How the Media Legitimized Perez Hilton, Cyber-Bukly Extraordinaire
Culture and Media Institute ^ | September 22, 2009 | Colleen Raezler

Posted on 09/22/2009 8:46:04 AM PDT by Bean74

Perez Hilton has proved that demonstrable talent or skill is no longer a prerequisite for fame. These days, all that’s needed is a proclivity for peddling the sleaziest material imaginable

Hilton created a career for himself out of enhancing paparazzi shots of celebrities with crude white drawings of genitalia and bodily fluids and posting them on his blog, PerezHilton.com. He regularly described young actresses in the most misogynic terms imaginable, relentlessly attempted to bring gay celebrities out of the closet and reserved a special brand of hate for conservative women, such as referring to “The View’s” Elisabeth Hasselbeck as “Elisab----” or re-posting lesbian comedian Margaret Cho’s graphic oral sex fantasy about Sarah Palin. As a reward, his Web site reportedly receives 24 – 30 million views per month.

The mainstream media aided Hilton’s rise to the top of culture corrupters. Since 2006, he has been the focus of 49 television news reports. He has been cited as an “expert” on all things related to Hollywood in 32 news stories. The Los Angeles Times recently labeled the blogger a “tastemaker.”

Then, in what was surely the crown jewel of this self-appointed “queen of all media’s” tiara, the Oxygen Network attempted to place Hilton on the ballot for Best Host of a Reality Competition at this year’s Emmy Awards, which honors achievements in television. Hilton hosted the Oxygen Network’s “The Bad Girls Club” season three reunion. Apparently to network executives, calling women “b----es” and crudely commenting on their body parts passed for “achievement,” since that’s what Hilton did during the show.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: perezhilton

1 posted on 09/22/2009 8:46:05 AM PDT by Bean74
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To: Bean74

From what little I have seen on TV, the guy is a friggin’ nut.

parsy, who wonders if they will have an Emmy for being a nut one of these days


2 posted on 09/22/2009 8:51:37 AM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: Bean74

The headline should say “Cyber-Bully” not “Cyber-Bukly.”


3 posted on 09/22/2009 8:52:28 AM PDT by Bean74
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To: Bean74

I think we are past the stage of “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”.


4 posted on 09/22/2009 8:52:40 AM PDT by bubbacluck
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To: Bean74

I thought it meant “Cyber-Bulky.”


5 posted on 09/22/2009 9:23:58 AM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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