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McCain ad is a waste of money and time, says Paris Hilton’s mom
One of John McCain’s latest anti-Obama ads is alienating at least one of his supporters: Kathy Hilton, mother of Paris.
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Kathy Hilton posted her response to the ad on Huffington Post yesterday morning, calling the video a waste of McCain supporters’ money, not to mention voters’ time and attention.
Hilton concluded that the ad “is a completely frivolous way to choose the next president of the United States.”
Hilton and her hotel-magnate husband have given $4,600 to McCain’s campaign in the past year.
Paris Hilton released a statement through her representative last week stating that her permission was not given or requested for the McCain campaign’s use of her image.
New York Times op-ed columnist Bob Herbert wrote Saturday that McCain was “calling out Barack Obama on race,” connecting him to highly-sexed white women who are “notorious for displaying themselves to the paparazzi while not wearing underwear.”
Race, Herbert wrote, is the only reason “the opposition feels compelled to run low-life political ads featuring tacky, sexually provocative white women who have no connection whatsoever to the black male candidates.”
Steve Schmidt, a senior advisor to McCain countered, “It’s beyond dispute that (Obama) has become the biggest celebrity in the world.”
McCain’s camp is also running another anti-Obama ad that aligns Obama with a personality who might be considered the polar opposite of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears: Moses. The second ad, titled “The One,” mocks Obama by comparing him to Moses separating the waters of the Red Sea.
Watch the McCain-sponsored ads “Celeb” and “The One” below:
UPDATE:
Paris Hilton has responded to John McCain’s campaign ad with a spoof video, posted on the website Funny or Die.
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In an Absolut World, you can be Kanye West (Muckety)
Absolut Vodka and Kanye West are testing the power of viral marketing by releasing a spoof infomercial online.
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The concept is that “In an Absolut World,” anyone could become Kanye West. However, the tablet is a goof; the ad plugs Absolut, even though the campaign slogan “In an Absolut World” is only mentioned once in the video.
The website is hosted by Absolut, and requires legal age verification to enter.
Absolut is also a sponsor of West’s Glow in the Dark Tour, currently in progress, to support his Grammy-winning album, Graduation.
The “In an Absolute World” campaign features other celebrity endorsers, including Zach Galifianakis, a comedian who also spoofed Kanye West’s video “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.”
Galifianakis, who did the Funny or Die Comedy Tour with Will Ferrell, teamed up with comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of the Adult Swim program Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! for his Absolut commercial.
Absolut also features “In an Absolut World” slogans by the websites Thrillist (”In an Absolut World all your spam would be true” and TreeHugger (”In an Absolut World everything would be downloadable”) and the nonprofit organization Live Earth Concerts for the Climate Crisis (”In an Absolut World none of these films would be necessary”).
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Christina Aguilera Croons to Infant Son in Rock the Vote Video
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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi to marry (Muckety)
When the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday in favor of same-sex marriage, Ellen DeGeneres was the first celebrity to announce that she intended to take advantage of the court’s decision.
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An emotional DeGeneres joked, “I’ll tell you who the lucky guy is soon,” after cameras panned to de Rossi, who applauded in the studio audience.
DeGeneres has been pioneer for gays in the public eye. She made headlines in 1997 when, on her sitcom, Ellen, her character came out as a lesbian. DeGeneres came out personally, in an interview with Time magazine, the same year.
She is one of many celebrities who spoke to The Advocate about the new ruling.
“I can’t wait to get married,” she told the magazine. “We all deserve the same rights, and I believe that someday we’ll look back on this and not allowing gays to marry will seem as absurd as not allowing women to vote. P.S. I’m registered at Crate & Barrel.”
Other high-profile people who have added to the commentary on the new ruling are: Marc Jacobs (”Who to love and how to love should be up to the individual or the couple. Enough said!”), Melissa Ethridge (”I feel they have made an honest woman of me”) and T.R. Knight (”Our ‘certain inalienable rights’ are protected today. It makes me proud to live in a country that works to correct its sins”).