“Heart Attack Or Cold Feet?”
Let’s just make this simple. Perez Hilton makes bad choices. A lot of them.
Today was a terribly sad day. Many, many terrible things have happened over the past few days. For starters, Michael Jackson died today. Farah Fawcett died today also. Mark Sanford did a lot of very bad things and a lot of people are hurting because of him. The New York State Senate continued to show how embarrassingly juvenile and uncaring about the citizens of New York they are. Ed McMahon died Tuesday. An iconic high school football coach was shot to death in his school, the 20th school shooting this year. I’m sure many “ordinary” people died today, lost their jobs today, lost loved ones today. Hundreds of people in Iran are dead, ordinary citizens doing an extraordinary thing: fighting for their rights, fighting to be heard. It’s been, I’m sad to say, a very tough week for a great many people.
Now, yes, Michael Jackson has probably made some bad choices too, but one thing, as a journalist (which Perez Hilton is not, but he fills the role of a news gatherer), as a blogger (which Perez Hilton is), and, hell, as a human being, one thing you just don’t do is speculate publicly about whether someone who is reportedly on the way to the hospital after having a heart attack, is faking.
This reportedly was posted on Perez Hilton’s blog today:
Why would anyone do this to another human being?
This just days after Hilton’s incident with Will.i.am, whom Hilton claimed hit him. Hilton now claims it was another member of the Black Eyed Peas, the operations manager, who hit Hilton, outside a Toronto bar. Hilton fully admits he called Will.i.am a “f*ucking f*ggot,” and is now suing the operations manager. Hilton announced to the world he would donate any money he received from the lawsuit to the Mathew Shepard Foundation. Hilton didn’t bother to speak with the Foundation, however, and Judy Shepard, Matthew’s mother and the head of the Foundation issued a rather elegant statement that all but lambasts Hilton. And, she is refusing to accept any money from Hilton.
I’ve already detailed some more of Hilton’s bad choices, so I won’t go into them. But I will ask this:
Why do people “read” his blog, and why do people follow him on Twitter? Hilton has currently 1,087,257 followers on Twitter, an increase of 33,375 since Tuesday. Despite his antics and atrocious personal and professional behavior, people continue to support him by giving him attention, the one thing he evidently craves more than anything else.
If you like Perez Hilton, do him a favor and stop supporting his habit: stop paying attention to him, at least until he proves he’s changed.
If you don’t like Perez Hilton, make sure you don’t support his habit by devoting any time to reading his blog, or doing anything that will feed his habit.
I will do my best to do the same.
#unfollowperez