Video: Paris Hilton responds to John McCain, who used her image in an ad
by Lisa StoneParis Hilton has responded with this video to a John McCain-approved ad with her own energy plan for America. In the McCain campaign ad called “Celeb,” you’ll see Hilton's image – and Britney Spears, too – while the announcer criticizes Barack Obama of being “the biggest celebrity in the world,” before questioning his tax and energy plans.
Hilton has responded with a video on Funny or Die, posed on her lounge chair, with a not-completely-tongue-in-cheek video of her own. Check these out:
McCain Campaign ad:
Hilton's response:
What do you think of Hilton’s response to McCain’s use of her image? What do you think of the McCain campaign’s use of Hilton’s and Spears’ images? And hey, what do you think of the now three energy policies on the table?
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paris
I am laughing so hard I am almost in tears. WTG Hilton! (and I NEVER thought I would say THAT!)
~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool
FAKE
Yes, this was funny in the beginning, but when she expressed her idea for a new energy policy or whatever...IT SEEMED LIKE SHE DID NOT COME UP WITH THIS IDEA, on her own. it looked like she was reading from cuecards or whatever their called.
just saying...if she didnt think of this idea on her own, then she shouldnt get praise for it.
And i didnt get the video...the mccain add had nothing to do with suggesting paris be president anything, so i think her overall comback was lame and immature.
It was a very big mistake to show 2 of the biggest bimbos and saddest female celebs out there for a presiental add. and besides.....theres ALOTT more important things going on in the world today, than some stupid commercial add. Us Americans seem to dwell our time on, and fuss about the stupidest things. sure this is just another funny thing to laugh and talk about at work or over a coffee break, but enough is enough.
It seems as if news station, reporters and magazine are desperate for news these days.
We are in a dangerous position right now, and a major global climate change is takng place. Before you know it, Penguins will be almost extinct, because their homes are being melted away. Im an 17 years old, and am disgustd with the economy i live in today. Its just sad that we chose to spend soooo much time on a gay presidential commerical, when there are FAR more importnt things to be discussing about.
Klunk, Klunk, Klunk - It Was Funny.
That is the sound of my head hitting the desk. The dark times are a coming. I just watched a Paris Hilton video. OMG, she spoke in complete understandable sentences.
Will the non-combatants please clear the area, this is a private fight. (Rough quote from The Quite Man 1952)
Gena - Out On The Stoop
it's awesome!!!!
I can't believe Paris can speak like an intelligent individual... And she has every right to do what she did. I gather she didn't get the phone call asking to be in his political campaign ad. And rightly is a bit miffed. I think the commercial should go public. Actually, brilliant.
McCain's camp should have known better than to do that. Though i wonder if Britney can sling it together to sound plausible and do one of her own.... For years we've all secretly thought paris wasn't a total idiot. Maybe now she'll come out of the closet.
what i want to know is when the mud slinging begins does that really sway votes? I sure hope it doesn't. They (the candidates) must think we are all quite stupid when this starts.
jojo
www.goodnessgraciousacres.com
heh
heh. my first thought was "a sign of the apocalypse," for the exact same reason. great minds... :-)
Ultimate hat-tip: I found out about Hilton
video in @ccarfi
...on Twitter. Now that I have the habit, I'll never give it up!
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
Definitely the third horseman
Yeah, I thought I would never see the day when I rooted for something Paris Hilton was involved in. But this is great.
The fourth horseman, by the way, comes when the Cubs win the World Series.
Suzanne Reisman, Contributing Editor - Feminism & Gender
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) & Other Rants
he listed his address as 1060 West Addison.
cute.
ok, phew. we're safe, then.
The Fourth Horseman...
So we should plan on a visit end of October??
Debra
A Stitch In Time
Weight for Deb
4th horseman
I sure hope so! Go Cubs and Paris Hilton! (Wow, talk about a phrase I never expected to use...)
Suzanne Reisman, Contributing Editor - Feminism & Gender
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) & Other Rants
I'm amazed
Paris Hilton being intelligent and funny? Never thought I'd see the day...Thanks for this, Lisa.
Kim
BlogHer Contributing Editor|Professor Kim|
totally awesome
This is hysterical! "loves it"
In Between Words
http://jessicaschafer.wordpress.com
Most I've watched Paris
Very funny stuff. It's the first time I've actually paid attention to Paris Hilton. I hope she continues down this path. Thank you for sharing this.
Nordette is a Contributing Editor with BlogHer.com whose personal blog is hosted on another site at this link. Most recent personal blog post at time of comment, "More than 170 Dogs, Cats Killed at La. Animal Shelter."
Oooh, kind of feel like
Oooh, kind of feel like voting for her based on her "Pink House" platform. Good for her, not just being used by McCain like that!
Today, I like her. Tomorrow, she will probably decide it's hot to shovel puppies into furnaces. Eh.
SJ also writes at I, Asshole.
Go Paris, Go Paris
Guess that wrinkly white-haired dude will think twice about using some other celebrity's image in his future campaign ads. Paris certainly showed a side of her that had substance other than in her pocketbook. The truth be told -- if it were between McCain and Paris, it'd be tough for me not to start thinking of the White House in a different color.
Karen
Visit me at Midlife's A Trip.
Zombies, Yoda, and Whores
I am left thinking about how when Paris Hilton has a history of awful behavior we assign her to this stereotype of a dumb starlet... pretty and unlikely to say anything like the words "energy policy". So just showing her image in conjunction with Obama's was meant to be an insult.
But when McCain who also doesn't exactly have a pristine record of behaving well he does not expect to be assigned to a physically stereotyped category. What Paris was doing here is to say "Well, judging you just on how you look, here's what you make me think of" and giving him a negative association from being old and white-haired.
So while I can't exactly approve of anyone saying "old = ugly and out of it and about to fall apart like a zombie", Paris was meeting McCain's rudeness with equal rudeness.
Though, it is not equal rudeness, because while McCain was insulting Hilton, that was just a by-the-way. McCain assumed that HIlton was synonymous with "whore" and with whatever is considered most negative about femininity. Rather than just suggest that Obama is "soft" on some issue and feminizing him that way, the McCain campaign went right for the jackpot and is trying to equate Obama's popularity with whoredom.
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Liz Henry
lizzard@bookmaniac.net
Contributing Editor, World and Latin America
Paint it pink, Paris!
Not bad. Could be funnier. I hope in her next speech she mentions wind farms and geothermal energy!
If she did more political videos I'd totally watch them.
See you at the debates, bitches!
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Liz Henry
lizzard@bookmaniac.net
Contributing Editor, World and Latin America
Very Funny!
This is very funny. And, who would have thought we could get more information about the candidates from a Paris Hilton video, then from the candidates' own ads? I don't know whether to laugh or cry...Is this really how we are going to elect our next president?
Thanks for the video, I added it to my political blog.
:-)
Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
at catherine-morgan.com, The Political Voices of Women, Care2 Election
Who Would Have Thought?
That's the longest I've ever listen to what Paris Hilton has to say and it was a delightful surprise.
Who would have thought Paris would choose to show she does actually have some intelligence? I wonder if she'll keep this up? I hope so.
I really hope the politicans have a second think about going with a negative campaign because it only shows disrespect for the voting public and for themselves.
Do you really think Britney will put together her own form of revenge ad? I doubt she has the surrounding support group to enable this to happen but hopefully I'll be surprised about that too.
All the best,
Belinda
Well, I never thought Paris was stupid.
And this video really rocks.
See you at the debates, bitches!
Liz Rizzo
I blog at Everyday Goddess.
I'm Amazed...
That was too funny! I really don't care for Paris Hilton, but I have to say that video did offer a glimmer of intelligence. :)
Dana B.
http://recipesreviewsrantsandraves.blogspot.com/
OWM
Paris Hilton Coins the new hot term "OWM" or "OLD WHITE (Haired?)MAN."
Old White (Haired) Men? Have so much to lose here...their ULTIMATE power. Not sure which angle to look at this from that's less than savory for a future candidate the fact that he is equating Obama with a Woman ...cuz what could be more demeaning? The fact that he is undermining what he said he's do when he touted running an "honorable" campaign?... another possible liar to run the OWM run White House? SHOCKING! or the fact that he's equating the American mentality with one that would sit drooling on the couch....duh, and put two and two together, as if Paris and Brittany are the only language we would speak because most of us are so doped up on celebrities lives we've forgotton we have one of our own! I don't know about you but I'm "all set" with OWM. They've "run" all of us for waaaay to long. GO OBAMA.
SEE you at the VOTING BOOTH BeeOTCH!
www.earthsavers.typepad.com
Monica Rodgers
Interesting responses and
I find it interesting how many people are singing Hilton's praises after judging her harshly for years and years - based on her celebrity status and behavior that they found unappealing or unacceptable.
I also find it fascinating that so many people are slamming McCain for his use of a Paris Hilton image in a negative stereotypical way when they have stereotyped her in very similar ways.
When she says something we're comfortable with, that we like, (particularly if it's to take a shot at someone we don't endorse), then we love her. Otherwise, well... search BlogHer for "Paris Hilton" and see how we've sterotyped her and "used" her...
Fascinating.
Also, amusing video from Hilton. Her PR machine is brilliant (or whoever's machine came up with the idea...)
~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager
Flamingo House Happenings
Social Media Response To A Candidate Is Not
Wrong
It is the other side of Social Media - big corporation or political party insults me and I have the power and the technology to respond back.
Not with an cheesy TV interview on a pseudo news program, or the help of a comedy show (not to say that a writer and a production team wasn't used in the video).
Paris got to control and project her own image and what she wanted to put out there as a response to the McCain ad.
Not that she didn't have the ability in the past. What was projected to me was rich girl for sale, will do anything for attention and $$$. Not my cuppa of tea and I ignored her.
Am I a new fan? Hell no. But I can appreciate that the video was well done, that there was an effort to mildly flip her own rich bimbo image and that this ain't my granny's election.
Ladies, if you've been wronged - define and defend yourself. How is that message wrong?
Gena - Out On The Stoop
Pink Knight?
Congratulations to Ms. Hilton for voicing the second best* tag line of the summer.
(*Behind The Joker's "Why so serious?")
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
I thought it was hilarious too!
- Maria
http://immoralmatriarch.com
Good For Her!
I'm really glad that Paris responded. And especially that she responded in a way that makes us believe that she may be more intelligent than most of us have given her credit for. And it was funny too!
Anali's First Amendment
Hot Blonde vs. OWHM
No more dumb blonde jokes. Paris rocks in this video. And not just because she is a Celeb, but because her comments made you think. Her energy plan--even with the flying to Maui just to get a tan reference--makes me wonder who she hired for her advisors. Although I think growing old is a good thing, you gotta admit the WHD (white haired dude) campaign ad against Obama's "Celeb factor" was childish.
- Chris. also blogs here at BlogHer as well as at Momathon Blog. And, yes, I am a blonde--and proud of it.
Chris--MomathonBlog.com
Paris' Energy Policy
...doesn't include a call for conservation, only for offshore drilling and development of alternatives. So I'm not yet ready to take her seriously as a candidate.
But her writers are the bomb.
Nerd's Eye View
Welll....
I'm not sure that eye-for-an-eye ageism is any more savory or AOK than sexism or celibrity-ism or lower intelligence-ism or blonde-ism. And me, I love a good joke. Still.
I think she could have just video-taped her enegry policy statement and walked away and still ruled the day.
Anyway, FINALLY I have someone I can vote for.
This *is* the Fugly Is The New Pretty Awards, right?
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