In a recent post titled “Something Not Worth Seeing,” KY lubricant spokesman Perez Hilton, with his usual wit, class and delicacy, declared that Oliver Stone’s yet-to-shoot George W. Bush was was not his cup of tea. “We’d rather go see the Rachael Ray life story….on Lifetime!” was how the blogger put it, writing in the second person presumably based on the assumption that he speaks for an entire nation. To punctuate his assessment of the unmade Stone film’s quality, Mr. Hilton playfully altered a photograph of the actress cast as Laura Bush by painting a disembodied, semen-spewing penis over her lips.
Not content to leave the matter at that bit of MS Paint protest, when the next casting announcement for Stone’s film hit the wires, Hilton once again saw fit to inform his public that W does not bear the coveted Perez Hilton seal of approval. “We still don’t think we’ll spend money to watch it,” Hilton sniffed at the news that James Cromwell and Ellen Burstyn had been cast as the Bush parents. “We wouldn’t watch even if it were free.”
Why doth Perez protest so much? He can’t be a closet Bush protector––in the second post, he refered to our Commander in Chief as “arguably America’s worst president ever. And dumbest!” So I wonder: does Hilton know something about Stone’s not-yet-existent film that we don’t know? Perhaps in addition to his skills at cock-drawing and self-promotion, Perez Hilton has been gifted with clairvoyance?






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My guess is that his disdain for the president extends to fictional portrayals. Not really clairvoyance as much as unchecked and unreflective gut reaction against the film’s subject matter.
I would classify this reaction the same way I would classify a reaction of “I don’t care how good it is or how many awards it won; I’m not seeing any gay cowboy movie” to ‘Brokeback Mountain’.