Celebrity Hypocrisy
December 9, 2007 12:52 PM   Subscribe

Deceiver is a blog that exposes the hypocrisy of celebrities.
posted by Tube (93 comments total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
How did I know there'd be something on there about "green hypocrisy" with Al Gore #1?
posted by jmd82 at 12:59 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


I doubt that this blog will do very much to change the opinions I've already formed.
posted by inconsequentialist at 1:01 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


And #10 on the "green hypocrisy" list is Schwarzenegger. Because he's been such a staunch environmentalist. Yeah.
posted by rtha at 1:04 PM on December 9, 2007


Ew! You got your politics in my celebrity bullshit!
posted by nanojath at 1:05 PM on December 9, 2007 [4 favorites]


Interesting that most of the hypocrisy comes from popular and attractive women.
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:05 PM on December 9, 2007


"Deceiver" is a self-description.
posted by wendell at 1:06 PM on December 9, 2007 [2 favorites]


Listen, I love celebrity scandal as much as the next man, but Hayden Panettiere partying with Paris Hilton isn't exactly William Randolph Hearst shooting Thomas Ince on the Oneida.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:10 PM on December 9, 2007 [16 favorites]


Oh! - can I be the last? You know - the guy after Wendell?
posted by Sk4n at 1:10 PM on December 9, 2007


Astro Zombie - I previewed. I'm going to get you for this.
posted by Sk4n at 1:11 PM on December 9, 2007


You said you weren't going to post this.
posted by dhammond at 1:12 PM on December 9, 2007


I'm just that hardcore.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:13 PM on December 9, 2007


...as opposed to the hypocrisy of the rest of us?
posted by jonmc at 1:17 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


Oh, and Tube - the fact that you think that MeFi is the King of the internet reveals your innate sexism. I'm also going to get you for this.
posted by Sk4n at 1:18 PM on December 9, 2007


You got your Wonkette in my Gawker.

No, you got your agenda in my celebrities.

You.

No, you.

Hey, let's put a great combination together and get Ann Coulter-Penn.

Okay.
posted by cedar at 1:18 PM on December 9, 2007


I think you are sexist for saying that women can't be king.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:20 PM on December 9, 2007


You're right Astro Zombie - I guess Coretta Scott could be.
posted by Sk4n at 1:23 PM on December 9, 2007


Another blog filled with the angry ramblings of the jealous and envious. People who care that much about celebrities really must hate their own lives.

For me, blogs like this and shows like TMZ are no less hate-filled than a Michael Savage, Anne Coulter or Glenn Beck broadcast.
posted by wfc123 at 1:23 PM on December 9, 2007 [7 favorites]


Worse yet, one of my favorite TV programs is King of the Hill...

To atone, I'll fantasize about Andrea Dworkin now.
posted by Tube at 1:23 PM on December 9, 2007


...as opposed to the hypocrisy of the rest of us?

No, the rest of us are as pure as the driven snow.
posted by nola at 1:24 PM on December 9, 2007


I'm a big fan of King Latifah.
posted by wendell at 1:24 PM on December 9, 2007


*Shares birthday with MLK*
posted by Sk4n at 1:24 PM on December 9, 2007


I'm actually of the opinion that everyone should be a hypocrite, although I am not one myself.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:25 PM on December 9, 2007 [7 favorites]


Ah, barreled fish. Delicious!
posted by everichon at 1:26 PM on December 9, 2007 [9 favorites]


What? You expect them to be consistent all the time?
posted by WPW at 1:27 PM on December 9, 2007


I'll fantasize about Andrea Dworkin now.

Or Andrea Bocelli.

Of course, those of who understand the skillful irony of Mike Judge know that Hank Hill ain't King o' nuthin'! (And also that Butthead was the marginally smarter one of the duo)
posted by wendell at 1:29 PM on December 9, 2007


[that was bad]

hypocrisy is way underrated.

(I thought Dolly Parton was a lesbian; how do they know that's not fake fur on Eva Mendes; what's so hypocritical about Sienna Miller trying to stop distribution of naked pics?)
posted by mrgrimm at 1:31 PM on December 9, 2007


MetaFilter: I doubt that this blog will do very mu.... ah, fuck it.
posted by Sk4n at 1:31 PM on December 9, 2007


I wanted to like the website but reconsidered when I found that it uses FoxNews as credible source material.
posted by cazoo at 1:31 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


FoxNews is credible source material?
posted by Sk4n at 1:33 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


Hypocrisy? In my celebrities?!?
posted by meehawl at 1:35 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


This was not in any way good.
posted by From Bklyn at 1:37 PM on December 9, 2007 [2 favorites]


The picture of Hayden Panettiere and Paris Hilton deep in thought both smelling their dogs makes the post worthwhile.
posted by chunking express at 1:39 PM on December 9, 2007


No, the rest of us are as pure as the driven snow.

all full of dogshit and sewer runoff and wino pis?
posted by jonmc at 1:41 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


Hypocrisy is telling your children not to smoke.
It's changing your mind.
It's not being perfect whilst trying to be a little more perfect.
It's about being 18 and being imperfect.
It's about saying what you want to believe.

I'm with jonmc on this. We're all hypocrites. We're all deceivers.
posted by seanyboy at 1:44 PM on December 9, 2007


The picture of Hayden Panettiere and Paris Hilton deep in thought both smelling their dogs makes the post worthwhile.

Too bad it's not a picture of them admiring their pu ... CATS. I mean CATS. Felines. The pets. Meow. Garfield. Hobbes. CATS.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 1:46 PM on December 9, 2007 [2 favorites]


Let's see... Hayden Panettiere is a hypocrite because she parties with Paris Hilton, but "populist" Lou Dobbs isn't a hypocrite, even though his daughter Hillary flaunts her elite taste for show jumping. Better yet, Deceiver calls Keith Olbermann "an ass-tard" for pointing out the hypocrisy of Lou Dobbs' pseudopopulism. This is just South Park Republicanism writ large. They're more concerned with the foibles of politically naive "liberal" celebrities than they are with the hypocrisies of powerful and influential people who actually matter.
posted by jonp72 at 1:46 PM on December 9, 2007 [9 favorites]


This is just another venue for neocon bullshit.
posted by puke & cry at 1:54 PM on December 9, 2007 [3 favorites]


some of the Psychology behind celebrity worship.

Also seen on Ann Coulter , some people love to hate her , other worship her. It's not her for her, it's what she says and supposedly represent. Similarly, some people hate all the gossiping, the celebrity. Interestingly , these people may not stop to think "why do i care about the life, probably scripted, of an actor stranger ?"
posted by elpapacito at 1:54 PM on December 9, 2007


This is just another venue for neocon bullshit.

Not to disagree necessarily, but how specifically "neocon" as opposed to simply "right-wing"?
posted by WPW at 1:56 PM on December 9, 2007


detach yourself
posted by Postroad at 1:57 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


Not to disagree necessarily, but how specifically "neocon" as opposed to simply "right-wing"?

The terms are interchangeable.
posted by puke & cry at 2:00 PM on December 9, 2007 [2 favorites]


crappy cleb blog... this is an fpp?????

let's keep talking about death, it's more interesting...
posted by HuronBob at 2:06 PM on December 9, 2007


I do get what you're saying though, WPW. I just think it's splitting hairs at this point.
posted by puke & cry at 2:09 PM on December 9, 2007


[this sucks ass]
posted by psmealey at 2:10 PM on December 9, 2007


I looked over the site.

I was not impressed.

I feel deceived.
posted by GavinR at 2:11 PM on December 9, 2007


Divine_Wino's Wino Piss, Now with 30% more Sterno! Smell like a wino, today!
posted by Divine_Wino at 2:14 PM on December 9, 2007


...Hayden Panettiere partying with Paris Hilton isn't exactly William Randolph Hearst shooting Thomas Ince on the Oneida.

I finally figured it out. Astro Zombie is Dennis Miller.

Seriously. Say that out loud. While sneering.
posted by rokusan at 2:31 PM on December 9, 2007


Dennis Miller? Why don't you just stick a knife in my heart while you're at it?
posted by Astro Zombie at 2:34 PM on December 9, 2007


I thought that only worked on vampires.
posted by cmgonzalez at 2:37 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


Could have done without the Winehouse-with-coke-encrusted-nostrils image ...
posted by scruss at 2:40 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


You'd be surprised what works on zombies, baby.
posted by Astro Zombie at 2:41 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


I'm using "baby" in a gender-neutral way here, by the way. I call everybody baby. It's very Hollywood of me.
posted by Astro Zombie at 2:42 PM on December 9, 2007 [2 favorites]


Similarly, some people hate all the gossiping, the celebrity. Interestingly , these people may not stop to think "why do i care about the life, probably scripted, of an actor stranger ?"

I think many do. I think many of the people who despise celebrity worship are those who are desperately trying to get their fellow citizens interested in a variety of social and political movements, to no avail. Thus, the haters.

I don't have much problem with celebrity-followers who actually *do* things, as opposed to sit around all day watching TV about celebrities. I guess I put them in the same bucket as heroin users.
posted by mrgrimm at 2:52 PM on December 9, 2007


I guess I put them in the same bucket as heroin users.

Heroin users work much harder. You think that stuff grows on trees?

Well, it kinda does -- but you get the point.
posted by cedar at 3:04 PM on December 9, 2007 [1 favorite]


wait, so heroin users don't exist, but are just a ridiculous strawman?
posted by drjimmy11 at 3:07 PM on December 9, 2007


I thought Astro Zombie was Dennis Miller's non-evil twin.

Anyway, since this whole thread is on the far side of MetaSilly and I do have an obsessive need to call out Cool Papa Bell on almost everything he posts, let me say: Nice last-second recovery on this one, BUT you severely erred in using Hobbes as an example of a Pet Cat. Hobbes is a tiger (albeit a stuffed one), belonging beside Tony, Tigger, Shere Khan, LSU's mascot Mike, and Exxon's unnamed mascot. For pet-type felines (including alley cats), you can list along with Garfield: Heathcliff, Felix, Sylvester, Morris, Mr. Bigglesworth, Bill, Catbert, Mehitabel, Eek, Chococat, Figaro, Top Cat, Krazy Kat, Hello Kitty, Mr. Jinx, Mooch (co-star of "Mutts"), Tom (of ..and Jerry), Stimpy (of Ren and...), Scratchy (of Itchy and...), and the semi-anonymous Cat in the Hat, Puss in Boots, Dick Whittington's Cat, Schrödinger's Cat, Fat Freddie's Cat and D.C. (from "That Darn Cat"), any of whom would be a perfectly valid 'kitty-cat' cultural reference. But no Hobbes, please. (Also no Thundercats or Maggie the Cat or Red Dwarf's post-evolved Cat, PLEASE)
posted by wendell at 3:08 PM on December 9, 2007


Yes, I intentionally excluded Ceiling Cat, Serious Cat, Longcat and all the other LOLcats. I have SOME standards.
posted by wendell at 3:10 PM on December 9, 2007


Deceiver is a blog that exposes the hypocrisy of celebrities."

The last three posts are about NBC and the Freedom’s Watch ad. How is that about celebrities?
posted by krinklyfig at 3:10 PM on December 9, 2007


NBC's parent company, General Electric, is a known anti-american sympathizer.
posted by wendell at 3:36 PM on December 9, 2007


DAMMIT, that was sarcasm. That makes me a hypocrite.
posted by wendell at 3:38 PM on December 9, 2007


Somehow it pleases me that there are absolutely no comments on any of the articles.
posted by JaredSeth at 3:44 PM on December 9, 2007


Somehow it pleases me that there are absolutely no comments on any of the articles.

Read the comments again. Especially those right above yours.
posted by mrgrimm at 4:00 PM on December 9, 2007


Many "celebrities" aren't very attractive without tons of makeup and Photoshop. It's only hypocrisy if you call them "beautiful people".
posted by tommasz at 4:11 PM on December 9, 2007


NEWS ALERT: All humans are duplicitous!
/except me
posted by moonbird at 4:16 PM on December 9, 2007


Apparently, in the conservative world, if you voice some concern for the environment, you are required to dress in sackcloth and live in a cave, eating nothing but dung beetles and berries. Merely sipping from a bottle of water marks you as the festering hypocrite we all knew you were.
posted by Thorzdad at 4:35 PM on December 9, 2007 [3 favorites]


You forgot Bucky Katt.

And was Schrödinger's Cat a pet cat? I think it's indeterminate.
posted by painquale at 4:38 PM on December 9, 2007


This is nice, but I prefer "The Secret" when I want to be influenced by a hidden neoconservative agenda.
posted by nervestaple at 5:28 PM on December 9, 2007


Then again, they seem to be anti-Jack Bauer, which is pretty much like stabbing Uncle Sam in the gut repeatedly. I don't know what to think anymore!
posted by nervestaple at 5:32 PM on December 9, 2007


There's an entry about Facebook presenting its controversial Beacon app. It mentions how the Wall Street Journal described the app, and then it describes the reaction of Facebook users:

Facebook users are revolting. Plus, they’re angry about this Beacon thing!

That alone justifies the entire blog.
posted by micayetoca at 5:53 PM on December 9, 2007


So it's a "celeberty" blog for conservatives? Sounds pretty idiotic.
posted by delmoi at 5:53 PM on December 9, 2007


This are slly post.
posted by everichon at 5:56 PM on December 9, 2007


The Eva Mendes's bashing is quite stupid. According to this comment the pictures were taken before she went anti-fur and did the ad. Changing your mind about something doesn't make you a hypocrite.
posted by delmoi at 6:01 PM on December 9, 2007


Many "celebrities" aren't very attractive without tons of makeup and Photoshop. It's only hypocrisy if you call them "beautiful people".

I'm straining to understand how this is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is chastising people for things you yourself do.
posted by grumblebee at 6:02 PM on December 9, 2007


Conservatives don't give a good goddamn about hypocrisy. If they did, they'd never stop defending themselves against charges aimed at their own bullshit. This crap is about slagging the messenger. Since they have nothing to stand on themselves, message-wise, when the other side has a point, they pretty much just try to take them out at the knees.
posted by psmealey at 6:22 PM on December 9, 2007


Oh no, celebrities aren't role models! It's just that noone cares about the Deceiver people to find what they do and call them out about it.
posted by ersatz at 6:42 PM on December 9, 2007


Pretty poorly written and, well, just plain boring. What kind of lame example is it that since a porsche can go 190 mph, NBC is promoting reckless behavior airing the company's ads? And the fur thing? All those could be fake fur. Seems like the site is just all conjecture.
posted by Cochise at 7:40 PM on December 9, 2007


And was Schrödinger's Cat a pet cat?

It depends on how you look at it.
posted by Bonzai at 7:58 PM on December 9, 2007


Conservatives don't give a good goddamn about hypocrisy.

If I may, conservatives do give a damn about hypocrisy. They just don't understand what it is any more than Alanis Morisette understands irony.
posted by Joey Michaels at 8:02 PM on December 9, 2007


all full of dogshit and sewer runoff and wino pis?

Well that and dumpster juice.
posted by nola at 9:09 PM on December 9, 2007


Yeah, as everybody's figured out, this is about politics not celebrities. Celebrities just happen to be the vehicle for scoring points against people they perceive to be their political enemies or just connected to them somehow. It's like John Stossel pretending to be a consumer advocate in his 20/20 "Give Me a Break" segment when he's really just pushing antagonism towards liberalism. If only these people would grow up they'd be giving us all a break.
posted by scalefree at 9:30 PM on December 9, 2007


You know what's hypocritical??? These celebrities giving me come hither looks from their photos and movies and then calling the cops when I end up at their front door. (And, before you slag me, they could have easily answered any of my hundreds of emails and letters. I can take a hint.)
posted by maxwelton at 10:25 PM on December 9, 2007 [2 favorites]


banal
posted by moonbiter at 10:32 PM on December 9, 2007


Paris Hilton looking at Schrödinger's Cat.
Best of The Web
posted by From Bklyn at 12:17 AM on December 10, 2007


I think the site only works if you read it in the Kathy Griffin voice ("PARIS HILTON IS SUCH A HYPOCRITE, AMIRITE???").

And by "works", I mean still sucks ass.
posted by psmealey at 3:41 AM on December 10, 2007


Not nearly as salacious as I'd hoped.
posted by OmieWise at 6:53 AM on December 10, 2007


LAST POST!
posted by tr33hggr at 11:04 AM on December 10, 2007


Nah.
posted by baphomet at 11:38 AM on December 10, 2007


Great, another blog whose purpose gawk at celebrity behavior like some sort of sparkly train-wreck while pretending to "expose" celebrities as less than worthy of our attention.

If you put the minutiae of my life up for scrutiny, it wouldn't make much sense either. Hell, even without scrutiny, it makes the bare minimum of sense.

(As proof: Here I am decrying this blog, while I will admit to reading Celebrity Baby Blog on a regular basis. I do love me a good baby!)
posted by grapefruitmoon at 11:58 AM on December 10, 2007


LAAAAAAAAAAME
posted by tkchrist at 12:38 PM on December 10, 2007


laaaaame
posted by tehloki at 1:19 PM on December 10, 2007


laaame
posted by tehloki at 1:20 PM on December 10, 2007


Bad topic, dumb angle, terrible writing.
posted by sellout at 1:39 PM on December 10, 2007


Just a little sand in my vagina that I need to get out; hypocrisy is telling someone not to do drugs, then snorting coke off a prossie's tits in a hotel. Hypocrisy is not someone who used to snort coke off a prossie's tits etc, who then stops all that and tells others that it was a shitty way to live and it not all that it's cracked up to be. Just because you've done something doesn't mean you can't warn off others. In fact, if I want someone to tell me not to snort coke off a prossie's...erm...ballbag? Is that the female equilivant? Yeah, if I want someone to tell me not to do that I want it to be Christina Aguilera, or Britney, or Maureen Lipman. Not someone who has never done it. Hypocrisy is yet another word that is getting thrown around in the wrong context I think.
posted by gatchaman at 2:55 PM on December 10, 2007


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