All That Doesn't Meet the Eye
My apologies for bringing up Paris Hilton again, but this isn't really about her. It's about pompous, windbag, know-it-all television punditry. Now I admit I've been a longtime addict of the TV opinion yakfests, but the thrill is wearing off. Back to Ms. Hilton for a moment, the latest brouhaha over her incarceration has nothing to do with her. It's about long-standing hostilities between the Sheriff's department and the judges, who've become increasingly teed off because the Sheriff routinely releases prisoners early due to acute overcrowding in the jails. Apparently, women prisoners on the average serve only 10% of their time. The judges complain that the Sheriff, in taking it on himself to shorten sentences, is assuming their role. Paris Hilton became the unwitting high-profile case for the judiciary to publicize their beef. In other words, no matter what you think of her, she was used. I bring this up because the gasbags on The McLaughlin Report this week sat around smugly condemning her, while totally missing the real story. Where do those gasbags get their information? Or fail to get it.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:39 AM
2 Comments:
As Maxwell Smart would say "ahhhh....the old sacrificial lamb trick" LOL
I agree that PH was used as a pawn in this last episode of the unrelenting saga but she is guilty of DUI and that in my book makes her a potential murderer of some innocent. Her lawyer did not do the necessary steps before the juudge either to free her for house arrest. In the beginning, she thought that she was above the law, only for the common folks, so she did whatever she desired at the time. Driving drunk, killing someone, means that other person is a long time dead through no fault of their own. These three women, mother and two daughters, need to wake up to the fact that everyone no matter how rich has responsibilities. Personally, I think the mother should be in there with P for child abuse; (robbing her daughter of her back bone).
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