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When I heard that Heidi Montag sold only 658 copies of her new album, Superficial, in the first week, I thought, Who are those 658 people? CIA agents who blast songs to get dictators to surrender? Heidi Montag 658 times? As a journalist, I had the responsibility to find out. Or to go to Haiti. I can never keep those straight...
...Hills agreed to appear on a People magazine cover to show off all the plastic surgery she's gotten. She posed in Playboy, started her own fashion line and declared that as a celebrity she should not have to endure staying on the show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me out of Here! She is the Paris Hilton of our time. (See the top 10 skanky reality shows...
...when celebrities can't persuade us to buy their crap. In the America I grew up in, we order perfume by the quart just because it's made by Ernest Borgnine's fifth wife. We are almost as eager to buy stuff from celebrities as Borgnine is to get married...
...rich and narcissistic to entertain us with their lives and another group to entertain us with their work. Back when promotional outlets were limited to billboards and Johnny Carson, being a celebrity could move product. But now that there's an infinite number of ways for everybody to get your attention, celebrity cannot achieve much more than product awareness...
Moderate Republicans sometimes blame conservatives for edging them out of public life. But politics is a competitive business. If the conservatives bring more voters, more dollars and more intensity to the table, well, of course they get the bigger chair. They've earned it. The fault is with the moderates themselves. The moderate tendency still exists in the GOP. It expresses itself in quiet dealmaking in the halls of the Senate, in pragmatic decision-making in state capitals. But when challenged, the moderate tendency goes mute. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...