Aubrey O’Day, Hitler, and the Problem With Blogs
September 2nd, 2009
By: Ben
I know this a minor story, but it is very, very fascinating to me, this Aubrey O’Day Hitler thing. If you missed it yesterday, Aubrey went on The Sean Hannity Show and said that while she did not condone the actions of Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler, they were both brilliant men. Hannity and co. met these statements with affront and condescension, of course, and I predicted that the celebrity media mill would probably churn out a mess of blog posts headlined AUBREY O’DAY HEARTS HITLER. Perez Hilton literally wrote it as “Aubrey O’Day Hearts Fidel Castro… And Hitler Too!“
As a celebrity blogger, unless you yourself are brilliant, you don’t really get to form nuanced, original thoughts for each of your posts because you’re obliged to bang out a certain number every day. So when you write about a celebrity, you fall back on the snapshot consensus identity the blogosphere has given her (typically it’s a her), which in Aubrey O’Day’s case is “talentless, dumb skank” (which is the go-to for most young celebrity women). So that was the kneejerk, for most bloggers: talentless, dumb skank Aubrey O’Day praises Hitler. Now TMZ has gone out of its way to validate that assessment – which in this case is wrongheaded and off-base – by talking to “the Jewish community” about its outrage at Aubrey O’Day… Continue »











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