We’ve got video, folks.
Mika Brzezinski, egged on by Joe Scarborough, bumps opening Paris Hilton story on Morning Joe.
At first she attempts to burn the script. Damn childproof lighters!
Foiled, she tears the script up. Runs the the script for the next Paris segment through a shredder and objects on camera to her producer’s pressure to lead the newscast with the Paris Hilton story.
Go Mika!
Watch it here.
Thank goodness for freedom of speech in America. Here’s more:
Victoria Beckham accepted undisclosed damages Monday from a celebrity magazine that claimed the crew of her U.S. TV show considered her "picky, demanding and rude."
Victoria sued Star magazine over an April article that claimed staff working on the NBC show had also described her as "full of herself and not very nice."
Beckham’s lawyer, Gerrard Tyrrell, told Britain’s High Court that filming hadn’t started at the time the story was published.
"The story was therefore completely inaccurate and defamatory of Ms. Beckham," he said.
Northern & Shell PLC, which publishes the magazine, apologized and agreed to pay Beckham’s legal costs and "substantial" damages. The amount of damages wasn’t disclosed.
"Victoria Beckham: Coming to America" will air July 16.
Another case that hinged on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
As the hot potato that is the first post-pokey interview with Paris Hilton was tossed around, Barbara Walters deemed it unworthy, a potentially bad PR move and opted to decline the opportunity, allowing CNN to swoop in.
According to Cindy Adams, Walters had this to say about the jostling.
"Look, I’ve done prison interviews before, but people like the Menendez Brothers were really important news stories," said the First Lady of the Soundbites.
"This wasn’t. And even though I’d already written my questions, when all that pay-for-play stuff happened, I suddenly felt this was not up to my standard. It . . . felt . . . sort of . . .
Tawdry. The whole thing somehow was beneath me. Besides, it was a no-win. If I did a tough piece and her tears started to flow, it would be, ‘Oh, there’s Barbara Walters making people cry again.’ Too soft, and I’d be criticized."
Walters reports that ABC wanted the "get" for the ratings, but that they were "classy" about it and let her decision stand. Besides, she’d already interviewed the incarcerated socialite on the phone and been the first to report that Paris Hilton has "changed."
All this while Paris Hilton, the new voice for the disenfranchised, was (again) waxing altruistic and public-service minded in yet another phone interview, this time with Ryan Seacrest.
Beyond the thankful-for-her-pillow talk, Hilton let Seacrest in on her plans to build a facility to help end the recidivism cycle of female convicts.
E Online reports that Hilton said she hopes it will be "a place for them to go get food, clothes on their back, get them up on their feet. Especially the mothers. It’s just a really bad cycle. If we stop it now, we can make our community a better place."
All noble, but we’ll believe it when we see it.
Leopard. Spots. You know the drill.
Paris Hilton will make an appearance on Larry King Live Wednesday night after being released from jail on Tuesday. Get ready for the fake tears, the feel sorry for me story, and how she is going to change the world like Jesus did.
Rumor is Hilton will appear in studio for the entire hour of the show. Yesterday NBC was denying they made a $1 million dollar deal for Hilton to appear on their network.
NBC has canceled their $1 million interview with Paris Hilton. NBC issued a statement saying they never pay for interviews, even though they have in the past, and say they only pay for picture and other licensing, but if they did pay for it they would hand-off negotiations to their parent company since they themselves don’t pay for interviews despite having done so in the past. NBC denies they were even going to do an interview, and they say the earth is flat.
Who is running NBC, a bunch of clowns? It’s just one embarrassment after another. For their next trick NBC will eat their own feces while on fire, then hire Rosie O’Donnell as their special Iraq and White House correspondent for their evening news cast.
Paris will be leaving jail on Tuesday June 26, so mark it on your calendars, because that’s when the real circus is coming to town, and Paris kicks of her “I am Saint Paris, healer of the sick.” The after jail Paris party is still gonna rock, and once Paris is good and high she’ll forget all about finding Jesus.
