Word: hiltonization
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...hypersensitive to the point of paranoia. Obama was a community organizer, and his opponents should be able to criticize him without being accused of race baiting. But it's tricky when the attacks wander into the neighborhood of racial stereotypes, like the McCain "Celebrity" ad linking Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, which had a whiff of lock-up-your-women alarmism about the sexual power of black men. The usually somnolent David Gergen lashed out at McCain's ad portraying Obama as the Messiah, calling it a subtle but intentional effort to paint a black...
...late July, the McCain campaign had demonstrated that it could also shake up the presidential race by deploying outrage's lesser twin: outrageousness. In a set of advertisements for both the Internet and television, the campaign compared Obama to Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and even Moses, mocking Obama's "celebrity" in a way that was both controversial and certain to grab lots of free airtime...
...Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman is one of America's foremost authorities on pop culture. The Esquire columnist's first foray into fiction, Downtown Owl, hits stores Sept. 16. Klosterman talked to TIME about shifting to fiction, his best celebrity interviews and why Paris Hilton will one day define this strange...
...that there's a cost of construction for these things. It'll be strange look back at this period and say, remember when we thought music was going to be free forever? I guess the easy answer to the question is something like, "Wasn't it ridiculous when Paris Hilton was so famous?" But I think people will remember Paris Hilton. She'll be a lasting figure because people will use her as a way to understand this weird time period...
...remarkable? Because John McCain is. "They broke me," he said flatly, of the torture he endured in the Hanoi Hilton. It wasn't the first time he'd said that - indeed, he has been more specific: he has admitted attempting suicide after the North Vietnamese twisted and yanked the war-crimes confession out of him - but it is bracing, all the same, to hear a politician admit weakness. Indeed, this was the first time I'd ever heard a presidential candidate admit his party's failure as comprehensively as McCain did tonight: "Instead of changing Washington, Washington changed...