HackGate Flashback: Farce and Tragedy Trade Places
In times of crisis, peoples of all cultures have looked to learned elders to make sense of the world. We at Gawker are no different.
As we search our souls (save yer sass!) for meaning, we turn to our sort of elder, former Page Six assassin Ian Spiegelman, whose wisdom we quoted in 2003. Perhaps Rabbi Spiegelman can put this latest Paris Hilton mini-event into perspective:
You take the Hilton sisters you can brush 'em off as a couple of stupid rich bitches, and they might be that, but at the same time, they're like this American tragedy. They have everything. There's no reason why they shouldn't live a great life and do great things, but at the same time, they've had no parental supervision, ever. There's no one around who seems to care what happens to them, and so, every time you look at them, they're falling down. And as much as I dislike rich people, I have sympathy for what's happened to them, because they don't even know what's happened to them...
They're just two girls who someone should've looked after, and no one ever did, and no one ever will. They're gonna go through guy after guy that they think could be Daddy. It's not gonna be Daddy. And they're going to abuse maid after maid . . . I mean, what connects me to Page Six is that these are human beings that we're talking about. My book is about people who should've been watched at some point, somewhere when they were kids. And every day I write about people who someone should've watched, except that they're rich. And that, to me, is not a mitigating circumstance. It doesn't matter to me if you're rich; someone should've looked out for them. Someone should've looked out for Bijou Phillips ... all the kids I write about.
We're going to call our parents now and thank them for all they've done for us.
