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We realize that it might be a little early on a Monday morning to wrap your still-weekending minds around the latest paparazzi-derived photographic evidence of Paris Hilton's recreational drug use, but here we are, confronted anew by a photo of the suspicious contents of Hilton's handbag at a Milan fashion show. Before you jump to ill-informed judgments about what the plastic baggie in this picture might contain, please allow designated Hilton Media-Brainwasher Elliot Mintz to assert the inherent unreliability of photo-driven gossip items:

"Things are not always as they appear. It would be unfair to draw any conclusions based solely on these photos."

While Mintz's previous drug-use denials have embraced the Jedi Mind Trick Method of obfuscation ("I just want to get something clear with you. Paris Hilton rolled her own tobacco cigarette. It was tobacco that you saw."), he seems to have now moved on to a more empirical model of damage control, urging us not to trust mere photographs over the reliability of firsthand experience—i.e., until you've actually rolled your own joint from Hilton's plastic baggie full of weed, you can't truly know that its contents would actually get you high. Heady stuff, we know, but philosopher-flack Mintz earns his hefty fees by constantly reinventing his field, not by following the examples of his blandly unimaginative, no-commenting peers.