Miss NJ: If you look at the kissing pic, Will is very clearly looking at the camera. I guess they decided a PDA would help quiet those rumors about Will and Tommy. It won’t. But it’s still good to see them happy together.
BK Diva: Ok Jada, don’t be so hard on Katie…..she’s not used to a strap on that big.
– pic courtesy of Bossip.com
Miss NJ: I realize that the white suit is a little blinding, but the more important question really is why he is in airport acting like he has someplace to be? Do you think he knew the photograpers were there and decided to front?
Brooklyn Diva: He’s surprised someone remembered his name!
So, on this a-hole’s radio show a caller was complaining about Michelle Obama’s remark “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country.”
His response? “I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that sat this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels – that it’s a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever – then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.”
Miss NJ: WHAT THE F*CK?!?!?!?!!!! I need to understand why how and why this man keeps a job when he repeatedly makes ignorant remarks such as this. However, Star Jones-Reynolds wrote an open letter that responses appropriately. I have put the entire letter here and I hope you read it because everything she says should have been said long ago.
“I’m sick to death of people like Fox News Host, Bill O’Reilly, and his ilk thinking that he can use a racial slur against a black woman who cold be the next First Lady of the United States, give a half-assed apology and not be taken to task and called on his crap.
This week O’Reilly gave the following response to a caller on his radio show who was making unsubstantiated negative charges against presidential candidate Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama:
‘I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that sat this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels – that it’s a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever – then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.’
What the hell? If it’s ‘legit,’ you’re going to ‘track it down?’ And then what do you plan to do?
How dare this white man with a microphone and the trust of the public think that in 2008, he can still put the words ‘lynch and party’ together in the same sentence with reference to a black woman; in this case, Michelle Obama? I don’t care how you ‘spin it’ in the ‘no spin zone,’ that statement in and of itself is racist, unacceptable and inappropriate on every level.
O’Reilly claims his comments were taken out of context. Please don’t insult my intelligence while you’re insulting me. I’ve read the comments and heard them delivered in O’Reilly’s own voice; and there is no right context that exists. So, his insincere apology and “out-of-context” excuse is not going to cut it with me.
And just so we’re clear, this has nothing to do with the 2008 presidential election, me being a Democrat, him claiming to be Independent while talking Republican, the liberal media or a conservative point of view. To the contrary, this is about crossing a line in the sand that needs to be drawn based on history, dignity, taste and truth.
Bill, I’m not sure of where you come from, but let me tell you what the phrase ‘lynching party’ conjures up to me, a black woman born in North Carolina. Those words depict the image of a group of white men who are angry with the state of their own lives getting together, drinking more than they need to drink, lamenting how some black person has moved forward (usually ahead of them in stature or dignity), and had the audacity to think that they could be equal. These same men for years, instead of looking at what changes, should and could be made in their own lives that might remove that bitterness born of percieved privilege, these white men take all of that resentment and anger and decide to get together and drag the closest balck person near them to their death by hanging them from a tree — usually after violent beating, torturing and violating their human dignity. Check your history books, because you don’t need a master’s degree or a law degree from Havard to know that is what constitutes a ‘lynching party.’
Imagine, Michelle and Barack Obama having the audacity to think that they have the right to the American dream, hopes, and ideals. O’Reilly must really think to himself: how dare they have the arrogance to think they can stand in front of this nation, challenge the status quo and express the frustration of millions? When this happens, the first thing that comes to mind for O’Reilly and people like him is: ‘it’s time for a party.’
Not so fast…don’t order the rope just yet.
Would O’Reilly ever in a million years use this phrase with reference to Elizabeth Edwards, Cindy McCain or Judi Nathan? I mean, in all oof the statements an dcriticisms that were made about Judi Nathan, the one-time mistress turned missus, of former presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, I never heard any talk of forming a lynching party becasue of something she said or did.
So why is it that when you’re referring to someone whose African-American you must dig to a historical place of pain, agony and death to symbolize your feelings? Lynching is not a joke to off-handedly throw around and it is not a metaphor that has a place in politcal commentary; provocative or otherwise. I admit that I come from a place of personal outrage here having buried my 90 year-old grandfather last year. This proud, amazing African-American man raised his family and lived through the time when he had to use separate water fountains, ride in the back of the bus, take his wife on a date to the ‘colored section’ of a movie theater, and avert his eyes when a white woman walked down the street for fear of what a white man and his cronies might do if they felf the urge to ‘party’; don’t tell me that phrase yous chose, Mr. O’Reilly, was taken out of context.
To add insult to injury, O’Reilly tried to ‘clarify’ his statements, by using the excuse that his comments were reminiscent of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ use of the term ‘high-tech lynching’ during his confirmation hearing. I reject that analogy. You see Justice Thomas did not mean to bring up the image of lynching in its racist contect. He ws saying that politics and the media were using new technology to do to him what had been done to black men for many years — hang him. Regardless of if you agreed with Justice Thomas’ premise or not — if in fact Bill O’Reilly was referencing it — the context becomes even clearer.
What annoys me more than anything is that I get the feeling that one of the reasons Bill O’Reilly made this statement, thinking he could get away with it in the first place, and then followed it up with a lame apology in a half-hearted attempt to smooth any ruffled feathers, is because he doesn’t think that black women will come out and go after him when he goes after us. Well, he’s dead wrong. Be clear Bill O’Reilly: there will be no lynch party for that black woman. And this black woman assures you that if you come for her, you come for all of us.” — Star Jones-Reynolds
Miss NJ: And I don’t think anymore needs to be said. Do you?
BK Diva: Star has it covered boo boo!
– pics courtesy of TheYBF.com
Miss NJ: Was it bad shoe day at MTV yesterday? First, the Pochahontas boots with the purple velour sweat pants, later gray patent leather schoolmarm shoes. Sometimes I swear stylists give celebrities stuff just to see if they’ll wear it. Overall the black and gray outfit is drab, but not hideous. ‘Shanti can look much better.
BK Diva: I see the music execs made someone get back in the gym.
– pics courtesy of TheYBF.com
Miss NJ: I now see why Mariah has so many shoes…she buys any and everything in her size. Why would a grown woman (almost 40, Mariah) wear shoes that any self-respecting 16 yr old wouldn’t is beyond my understanding. Those shoes are for 11 yr olds. And the see-through shirt, this is yesterday’s TRL which means it’s cold in NY which means she shouldn’t be dressed like it’s mid-June temps outside. She looks tackier than usual.
BK Diva: Mimi’s idea of sexy is any old piece of trash as long a her stomach & fake boobs are hanging out. Trailor Trash!
Mystikal, is serving an 6-year sentence for sexual battery and extortion, after he forced his hairstylist to perform sexual acts on him and videotaped the incident, after the woman allegedly stole $80,000 in checks. He was denied parole. The parole board’s ruling means that the chart-topping rapper, who has been incarcerated since 2003, will in all likelihood finish out his full sentence, which equates to roughly two years.
Miss NJ: I wonder how many times he’s heard: Shake yo ass/Watch yourself/Shake yo ass/Show me whatcha working with.
BK Diva: Was his hairstylist a man or women cause Mystikal has the I suck dick mouth to me.
– from NY Post
Mario Lavandeira – better known as online gossip “Perez Hilton” – encouraged a handsome young blogger to sendsex tapes of himself while he was making promises of promotion for the blogger’s own fledgling Web site.
Jonathan Jaxson – a former publicist and founder of gossip site JJ’s Dirt – told Page Six he sent Lavandeira sexually explicit videos of himself with the hope of Lavandeira’s help, which never materialized.
“He would tell me he would give me stories for my blog,” Jaxson, 24, said of Lavandeira, 29. “He used me.”
We’ve obtained pages of lengthy AOL Instant-Messenger chats between Jaxson and “Perez Hilton,” who has risen to fame with his Web site, where he doodles on photos of celebrities accompanied by scathing insults.
The New York Times ran a gushing puff piece on “Perez” Tuesday, reporting he gets 2.8 million visitors a month and is in talks with Warner Music for his own label because he has such a great ear for new music.
In an exchange from Sept. 1, 2007, Lavandeira told Jaxson, “you should totally make a sex tape . . . (but not with me).” Jaxson wrote back, “I will have to make one on here for you tomorrow and e-mail it to you.” Lavandeira responded, “Hot! Do it now!”
The next afternoon, Lavandeira asked Jaxson, “When are you sending me that video you promised?” Jaxson responded, “If you do a phone blog with me for my blog . . . as if I am cold calling you in attempt to get advice for my blog. You can be totally rude. I don’t want others to know we talk.”
The next day, Lavandeira asked again, “Where is that video?”
Jaxson told Page Six he sent Lavandeira videos of himself masturbating and other forms of “sex videos,” but said he only met Lavandeira in person three times – once in Florida and twice in New York.
“I fell in love with Perez. I thought he had a huge heart . . . but he’s just a [bleep]hole,” Jaxson told us. “We started working together and communicating on how to make my blog bigger. Then it got more personal and intimate.”
Lavendeira had no comment.
Miss NJ: Something about this story doesn’t feel right. He waits until it’s annouced that Perez is being offered an A&R job. These texts are from Sept. 2007. This just looks like standard hate to me.
BK Diva: Lover’s quarrel? It’s a shame when it’s over how people want to put your business on blast. Perez is a lil freak huh!
Every so often, we’ll do picture posts of people who obviously want us to talk about them.
Miss NJ: It’s Pat! The shoulders, moustache and lack of visible boobage makes me think boy. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a girl.
BK Diva: This is a girl trying to dress like a boy and didn’t get it right.
Miss NJ: Can’t decide what’s more disturbing in this pic: that gap in her teeth, those blue panties or the fact that they’re obviously wearing shirts to the club. When did shirts and heels become club attire? Was there a meeting I missed?
BK Diva: Yeah, Hooker Anonymous
Miss NJ: The Muslims are not pleased with this little urban trend of wearing their sacred shawl as a fashion accessory. So, if you read about a club in the hood being blown up by a suicide bomber you’ll know why.
BK Diva: Does he have a bald spot someplace he doesn’t want us to see?
Miss NJ: This is my job. Deal with it. I would like to make a few observations: why do all the girls in the first pic have scars/dark marks on their legs? Did the girl on the left in the second pic forget we could see her sliding her feet out the shoes? Was the pedicure not quite right? Koreans fucked up her feet? In the third pic, was her inspiration “I Dream of Jeannie”? And last but certainly not least, maybe prom wasn’t for you this year. Since I’m pretty sure you’re coming back, why not really enjoy it next year?
BK Diva: That was a waste of knock-off designer material. If the founders & Louie & Gucci saw this they would re-design their brand. Hot mess! The pregnant girl I have no words cause they wouldn’t help anyway so save my breath.
Miss NJ: Doesn’t Jay look like he’s just humoring Jason? While Jason looks like he’s so happy to hang out with the cool kids? Then again from what I hear, maybe Jay’s just holding his breath so he doesn’t get drunk off the alcohol fumes.
BK Diva: Jay is saying to himself “I can’t wait to trade your ass” Brooklyn stand up “King James” is on his way.
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