Freaking leave EVERYONE alone

I was going to make some kind of lame, ironic comment on the whole pitiful, abusive, depressing situation involving a certain young celebrity from Louisiana (I know, you're like, 'Which one?', right? Where the hell is Hannah Montana from anyway?). To do so I was going to link to this dude, which I did several months ago when Britney's life began to completely fall apart.

But then, as is YouTube's way, I got sidetracked, and found something probably even more appropriate, so meta it hurts. Because this is just...just beautiful.

My favorite commentary on this whole mess is still Craig Ferguson's. You want truth about something of this nature with no bullshit? Ask an addict. Also, next time your life is fucked up, even if you went and made a public figure of yourself or maybe have acted out in a major way to call attention to it, ask yourself if you'd like someone to take several pictures of it happening. Because I don't know about you, but my friends try to grab my camera to delete pictures of themselves for much less serious reasons. I just think that anyone in pain is a sad, sad thing.  I didn't think the videos of Anna Nicole were funny, and I don't think that the Britney coverage is funny or even particularly interesting. It's just another life, messed up and painful, it just happens to belong to a young woman who went a very peculiar path.

I haven't been around any 12-step meetings for many, many years, but one thing I did take away from that experience was "there but for the grace of God go I." Call it karma, whatever, but it just isn't cool.
Leave her alone. And please make that K-Fed lawyer SHUT IT. He's even invading the pages of the Washington Post (please stop it, Washington Post, with the celebritology overload) and I just can't stand it. Write another 1,000 words on the caucus(es). Tell me something I don't already know. Please.

Comments

[Jerry]

Sadly, it is like the whole OJ mess-- lots of people are making money off her exploits.
The Washington Post is not above it either or even the New York Times for that matter.

[joanna]

I tend to view the Britney Spears saga as the media's hunger for another blond woman in a death spiral--or another murdered white woman. I also agree with Ferguson about not attacking someone with humor when they are down. What does it say about us that we hunger for this nonsense--or that an audience laughs at the mere mention of her name? And how will this affect her children in the years to come?

[tNb]

I'm happy to say that I haven't got a clue as to what Ms. Spears is up to, although I did read that Dr. Phil is getting ready to save her soul.

Cha-ching.