Quickies: Cheap gossip edition

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> Look at this awesomely ridiculous headline on MSNBC.com:

> The New York Daily News says Joan Jett and Carmen Electra are back together. There's no quote, no photo, no actual proof. But let's endorse the idea all the same!

> TMZ got a random dude they thought was Judge Lance Ito to say OJ Simpson was "guilty as sin" in his recent arrest. Except it wasn't Ito -- it was, in fact, a nice guy named Jeff Lee, who works at PlanetOut Inc's LA office. Way to turn in a killer quote, Jeff!

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[A Friend of Jolie]

Your attitude towards Brad and
Angelina, like the rest of our
sinful society who was effectively
brainwashed and corrupted, is
dead wrong. Most likely, your
beliefs, thoughts, emotions,
and opinions of this couple
are corrupt, ignorant, malicious,
and perverse. The entire media
and eventually the entire public
would jumped on that bandwagon
and choose to participate in this
cycle of lying, manipulating,
and deceiving, hating, insulting,
and contradicting. The media's
entire perspective and portrayal
of Brad and Angelina is based
on a lie, a false tabloid accusation that went out of control from the very beginning and would be used to misportray everything about these two. Their romance would be villifed way before it even began. Brad is a moral guy who got trapped in a messy misunderstanding and misportrayal that a piece of gossip caused; a piece of gossip that nobody should have believed if they had inkling of an understanding of Brad Pitt's
personality. Most of the world did
have a basic understanding of
Brad's personality, that he was
a truly good and nice guy that they
could count on, that he was a guy
with moral and family values.
How the ignorant masses easily
threw that understanding out and
betrayed him by believing such
a vile accusation against him.
The media does not care about
truth or goodness, it cares
about what storyline sells.

Gossip about affairs and things
like that get made up all of the
time. Half of the time they are
not true. He was not the first
guy to be wrongly linked to
somebody at the wrong time by
the gossip mill,and then to have
later hooked up with the person
he was wrongly linked with when it
was not inappropriate anymore.
He is not the first celebrity
to date a former co-star after
a breakup. It is not unusual
for people to move on with people
they already know. There are a
bunch of examples, Tom & Penelope,
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner,
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez,
etc. These people managed to
escape these pseudo-scandals
that surrounded them because the
person who was being misportrayed
as a victim had the decency and
humanity to not feed into that
pseudo-scandal and not to lie
about their ex.

[A Friend of Jolie]

Then you have all of those
celebrities who have actually
committed adultery, it is
interesting how the media and
public would condone, tolerate,
overlook, or even at times glorify
their sin and sleaze. Why? Because
most of the media, Hollywood,
and the rest of the world is
corrupt. They do not truly find
infidelity offensive unless it
directly affects them. There have
been plenty of real celebrity
victims, yet they did not get
that sympathy, compassion, or
benefit from a favorable bias.
The insane, immoral irony of the
masses turning against one of the
few men in Hollywood who actually
has ethics and who actually is
real and good. This entire
bandwagon bashing against them
operates on fraudulence..pseudo-
morality and pseudo-compassion
over a pseudo-scandal and a
pseudo-victim the world would
have never taken such an interest
in if not for Brad Pitt.

Angelina is a different story. She used to be a corrupt person but she
changed. Humanitarian work and
motherhood changed her. She is
a reformed woman. Yet people keep
harassing her about wild and bizarre
past. Ironically, people loved and
respected her when she was a bad
girl. Now that she is a good woman,
people hate her because they wrongly
believe she is a homewrecker. All
of the other lies, attacks, and
nasty gossip and mispotrayals
of these two was all spawned from
that false adultery accusation
because the media knew how much
mileage they could get from it.
Do not even get me started on his
ex-wife and how she played a
significant role in the brainwashing. Your viewpoint
on her is also completely wrong
and fabricated. She is not a
real sweetheart, golden girl,
and especially not a victim.
My discussion of this would
take a thousand pages to discuss.
I am not going to even attempt
that. In order to accurately
respond to this post, I had
to give that background info.
The media bias against them is
so strong, you can't even fully
believe everything the media
claims they said in their
interviews. These journalists
add their own fabrications,
they distort their comments,
and they take things out of
context. They add, detract,
lie, and screw around with
their words to fit into their
misportrayal of them. Brad and
Angelina are at a loss of what
to do, their ability to communicate
with the few unmanipulated people
out there has been blocked and
damaged.

Brad and Angelina have
not done or said anything offensive
but the media keeps putting a
screwed up spin on everything.
If they can't find a spin, they
just lie. For example,Brad Pitt would never insult God or the concept of religion that way.
He is not part of any religious
denomination, but he is spiritual
and believes in a higher power.
Angelina did not say her pregnancy
was planned. She never said she
wanted to talk to his ex. He
never said there was a deep
friendship between him and his
ex. That would be completely nuts.
The media even made it seem as
if Angelina were confessing to
an affair, when she denied an
affair. They have not mentioned
his ex since her infamous Vanity
Fair interview that would destroy
their reputations and make everybody
wrongly believe she is a victim
and some sort of angel. The only
mention of her, was that their
romance began after he and his
ex broke up.

They broke up in January of 2005,
and they annouced it to the world.
It was never a trial separation.
His romance with Angelina
unexpectedly began 3 months
later. They were telling the
truth when they denied having
an adulterous affair. They were
also telling the truth when they
initially denied being involved
because they were not romantically
involved at the time. The media
would play conservative and harass
them for dating before the divorce
was finalized. They would use
that angle and would be sick
enough to misportray her pregnancy
as some sort of proof, by screwing
with the timeframe. The fact is,
most people in the U.S., move
on before the paperwork becomes
offical. A marriage ends when two
people break up. The media uses
that angle when it suits them,
there are so many celebrities they
have not applied that to. His ex
also moved on before the divorce
was legalized but people just
overlooked that and also bought
into the PR Campaign surrounding
that calculated relationship.

There have been so many angles
the media has created. My point
is the media likes to lie, distort,
and mislead. One of the ways they
do that is by lying about the timeframe, or take things out
of a chronological context.

By the way, Brad has been cheated
on twice. When he and Gwyneth
broke up, the media accused him
of cheating. The ugly truth is
that she cheated on him. He is
a goodlooking man, and the media
had been trying to put that false cad and womanizer label on him for
years. Angelina's family was
torn apart by her father's
adultery. His ex has never been
betrayed or misportrayed by any
of her lovers yet she is acting
as if she is the ultimate victim.
Even the old Angelina would never
have taken up with an already taken
man. The whole situation with Laura
Dern was also an awful misunderstanding. Billy Bob Thornton
was a rat and lied to Angelina about
being single. He lied and said that
he and Laura Dern had broken up.
She chose to believe this creep
she had immature enough to fall
for and had stood by his denial.
Only recently, did she find out
that he did lie about this. She
did wreck that relationship but
it was not intentional.

Brad Pitt is not corrupt and
he is also not shallow. But he
is naive and trusting to the
point of absurdity. He thought
the world would have his back.
He had a good reputation which
was well-earned because he has
always been a good guy. People
were also closed-minded enough
to not even try to understand
why and how they got together
despite all of the nasty gossip
that preceded their actual
romance. Risking his reputation
was much better than risking a
life without true love or
family. As two single people,
it would make perfect sense
for them to get together because
they are compatible. When he
was not single, he was not viewing
her as a love interest because that
would have been wrong. There was
an attraction but they did not
act on it. Back when he was
unavailable, it was innocent.
His ex made it seem as if him
being attracted to her, means
emotional infidelity which is immature and irrational. By that
standard, all of us would be
considered philanderers.
I am pretty sure she was attracted
to other men while she was with
Brad. I know she was attracted
to Clive Owen, Matt LeBlanc,
Jim Carrey, Orlando Bloom, and etc.
She knew Vince when she was married
and they later hooked up.
Brad and Angelina struck an
immediate bond but they did not
cross that line. It was just
a friendship on the set of that
movie. Their great rapport caused
whispers from the gossipmongers.
Those so-called incriminating
photos were on-set photos, anyone
who has seen the movie should have
noticed that by now. When they
broke up, he did nothing wrong
by moving on and he did nothing
wrong by picking Angelina.

He was a good husband. It would
take a whole other long discussion
to explain why that marriage really
ended. His ex did not want to
face the truth and reality about
who caused most of the problems
and misery in that marriage.
Angelina and that whole tabloid
rumor was a good scapegoat. She
also knew it would make her the
most loved actress on the planet
and keep her in the A-list.

[A Friend of Jolie]

I had to explain all of that
before I could directly respond
to your post. My point was that
the media likes to lie, distort
things, and then turn around
and insult Brad & Angelina
over it so they can make them
look like liars and manipulators
when in reality they are good
and real. They also like to
take things out of a chronological
context. There are a number of
things wrong with that article.
They like to recycle old headlines
and them put them in present
tense which makes them inaccurate.

Angelina did not make that comment
to that magazine. She did make
that comment in a big interview
with Barbara Walters a number of
years ago. What is ridiculous
is that they are quoting from
an interview that took place
a long time ago when circumstances
were very different. That comment
was accurate when Angelina made
it at that point in time. But
it would not be accurate now.
She did that interview when she
was married to the rat Billy
Bob Thornton. At the time what
she said was true. She was never
as promisicuous as the media
portrayed her to be. She had
only slept with four men. Her
first boyfriend ( she was a
teenager), Johnny Lee Miller,
Timothy Hutton, and Billy Bob
Thornton. Johnny Lee Miller
and Billy Bob Thornton she
was married to. So she was
telling the truth about that.
That comment was true when she
made it at that point in time.
I am not sure about how many
women she fooled around with
at that point in time. The
fact is that she has always
been upfront and honest about
her love life.

After she and Billy Bob Thornton
split up, she was celibate for
more than year. Then she decided to
move forward. Angelina is a very sexual person. She did not want to be in a relationship at the time. She also was not doing well in the dating game. She also did not want
to have sex by picking up strange
men in bars or other places. It
would take a very special man
for her to settle down again.
But she is an erotic woman and
she wanted a sex life with some
sort of safety net. That is when
she came up with her system of
lovers or friends with benefits.
She would develop friendships with
single men and they would have
a physical, unattached sexual
partnership under her terms.
That way her high sexual needs could be desired without her having
to slut around. She had both female
and male lovers. Obviously, at
that point, the number of people
she slept with increased. It would
no longer be accurate for her to
say she only slept with four men,
and she never did say that after it
stopped being true. She was very
open about the fact that she
had multiple lovers. You see,
the media is misquoting her
on old comments and adding it to
the present. Why? Because the
media likes to misportray
Brad & Angelina as liars and
manipulators, to cover up the
fact that it is actually the
media and his ex that are lying
and manipulating the masses.
Angelina was not lying when she
made that comment years ago.
As for how many men she slept
with at this point. I am not sure
about the exact amount. I think
it is around eleven or thirteen,
that is including the 4 men in
her pre-lover era and Brad. I
don't think that is a high amount.
The average woman at age 32, has
slept with about that amount. That
is actually low when you compare
her to other actresse and models.
It is also odd how our sociey
places a double standard on
men and women when it comes to
sex. It is not just okay but
cool for a guy to have multiple
lovers and to be a swinging bachelor
but it is whorish for a girl to
do that. Colin Farrell, for
example, gets glorified for
his promisicuity which is greatly
exaggerated. A lot of those
hookups were made up by the press.
He and Angelina never hooked up
by the way. Colin, like Angelina,
throughout his career has been
wrongly linked to alot of people.
Angelina has been linked to almost
every co-star, so it would be no
suprise to her that the trashy press would link her to married golden boy Brad Pitt. Then they
had the shamelessness and audacity
to blame her for his divorce
using that rumor. This would
clash with real life later on,
when she and Brad would inevitably
get together for real despite
all of the tabloid hoopla, which
would make them a permanent target
of deceit and hatred. She is obviously in a committed and
monogamous relationship now that
she hopes will last for a long
time. I say long time instead of
forever because she knows that
romance and love rarely last
forever which is part of the
reason why they have not gotten
married. Though marriage is not
out of the question, they are
still debating that issue.

These are two good people
who should be loved and
respected but instead they
are being hated and insulted.
I think they are probably the
most maligned and misunderstood
people on the planet. I know
there are alot of things I
did not explain but I have
other things to do. I am not
interested in provoking a
debate of any kind. I barely
hit the iceberg when it comes
to explaining this horrific
situation, there are a lot of
layers. I am also very tired
of having to defend these people,
I have been doing it since 2005.
Please do not delete my comments.
I am only posting on your blog
for one day. I understand that
enlightening people with the
truth has become a lost cause.
The world has been too powerfully
corrupted by this. I know this
cycle will never end. It just
keeps getting worse. Please take
what I say to heart because it is
the truth.