Sex Sells. Sex Sells Votes

I remember just years ago reading an article on Drew Barrymore encouraging people to vote and wearing a "Politics is Like Sex. Protect Yourself. Vote." T-Shirt.

The shirt was quick, get-to-the point, and grabbed your attention. It was also true.

The idea of "Sex Sells" has caused years of controversey blending the lines of what's appropriate, what's necessary, and what's our personal right. From the exploitation of the female gender, to public indecency, to the now easily-accessible loss of innocence of children, there are times when the label has made it's mark (usually of negative influence) in both history and law.

If America wasn't so taboo about the subject and sex-crazy whenever any display of sexual nature appeared such measures wouldn't be necessary to get the much needed attention of important issues. There are times I, too, agree it's necessary. In 2004, when this article and t-shirt came around, it was a critical time when we were at war and economically struggling as a country. We recovered from terrible tragedy after tragedy joining our hands together as one to rebuild from the horrific 9-11 disaster that forever changed our world and state of minds. The 2004 election was one of the most important elections to have come around since, well for me, arguably Abraham Lincoln's.

Now having gone through another four years of war, four years of detruction, four years of little done for improvement and rebuilding of our economy, this election is just as critical.

Soooo, where am I going with this?

Sex Sells Votes of course.

Last week, a group of people decided to gather around and create a music video now supporting candidates. In particular (the start of the trend anyway) Amber Lee Ettinger and BarelyPolitical.com productions have come up with a new way to reach the MTV generation (haha I use that loosely) with a music video about love....

Yes love not just of politics but of the politicians themself.

Check out "I Gotta Crush On Obama"



I swear what will they think of next. It's unbelievable the amount of attention being received from this video.

Obama's campaign said they had no affiliation with this project.

So having pushed the envelopes of everything else, why not politics?

Vote 2008.


Wanna know more about Obamagirl and support his campaign. Get some t-shirts and read up at www.barelypolitical.com!

Suicide or Homicide?: The Possible Tragic Death of A Talent

Omg, Lindsay Lohan is going to die.
"I was really sick. I had people sit me down who said, 'You are going to die if you don't take care of yourself.'" she was quoted saying after her first rehab stint.
You can see the raggedness of aging appearing on her face from nights of partying, hard-liquoring, and now cocaine use. It's given her a hard look at such a young age.

Say it ain't so!
Regardless of what you may think of Lindsay personally, the girl's got acting chops.

Who else can switch between the role of parent and child so quickly in Freaky Friday? Or play the misunderstood anti-hero in Mean Girls and still make you empathize and cheer for her? And need we forget the start of it all as the adorable little girl in the remake of The Parent Trap?

So why do people put up with the party-hardy, stuck-up starlet?

Felicity Hauffman and Jane Fonda had put up with the young diva arriving constantly late on the set of her new movie "Georgia Rule". Felicity was quoted saying Lindsay's performance in the movie will make people forget all about her misbehavior on the set. Shirley MacLaine who is starring in and producing a new movie called "Poor Things" featuring Lohan and Rosario Dawson and recently sent a letter out stating they're willing to work around Lindsay's rehab schedule.

MacLaine and her fellow producer on the film, Rob Hickman, issued a statement expressing support for the 20-year-old actress. "In the spirit of helping Lindsay Lohan and her rehabilitation, we have been asked by Lindsay to comply with her wishes to continue working on 'Poor Things,"' they said. "We are trying to rearrange the shooting schedule to facilitate her working at the end of the shoot to coincide with the completion of her rehabilitation. We wish her love and the blending of mind, body and spirit." Jane Fonda sang the girl's praises recently on Larry King talking about how it was working on the set of the new movie "Georgia Rule":

KING: Speaking of that, a role you might have taken 50 years ago is your granddaughter Lindsay Lohan. What was it like working with her?

FONDA: She breaks my heart.

KING: Meaning?

FONDA: Meaning, her talent runs so deep. She has an ability to access her emotions and what I can only surmise has been a really difficult, complicated life and she can bring it up and use it in a role like this. I think she will blow people away. She blew me away while we were working. I have seen the movie twice now and I feel like I have been kicked in stomach by a horse by her performance. It just blows me away. And she's a good girl.

KING: Georgia makes the rules, by the way. Lindsay Lohan came in for some negative publicity. She was in fact criticized by the CEO of Morgan Creek Productions, James Robinson, who produced the movie, chiding her for lateness and partying and immaturity. What's your read on Lindsay?

FONDA: "She turned 20 on this movie. Lest we forget, this is a very young person who's had a very difficult life, who has been famous since she was 12. And being famous now is not like when I was young, the scrutiny, the paparazzi, the every move you make, you know, she's in a really difficult situation. And she handles it -- I think she handles it really well."I don't know about her private life. All I know is that when she showed up for work, she was totally brilliant. And for most of the time when I was working with her, she was on time. There were one or two days she was late and I got mad at her. I went into her trailer and told her to get her ass on the set and left. And she said to her makeup person, "Barbarella just yelled at me." She's got a sense of humor. "

So is it a cry for attention? The media blowing things out of proportion? Or poor lack of grounded support in the young girls life?

She's been hospitalized from over exhaustion, admitted to an eating disorder, and now the more recent drug revelation showing her snorting lines of cocaine. What do her parents make of this? "Lindsay needs to let God into her life." her father now a prison minister has said. But who would take Mr. Lohan's advice having been in and out of jail for assault and money fraud? "It's something all teenagers go through." say her mom, who parties just about as hard as her daughter and is also mostly photographed with alcohol in hand looking trashed. When asked about how her daughter is holding up with the cocaine tape circulating she shows no concern about her daughter but more about the videographer.

“We’re not reading anything about it. You can’t let it bother you. We work so hard, then some girl just tried to make money off her [for that tape]. Lindsay doesn’t even know who her friends are."

Yeah Dina, nevermind your daughter is a crackhead on her way knocking at the door of death.

Rosie O' Donnell's view on LiLo's mom seems more accurate if anything, "It's just sad to me that when your daughter is obviously struggling with some addiction issues, the mother is posing with champagne in the back of "Vanity Fair" and doing interviews on the red carpet."

The media has caused LiLo to crash several Benzes and it seems the paparazzi have partially driven the young starlet into insanity. Yet Lindsay was once quoted saying about the paparrazi "I wouldn’t ever want them to not take my picture. I’d be worried. I’d be like, 'Do people not care about me?'" A desperate cry for help perhaps having lived her life, faults and all under the media microscope.

Going into rehab a 2nd time, it's unlikely it'll be a stable recovery. "I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict." LiLo's said.

Unfortunately, Lindsay still doesn't have the best people looking out for her interests. Her 21st birthday party in July 2nd is still scheduled to be in Vegas. And apparently, she doesn't have any plans to cancel despite her rehab. Lohan's lawyer, Mike Heller, sniped at skepticism that his client should not be going to nightclubs or having massive parties given her current situation. "Just because you’re sober doesn’t mean you can’t go out and have fun. Part of sobriety is that you can go out into normal society and just go out. Who say’s you can’t move your boot on the dance floor?" Heller asked.

Are these people serious? Between Lindsay's messed up parents and this guy no wonder she has no discipline. Too much money, too young. It's a shame.

BTW, I loved the reports from the police stating they "refused to comment on Lohan's blood alcohol content."

Geez, I can only imagine....

Media Manipulation: Reality or Perception?

Perhaps celebs are telling the truth about the media making them look bad and not revealing who they really are. The humdrum sing-song chorus of "Yeah-yeah-whatever" from us mere mortals seems to be put in a position of correction. Having watched the premeire of God knows what season of Simple Life, I found myself once again hooked on the hilariously rude but kind-hearted pair as they helped a camp of fatties try to lose weight, then after much complaining about the food at the health camp decided to attach the camp director's car to the locked up fridge in the barn and break it open (unsuccessfully to say the least). What can I say about these 2? It's more of a love-to-hate relationship with Americans. I personally just love 'em. Here in this clip they bonded with the overweights at a bon-fire and entered into a deep (at least for their standards) discussion. I found this interesting because 1) I've always wondered how the media labeling weight issues so easily on these celebrities effects their mindset and 2)Nicole actually comes off intelligent and makes valid points. I guess I found this shocking because all the media ever portrays of these two is being stupid, slutty, party girls when really other than having been born into money they're no different from us (okay so forget the Paris porn tapes). I found this show more or less humanizes them. And aren't celebrities after all just like us? Humans? One of the women at the camp asked how Nicole dealt with the media and their scrutinizing of her eating habits: