Hey, thanks for cracking down on this obvious ethical crime, Nanny Tate. I'm sure that even if you ever consumed alcohol "underage" (at 20, for chrissakes), or did some blow, it wouldn't merit a mention. Because you're not one of those riches. And therefore, there's no morality tale.
If she was sixteen when she was busted for underage drinking, in a underground swingers' club in Soho that she went to with a drag queen so he could pick jacket pockets, THAT might be some news.
Now, if she were shop lifting at CVS or Barney's; or taking flying lessons and having unprotected sex with the teacher in a small aircraft, while drinking blooy marys before noon, with blow to aid the afterglow, and the pilot's phone dialed to his wife and children so they could hear, then I would have a problem.
I love all of the posters in the comments saying, "Who cares" and "Is this news?" You guys are such farking hypocrites. If she was Sarah Palin's daughter, this would be the lead story on Gawker for weeks and weeks and you know it.
@SnehaMus: Dude, she doesn't come from a family that preaches behavioral codes. Thus, there's nothing ironic or hypocritical, or even vaguely interesting about the same a lot of the readership has engaged in. Including me.
BTW, Gawker focused on Palin's daughters pregnancy, which is ironic because of the abstinence-only education promoted by her mother. Get it, ass clown?
@BadUncle: Yeah, ass clown, I get that you think that there's a difference between Palin preaching abstinence-only education and Biden preaching that America should be drug-free. The problem is, there is no difference and you're either ignorant or just making poor excuses for yourself.
@pacific_reporter: Hey, guess what? Gawker did cover the blow "scandal." I just don't give a shit. The point above is about underage drinking. Reading is fundamental - even for fundamentalists.
@pacific_reporter: BTW, since you have a problem with critical thinking, let me help you delineate the difference between the two cases you would erroneously compare. Abstinence education is a proven disaster, leading to both increased teen pregnancy and increased at-risk sexual behavior. Sarah Palin's daughter verbalized the same opinion, and it doesn't take much cranial voltage to see that curtailing access to birth control information - if not the materials themselves - had a direct influence on her getting knocked up.
By contrast, Joe Biden is an anti-drug crusader, preaching that drugs are bad. His daughter probably did coke. Ironic? Yes. Cause-and-effect relationship? Zero.
Does this help? I can reduce this to Colorforms, if you need to sound out the sentences.
@It's twue! It's twue!: when i was 20 this happened to me. i had to attend 3 AA meetings, visit a morgue (fun), do a shit ton of hrs of community service, pay $500 and a other ridiculous shit - all so the state would wipe the underage from my record and not take my license away for 3 months. altho i have to admit the AA meetings were pretty entertaining.
@easternsike: Ugh, I do hate the mentality that if you ever have a drink before age 21, you must be an alcoholic. My high school boyfriend told me that once, and I broke up with him over it. I didn't even drink at the time.
Well, we'll see if Ms. Winfrey is really all about service or if she's just another talking-head hack. If she has them both on the show then it's almost inevitable CB will play the "I'm so sorry, I'm getting help, Rihanna and G.O.D. have forgiven me, why can't you too, America?" card. And that will be that. The kids will get movie deals, Oprah will continue to line her mink pockets, and those other kids in her South African school will continue to be abused. Yep. She's the patron saint of all abused people alright.
Mrs. Rodman should aim higher, like Ms. Lil' Kim. From her opus How Many Licks:
A white dude his name was John
He had a Queen Bee Rules tattoo on his arm,
He asked me if I'd be his date for the prom
And he'd buy me a horse, a Porsche and a farm.
Naturally, a horse (provided it's from good stock), a Porsche (any, except in a terrible color like green or orange) and a farm (only if it is chockablock with loamy, arable soil) are much more lucrative than some sad beauty school degree. We should all try to be more like Ms. Kim.
How are you "framed" for doing coke? You might be purposely filmed, but unless someone holds your nose to the mirror - explain how this is not "free will"?
Sucks to be the child of someone famous, when you yourself are not trying to be - but in an era where we know everything about Joan Crawford's kids all the way up to Rumer Willis' acting aspirations and Suri Cruise's wardrobe - how can you presume privacy?
@FormerEnglishMajor: good for her getting her party on in these hard times. no one said she was framed or questioned her free will. an "elaborate plot" means her skeeze friend set up a hidden camera for money
@FormerEnglishMajor: One certainly can't take privacy for granted any more, we all have to work at it, and the children of celebrities who'd rather stay out of the limelight have to work hard at it.
@GinaAntiphus: I guess, to me, if you do coke - it's not like she had a gun at her head. If she wants to do coke - that's her prerogative. She wasn't "framed". She was "caught" in a Michael Phelpsian way - I guess it's the tenor of the "poor Ashley, some friend trying to make money off her" like she was sitting innocently on a park bench babysitting orphans, and someone showed up and forced her to do coke and a video appeared.
She did coke. She is no more innocent (or guilty) than the guy who bought it and filmed it. You know your dad's prominent, you know it's a risk; I guess I am not getting the "poor Ashley" stuff.
Ashley Biden should have heeded Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five's advice and everything would have been as cool as the other side of the pillow.
"Beat Street, the King of the Beat. They see ya Rockin' That Beat from across the Street. Beat Street is a Lesson Too, Because You Can't Let The Streets Beat You "
Oprah Winfrey could capitalize on the Rihanna-Chris Brown mess still yet. If Winfrey invites the embattled lovers and experts on the Stockholm and Battered Cohabitant Syndromes, Winfrey can then spin the media circus off as a public service. Kleenex with Aloe-vera sponsors the show with emotion, crying jag-themed commercials..."We'll be there when you need us most."
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*clears throat*
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Now, if she were shop lifting at CVS or Barney's; or taking flying lessons and having unprotected sex with the teacher in a small aircraft, while drinking blooy marys before noon, with blow to aid the afterglow, and the pilot's phone dialed to his wife and children so they could hear, then I would have a problem.
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BTW, Gawker focused on Palin's daughters pregnancy, which is ironic because of the abstinence-only education promoted by her mother. Get it, ass clown?
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By contrast, Joe Biden is an anti-drug crusader, preaching that drugs are bad. His daughter probably did coke. Ironic? Yes. Cause-and-effect relationship? Zero.
Does this help? I can reduce this to Colorforms, if you need to sound out the sentences.
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please let it stop here.
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A white dude his name was John
He had a Queen Bee Rules tattoo on his arm,
He asked me if I'd be his date for the prom
And he'd buy me a horse, a Porsche and a farm.
Naturally, a horse (provided it's from good stock), a Porsche (any, except in a terrible color like green or orange) and a farm (only if it is chockablock with loamy, arable soil) are much more lucrative than some sad beauty school degree. We should all try to be more like Ms. Kim.
04/01/09
Sucks to be the child of someone famous, when you yourself are not trying to be - but in an era where we know everything about Joan Crawford's kids all the way up to Rumer Willis' acting aspirations and Suri Cruise's wardrobe - how can you presume privacy?
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She did coke. She is no more innocent (or guilty) than the guy who bought it and filmed it. You know your dad's prominent, you know it's a risk; I guess I am not getting the "poor Ashley" stuff.
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"Beat Street, the King of the Beat.
They see ya Rockin' That Beat from across the Street.
Beat Street is a Lesson Too, Because You Can't Let The Streets Beat You "
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It gets better... Ashley Biden... coke... inordinately runny noses in need of soothing absorbent facial tissue.
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But god help you if you inadvertently wipe your eyes with them, Minkie.
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@Monkeyrash: I have to try the those! Steady on around the eyes like DA says, I'm sure.
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I have the urge to carry you away from the icy glare of Washington, away to somewhere we can be alone together...
But I do not sniff the coke I only smoke the sinsemilla.
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