Our Biggest Conservative: Perez Hilton

Somehow, Perez Hilton—a flamboyantly gay gossipmonger whose “favorite hobby is drawing dribbles of semen on pictures of celebrities”—has become “our leading morals cop.” He’s quick to deem Miley Cyrus “trampy” and Sienna Miller “slutty,” and this week—after posting a picture of Ke$ha apparently covered in, um, love juice—the high-profile blogger labeled her a “trashy whore.” Yet, writes Mary Elizabeth Williams for Salon, Hilton is actually a “prude” who “out-conservatives the conservatives.”

“Hilton calls them like he sees them—and what he mostly sees are whores,” Williams continues. “His site may be fueled by the prurient appetites of his visitors, but his whole persona is built on finger-wagging disgust about it.” And she doesn’t think it’s an act—his “Puritanism” looks a lot like “a crusade—a crusade awash in seminal fluid, revulsion, and judgment.”
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