Part of me, says not to go here. Part says, read twice what I say before you bombard Eric. So here is goes.
Is it ever permissable for a man to slap a woman? Maybe, video
Or maybe not. Barbara Walters seems to neither condemning nor condoning Sean Conner.
Even if you accept that it permissable, sometimes, to slap a woemn, we should agree that is should never take more than one man.
So having said that, this blog officially questions the manhood of both Mario Lavandeira d/b/a Perez Hilton and Donald Trump d/b/a Miss USA Pageant. Patterico, Patterico Pontifications, [1]has the details:
Ben Sheffner has obtained Perez Hilton’s cease and desist letter, which amusingly fails to address the doctrine of fair use . . . at all. Which is highly unusual for such a letter – but not surprising in this particular case, where the fair use analysis is so clear.
How bad has it gotten? The Miss USA Pageant has sent NOM a cease and desist letter of its own, for the use of Miss California’s answer. Like NOM’s use of the Perez Hilton clip, this is clearly fair use, and the takedown notice is pure thuggery by a pageant embarrassed by its decision to allow Hilton to be a judge.
I am not a big fan of beauty pageants in general, Miss America in particular and even lesss so of Miss USA. However Carrie Prejean has my support for standing up to thugs like Lavandeira and Trump and doing so as a lady.