QUEER EYE FOR ELTON JOHN

I’m going to march out and buy me a $500 Dolce & Gabbana handbag. Who’s with me? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Can the beautiful people be any more shallow, hypocritical, and discriminatory?

 

Guest Post by Brett Arends

Dolce & Gabbana goes on the offense in spat with Elton John

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Elton John

There are lots of ways to try to put out a public relations fire.

You can say you were “quoted out of context,” a phrase that has become a synonym for saying “I didn’t really say what I said.”

You can go on Jimmy Kimmel and apologize, as actor Gary Oldman did after appearing to defend, or excuse, Mel Gibson’s prior anti-Semitic remarks.

You can blame it on an addiction and go into rehab, as Tiger Woods did after sleeping with so many other women that his wife — allegedly — tried to wallop him with his world-famous golf clubs.

You can go on a reality TV show to try to “humanize” your image. Think of fallen Republican Congressman Tom DeLay on “Dancing With The Stars”… in red pants, no less.

You can do public acts of charity and philanthropy to rehabilitate your reputation — like Wall Street figures Michael Milken, a convicted felon, and Stephen Schwarzman, who compared some tax proposals to “Hitler invading Poland.” Both were celebrated recently for “philanthropy” on the cover of Forbes.

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