By: Billy BeerSlugger
A story like this only comes around once in a while so I’m going to try and enjoy this. In case you didn’t know I’m a fan of neither the Black Eyed Peas or Perez Hilton, however, sometime this past weekend, will.i.am (sic), Fergalicious and the Black Eyed Peas manager allegedly got into a fight with Celebrity Blogger Perez Hilton. This altercation left Hilton (whose real name is Mario Lavandeira) with some facial lacerations and probably a bruised ego.
Apparently this all stemmed from Perez Hilton calling Fergie “Fugly” and calling the Black Eyed Peas music crap. Unfortunately, I have to agree with the gay man on this one, Fergie’s face is all messed up from all the Meth she used to do (although her body is great) and The Black Eyed Peas haven’t come out with a good song since “Let’s Get Retarded” which they promptly sold out and changed the lyrics to “Let’s get it started”. That’s besides the point though.
The reason I’m extremely happy this transpired is because The Black Eyed Peas are like this mega pop group that is respected and loved by millions of fans and the press. So much so that will.i.am (sic) was interviewed via hologram from the victory party for Barack Obama winning the Presidential Election. Like CNN couldn’t have gotten a more influential black person to interview via hologram on this ground breaking night such as Martin Luther King’s widow or children, just a thought. And Perez Hilton is pretty much the antithesis of what he pretends to stand for. The man is basically famous for following around celebrities, taking pictures of these celebrities and drawing cartoon jizz or penis on them as well as outing celebrities who are not yet ready to come out of the closet. If he’s such a champion of gay rights you would think that he would let these people of alternative lifestyles to announce their gayness on their own terms and not on his crap website. I mean what if the guy / girl didn’t tell their parents yet. They found out over the news or something. Just bad taste if you ask me.
Anyway, something else I found funny was that Hilton called will.i.am (sic) a faggot during the altercation. Isn’t that kind of like a black person calling a white person a n!gger in a fight? I know the intention was to demean and attack will.i.am (sic) saying he has sex with men, but coming from a person who has sex with men, doesn’t it lose a little bit of it’s luster?
From the Wikipedia:
Name Calling:
Propagandists use the name-calling technique to incite fears and arouse prejudices with the intent that invoked fear based on fearmongering tactics will encourage those that read, see or hear propaganda to construct a negative opinion about a person, group, or set of beliefs or ideas that the propagandist would wish the recipients to denounce. The method is intended to provoke conclusions and actions about a matter apart from an impartial examinations of the facts of the matter. When employed, name-calling is thus a substitute for rational, fact-based arguments against an idea or belief, based upon its own merits.
So effectively Perez Hilton using a homophobic slur to paint a negative picture of will.i.am (sic) and the gay community and their set of beliefs is effectively the opposite of the gay rights he champions so much.
That being said I still have much disdain for both the Black Eyed Peas and Perez Hilton, they could both fall off a cliff and I wouldn’t watch their joint funeral on CNN.
So who wins this war of words and fisticuffs? You certainly don’t, it’s on your TV, on your radio and on your Internet including BeerSlugger.com.
Below is the video rebuttal to will.i.am’s (sic) video blog of the occurrences the night of the altercation. I tell you, i can’t stand it when women cry. If a girl cries, your mom, your sister, your aunt, your girlfriend who ever, no matter how obtuse the reasoning, it always gets me, i fell sorry for them a little. But when a grown man cries (especially a girly man) I don’t know why but I find it utterly hilarious. Fast forward to the end to see him sobbing.