Lindsay Lohan Case Sends, Duh, Wrong Message

Yes, celebrities SHOULD get special consideration when they break the law... they should have the BOOK THROWN at them!

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal Thursday on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve 10 days of community service and complete a drug treatment program.

She was also placed on 36 months probation, is required to complete an 18-month alcohol education program, pay hundreds of dollars in fines and must complete a three-day county coroner program in which she'll visit a morgue and talk to victims of drunken drivers.

Talk about "Before and After"!



"It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs," Lohan said in a statement released by publicist Leslie Sloane Zelnik.

She said she did things she was ashamed of. "I broke the law and today I took responsibility by pleading guilty to the charges in my case."

District Attorney Danette Meyers speaks during a news conference at the Beverly Hills Court...
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"She's getting what everyone else would get," Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers said after an hourlong hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr.'s courtroom. Terms of the plea bargain were worked out in chambers.

Well, I just don't have the mental energy to deconstruct the way this story is covered. But I do have one final point about these celebrities and their treatment in the courts and media.

The fact is that if Lohan receives what any other offender would get, that itself would be an injustice. Celebrities receive the benefit of public adulation and must also pay the price for public misdemeanors. Celebrity criminals must be made examples of... and just the opposite is too often the case. Don't get me started on Nicole Richie's 82 minutes in jail!

This inverted morality is a sign of our times, decadent, no moral imagination, only sensationalism. Man are we doomed or what?

Michelle Malkin on Friday Factor touches on this... Video highlights at Hot Air, but unfortunately the comment on Lohan didn't make the highlights!.

[On Hollywood Madness, and originally indexed on Ox ...After Dark]