Kim Kardashian for President
Free enterprise. It’s a beautiful thing. And it all works fine and dandy until power-hunger and pompous self-righteousness gum up the works. Until some duly elected fathead says, “No, no, Kim, I went to an Ivy League school and I know better than you do how you should spend your money.” Or, “No, no, Kim, I am the Compassionate and Wise and I know where the need for your money is greatest.” Or, “We all have to share the sacrifice, Kim, so give me your money to pay for the votes I bought with promises I can’t keep.” Or, “There comes a point when you have too much money, Kim, so you have to give some of yours to me.”
As long as human beings are free to pursue their desires restricted by nothing but the safety and freedom of their neighbors, there will be plenty of money and plenty of jobs. You may say it’s wrong for people to live like that — to live, I mean, as they please. You may say Kim Kardashian’s wedding was garish, for example, or that she should’ve given her money to charity instead or that the public shouldn’t make someone like Kim Kardashian rich in the first place.
But let me ask you this: Who the hell are you to say? Who the hell is anyone? You don’t like the way Kim Kardashian lives? Don’t live that way. I don’t. But I don’t tell anyone else whether or not they should.
The imposition of virtue by force is not virtue. And it is precisely that imposition — through government entitlements, through government-inspired bad loans, through government over-regulation, through government redistribution schemes — that has so badly damaged our nation’s freedom and economy.
Question: What’s the difference between the Obama presidency and Kim Kardashian’s marriage?
Answer: I hope Kim Kardashian’s marriage lasts.
It was obscene of that complainer to go to a dinner party during these hard times when there is so much suffering in the world. Sack cloth and ashes for everyone until things turn around.
Perfect rejoinder! Brilliant! The writer is now kicking himself. “Dang! Why didn’t I think of that?!?” lol
Do you read these comments, Mr. Klavan? I always wonder if you do or not but I suppose it is irrelevant. Anyway, I just thought I could shed a little light on your ‘ignorance’. The only reason I know anything about Kim Kardashian is because she lives and operates her business from my hometown of Calabasas, CA. That being said, what I do know is this: a lot of her money is inheritance from her father (a high-profile defense attorney who was one of the brains behind the OJ fiasco). From there, she was able to do some acting/modeling and eventually became famous through a TV show she landed that followed her and her family around.
It isn’t the most virtuous/glamorous way to earn that wealth, but it was earned…either by her, or by her family. Everything you said was correct and beautiful…who are we to say what she ought to do? The imposition of virtue is precisely the opposite of virtue. Morality presupposes choice, and choice presupposes the prohibition of force and fraud. So what if she has more money than she ‘needs’? So what if she has an extravagant wedding? It’s her money, it’s her fame, it’s her life. The fact that Kim’s wedding was able to do more for the economy than the lame-duck in office is, as you put it truly/directly, due to the fact that there was no force/fraud involved. To play off of Barry White, it was a free market, doin’ it’s thing, baby.
What’s the difference between the Obama presidency and the Kim Kardashian marriage?
The Kardashian wedding didn’t get credit for killing terrorism
She became famous for making a sex tape with a rapper that then got “leaked.” That’s what really kicked off her career as a professional celebrity. The acting/modeling came after that.
“leaked” as in “human urinal”. lol eww
Well thank god it wasn’t that nasty horse of a sister…what ever her name is..married to Odom.
…that is one foul mouthed female..rude, mean, overbearing..does her best to embarrass everyone, especially her mother, and the lap dog Jenner….not necessarily physically ugly just nasty and if that sex tape had been of her..she still wouldn’t have any money!
I peruse them all and read some. I rarely answer, however, due to time constraints and also because I figure, I had my say, now you have yours.
But Mr. Klavan, we’re dying to know: Do you have an official position with the Kim Kardashian for President campaign, or are you just one of her many well-wishers? And where do we send our campaign contributions?
(At last! A candidate who demonstrably creates jobs!)
*humps Andy’s leg*
Oops. That was only ‘sarc/humping’ ;p
Ah, that makes sense. It’s good to know that you look over them; helps to establish a real atmosphere of dialogue and discussion.
Cameron, I detect a tone of resentment in your post. I hope you’re not begruding Kim Kardashian her easy money. All over America, fathers are getting up and going to work every day, day after day, year after year, for decades on end so that their kids can live a materially better life than they themselves did. Smart kids will make that money grow into more money so that *their* kids can live a materially better life, and so on.
Maybe you’re annoyed because your dad was broke or absent and you have to be the one to get the generational ball rolling? Well, you live in a great country where hard work, ingenuity, and native gifts such as looks or talent are rewarded. Get cracking!
Obscene to spend cash on goods and services?
This reminds me of some nonsense on a show my wife was watching, The View.
All were saying that because of these financial times they don’t like to go shopping at nicer stores in Manhattan lest they be seen with shopping bag evidence of this “obscene” indulgence.
Store clerks have children to feed, too, but nevermind that. They can just wait until spending becomes fashionable again.
Behold the benevolent genius of limousine liberalism.
You don’t really think that the women on The View are actually NOT shopping do you?
I simply can’t picture them depriving them of all the good things in life that their virtue and political correctness entitles them to. I’ll bet they either shop and feel guilty about it or they dispatch employees to do the shopping for them.
Have you seen the way Woopie dresses? Either she isn’t shopping, or she needs to fire the person shopping for her.
According to the Daily Rash, Kim is suing tennis star Serena Williams because she has a Kim Kardashian look alike ass! http://www.thedailyrash.com/moammar-khadafi-seeks-asylum-in-alabama
I was wondering why you put a link about Gaddafi in your post until I saw that the site also had a Kim Kardashian story. I think this is what you may have meant, David H. http://www.thedailyrash.com/kim-kardashian-sues-serena-williams-for-look-a-like-ass If not, you should have. Thanks for the Daily Rash intro, by the way!
Was Barry Obama at the dinner party? The guest who made the “obscene” comment sounds like he/she shares Barry’s view of rich folk – that they should be ashamed of themselves for earning large sums of money and then spending their money as they choose rather than having it taken away from them in taxes or donating it to the poor.
It’s only logical that Obama and his enthusiasts denigrate conspicuous consumption. Remember, they believe that all that money was gotten by ruthlessly exploiting the poor, weak and powerless.
In fact, they don’t believe that it’s possible for anyone to make money in any way EXCEPT by that kind of exploitation. The only exceptions are their own salaries and perqs which are a reward for splendidness given by taxpayers who are only too glad to be guided by the all-knowing all-seeing benevolences in the Democratic Party.
Remember, they believe that all that money was gotten by ruthlessly exploiting the poor, weak and powerless.
Just projecting as usual.
And the effects of the spending extended well beyond 93108.
Is this dlisted.com? LOL
I’m not sure why (maybe because I’ve never been sure who Kim Kardashian is either), but I was delighted with this column, and shared it on Facebook. I kept thinking, “This is the sort of thing G. K. Chesterton would write, if he had had the ill fortune to be born in our time.”
KK is impulse aisle eye-candy for people who find their own existences so disappointing (with good reason, I imagine – Life, by definition, is a failure) and so they live vicariously through the “Princess Drama in Perpetuity” crowd – as I call them. It’s almost harmless, I suppose, – almost, and the best part is, according to the usual script in these matters, she’ll create even more jobs in three or four years when she “gets married” again – after the few months of well-covered bliss, followed by storm clouds appearing on the horizon (hints of unfaithfulness on the part of hubby du jour,) then the well-covered angst over it all, and a confab with her equally slatternly sisters, followed by the divorce, the bounce back (Kim finds love again!), and then another “wedding of the century” (We’ve got what? Seven or eight of those now? And the first decade is barely over) followed by the rest the princess drama bull crap … lather, rinse, repeat.
I am actually not nearly as cynical as the above makes me sound. It’s all really very funny to me. Seriously, there isn’t enough cocaine in Hollywood for screenwriters to come up with stuff this funny.
The fat girl is eye candy? Straight to the eye doc for you, Dude.
If that picture at the top of this page is what she looks like and you think she’s a fatty, you have a seriously warped opinion about what a woman should look like. Not everyone goes for the skinny “heroin chic” or anexoria look. Real women have curves.
And that one has blubber.
Blubber? Right…
Nice attempt at trolling!
About the only men who complain about a woman who looks like that are gay fashion designers. Tell me, how are things in the fashion industry in this economy?
Andrew Klavan, you are the strongest link…
Fewer drama queens and less hysteria at Kim’s wedding, too.
With only my curmudgeonly aversion to the modern notion of celebrity, and my media-distorted perception of the new bride’s image to guide me, I’d just like to say…
There’s no WAY this country would permit, let alone support, the election of a president so lacking in administrative experience, so foreign to foreign policy, so innocent of legislative sausagery, so self-absorbed and narcissistic, and so condescending toward those who worked with far more sweat, thought, and determination for far less lucrative goals.
Not a chance, we’re too smart for that!
And I don’t actually believe any of that about Kim Kardashian, or much care, but there are others of whom I believe it’s true, and by whom we all suffer.
What would her slogan be? “Vote for Kardashian, because the biggest ass is already in the White House”?
” . . . the economy was more stimulated in my little neighborhood this weekend than it has been anywhere in the country . . “
Wow, Andrew, I didn’t know you’re KK’s neighbor, and you still don’t know who she is! I’m impressed! Man, you’re sheltered!
I wouldn’t call him ‘sheltered’ but rather ‘selective’.
I see her name pop up all over the place but never paid any attention. I don’t watch TV (not because I’m too sophistimicated but, with six kids, I can never get near any of them), so I’m pretty clueless culturally. I asked my oldest daughter who KK was. She laughed and called me old. So I said, “I’m not old. I only have so many brain cells and I have to save them for important things. Like where I left my damn walker.”
What was I talking about???
Oh, nevermind.
Man, I hear ya re: the TV – I’ve got 4 kids myself. I would say the best thing we can do for our 10 is to keep them as far away from the tube as possible! If they happen to miss The Adventures of KK & Her Sisters, they’re all the better for it!
Thank you for an insightful article that was also a delight to read!
So the dinner party guest thought that an expensive wedding was obscene? Did that same guest make such a fuss over the Chelsea Clinton wedding recently? IIRC, the Clinton wedding was also an elaborate and expensive affair, although maybe not $10 million worth.
The Obamas have 2 daughters. Will that same dinner guest rise up and complain if the Obamas throw an elaborate and expensive wedding for one of their children?
Hopefully, by the time O’s daughters get old enough to marry he will be nothing more than a footnote in history hardly remembered.
‘Dat Ass
Miz. Kardashian’s qualifications begin and end with that phrase.
Not just jobs, green jobs. Its not like this will be her last wedding.
What’s the difference between KK’s wedding and Obama’s job program? One is a grotesquely, unimaginably and criminally wasteful useless orgy of self-serving banality exacerbated by media adulation ….and the other is just a rich person’s wedding.
LOL!
With the tax cuts she got from Bush she can definitely afford to spend this much money on her own wedding. I am however surprised she didn’t spend more. For her $10 millions is cheap.
If Kim really believed in the re-distribution of wealth, she would have taken five million dollars of that money for the wedding and given it to me. After all, according to Obama it’s only “fair” for her to spread the wealth, right? And it really isn’t “her” money after all, right? According to Obama the money came from us, so it’s only right that she give half of it back, right?
I accept certified checks and money orders. Cash is always good too.
You think you’re entitled to half of the ten million spent on the wedding? Guess again. If you were the federal government, you’d be entitled to ALL of it, less $250,000, at least going by Obama’s formula.
Gee, I thought a Kim Car Dashian was some kind of car race where the owner picked up his small Korean car and raced to a finish line somewhere in Finland.
She’ll be 200lbs in 3 years. Famous for making a sex video with some dirtbag – nice.
President of what ?
Adult Film Star Association
Queeen of the lucky sperm Club (inheritance makes you happy)
The Round Mound of the Renowned
NFL Doorknob Club… she’s had more turns than a doorknob
Formerly a member of the Reggies Bush Society
Give her props; she’s more effective than this administration on creating jobs even if their bl$w jobs
“In truth, the economy was more stimulated in my little neighborhood this weekend than it has been anywhere in the country during the entire Obama administration.”
And what neighborhood is that, Andrew?
And now, that you have been stimulated, are you ready to pay more taxes to stimulate our neighborhoods as well? Or it’s still not enough.
I wonder how much her sisters Courtney and Chloe will spend when they marry.
Every time I hear about this woman I hear Butters from South Park ” I love Kim Karfashian so much. Her butt is like a big mountain of pudding!”
Kim who?
Perhaps she might get divorced and do it all over again in my neighborhood.
Kim Kardashian for president? I fail to see how we could do any than with what we’ve got now. Besides, she’s much easier to look at.
I think there’s a “worse” missing from that sentence, right after the “any”….
Not gay. Not a fashion designer. That woman is seriously fat.