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Paris Hilton and the drunken elephants
« on: November 13, 2007, 04:17:40 pm »
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-11-13_D8SSS1M81&show_article=1&cat=breaking

GAUHATI, India (AP) - Paris Hilton is being praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India.
Activists said a celebrity endorsement such as Hilton's was sure to raise awareness of the plight of the pachyderms that get drunk on farmers' homemade rice beer and then go on a rampage.

"The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them," the 26- year-old socialite said in a report posted on World Entertainment News Network's Web site. Her comments were picked up by other Web sites and newspapers around the globe.

Last month, six wild elephants that broke into a farm in the state of Meghalaya were electrocuted after drinking the potent brew and then uprooting an electricity pole.

"There would have been more casualties if the villagers hadn't chased them away. And four elephants died in a similar way three years ago. It is just so sad," Hilton was quoted as saying in Tokyo last week. She was in Tokyo to judge a beauty contest.

Her publicist couldn't immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

Hilton promised to improve her bad-girl image after she completed a jail term in June for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

She announced plans to do charity work in Rwanda, but the trip was postponed until next year.

Sangeeta Goswami, head of animal rights group People for Animals, told The Associated Press: "I am indeed happy Hilton has taken note of recent incidents of wild elephants in northeast India going berserk after drinking homemade rice beer and getting killed."

"As part of her global elephant campaign, Hilton should, in fact, think of visiting this region literally infested with elephants," Goswami said.

Another conservationist said elephant alcohol abuse was just a symptom of the real problem.

"Elephants appear on human settlements ... because they have no habitat left due to wanton destruction of forests," said Soumyadeep Dutta, who heads Nature's Beckon, a leading regional conservation group.

"A celebrity like Hilton must focus her attention on this fact," Dutta said.
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Re: Paris Hilton and the drunken elephants
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2007, 09:44:19 pm »
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Forgive me for laughing, I can see where this could be a very serious problem in that part of the world but world hunger it ain't.  But leave it to Paris Hilton, who gives blonde's everywhere a bad name, to make something like this her cause célèbre,  trying to get elephants into AA, instead of some real humanitarian effort.

This from the Huffington Post about the Hilton's trying to kill the story...

 Paris Hilton Saves Drunk Indian Elephants! Or Not, As AP Forced To Retract Story

You may have noticed in your AP feed earlier today a strange story about Paris Hilton saving drunk elephants in India. Paris, the story led us to believe, was so taken by the plight of Indian elephants getting drunk off farmers' rice beer and dangerously romping through the villages that she launched what the article called a "Global Elephant Campaign."

That's all very nice of Paris, and interesting if not bizarre news. Except that, for whatever reason, that story has disappeared. And we now see a headline that reads, "AP Kills Paris Hilton Story" the following text:

-- GAUHATI, India _ Kill BC-People-Paris Hilton. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, says she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India.  The AP

You can even compare the versions of the story posted earlier today and just within the last hour to see that the story was deleted.


The text highlighted in blue was added, while the pink highlighted text was deleted.

So what happened? Did the Hilton's exercise a Clintonian-control of the media and make the story disappear? Did the residents of Gauhati, India discredit Paris' good, but odd, deed? Or, was it just bad karma (get it?) for the AP, who, you know, broke their own ban on Paris Hilton coverage to bring us news of the Global Elephant Campaign? Feel free to speculate in the comments.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/13/paris-hilton-saves-drunk-_n_72495.html
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Re: Paris Hilton and the drunken elephants
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2007, 09:48:33 pm »
While I do believe the elephants need all the help they can get, I'm still waiting for Paris to build that half-way house for her fellow inmates that she dedicated herself to.  ;D

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Re: Paris Hilton and the drunken elephants
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2007, 09:54:03 pm »
While I do believe the elephants need all the help they can get, I'm still waiting for Paris to build that half-way house for her fellow inmates that she dedicated herself to.  ;D

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