This story seems to have everything for our modern age, this Perez Hilton assaulted video story.
First we have the necessary second rate celebrity, one who has become famous for, well, actually, for posting photos of real celebrities to the internet, Mr. Perez Hilton himself.
Then we have the background required, the late night (or early morning) in and around a nightclub. We need a musician or two, which we have in the figures of Will.I.Am. from Black Eyed Peas. What else....ah, yes, we require a little violence don't we?
Top off with some delightful arrogance combined with ineptitude and stir in a decent portion of modern socal media and thus we have our story.
To start, have a look at the video of the actual "assault on Perex Hilton over at TMZ. It would seem that Perez was rather egging on Will.I.Am. Swearing at someone, making heteronormative insults, has been known to provoke a punch or two.
Then we have Perez telling us all how he has indeed been assaulted....although not very much judging by the lack of bruising.
Then we have Will.I.Am pointing out that he never punched anyone at all.
This is the way it all works in this modern world folks. And we have to ask ourselves, do we actually care about any of these people? About a scuffle between them?
Apparently the police at least have taken the matter seriously:
Toronto police have charged Black Eyed Peas manager Liborio Molina with assault after a scuffle with blogger Perez Hilton at a local awards ceremony.
But the thing that is in fact interesting is that Hilton tried to get help from the police by using Twitter.
Yup, he really thought that that was the way to get ahold of a police officer.
Amazing, eh?
