1) I’m like Madonna, I’m not afraid to offend. 2) Perez is like a really gay Madonna. She’s criticized by a lot of people, like I am; she lost a parent at an early age, like I did; she works really hard, like I do—I put in 18 or 19 hours a day.

— Perez Hilton
1) “Love Him or (He Prefers) Hate Him” and 2) “Beauty Advice from... Perez Hilton?”
1) July 2007 New York Times and 2) April 2007 Glamour

Why It’s Moronic

Perezzle is on the SM sh!t-list because he doesn’t believe in paying for the copyright-protected images he uses on his money-generating website. His distorted logic claims that images found online are public domain or something... and he likes to defend criticism by saying, “Everyone else is doing it.” I plan on using that excuse if the IRS ever audits me.

Aside from poor business ethics, Perez Hilton has lucked himself into quite a career based on mediocrity: His site is pretty ugly design-wise, his logo and illustrations stink—he had to get rid of the most attractive one after it solicited a threat of lawsuit from the image copyright-owner—, his writing is terrible, and the scrawls on the featured images are juvenile. (Potty-mouthed chicken scratches are not enough to satisfy the requirement of altering images by 30% or more to be within the law.)

Anyway, Madonna must be his idol, but how Perez aligns himself with the megastar is beyond me. At least they have one thing in common: Madonna has been sued many times and currently is fielding several lawsuits for alleged theft, copying, or use of other people’s work.