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‘F***ing Idiot and Hypocrite’: Kim Kardashian Under Fire for Posting Pic of…Glitzy Handgun

Feb. 6, 2013 3:12pm Erica Ritz

Kim Kardashian Under Fire for Tweeting Pic of Jewel Encrusted Gun After Making Sandy Hook Pledge

In this Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, Television personality Kim Kardashian poses for photographers at the red carpet during the 40th anniversary of Cosmopolitan magazine in Spanish in Mexico City. (Photo: AP)

Reality television star Kim Kardashian is drawing heavy fire for posting a photo of a jewel-encrusted handgun on Instagram just weeks after signing a pledge to reduce gun violence in honor of the Sandy Hook massacre.

“Today, people in Newtown are making the #sandyhookpromise to reduce gun violence. Sign the pledge with me at http://www.sandyhookpromise.org,” she wrote at the time.

But some are now conflating guns, with gun violence.

Hollywood gossip aficionado Perez Hilton wrote:

Now, Kim has been enjoying the shooting range for years now, and we’re sure she enjoys feeling like she can protect herself. But this was a clear example of a celebrity forgetting the height of their platform, and the social-impacting consequences that can come with it.

(Photo: @KimKardashian/Instagram via the New York Daily News)

Here are a few responses on Twitter (content warning):

(Photo: Twitter/@zedgardezi)

(Photo: Twitter/@judymorris3)

(Photo: Twitter/@4CELEB)

(Photo: Twitter/@LisaBellettini)

(Photo: Twitter/@PoliticalTom)

Kardashian has since removed the photo, but this isn’t the first time the reality star has posted a gun-related image.

A month before the Sandy Hook shootings, Kardashian apparently shared this picture of herself at a gun range on Twitter:

(Photo: @KimKardashian/Twitter via the New York Daily News)

Kardashian, who is expecting her first child with boyfriend Kanye West this summer, has not yet issued a public response to the controversy. But she’s no stranger to political controversy.

After tweeting that she was “praying for everyone in Israel” during conflict in the region in November, she was called a “disgrace” to her people and told that she is the reason at least one Twitter user wants “to die.”

Some, though, are standing up for Kardashian.

“Kim Kardashian posted a pic of a gun on Instagram & now everyone is all pissed off,” one person tweeted, according to ABC. “I forgot the 2nd amendment didn’t count for celebs.”

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Comments (144)

Landon410
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:46pm
wait…. so owning a gun = violence?
ok got it now

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:50pm
  LANDON410, LOL, when these loons hate, they really throw their all into that hate!
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:54pm
  no, no stupid…..
  
  taking a photo of a gun = violence.
  
  you know, like voting for Romney = racist.
  
  New algebra!
  Get with the program!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:08pm
  LOL..”Kim Kardashian is getting fatter and stupider”. As are the twitting liberal twits who apparently are more “stupider” than the person they say is “stupider”.
  
  Ok for “FREE_THOUGHT’s” sake (because he’s wracking that atrophied organ in his head trying to understand the joke)…”stupider” is not an actual word. One is “more stupid” but one is not “stupider”..as in your case for instance.
  
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- YourVoiceMatters
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:35pm
  Talk about one gianormous leap for mindboggling!!
  __/…………….\___ a leap into the mind of the emotionally driven…
  They have No clue!
  Owning a gun does NOT = gun violence….
  except in their thinking…
  I guess if they owned a gun we know very well
  what they would to do with it!
  Just by considering what they are inferring,
  by the points they are making!
  Tells you what they are capable of…
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:37pm
  @AvengerK, LOL!!!
  
  Hey, RJ! Kardashian who??
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:38pm
  101% for ANYONE who owns a GUN and takes the time
  to learn Safety and the proper use of the weapons they
  own.. I am NOT a KK fan, but what is the problem with
  the IDIOTS posting the HATE and Name calling……….
  they wouldn’t be the civil libotard commie’s that want to
  disarm Americans, HMMMMM ??? Not today BOZOs !!!!
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:47pm
  Where’s The LOVE from the Left ?? doesn’t take much
  to set off these BOZO’s………GOOD GAWD !!!!
  
  Take your Med’s and kiss your picture of O’Blamer..
  Fat and Stupid, reminds me of someone, HMMM??
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:50pm
  BIOHAZARD, LOL, sorry, but I could not even begin to explain who.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:17pm
  On second thought, I don’t think I would want these
  TWEETERS armed.. bunch of F’N Nutcases.. WOW !!
  these people have to get out into the Sunshine, …….
  
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- 1947
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:06am
  Don’t be concerned since WEST is pushing her buy the gun…..
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:01am
  HAHAHAHA. See how quick these fools will turn on their own? Oh, sorry, everybody thought kanye “dumba$$” west doesnt carry heat?
  
  Thugs and their ladies carry heat. They dont care what you think.
  
  Her gun was probably nice with all those diamonds. Couldnt care less what she does though. Good to see she pissed off a lot of libs. I try to do so daily. It’s easy- work hard, be happy, pack heat, and praise God.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:11am
  She was stupid to sign the pledge in the first place. But then, we are talking about a Kardashian.
  
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jackact
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:44pm
……Duh…..I thought the basketball player was the dumb one?

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:55pm
  Are ALL Liberal Women that vicious ????? WHOOH !!
  No wonder Panetta gave the OK for women in Combat..
  
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Mr. H.
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:39pm
That designer revolver looks like it would hurt to shoot with the diamonds. Also get a load of the gold plated parts. Definitely has no respect for wealth or the responsibilities there of. But then what do I know about wealth, I had to work for my money.

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:51pm
  Probably be able to buy a couple of AR-15s for what
  she paid for that pistol…..nice though !! nothing wrong
  with a Woman protecting herself.. up close and personal,
  SUPRISE !!!!!
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 8:17am
  It’s only a .22LR or .22 Magnum but my guess is the .22LR as they’re more common. It’s made by NAA. I’ve fired one before and the recoil is minimal. It’s actually quite common to see those “blinged up” like that due to the low recoil. The following is most likely the base model used:
  
  http://northamericanarms.com/firearms/lr/lr.html
  
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- Matt
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:47am
  You’re an idiot. Between her and her boyfriend they have $130 million, that gun is a drop in the bucket to them.
  
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- mgh999
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:18am
  Now if they did that to a perfectly good 1911 that would be a shame.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:39pm
Nice pistol.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:50pm
  that’s what she said…
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm
  It really is.
  
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- BenKatz
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:29pm
  If Liberace owned a handgun I would imagine it looked like this.
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:26pm
  She’s beautiful and so is her gun. Who cares what the libdouches say. They won’t be there when she needs to defend herself. Stand your ground sweetie!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:53pm
  BENKATZ
  http://www.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1838100_1838099_1847775,00.html
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 7:57am
  Pistol? You mean revolver.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:37pm
Number one Its no bodys buisness.Number two one twitterer wants to die because of kim?Really?Number three they ask what has happenned to America? You happened to America you mind numbed fools………………….

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- myrwo6
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:54pm
  whatthecrazy; If your going to come out against us, at least say something that makes sense. What do you mean when you say it’s no one’s business? The whole point of twitter and sites like it is to leave comments. Whatthedumbass you are.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:35pm
  When you post something on twitter, and are one of the most famous women in the world. it kind of becomes other people business.
  
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:55pm
  @My what eeeevvvvvveeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
  
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huey6367
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:37pm
“…people in Newtown are making the #sandyhookpromise to reduce gun violence”

Explain to me how signing a petition reduces gun violence. Getting guns out of crazy people’s hands is how you reduce gun violence.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:53pm
  Certainly you know….its the same thing that the road to Hell is paved with.
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:28pm
  For all these haters on Twitter over a picture of a gun – Don’t let any one of them near a school. You have to be pretty psycho to equate someone owning a gun to violence. Sure she signed that petition, when she did it did not erase her 2nd Amendment Right. She is not a hypocrite for wanting to reduce or eliminate gun violence and also own a gun herself.
  
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crystalsky
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:36pm
I am with KIM on this 1 she has a right not to want gun violence like the little kids that are playing and pointing fingers or have a hello kitty bubble gun and violently being accused there is something wrong with these children or expelling them.also as a U.S. citizen Kim has every right to keep the 2nd amendment to protect her and her family. That gun she has is really pretty. you go girl.

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Eastinfection
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:36pm
She’s not too fat for me.
I’d let her play with my pistol any day.

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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm
  ewww, high traffic area! You may get an eastinfection that a shot wont cure
  
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- OniKaze
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:56pm
  Agreed…. She is still smaller that about 75% of the rest of America (me included)…
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:35pm
Those Kardashian women are not very pretty or talented.
No one would even know who they are, had their father not helped free O.J. Simpson.

If my father had helped free O.J., I would be so ashamed of my family name, that I would never show my face in public.

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- MN NICE
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:29pm
  Well… Showing her face isn’t how Kim acquired fame…
  
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- MN NICE
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:31pm
  I believe it was some sort of “black and white”… er, brownish type film…
  
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- zombieocracy
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:44pm
  Actually, what freed O.J. was media-loving prosecutors who took months to prove their case. Even a clown like Obama could win that for O.J. If your evidence is really “beyond a reasonable doubt,” you can put it on in a week or so.
  
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BannedByHuffpo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:34pm
The bigger question is “Are those REAL diamonds, or cubic zirconia?”

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:33pm
I can only hope you all see and that Glenn get’s this message…Pat and Stu DON’T Cut It!
They don’t have what it Takes Glenny. Stop Hoping and Dreaming on them. As Billy Chrystal says…
Some people are Born to be Loser’s. Put Stu and Pat out of the Dream Labs. Nothing can help them.

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- redfish52
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:36pm
  That’s one damned ugly gun…
  
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- Need to be FREE
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:42pm
  You must be a rambling idiot! What are you talking about?
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:31pm
Good thing, that dumb pregnant Kim is rich.
Black guys very seldom hang around to help raise their babies.
She’s sure not bright enough to scrape out a real living.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:28pm
She needs Protection from her pick in BoyFriend’s. Do you think she has Hair in the Butt Crease?
I don’t Want her. You can have her. She’s to fat for me.

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:44pm
  Doesn’t sound like you would be a good pick either………………..
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:26pm
  To(o) fat for you? You must be an anorexic dwarf.
  
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- earache-my-eye
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:46pm
  East – it’s a song
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 4:20am
  ‘but I don’t listen to her ’cause her brain is like a sieve…’
  
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BryanB
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:28pm
W bother to post anything on the Blaze their just going to remove it !!!!!!!!

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- T-2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:33pm
  hey your post is still here. that’s amazing
  
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- MonkeyBeagle
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:39pm
  Of course they will post that comment.. Its fluff. I have not had a single comment posted in about a week. Ive commented on about 20 different stories. But of course this one will be posted cause someone at theblaze has a sick sense of humor. :)
  
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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm
  I think they only remove the comments that are 100% grammatically correct and free of spelling errors because they are embarrassed by comments that are better wrote then the original story. That is the only logical conclusion!
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:17pm
  MONKEYBEAGLE…
  
  20 posts? Did you try to use the letters C,U,&M in succession? Blaze has a glitch where words that have c-u-m in them = no post.
  Words like “doC-U-Ment” will not post when spelled properly. Same with “inC-U-Mbent”
  I’m serious. Try typing any post with “c-u-m” in it- without the dashes-…. it will not even show up.
  Not in any format.
  Ever.
  
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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 5:22pm
  East
  I C U Must have inside information
  
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Ash_Kiker
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:28pm
who cares if she has a gun and knows how to use it… she will be better off than the piss ants complaining about it

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MCON29
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:27pm
Not a fan of the Kardashian show or whatever, but more power to her. I hope she stands up for her 2nd amendment rights and does not apologize. Owning a gun does STOP gun violence. Are these people that stupid?

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- huey6367
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:39pm
  She is going to apologize because she makes her money off her leftist fans that adore the Hollywood crowd. An apology is being written right now.
  
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- MCON29
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:51pm
  You are probably right. Not even written by her, but her publicist.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:57pm
  yes they are, it is nice to see that liberals resort to cannibalism, even with the poster child of multiculturalism
  
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thegoldman
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:26pm
I see nothing wrong with it…

A lot of people say they want to get their hands on her ……. her…… her, you know…

Now she can protect them…

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Schteveo
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:26pm
So much for ‘open dialogue’ on guns or gun violence.

And folks, don’t forget to spay or neuter your Kardashians!

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:24pm
All liberals are hypocrites.
They don’t practice what they preach.
They talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk.

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naughtycal
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:24pm
whose the idiot Kim or those who follower her dumba55 and make her millions? Well being that Kim is banking I’ld say it was the millions of sickophants that follower her every twit.tweet,,whatever.
As far as her bedazzled a derringer it’s pretty silly but right on par for her persona. she keeps it in her night stand next to the ruby encrusted vibro.

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txswalker
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:23pm
I just read the pledge from the link and it doesnt say anything about being against guns. I think the people that are calling her a hypocrit should read the pleadge before making an assumption she is against guns. Her pleadge was against gun violence. I dont know why shes famous….but YOU GO GIRL

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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:22pm
From the looks of those comments from those mental defectives it’s obvious the thorough brainwashing they’ve received is highly effective. I took a pledge against violence by buying a handgun and carrying it,I have an aversion to being mugged and or killed.

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- toiletclogga
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:39pm
  I enjoy the power and the sense of freedom guns allow. Without a gun, does anybody believe I could walk around some neighborhoods in Philly, or Baltimore without confidence, and without fear? Fear, and the look of fear on people is an invitation to the perp willing to do harm to somebody.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:21pm
Kadashian is a race traitor. Who cares if she lives or dies.

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- MRARGUELLES267
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:28pm
  How is she a race traitor? What is a race traitor?
  
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- Schteveo
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:33pm
  What race would that be? Celebutards?
  
  Her father was ethnically of Russian, Turkish, and Christian. I’m not aware of any of that being a ‘race’ group. I think many people assu-me that ‘Kardashian’ is a Muslim name or that because dad was Turkish decent, that they were Muslims.
  
  Her only ‘race’ should be to school to learn something. Because someday, her boobs and butt won’t be a paycheck.
  
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- BADDOGGYDESCIPLE
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:36pm
  Keep that crap to yourself, it gives the trolls ammo. Unless of course, you are a disinfo troll, in which case go play in traffic with Keaton and Encinom
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:52pm
  What race would that be? Celebutards?
  
  Ha! Love it.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:30pm
  stupid coment
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 4:36pm
  You sir are an idiot
  
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Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:19pm
If we all would just stop paying attention to stupid celebrities doing stupid things – we would be a whole lot better off.

I mean – it’s as if these people had more to say than the people who actually works for a living??
Come on people.
Stop endorsing this crap.

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grimmster
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:17pm
Erica, please explain why this is news, or why we should care!………

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