All Lindsay Lohan ever did was drive drunk a few times, endanger the lives of others, show flagrant disregard for the law, star in a few terrible movies and preside over the death of a puppy with each passing day she refuses to go back to her natural red roots from that god-awful bleach blonde. For all this and maybe a little more, people say she sucks. And then you have Lloyd Blankfein, over there on West Street, consistently making it rain day in and day out, not racking up the DUIs and definitely not making horrible hair choices, getting a free pass? It’s not right, says the guy directing her in a new Linda Lovelace film (once she gets out of the clink).

What about the argument that she’s a public figure, and the press’s ability to say or show almost anything they want in relation to public figures, no matter how harsh or unfair, is constitutionally protected, and that if she can’t handle it, she shouldn’t have gone into the entertainment business?

Well, we’re not discussing what’s illegal. I think it’s more about the crumbling of something very basic and humane. I encounter people all the time — people in real life, fancy people with money — who say, “Oh, are you the guy doing that movie with Lindsay Lohan? God, I can’t stand her. I wish she’d drop dead.” What? Who ginned that up? Where do people feel that ease in saying that? And why, precisely, are people barking for her extinction instead of putting Tony Hayward or Lloyd Blankfein in their imaginary electric chair?

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Comments (55)

  1. Posted by Fag H8tR | July 8, 2010 at 12:22 PM

    Is the imaginary electric chair what killed Tennessee Williams?

  2. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM

    Wow, Bess, wouldn’t have guessed you were a Salon reader!

  3. Posted by Bess Levin | July 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    @2 alas I’m just a “has google alerts for Lloyd Blankfein”-er.

  4. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:29 PM

    bc Lindsay in not value-added

  5. Posted by Pfluger the Barbarian | July 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM

    I’ll bet the audition to star in Inferno was grueling.

  6. Posted by Guest Emeritus | July 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    I will change my opinion of LiLo the day Lloyd and Tony seen in public with an ankle monitor and wearing bikinis.

  7. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    she’s a convicted criminal dude, with a record. She did six months in chino for exposing her drunk-driving to LA.

  8. Posted by Guest | July 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM

    Thankfully Lindsay is in the news again…Now Etrade has more material for their commecials.

  9. Posted by Alex Pareene | July 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM

    Bullshit, Bess. You follow me on Twitter.

  10. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    “Things just got real” is getting overplayed

    Also “fancy people with money” lol

  11. Posted by Hank Moody | July 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM

    Sadly, some spoil long before the expiration date. Safe to go ahead and throw this one out.

  12. Posted by Joe Jackson | July 8, 2010 at 12:43 PM

    It’s just so sad what she is putting her parents through

  13. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:49 PM

    LiLo’s problems will be solved either by herself or by local government authorities. It’s up to her to decide which.

  14. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM

    @13 = SaMANtha Ronson

  15. Posted by guest | July 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM

    Lindsay jumpsuit orange #ghettocrayoncolors

  16. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    Aside from that atrocious hair color, does anyone really care if she spends 90 days in jail?

  17. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 12:59 PM

    @16- uh, yes i care.

    - Tito Vasquez (MJ distribution, broadway & vine)

  18. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    time for LiLo to grow up, the party is over…..literally

  19. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:02 PM

    Free LiLo! Thank you Bess. Made my day.

    –Gay Banker

  20. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:03 PM

    I just got fired yesterday.

    -Guy who hates Anal_yst

  21. Posted by Tax Chick | July 8, 2010 at 1:04 PM

    Don’t forget the kittens… Lloyd certainly didn’t.

  22. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:04 PM

    At least she’s not sitting around her parent’s house sending out 4-5 resumes a day. Also, in Soviet Russia you monitor ankle bracelet.

  23. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:07 PM

    @20 its cool bro…Hanover Insurance Group has an associate claims adjuster position open

  24. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM

    that f#ck nail was really classy on her part, I am sure it will take off

  25. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM

    In Soviet Russia claims adjust you.

    -@20

  26. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM

    I would do her with the lights on, wearing a Pharaoh costume.

  27. Posted by Cliff Asness | July 8, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    I find it disgusting that this river rat can galivant around all the live-long day, huffing chemicals, smoking cigarettes, and drinking, without any recourse or sense of personal responsibility. What has happened to our civilization? Our young people have zero respect for life, liberty, or law.

    And furthermore, this president just waltzes through the door and starts pointing the finger. AS IF WE, THE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, CAUSED THIS GREAT DISTRESS AND MOTION WITHIN OUR SOCIAL BASE.

    Lyndsay & Barack, I’ve had it up to HERE^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. The mistrust. The vices. Men missing fingers, chipped nail polish, deviated septums, drugs on a peen, oil on my sandals, moisture seeping through my fleshbeard. You can have it all. YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL.

    But let me inform you, you fucking dolts. The day this shit show comes to a halt, don’t come around looking for good ol’ Clifford for a tug/rub. You’ve done it to yourselves. And I could give a good jolly fuck.

  28. Posted by CoveredLong | July 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM

    In Soviet Russia, coke snorts Lindsay.

  29. Posted by Name Shorterner hater | July 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM

    any man who refers to people in a shortened manner manner like LiLo should be beaten with a sack full of bowling pins and forced to turn in his man card.

  30. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    I hope the prison guards triple penetrate her with batons.

    /Max Hardcore 8===)~

  31. Posted by AIG Quant | July 8, 2010 at 1:20 PM

    I hear Lindsay Lohan has some kind of a bond? Is this for sale, and if so, is it a strip?

  32. Posted by CFA Level II Candidate | July 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM

    or a sack full of dildos…

  33. Posted by P North | July 8, 2010 at 1:27 PM

    30- max hardcore is disturbing. Seek help.

  34. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:28 PM

    @30, sure whatever the guards do will pale in comparison when some chola decides to make Lilo her Barclays.

  35. Posted by Pfluger the Barbarian | July 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM

    I’m gonna go against the consensus, and hope she is released early so that filming can commence. I’d like to determine for myself whether she has been cast appropriately for the Lovelace role.

  36. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM

    @33 = racist, check your motifs.

  37. Posted by b2b MD | July 8, 2010 at 1:33 PM

    having a jumpsuit that matches your hair is the new killing it…

  38. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:34 PM

    @31 Can I Short it?

  39. Posted by Mr. Market | July 8, 2010 at 1:35 PM

    @31 yes the original Lohan certificates were bullets stripped into “pre-O/D” and “post-O/D” interest (O/D a binary event with a dynamic data tbd), and principal. The three strips have some bizarro greeks. Go long protection.

  40. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    Tits on a tube-sock.

  41. Posted by guest | July 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM

    @28/CL not bad.
    - guy who REALLY doesn’t want to encourage the commentariat-at-large but still recognizes a good variation on the meme

  42. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM

    @29 – Anyone who references a “man card” should shoot themselves

  43. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 2:09 PM

    I would f*ck her so hard, the crazy would fall out.

  44. Posted by Anal_yst | July 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    I feel like @27 is actually Cliffy

    Also, Max Hardcore, you are missed.

  45. Posted by CoveredLong | July 8, 2010 at 2:34 PM

    @41 – Agreed, I REALLY didn’t want to post it for that same reason.

    -Guy who thinks the guy who started the ‘guy who…’ sign off is a hilarious genius.

  46. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 2:51 PM

    @42 I’m guessing you refer to “fire crotch” here as LiLo?

  47. Posted by anony | July 8, 2010 at 3:08 PM

    @27 just turned my shitty day around. Thx

  48. Posted by OptionsTrader | July 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    @47 the only thing 27 did was turn your shitty hole around. You punks can go rant about Obama on the drudge report, here you can fuck off.

  49. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM

    @48 or we can just sit here and watch your head explode because you’re so frustrated that someone would post about Obama. In other words, you might be better served stapling your wide open mouth to a diarrhetic horse’s ass.

    - Guy who believes #48 really should find a diarrhetic horse.

  50. Posted by AndrewDunham | July 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM

    @48/OT calm down lil timmy geithner you need not be offended by comments about your boy barry. just deal with them until 2012 when the comments will stop

  51. Posted by anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    In Soviet Russia, Lyndsay’s face connect dots on my penis

  52. Posted by anony | July 8, 2010 at 4:44 PM

    @48. I didn’t take it serious. Did you?

  53. Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    @48 either grow some balls or stick to reading the new republic and daily kos

  54. Posted by Anonymous | July 9, 2010 at 3:49 AM

    No sense of responsibility for self in society and the government. It’s always someone else’s fault, and no one realizes that their lives are theirs to control.

    @53 That may be too hard for OptionsTrader’s (AKA Shia LaBeouf) infantile emotions to handle. As far as he’s concerned, everyone has a right to the latest and greatest technology can afford – even if it is not even close to being economically affordable for society. To the left and other specimens of Obama supplicants, it’s the thought that counts, not results.

  55. Posted by Dead_Cat | July 12, 2010 at 12:07 PM

    I’m appalled by the short-sightedness of this administration. Not only do they trade Anna Chapman to the Russians for some bald dude (how is that a good trade at any time) but they do it just as they get the opportunity for some serious cellmate sapphism. Shocking.

    - Guy who doesn’t care what commenters say; would happily sell out queen and country for Anna Chapman; in a heartbeat.

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