I honestly don't care at all about Ms. Lohan or her troubles, but last month CNN/HLN's "
Showbiz Tonight" ran a lame web poll asking "Which would be better for Lindsay Lohan, jail or rehab?"
When I came upon it, it was 99% jail to 1% rehab.
This seemed like cyber-bullying to me, so I fired up my CNN.com ballot stuffing script, and evened the odds:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...10/sbt.01.html
Quote:
HAMMER: Good. You know, she doesn`t need a whole lot of space. But here`s the thing. There are a lot of people saying - and Jane, I`m going to get your take on this in a second - that jail perhaps not the best move for Lindsay if she does have a problem.
Now, she denies having any problem. I want you to take a look at what we asked in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive poll, "Which would be better for Lindsay Lohan, jail or rehab?"
I got the results late today. Look at this. A whopping 83 percent said send her to rehab. Seventeen percent said jail, thinking, you know, a program would be better for her if she really does have a problem. Jane, what`s your take on that?
VELEZ-MITCHELL: The only problem is she`s already been to rehab at least three times. Obviously, it didn`t work. I see no reason why the fourth time would be a charm, especially considering she is so defiant and in such denial that she has a problem.
Now, if she was thrown in prison - the fact is they do have 12-step programs in prison, and what she needs more than anything else is a big giant smackdown -
HAMMER: Yes.
VELEZ-MITCHELL: To show the rules do apply to her. And being thrown in the clinker would do just that.
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I have no idea why rigging lame internet polls is funny to me, but in this case it was definitely worth it to get Jane "guilty even if proven innocent" Velez-Mitchell in a tizzy about throwing yet another drug offender into one of our already over-crowded correctional facilities.