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WASHINGTON - "Celebutante" Paris Hilton's mother blasted John McCain's presidential campaign Sunday for an ad that likened Democrat Barack Obama to Hilton, saying the ad was a waste of of public money and time.
Reacting to the television spot released Wednesday that compared Obama's popularity to the vapid celebrity of US tabloid queens Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, Kathy Hilton said the ad represented "a completely frivolous way to choose the next president of the united States."
Kathy Hilton, who with her husband, Beverly Hills real estate magnate and Hilton Hotels heir Richard Hilton, have donated 4,600 dollars to the McCain campaign, said in a statement published on the Huffington Post website that the ad was "a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign."
"It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs."
Earlier her daughter's representative issued a statement, published in US media, that said "Miss Hilton was not asked, nor did she give permission for the use of her likeness in the ad and has no further comment."
The ad, entitled "Celeb," flashes pictures of Paris Hilton and Spears, along with images of the 200,000 people who flocked to Berlin to see Obama the previous week.
"He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead?" the narrator asks.
"It's beyond dispute that he's become the biggest celebrity in the world," Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to McCain, said in defense.
Obama dismissed the ad. "I don't pay attention to John McCain's ads, although I do notice that he doesn't seem to have anything very positive to say about himself, does he?" Obama told reporters in Missouri Wednesday. - AFP/sh
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