Not that they’re related in any way except for internet damage, but there you go.
A few months ago, a probable Skank by the name of Rosemary Port created an anonymous blog, in which she gave another probably Skank, Liskula Cohen an award for being the Skankiest Ho in NYC. Among the some 1,700 viewers of this blog was the targeted maybe-skank, who got all offended. Some damage had been done, but not very much. A blog that gets 1,700 visitors is very, very low-impact. And few of those visitors are likely to remember much. Fewer still are likely to credit an anonymous source. But, still, it was a nasty thing to say. Maybe. Even if it was true.
The real damage started when Cohen’s lawyer, Steve Wagner, decided to sue this anonymous blogger. Instead of, say, 1,700 people thinking of this partying model as a “Skank-Ho”, now millions and millions of people are making that association. As is Google. Put in Skank, and the first picture you get is Liskula Cohen. The first persons mentioned are Liskula Cohen and Rosemary Port. Are they really skanks? I don’t know, but who am I to argue with Google? Can Liskula Cohen sue her lawyer? After all, the damage done to her reputation by his lawsuit far, far exceeds that from the barely known anonymous blog.
And who could Jessica Biel sue? Over 753 articles have headlined her as the “most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace” claiming that “Jessica Biel could give you a (PC) virus.” Isn’t that a bit negative? What did she do to earn this honor? MacAfee created a list of celebrities who they claim are dangerous when searched for. Naturally, they are selling something. Can anyone double check their findings? Seems to me that it’s just a pure press release play, using celebrity names to raise fear and drive people to buy more MacAfee. Personally, I’ve never gotten a virus from Jessica Biel, or from any other online celebrity.