Kim Kardashian took out a full-page in the NYT to troll the Wall Street Journal

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Here are some photos of Kim Kardashian in Florida over the past few days. Kim has been getting pap’d constantly, almost as if she knew that people were paying attention to the Emmys and she wanted to ensure she got lots of attention too. I actually made a point of not choosing any of the photos where Kim had gotten her t-ts out and she was just wandering around, fully exposed for some reason. On Monday, Kim also posted a justification for her recent spate of public nudity, writing on her app: “I have always loved sheer—I just don’t GAF, LOL.”

Meanwhile, Kim did make one interesting move that didn’t involve her breasts, surprisingly. A few months back, the Wall Street Journal published a full-page ad in which FactCheck Armenia (an organization devoted to denying the 1915 Armenian genocide) publicly claimed to WSJ readers that 1.5 million Armenians were never slaughtered in one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. Kim, as an Armenian-American, actually has a history of activism around the cause of recognizing the Armenian genocide. When she visited Armenia last year, she made a special trip to the Armenian Genocide Memorial. And when the WSJ published that paid genocide-denial ad, she spoke up at the time. And now she’s doing even more: she bought her own ad in the New York Times, just to troll the Wall Street Journal for agreeing to publish that ad:

As you can see, she paired with the Armenian Educational Foundation for the ad placement. She wrote, in part: “For the Wall Street Journal to publish something like this is reckless, upsetting and dangerous. It’s one thing when a crappy tabloid profits from a made-up scandal, but for a trusted publication like WSJ to profit from genocide – it’s shameful and unacceptable.” It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Kim paid for the ad herself. I wonder how much it costs for a full-page ad in the NYT? This is actually my favorite version of Kim – when she stops taking selfies long enough to actually engage in something political, controversial and/or community-oriented.

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  1. detritus says:

    Kim the activist is the best Kim, behind Kim the family protector.
    Do more of this, less of the sheer tops Kimmy.

    • als says:

      But it would be no fun if she picked one side. This way people are forced to stop their preconceived notions that an individual only has one identity and line of thinking.
      Yes, Kim is a reality TV star, porn star, activist and family protector. These things shouldn’t be considered mutually exclusive.

      • Val says:

        Also a businesswoman! No matter what people say… she has built herself and her family an empire.

        NB She looks AMAZING

      • AgeofBellendia says:

        Yes! This exactly – even though the K’s have their (major) faults, we shouldn’t dismiss the good things they do too.

      • g.lamerek says:

        Kim the business woman? R u insane? Business women around the world work their Sses off to be taken seriously, I doubt they go into work be less showing her nip. She made a porn, made $ n capitalized from it. She made a fake reality TV, full of plastic surgeries, lent her name to products that made her money. That is not a business woman,that’s an opportunist. When she has zero talent, when all she talks about is make up n outfits, that makes her An idiot. How to tay relevant w/ no movie/music anything real,u walk about half naked.

    • Hannah says:

      Why can’t she be Kim the activist and Kim the selfie queen? She can be both Kims, let’s not limit people!

    • detritus says:

      Of course people aren’t one dimensional, and I never said that she needed to pick one. That is incredibly silly, it’s not like I believe Kim has clones that only do one thing. This Kim for politics, This Kim for sexy shots. It’s the same Kim, and of course she is complex, just like any other person. On that note, as a complex person I have complex thoughts on Kim and her brand.

      I love when Kim follows her passions, and I don’t love when she uses feminism as a cover for her crap. I love when she cherishes her family, I don’t love when she bullies people who don’t agree with her. I even love her embracing her sexuality and curves, I don’t love the monetization of her sexuality and surgical pursuit of physical ‘perfection’.

      While I may not use all the best words, I’m just gonna continue on clumsily pointing out the parts of Kim that I like, while acknowledging there are certain parts of her brand that I don’t.

    • JFresh says:

      Maybe the sheer tops are to get attention so that she can then use it to spotlight things like this? If so it’s time for me to start giving her way more credit than I have been….

  2. SunnyD says:

    Good use of her money and platform. Im looking forward to seeing the response.

  3. sensible says:

    Tits out, pen up! Good on her, if I had her kind of money I would be taking out full page ads about the things I am passionate about too.

  4. Jegede says:

    She looks incredible in that solo shot.

  5. stunned says:

    love it. everyone who fights back against Erdogan and his not so subtle minion army gets my admiration.

    • Jwoolman says:

      Yeah, Erdogan is a scary fellow. The attempted military coup was interesting because it turns out that the military is supposed to defend secularism of the Turkish state, in particular against political leaders like him who want to push a state religion again. This goes way back in their history.

      • Naya says:

        Theres suspicion that he knew the military was getting their pieces in place to challenge him so he pushed their hand. He feed them faulty intel on where he would be and that he was about to uproot the plotters, so they attacked before they were ready. The poor rank and file on that bridge hadnt even been briefed that they were part of a coup, they genuinely thought they were on a training mission outside their barracks. Imagine their horror when the cops arrived and picked them off. Erdogan scary as he is crafty.

    • Hejhej says:

      This. I’m kind of shocked by how WSJ would and could outright print what they did actually. Good for Kim!

    • Miss Jupitero says:

      Erdogan did not invent the denial of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. This has been a virulent part of Turkish policy for a very long time. I agree he has made everything worse though.

  6. QQ says:

    *BRIIIIDGGEEESSSS Selling BRIDGGEESSS come get It!!! if You Think this was kimberly Noelle Me First Me Only Kardashian intentionally applying herself to this cause or Using her money I Have the Most Beautiful state of the Art Bridges To sell YOU*. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

    • Ninks says:

      But this is like Taylor Swift donating $1million to the flood victims, or anything that celebrities do in the name of a good cause that also gets them good press. Maybe it is self-interested to a degree, maybe it’s purely motivated by the attention she’ll get for it and she doesn’t GAF about the Armenian genocide. But so what? She’s put her considerable fame to good use, attracted widespread and international attention to the matter. This isn’t a ‘sexy’ cause, it’s not a popular cause, it’s not something that people talk about except when Kim raises it’s attention. She doesn’t have to say anything or do anything about this. Nobody in the world expects her to. Nobody would think anything of it if she kept silent, and said nothing. The fact that she attaches her name to this is very significant.

      • K says:

        Thank you! I’m not a fan but this was a wonderful thing to do and anyone that slams her is just beyond the pale. The victims and their families being denied probably don’t care her motivation they just want to be acknowledged and Justice.

        I swear sometimes people can’t win for losing. We all need to get out of our own ways no one is perfect, so we should acknowledge the good and bad so we can celebrate and grow and humans.

      • Miss Jupitero says:

        As much I understand the impulse to be a bit wary of celebrities using causes to further their image, KK is ARMENIAN, and her dedication to this issue is deeply heartfelt and sincere. For you to say she doesn’t GAF is groundless and ad hominem. She has family that fled Kars, and if she is anything like any other Armenian I have met lost a big chunk of her family tree due to this genocide.

        This is a very, very big deal in the Armenian community. It may be off the radar for many Americans, but not for Armenians, and not for the Kardashians.

      • bonzo says:

        Echoing what Miss Jupitero said… who happens to live near the Armenian Library and Museum of America, if I recall correctly. There is an extensive library of interviews with the survivors of the genocide and I only became aware of this horrific event through the museum when I lived in Boston.

        Having read books on the subject as well, it is a very big deal to Armenians that the genocide be recognized and labeled as such as 1.5 million men, women and children were slaughtered between 1915 – 1917 and less than 30 countries are willing to acknowledge it for fear of damaging relations with Turkey, including the US, who has left it up to individual states to officially recognize it. 45 out of 50 states have done so.

        Sheer tops and famewhoring aside, she has good reason to put her name to this cause as it would have impacted her family.

        If you like historical fiction, a good book to read on this is Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian.

    • Almondjoy says:

      😂😂😂😂

    • Jwoolman says:

      Her dad made them aware of the genocide and I think it’s something she does feel is important especially because it was important to her dad. Not important enough to turn down a cover for a Turkish magazine a while back…. But she is her mother’s daughter, and doesn’t typically think through these things. She did get some flack about it at the time, if I’m remembering correctly, so she might have learned that feelings still run high and she also might have learned a few things on her trip to Armenia. Can’t help but feel she was also making it all about Kim, though (look at the thank you for Kim in big letters below), so it was PR for her as well. Everything is, of course.

    • swak says:

      QQ, I agree. Why didn’t she take out this ad when the WSJ took theirs out. And also one of the the first things your eyes are drawn to is the thank you to Kim as that is in larger letters than the headine of the ad. About the showing of her assests – on a different sight it was reported that she didn’t like wearing a bra. Get the not like wearing a bra but that doesn’t mean she has to constantly wear shear. It’s all for publicity because she’s getting no attention otherwise.

      • caitlinK says:

        Exactly! Kim cares about nothing but Kim: it’s her one and only cause. If she can add her name to a political cause, esp one that she doesn’t have to donate to, it’s more icing on her own personal cake. B/c she is half Armenian, I’m sure this is *one* area where she does feel somewhat strongly, b/c it has to do w something about Kim. Of course, this is the same woman who said, maybe 2 years ago, that “I always thought racism has nothing to do w me” and so, she said, she had never been concerned about it. Finally, after her own biracial children were born, so that racism will potentially affect her, too, she began to be aware of it. (Whatever that means. She hasn’t spoken on it since. ) This woman is insufferably self centered; I’m not at all impressed w her self serving, attention getting ad.

    • Snowflake says:

      Thank you! 🙂

    • Kitten says:

      LOLOL Yep! She attached her name to it, which is nice as it draws more attention to the cause but let’s not pretend Kim actually wrote this. Does she care about the cause? Maybe. Ok probably, but Kim never does anything that doesn’t somehow benefit her brand.

      • QQ says:

        RIGHT!, there we go! that is what i CAN give her

      • Jwoolman says:

        I actually could believe the letter was a joint effort among the Kardashian Krew, the PR at the top and bottom sounds like them but also they really are aware of this issue and it hits them personally through their dad. They could have had help writing it and soomebody at the scholarship foundation had to approve it and so they might have made some adjustments, but this time I believe they had a lot of input. It sounds like them…

    • Pepper says:

      Well obviously.

      There’s zero reason for celebrities charity and behind the scenes activism to go public, unless they want it to. I work in the non-profit area, and we constantly receive large donations and funding for certain avenues of work from well-known people. Most of the time it’s never made public, and I’ve never seen anything leak that the donatee didn’t want to leak.

      Every time celebs do good and we actually hear about it or they put their name to it, there’s some self-interest in there. Kim is self-interested, but so is every other celebrity you’ve ever heard donated time or money.

    • littlemissnaughty says:

      LOL Does it matter though? People don’t do anything without reason. The people who benefit from charity probably don’t give two sh*ts about where that clean drinking water is coming from or if it gives *insert name of famous athelete/actor/singer here* a warm fuzzy feeling. This is a worthy cause, this sh*t needs to stop. It is actually a political problem in Europe that influences diplomatic relations. So if more teenage girls put down the concealer and look up from their Instagrams for a second, I say good for Kim for doing something that counts.

    • GURRRRRLLLLL

      I hope you got Sam’s Club deluxe quadruple quantities because you’re gonna have to sell a lot to the folks who think Kim did more than –

      *has someone put the proposed ad in front of her while having she’s having her makeup done*

      *glances at it*

      “Um, like, okay” *nods*

      Kim the ‘activist’, I just made a very unladylike snort.

  7. Louise177 says:

    I know Kim is hated but she’s always spoke about the Armenian Genocide.

    • mar_time says:

      Kim and her family always talk about the Armenian Genocide on April 24th (the day the mass killings began) and as an Armenian whose family lived through this (my grandfather’s whole family was killed when he was 2, his 13 year old sister took care of him and took refuge in Syria) we all appreciate their efforts in spreading the knowledge. The thing that upsets me more than anything is when Turkish people deny it…how else do so many Armenians have a similar family story? How else are there pictures and papers documenting it?

  8. Jwoolman says:

    Don’t want to discourage her efforts – but usually such ads have a lot of signers. If she wanted to make it a personal letter, it still would have more impact if there were at least a large number of endorsers. Better still – if she was one signer among many and the letter was a joint project rather than using the second paragraph to remind people of the Kardashians’ tabloid fame and claiming she is the victim of lies etc. The rest of the letter could stand alone with a little tweaking. The bit at the end thanking her in big letters does seem rather self-serving. A lot of people in the Armenian-American community are not so pleased with Kim and her family, so it’s rather awkward for that reason also.

    The Armenian Educational Foundation is real and has been around since 1950. It seems tightly focused on scholarships for people of Armenian descent in the US and elsewhere. I’m not sure how going in with Kim on this fits their mission or why a broader organization wasn’t involved. Maybe her dad was a member? Hard to believe the Kardashians are members since they seem so uninterested in education.

  9. Lady Mimosa says:

    This porn star has a hard time coming across as an activist, I doubt she can write a whole page.

    • Umm says:

      Lady Mimosa, its 2016 not 2007 so drop the slut shaming. Its tired and old. Perhaps you can relate?

      • Bobo says:

        Slut shaming? I think Lady was insulting her intelligence…

      • Lalu says:

        Lady Mimosa has a right to her opinion and I didn’t see her write anything that wasn’t true.
        I wish we could drop the term “slut shaming”. It sounds so dumb and redundant.

      • MinnFinn says:

        Drop the old and tired shaming.

      • Otaku Fairy says:

        @minnfinn: Right? @Lalu: It’s pretty common- actually at this point it’s pretty redundant- for people to complain about how tired they are of prejudices they share or don’t see as a big deal being called out on a regular basis. The idea that certain groups of people- in this case, people who don’t live by gender-based restrictions on sexuality and the body- are not to be taken seriously has been the redundant status quo for most of human history, so it must be Really Hard for many ‘Murrican grown-ups who have inherited those beliefs to have to cope with hearing other American adults using their free speech to criticize that sort of thing. Maybe someone who’s not an Agnostic will pray for them. In the meantime, those people and their loyal supporters who feel the need to let everyone know that they have the right to their opinions just have to accept the fact that this right comes with other people’s right to voice their opinions as well.

    • lvw2 says:

      @bobo

      she was doing both.

      NOT cute.

      • Bobo says:

        No. Her being a pornstar is fact…

      • Otaku Fairy says:

        It is an example of slut-shaming because she didn’t make her dismissal of Kim just about her not being smart.@Bobo: Look at it this way: It’s a fact that Raven Symone has been with women and that Tess Munster is a size 26. But if either of those women were drawing attention to an issue like genocide, violence against women, or homelessness and a commenter said that ‘ “This Homosexual”, “This Bisexual Woman” or “This Fat Female” is hard to take as an activist,’ you wouldn’t see the problem with people on here calling Lady Mimosa out for being sexist, homophobic, or for fat-shaming. It’s probably also a fact that if Channing Tatum were taking a stand on here for something like genocide or some other important issue, Lady Mimosa wouldn’t say “This stripper is hard to take as an activist” because Lady Mimosa doesn’t live in a society that carries the same level of resentment and disdain for sexually immodest men as it does for sexually immodest women.

  10. SilverUnicorn says:

    Finally something admirable coming from this ‘lady’. I hate when people or organisations or even whole countries deny their wrong – doings and genocides finding excuses or clutching at straws to deny history.
    Well done to Kim and that organisation!

  11. thaliasghost says:

    Of course I see the lobbyist interests behind that, but to take a moment and pause to acknowledge there is actually an organization devoted to denying the Armenian genocide is breathtaking. So while we all feel helpless at reading the accounts of the immense suffering of the Armenian people, there is somebody whose 9-5 consists of working to deny that happened.

    • Jwoolman says:

      That’s the puzzling thing about it. The Armenian Educational Foundation is a charitable foundation that seems to focus entirely on scholarships. That doesn’t mean their members wouldn’t be interested in disputing denial of the genocide – but it definitely is not a focus of the organization as far as I can tell. There must be other Armenian organizations that do focus on such work. So why did she choose this one? A personal connection with her father is all I can come up with as speculation. And why didn’t individual members sign it? I’ve seen plenty of full page ads taken out for such purposes and this one just seems odd for those reasons. The letter itself is good. I do wonder why she didn’t take out the ad in the WSJ, to reach the same readers that may have read the other one. Maybe a reluctance to give them money? But I’m sure the NYT has published its share of obnoxious ads from obnoxious people.

      • popup says:

        She didn’t take an ad out in the WSJ because she probably didn’t want to give them more money after they decided to take an ad from genocide deniers. That would’ve been another $50-100K in the WSJ’s coffers. Why not give that money to one of their main competitors? Anyway, she’s quite smart about media and she knew that taking an ad out in the NYTimes or wherever would’ve generated a lot of attention on social/Internet, an audience that goes far beyond and trends much younger than the older print audience.

  12. adastraperaspera says:

    There could not be a better time for Kim to so publicly support this cause. When I moved to Cambridge, MA in 1987, I found an apartment in an Armenian community nearby. My landlord’s grandmother lived in the flat above me. She was a survivor of the genocide. She lost her parents and family when they were driven from their home. She was five years old. That community houses the Armenian Library and Museum, which documents many things, including the genocide. The website is http://www.armenianmuseum.org.

    The sins of tribalism are many. To survive as a species, need to institutionalize plurality, equality and reconciliation, and support those institutions that house cold, hard, historical facts.

  13. Anna says:

    I’m actually really proud of Kim for doing this. Shame on WSJ for having a full page ad for genocide deniers in the first place, they should never have done so

  14. Miss Jupitero says:

    And for this, I send her the biggest high-five one can send. Good for her! I am totally with her on this. I agree, this is my favourite side of Kim.

    I once lived in Turkey btw, and I hope someday that I can visit the genocide memorial in Armenia.

  15. Marcy says:

    I worked for a doctor, he has now passed away but he was from Armenia, and his parents and him and his sister escaped from Armenia and he was always helping other Armenians who were still there and had spoke often about the genocide stated that percentage wise the loss was a huge impact almost a whole culture gone and according to his parents many had petitioned other countries to intervene and received no help. There is a book he gave me called The Burning Tigris he had given to me that touches that subject matter. Might be of interest in those interested in that time period. Great guy did a lot to help chronic patients with various methods of treatment focusing on holistic therapies and helped his country men a lot.

  16. Pheadra says:

    Damn I am starting to like her, is there a support group or some sort of cure for this?
    And side note, she looks bloody amazing.

    • susanne says:

      When my day starts out soft on Kim and Pippa, it is a sign I ought to camp out on the sofa where it’s safe.
      The moon was out this morning, a sure sign of upside-down day.

  17. OSTONE says:

    First time I will say this, good for you, Kimberly. Hopefully it won’t be the last.
    Now back to not caring about this family.

  18. Dolkite says:

    I’m wearing the same footwear North is!

    It’s about time I got up and got dressed for work.

  19. Brea says:

    Wow. I know there’re genocide deniers out there but the fact that a supposedly prestigious publication like the WSJ would allow something like that on their pages is unsettling.
    Good for Kim for calling it out! Aren’t there hate speech laws in the US?

  20. lvw2 says:

    this will probably be a plotline in their show.
    which is a good thing cause, I’m not sure what the demo is for KUWTK, but I don’t think a good chunk of their fans knows that much about this topic.

  21. Lalu says:

    I like that she did this. I don’t care what her reasons. holocaust deniers are disgusting and someone has to keep them in check.

  22. bettyrose says:

    What is the rationale behind denying genocide occurred?

    • littlemissnaughty says:

      Well, nobody (almost nobody) is denying the events but Turkey for example simply refuses to call it genocide. They have a problem with the definition. When Erdogan lost his sh*t this year after the German government finally decided to call it a genocide (I mean he really LOST it), I read an interesting take on the possible reasons. Turkish governments, and especially the current one, are deeply nationalist. One reason could be the circumstances out of which Turkey was born after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. They went from empire to comparatively small nation and that was a massive shock which has informed their thinking and foreign policy. The constant fear of being surrounded by enemies and the notion that losing ground (literally and figuratively) or admitting weakness could be disastrous.

      This only goes for Turkey though. And it’s only one explanation but it makes sense. The Greeks have a similar us-against-the-world mentality sometimes. Both distrust the West especially and frankly, that’s not paranoia either.

      Sorry, this wasn’t supposed to turn into an amateur history lesson but the history of that region is fascinating.

      • mar_time says:

        Unfortunately A LOT of Turkish people deny it, calling it a loss during war times (there was no war) according to my family who survived the genocide, they killed the men first, took their weapons then went after the women and children. There is denial and that’s what needs to stop.

      • ria says:

        My dear husband is of Turkish family and he is always saying, turkish people that say there was no Genocide are still angry that Armenians survived and not all died.
        He can’t speak about Armenians with the older Generation of his family at all.
        They say it is Christian Propaganda.

      • littlemissnaughty says:

        @mar_time: I didn’t mean there’s no denial. There is. But on a larger scale it’s mostly limited to Turkey. Other countries still avoid the term genocide, often for political reasons which is bs. But of course there was a war. I don’t defend the position, I was just trying to give one possible explanation to bettyrose’s question.

        @ria: My dad’s Greek and in his 70s. It’s damn near impossible to talk to him about the Turks. Seriously. He is not Trump-level anti-Muslim but my god, there is something there that I cannot explain except try and understand how he grew up. During two wars and with parents who witnessed the Balkan Wars before that. I know what you mean. The things an otherwise intelligent and educated man says about an entire religion and people … I avoid it.

      • Wilma says:

        @littlemissnaughty The denial is spreading though. Here in The Netherlands politicians of Turkish descent have a hard time with this subject. Most will dance around it, some will deny the genocide, refuse to call it a genocide and a few brave ones will accept it as historical fact. I haven’t read up on it, but it’s probably a problem in countries where there are lots of Turkish immigrants, like Germany.
        The whole aftermath of the coup with Erdogan blaming Gülen is playing out here too. There was a lawsuit over an Islamic school that was accused of housing Gülen supporters by Turkish parents. Parents called members of the staff traitors to their country (eg Turkey, not The Netherlands) and were taken to court by the school.

    • Who ARE These People? says:

      All eyes are on Brad and Angelina, but to come back to this, with respect to other genocides, denial simply continues the forces that allowed it to happen in the first place. If the Turks hated Armenians, denying that they killed them or arguing about whether the mass murder constituted genocide allows Turkey to continue to dehumanize & minimize that people and their suffering.

      As well should there be any questions of providing reparation or making an admission that they feel would weaken their standing in the international community (see above), they would feel the need to deny.

      I’m glad Kim Kardashian attached her name to this letter of protest. Attention must be paid. Descendants of Armenian survivors and immigrants have gone into all lines of work, including entertainment.

      In a related context, here’s what the National Holocaust museum says about Holocaust denial, distortion and misuse; maybe you will see some parallels:

      “Like all forms of propaganda, Holocaust denial, distortion, and misuse are strategies to achieve objectives, including:

      To reduce perceived public sympathy to Jews,
      To undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel, which some believe was created as compensation for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust,
      To plant seeds of doubt about Jews and the Holocaust, and
      To draw attention to particular issues or viewpoints.”

      https://www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/holocaust-denial-and-distortion

    • bettyrose says:

      Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to my question. I only had time to return to the thread after work, but I learned a lot from your posts.

  23. Frosty says:

    I’m liking Kim more and more as she matures, she’s really turning out to be kind of a badass.

  24. Tessa says:

    Good lord A katdashians actually doing something worthwhile
    I may need to sit down

  25. Pmnichols says:

    I respect anyone who can use their status as a platform for positive change. I can’t condemn someone who is trying to help others and shed light on a topic that is close to their heart. Good for her.

  26. Michelina says:

    I don’t believe for a second that she wrote that seeing as how she struggles to put together even the most simple of sentences in interviews, BUT this is the dopest thing she’s ever done. If Kim did more stuff like this, I think a lot of people would think differently of her.

    Someone on Twitter summarized it perfectly yesterday: Worlds most famous Armenian finally did something worth while.

  27. me says:

    Activism? Just tweeting about the genocide once a year is hardly “activism”. I highly doubt she paid for that WSJ ad either…she’s cheap like that. I also doubt she wrote that herself. Most likely, her name was just slapped on it. She only went to Armenia ONE time and that’s because E paid for it !

    Regarding her nudity…remember when she said she didn’t want to be known as a sex symbol and didn’t want to do nude shoots anymore lol now she’s saying she doesn’t “gaf”. She’s the biggest flip flopper celeb out there.

    • Bobo says:

      I agree.

    • Jwoolman says:

      She might have paid for the ad, although I wonder if she somehow made it tax deductible by working through the charitable scholarship foundation. That would explain why she chose them rather than a more general Armenian American organization, to get the deduction. They really just seem to handle scholarships according to what is online. Still not sure why there weren’t names of many individuals endorsing the letter, at least members of the foundation. Typically there are loads of names in tiny print. Maybe people were put off by the Kardashian PR aspects or the language. Or maybe nobody was asked and she originally intended it as just a personal letter but then someone pointed out a way to get a tax deduction by including the scholarship foundation. An enigma shrouded in mystery…

    • caitlinK says:

      Agreed.

  28. Erica_V says:

    I can’t help but notice the largest font of the entire page is used for her name.

  29. gene123 says:

    Its a shame she destroyed all of her Armenian features….

    but I will credit her for at least bringing awareness to the genocide

  30. Layla says:

    I really don’t see how this is “trolling” the WSJ. She simply used a different publication for her message/platform because in part, she objected to the WSJ’s decision to run the ad. I can’t believe I am saying this, but I respect Kim for doing this and think use of the word troll really minimizes the action.