Serious... Ken Baker has issues

Everytime this douchebag opens his mouth, he reaffirms my contention that certain men, namely Ken Baker, should not be in the gossip game.

On Tuesday's On Air with Ryan Seacrest, Ken Baker had the task of recounting what happened during the Chris Brown preliminary hearing. Since the outcome was heavily covered on Monday evening, Baker decided to 'punch up' his version of the facts, which resulted in several WTF moments for me.

According to Baker, he was in the courtroom during the hearing. I assumed that he said that in order to lay some groundwork towards the contention that he was an unimpeachable witness to the doings to Seacrest listeners. Anyway, he made an off the cuff comment regarding how Rihanna was dressed; according to him, she was dressed way too sexy for court. I thought to myself - WTF? I thought back on the previous night's coverage. While there were few full shots of Rihanna, I did recall that she was wearing a dark-colored dress with a very conservative scoop neckline. And a pearl necklace. The fabric of her dress was not satiny; the dress was not super tailored. Hell... the dress, from the waist up, looked matronly. Like Weezie and Mother Jefferson matronly. In fact, I'm pretty sure that both characters and even Aunt Esther wore dresses similar to Rihanna's. And for added measure, I searched the internet for full shots of Rihanna and the dress skimmed Rihanna's knees, much like Weezie, Mother Jefferson and Aunt Esther's dresses. So seriously, Ken Baker, Rihanna was following the sexy bombshell example of these women? Ken Baker needs to see a professional because his fixation on barely legal women, although Rihanna, at age 22, may be a bit long in the tooth for him, is coloring his lens.

Then Ken Baker moved on to Chris Brown's sentence, specifically, the protection order. Because Rihanna agreed to allow Chris Brown within 10 yards of her at music-related events, Baker concluded that Rihanna wanted Brown as close to her as possible because she still loves him.

'Scuse me?

Here's a revelation, Baker - unlike you, who apparently fancies yourself as this generation's Jafar, not everyone lives and breathes destroying other people's lives. Not everyone who is threatened sic the FBI on them, resulting in $55M lawsuits. Should Chris Brown have received a stiffer punishment? Sure, but Rihanna was the victim here and despite Lisa Bloom, Jane Velez-Mitchell and other entitled, self-righteous female pundits' insistence that Rihanna must turn the screws on Chris Brown and make sure that these women have a ringside seat or have a hands-on role in it or face their boycotts and their demoting her of 'role model' status. This speaks to their attitude that their control over Rihanna is better than any control Chris Brown wielded. All along, this was supposed to be about Rihanna regaining control over her life; her making her own decisions is a large part of the process.

Now for the 'she still loves him' part - clearly, Rihanna is a pragmatist. She knew that she couldn't make compost of him, especially when there are a gaggle of disaffected, pseudo-feminists with their own agendas, are screaming for it. It's entirely possible that, deep down, Rihanna knew that if she gutted Brown, she would be vilified. So maybe, like Tina Turner, she opted for expediency versus Warrior Princess justice, because crumbs can't help revealing themselves as same. And if Brown is arrogant about the hearing's outcome, he will likely slip up. It will be Chris Brown's fault, not Rihanna's - the girl's hand will be clean.

No machinations. No manipulations.

And as for close proximity meaning love, Baker, obviously, you are not up on non-White celebrity gossip. Tisha Campbell-Martin had a similar type of stay away/protection order against Martin Lawrence after she accused him of sexual harassment. She allowed a smaller distance because she was contractually obligated to finish filming the remaining Martin episodes of the final season - NOT because she 'loved' Martin Lawrence.

Doing one's job and reaffirming one's professionalism - believe it or not, there are people in the entertainment industry for which this is very important. Likely, Rihanna is one of these people. But Ken Baker opt to spoon feed pantloads to feebs gullible enough to believe him and prejudiced enough to write her off just because she doesn't dance to their tune.