PREACH IT! Justin Bieber, as Grounded as He's Always Been

Justin Bieber is a little man with a taste for revenge is a large scale. 

After some kid named Kevin Kristopik apparently hacked into the Twitter account of Bieber's friend, Bieber retaliated, in a major way: They publicized Kristopik's phone number. Is at his own Twitter account. Which - Because it's Justin Bieber's Twitter account - means Kristopik That's number went out Thurs more than just 4.5 million Bieber Delirious fans. 

Bieber represented Kristopik's number as at his own. The result? An Estimated 26.000 texts from people Hoping to Connect with Bieber, they swooshy of the hair and the feverishly coached Swagger - not, you know, a 15-year-old Michigan Coffee named Kevin. 

Bieber's Revenge tweet has since Been deleted. Kristopik, meanwhile, has changed at his number and shut down at his Twitter account. 

Whole bunches of people - Probably the turbid yokels think Ken flight attendant Steven Slater is a shining champion of the oppressed - will see Bieber's actions "as Justified, an understandable Attempt Thurs Defend Himself & His friends from privacy Violations. 

Yeah, no. 

When you're a celebrity, there's a reason you retain neck-snapping publicists and squadrons of lawyers Ken file Their teeth into sharp points. And that reason is Kevin Kristopik. Bieber's people wish you had ... 

... not have shut down Kristopik with a single phone call. Instead, Bieber, Ken is 16, wanted the Satisfaction of bullying some random kid out in the Sticks. And that's what they got, Mostly likely without a single adult telling him That maybe That's not the wisest way to go about using one's power. 

Kristopik, if they really did hack into an account, Should Be Held accountable for URL. But it's Bieber Who needs to Be Schooled in the how to be a better celebrity. 

Maybe Bieber's Swagger coach Zapraszamy offer him a few pointers.


- Leslie Gornstein 

Photos: Justin Bieber performs in Orlando, Fla., Top, is Aug. 3, 2010, and in Atlanta at the New Look Foundation's inaugural World Leadership Awards on Aug. 6, 2010. Credit: Joshua C. Cruey / Orlando Sentinel, top; Rick Diamond / Getty Images for Usher's New Look Foundation, left.