MCCAIN-PALIN SUPPORTERS CROSS THAT LINE We've updated our earlier post about yesterday's rabid McCain-Palin rallies to include information about how fans were screaming racial epithets at black journalists.
So, you know how Sarah Palin tried to censor her local library while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska? Well, here's ABC News' report on the matter, including a bit about at least one of the books were of the gay variety.
Further proving the theory that most people successful in traditional media are like monkeys faced with calculus when it comes to the Internet, Ashton Kutcher, actor and reality show producer, and his production company, Katalyst Media, give us Blah Girls.
Part gossip blog, part episodic comedy program, Blah Girls attempts to dally in the difficult position between mocking celebrity culture and heralding it. In the videos, the Girls prattle on about Hollywood rumors while frequently interjecting the conversation with crude jokes; in the blog, the Girls attach one-liners to famous photos of the day; and oh how terrible it all is.
Some of the gals on America's Next Top Model aren't feeling trans contestant Isis.
One of the ladies, Sharaun, remarked, quite crudely, "America's Next Top Model is not going to be a drag queen. I'm sorry. It's not." Apparently Sharaun fancies herself a prophet, or something.
Meanwhile, pals Hannah and Clark bonded over their bigotry, which they justify with their "small town" upbringings.
Pete Wentz may have knocked up Ashlee Simpson, but he still gets shit for being a homo. The Fall Out Boy bassist tells Out that he regularly gets called out on the street - and he’s all right with that. In fact, he’s basically embraced the abuse.
OH, CHRIST: 'ISLAMISM'? "The prizewinning British author Ian McEwan has caused a minor uproar by saying that he despised 'Islamism' because of its intolerance of homosexuality and its limits on women’s freedom …"
Though Tiger Woods might have suggested otherwise, American golf is still a sport for good 'ole boys. Or so its talking heads have themselves convinced.
In January, Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman all but revealed this little secret, when her comments about the unstoppable Tiger Woods – and how his competitors' only hope of beating him was to "lynch [Woods] in a back alley" – blew the lid off that not-so-secret pot.
And then, over the weekend, NBC Sports's lead golf analyst Johnny Miller added to the fury with one ill-advised comment about U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate.
Fearful that some Republican 527 group, or Michelle Malkin, might grab an image of Barack Obama with two Muslim women wearing headscarves in the background, Barack’s campaign volunteers barred a pair of his supporters from sitting behind the podium at a rally in Detroit, where Al Gore officially endorsed him.
This is mean, because it’s, uh, kinda racist, and Obama is supposed to be the candidate that transcends the buzz phrase known as “identity politics.”
This is also a very calculated move, because Obama has a Muslim "problem" …
Not because I'm surprised, but just because we should all stay abreast of these things:
While discussing ninth-grade students at a school in New Jersey who were suspended for distributing topless photographs of their classmates, Bill O'Reilly stated, "But it's an amazing amount of kids involved with this — 20 — in an affluent school district. This isn't, you know, the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system."
Mamma mia! Angry black man Spike Lee is getting a taste of his own opportunistic outrage.
After spending the past couple weeks hectoring fellow director Clint Eastwood with charges of prejudiced casting, Lee is now under fire from the Italic Institute of America, which is as bitter as Campari about Lee's portrayal of Italians.
According to Bill Dal Cerro, president of the Italic Institute of America, Lee may have his own anti-Italian racist tendencies to worry about.
"Spike Lee is very talented, but I sometimes wish he'd practice what he preaches," Dal Cerro said. "His points about African-Americans are well taken, but, ironically, he does the same thing to Italians in his films."
While Dal Cerro doesn't get into specific charges against Lee, we imagine he takes issue with the way a lot of the Italian Americans in Lee's films are fiery, Brooklyn-accented racists who would rather see their daughter's dead than with "some fuggin' moulignan." If you've seen Jungle Fever and Do the Right Thing, you know Dal Cerro has a point, but then again, you won't catch our wide nose in Bensonhurst at night.
After the jump, "Fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza and fuck Frank Sinatra."
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From TMZ, Hollywood's notorious hive of ill-bred bullies: "So our spies at a few Hollywood restaurants have weighed in on celeb tippers and gyppers. And the verdict is in."
Classy! We can't wait for Levin et al's item on which studio execs are the best at Jewing down actors' salary demands.
Oh: The bad tippers are the Beckhams.
Just like you knew he would, Spike Lee has completely ignored fellow director Clint Eastwood's recommendation that he "shut his face," telling ABC News, "[Eastwood] is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either." (In case you're not up to speed: Lee said publicly that Eastwood was remiss in not including black actors in his last two WWII films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.) Lee continued:
He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.
Angry, indeed, Spike, but the facts do a good job of explaining why, exactly, Clint's mad about being called an inaccurate bigot. Let's break it down:
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FOREIGN CRIMES ARE DIFFERENT FROM AMERICAN CRIMES "Former French film star and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot has been fined 15,000 euros ($23,160) for remarks insulting Muslims. A Paris court fined the animal rights campaigner for her repeated verbal attacks on the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, which involves slaughtering a sheep, among other Islam traditions. Bardot, already fined four times since 1997 for similar racial incidents, will have to pay the hefty fine in addition to damages to several anti-racism organizations."
Because he's an imbecile and increasingly insignificant and a drug addict (in that order), Rush Limbaugh needs to say outlandish, off-color nonsense if he is to remain even in the extreme periphery of the public eye. This is a fact of which Limbaugh is quite aware, which is why he's using photographic evidence of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe to remind everyone he's a bigot.
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New information on the recent arrest of Naomi Campbell at Heathrow airport and her subsequent excommunication from all British Airways flights. According to the Sun, as she was being dragged away in cuffs, the maniacal fashion model began calling her arresting officers "fucking white honkeys." She then berated a particular policewoman so badly — calling her things like "white slag" — that the officer has since taken leave. Campbell's spokeswoman said she can't imagine her notoriously violent, malicious client saying anything of the sort. Campbell herself is quoted as saying: "It just goes to show I have to fight for who I am. It’s because I’m black."
Colin Farrell says he was reticent to use the word "retarded" as an epithet in his new film In Bruges, particularly because his four-year-old son has been diagnosed with a disability affecting his motor skills. "I’m involved with the Special Olympics, so I would never use that word in my life. It’s a word that creates denigration and is incredibly harmful," the actor recently told reporters.
Here, for once, we're going to lay off Colin Farrell. Apparently when he cuts the tough-guy, rebel talk, he has the ability to express good ideas. "Retard" and its variants need to go the way of "nigger" and "faggot." Good on ya, Farrell.
In 2001 Courtney Love contacted Anthony Pellicano about making her problems to go away. At the time, the woozy singer was tied up in legal woes, losing money and worried that her former assistant had hacked into her computer and stolen personal information. Pellicano, "PI to the stars" (especially Chris Rock), said he could help her. After all, it's what Italians Sicilians do.
After the jump, highlights from the Love-Pellicano conversation.
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Here's an autograph that inky diva Kat Von D allegedly whipped up after being fired by Miami Ink's Israeli owner Ami James. As it is just slightly offensive, James thought the photo grounds for the cancellation of Von D's TLC spin-off, LA Ink, but he says TLC SWEPT IT UNDER THE RUG!!!!!!
When contacted about the photo, Ami told TMZ he wasn't as offended by the photo as he was by the indifference toward it, saying, "What is more devastating to me, and much more shameful is when people ignore something like this for the sake of the money or self-interest. That is the real 'punch in the gut.'"
As you might expect, Von D is denying that the picture is her doing, but Chris Garver, another Miami Ink employee, claims he personally received it from her.
Who knew tattooed ruffians could be so gossipy?
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