Elisabeth Hasselbeck is back from maternity leave, and she is fucking pissed! What's got her rankled now? That feminazi tramp Gloria Steinem and her poncey support of Hillary Clinton, that's what.
Drunk off the power bestowed upon her by millions of liberal arts college coeds and The New York Times, Steinem recently shot off at the mouth and said she's glad Mrs Clinton isn't trained to kill like Republican white man and POW John McCain. Hasselbeck, who lives for shit like this, jumped on the comment during The View's "Hot Topics" segment, calling Steinem's words a "despicable mischaracterization" and "evil," the go-to word for crazies not good at arguing. Sad, because for a moment there, Thin Lizzy actually had a valid point.
The second half of this clip is Hillary Clinton speaking in last night's debate against Barack Obama. Watch as she unabashedly lifts her closing remarks from pretty-boy quitter John Edwards. It's getting scandalous!
• Here's Amnesia Sparkles – the drag queen responsible for making Cord "Cordless" – explaining how this Sunday's Oscars will be like sex with a black man. As you might guess, it's NSFW. [Queerty]
• Idle Americans are prepared to again fawn over American Idols, many of whom will soon become idle Americans once again. [DListed]
• That's not the breast place for a tattoo, Christina. [HT]
• A silvery Rihanna awaits your approval here. [INO]
• "I'm the Hillary Clinton of the Oscars." [ICYDK]
• Go organic! It'll make you feel like a new person filled with alien spirits! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! [CityRag]
• Hey! More and more people are discovering that we have too many goddamn golf courses in this country. Cacti of the American Southwest, we've made the first step. [NYT]
• You will? [Jossip]
• Lindsay Lohan's breasts as art? [DListed]
• Javier Bardem doesn't seem too excited about his impending Oscar. [PS]
• What does Hilary Duff do these days? [HT]
• "A Joker action figure modeled after Heath Ledger’s character in The Dark Knight is going to be released. There are two versions…one with a rocket launcher and another with a knife." [INO]
• How can a premiere happen so many times? [ICYDK]
• Here are some homes much too large for the people inhabiting them. Suck it, homeless situation. [CityRag]
HEY, HEY, HEY, GOODBYE After spending tens of millions of Mormon bucks from his own coffer on his campaign, Mitt Romney's dropping out of the race for the White House. Ever graceful, he called the Democrats cowards on his way out the door: "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror." Later, D-bag!
With Barack Obama last night losing so definitively with minorities of both genders, Gawker today gathers stories from various media sources into one stinking but unavoidable cesspool of an explanation: even other minorities hate black people.
Writing in the New Republic, John Judis surveyed academic research on Latino attitudes toward blacks and cited, to take one example, a sociology study at Duke that found "58.9 percent of Latino immigrants, but only 9.3 percent of whites, reported feeling that 'few or almost no blacks are hard-working.'"
And this from Daniela, a Latino NPR listener in Los Angeles: "To have a black president would, I don't know … what that would do. I don't know, the black community would just rise up and would feel like it owned the entire country!"
Don't worry, Daniela, the black community will never own the entire country. We're more sure of that every single day.
Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.
But sometimes the millions serve a higher purpose; sixth homes declined in favor of the public that makes a celebrity a celebrity. Yet where are those figures in Star and the National Enquirer?
Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.
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SOMETIMES BEING RIGHT IS LONELY "The striking members of the Writers Guild are disappointed they aren't getting more support from the supposedly pro-union Democratic presidential candidates. The bitter scribes say front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are afraid of alienating their well-heeled supporters in Hollywood, folks like Alan Horn (Warner Bros.), Peter Chernin (Fox) and Bob Iger (Disney)…All of the Democratic presidential candidates have issued statements in support of the strikers, but only John Edwards has appeared in person to picket and speak with the writers…"
Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.
But sometimes the millions serve a higher purpose; sixth homes declined in favor of the public that makes a celebrity a celebrity. Yet where are those figures in Star and the National Enquirer?
Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.
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O IS FOR OUSTED "Ellen DeGeneres ousted Oprah Winfrey as favorite television personality in a poll released Monday. The popular entertainer catapulted from the No. 8 spot last year to push Winfrey into second place. Winfrey had reigned the Harris Poll's favorite television stars list for five consecutive years." Does this mean Obama's going to lose to Hillary?
Despite showing double-digits leads in some public opinion polls leading up to last night's election, Barack Obama came in a close second to Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
During her victory speech, Clinton told a crowd of supporters, "I felt like we all spoke from our hearts, and I am so gratified you responded," possibly alluding to her well-publicized emotional outpouring to New Hampshire voters earlier in the week. She then acknowledged the tremendous boost in momentum the vote gave her campaign, saying, "Now together, let’s give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me."
With such disparity between what should have happened and what actually happened, it is now time to pose this unfortunate but necessary question: Will Barack Obama's Presidential bid be killed at the hands of closeted bigots who truly make their decisions behind the comfort of closed curtains, regardless of what they tell pollsters?
Update: Gary Langer, Director of Polling at ABC News, says, "It is simply unprecedented for so many polls to have been so wrong. We need to know why."
Update: "In high-profile contests where one of the major party candidates is black, pre-election telephone polls have often been wrong, overstating the strength of the black candidate. In polling circles this is known as the 'Bradley effect' or the 'Wilder effect' or the 'Dinkins effect.' Will it also be known as the Obama effect?"
The final results for both parties are after the jump.
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Here's the part when all the idiots who said Hillary Clinton is a gruff, lesbian robot who can't be president backpedal and say they meant to say she is a weeping, fragile schoolgirl who can't be president.
Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.
But sometimes the millions serve a higher purpose; sixth homes declined in favor of the public that makes a celebrity a celebrity. Yet where are those figures in Star and the National Enquirer?
Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.
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Hillary Clinton in Glamour's politics blog, Glamocracy:
Young women today aren’t bound by questions of what they can or cannot do as women; they want to know how they can do it better. We’ve shattered so many barriers, but we’re not stopping here. Not when women still earn 77 cents to every dollar that men earn, not when all of the progress we’ve made on reproductive health stands to be threatened by the current administration.
Not when politics blogs aimed at young women are called things like "Glamocracy"!!!!!!
Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.
But sometimes the millions serve a higher purpose; sixth homes declined in favor of the public that makes a celebrity a celebrity. Yet where are those figures in Star and the National Enquirer?
Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.
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• Merry Christmas (unless you have sex with dead people or men). [Queerty]
• And here come the attacks on Hillary's looks. [DListed]
• Lily Allen's pregnant, too! Something's in the water. [PS]
• Why do all Playboy bunnies end up looking alike? [HT]
• Matthew McConaughey has broken his face, surely while doing something with his shirt off. [INO]
• Julia Roberts is a never-nude! [ICYDK]
• "Michael Jackson is a Damn Monster" [Yeeeah]
• People hate Tom Cruise. [CityRag]
Madonna has decided to put her celebrity clout behind Hillary Clinton in the '08 presidential election, presumably because she's critically read about and agrees with the Senator's past policy decisions and ideas for the future. Then again, it could be because all of Madonna's Malawian charity missions have been supported by Bill Clinton's foundation, but she would never admit that, so let's just go with that first one!
Celebrities make too much money. Subjective, sure, but probably true. Truer still is that very often those fortunes are wasted in inglorious, ill-planned blazes.
But sometimes the millions serve a higher purpose; sixth homes declined in favor of the public that makes a celebrity a celebrity. Yet where are those figures in Star and the National Enquirer?
Allow us to introduce Civic Doody. Screw Birkin bags, time for money that counts: political donations.
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