Tonight's the night! Tonight's the night where we see what Babs had to say to president-elect Barack Obama and Michelle on ABC, although the clips going around right now just involve Obama saying auto-industry CEOs that charter their own private planes are "a little tone-deaf," and then talking more about keeping his BlackBerry once he gets into office. Sort of a weird juxtaposition don't you think, ABC? Like that's actually the order the interview goes in: first question, automotive industry CEOs and the hypocrisy of those in charge; second question, what are you going to do with your cellphone provider once you are leader of the free world?
Human grease trap Bill O'Reilly appeared on the ever-popular Daily Show last night to goofily spar with Jon Stewart and show how he can be "with it, like the Negroes." No, he didn't say that, but you know he was thinking it in his fat, two-bit head.
For a good 10 minutes, the two polar opposites mocked one another in an awkward dance of an interview that can be summed up like this:
O'Reilly: You liberal queers in New York don't know the "real America."
Stewart: You sure are stupid, huh?
Sure, we suppose it's sort of funny to see Stewart grill O'Reilly about how his beliefs are absurd, but why give this man more airtime than he already gets on Fox News? Especially if you're not going to really run him over the coals for being a detestable piece of garbage.
The first part's above and the second is after the jump.
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Barack Obama's angry white terrorist pal, Bill Ayers, will sit down with Good Morning America tomorrow to give his first televised interview since Obama's victory.
The distinguished professor of education is expected to say exactly what he said last week when the Washington Post interviewed him: that he's made some mistakes and that he really doesn't know Barack Obama at all, just like Obama himself tried to tell all the yapping Republican dunderheads for weeks and weeks.
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Sarah Palin was on The Today Show yesterday with secretly-roasted Matt Lauer to discuss how annoying it was that Katie Couric asked her about what newspapers she read in Alaska:
To me that was a little bit annoying. Because I'm like, what do you mean, what do I read in Alaska? I read the same things that you guys read in New York. And there in LA and in Washington state. What do you mean what I read up there? But anyway, just– just some annoyance, that certainly I'm sure showed through. And, you know, perhaps that annoyance that showed through would have led some to be annoyed with me watching the interview.
Except, erm, hate to stop ya there Sarah, but we have this thing called YouTube now, and you can see for yourself that's not the question the Couric asked you.
COURIC ON PALIN • "I think she should keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing."
You knew this was coming! Sarah Palin took to the gentle, fair and balanced Fox News this morning to discuss her absolutely pathetic Katie Couric interview, which the Alaskan governor said was "annoying."
Palin continued, saying Couric's questions were unfair and that she would have preferred to discuss all the stupid fucking lies she's been trained to believe are the truth, because she's the goddamn Manchurian candidate.
Video after the jump.
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Which godawful stunt did you watch last night? The one in which David Blaine, notorious cheat, hung on the monkey bars like a weird, magical third grader, or the one in which vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin tried to dodge Katie Couric using every last trick in the "Unprepared Student" handbook?
Click through for the highlight reel.
Our favorite parts are at :50, when a toughie from Couric is met with complete silence before Palin then repeats her previous answer, and at around 4:30, when, after Couric asks Palin to give specific examples of the famously anti-regulation McCain "reforming" Wall Street, the Alaskan Governor literally says: "He's known as THE MAVERICK, though." (SERIOUSLY, THIS FREAKIN' LADY SAID THAT UNIRONICALLY!) When Couric very reasonably asks Palin to quit dodging and give some examples, Palin replies, all folksy, "I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring 'em to ya." Thanks, Sarah! You do that; we've got all the time in the world.
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Charlie Gibson will be the first reporter logging official face time with Sarah Palin since her nomination as Republican VP only thirteen days ago. What could they possibly have to talk about?
Luckily, upstanding citizen that he is, JackShaf moved on from his all-important campaign of boycotting the DNC to compile a list of questions Charlie Gibson should ask Sarah Palin at the undisclosed time of the interview.
Unfortunately, Shafer's list reads like a duplicate of the Anchorage Daily News itemization of questions that the publication never received Palin's answer on. Blah blah Senator Ted Stevens accepted bribes, do you still support hi*sssnooooze*.
So what are some fun but totally not-happening questions that Gibson could use to spice up the interview?
Despite confirmation that Sarah Palin will be on Charlie Gibson's ABC show for her first interview since she was named VP nominee, the McCain camp lashed out at the media and said Palin wouldn't be talking to anyone until they can behave themselves. "Behave themselves" being code for "not mentioning anything about her children," apparently:
Start your day off with some brutal awkwardness here, where you can listen to what happens when a radio DJ interviewing recovering junkie/alcoholic Robert Downey Jr about his new film, Tropic Thunder, asks him who he'd most like to "have a brew and smoke a blunt with." Oh boy! (Answer: "I think it would be regrettable if I did that.") It just gets worse from there.
Psychology Today's Web site has published an interview done with George Carlin just nine days before the comic died. Though the piece was originally supposed to be 350 words, in light of Carlin's passing, it's now much, much longer.
Our favorite bits are after the jump, but you can read the full interview here.
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Caroline Tell, a Women's Wear Daily editor who recently interviewed Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, reports that she was asked by the Olsen's publicist to not refer to them as "twins" or "sisters" in her article. The reason being that the sisters are hoping to establish themselves as separate business entities (never mind the fact that they co-own a company called Dualstar and rarely attend events solo).
Tell says Ashley is the more business savvy of the Olsens and that, when asked how she felt about fame, Mary Kate responded, "I don’t know how to answer that question."
What happens when an obnoxious, unfunny interviewer meets a tired, unfunny pop star to discuss a movie that's also tired and unfunny? Well, whatever it is, it's not pretty
Click through to bask in the awkward, bitchy banter.
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