"A man of his word," Barack Obama appeared on the O'Reilly Factor last night to be talked over and rudely interrupted in the "No Spin Zone." The two discussed the war on terror, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and there is really nothing stranger than watching a bullying, impatient blowhard and a cerebral, wordy politician try to have an intelligent conversation. Never fear, though. We have all next week to get used to it. Fox is milking this one sit-down for all it's worth, and will stretch it over several episodes. O'Reilly promises that it will be "fairly extensive and provocative."

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Spencer Pratt entertained us yet again on last night's episode of The Hills with a thought-provoking speech on foreign relations and family values. Frustrated that his sister, Stephanie, is still "rolling around with LC," Spence declared that he wished he could make her his un-sister and then shot down Steph's hopes that one day everyone would just be civil: "It's like trying to tell Iran and Israel to get along. Its not gonna happen." … We're not even going to touch that statement.

Emboldened by Tuesday's primary victory and the bitter, armed and dangerous voters of Pennsylvania, Senator Hillary Clinton is now rattling her saber loud enough for the whole world to hear. Cower, brown people!

Yesterday she focused her words on protecting Israel: "Whatever stage of development [Iran] might be in their nuclear weapons programme in the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Emphasis ours. Fright ours, too!

TABLOIDIBAN "Iran has banned nine lifestyle and cinema magazines for publishing pictures of 'corrupt' foreign film stars and details about their 'decadent' private lives … The publications were banned by the press commission watchdog for 'publishing photographs of corrupt foreign artists and details about their decadent lives.' … The most significant magazines banned are Donya-ye Tasvir (World of the Image), Sobh-e Zendegi (Morning of Life), Talash (Effort) and Haft (Seven). … The latest issue of Donya-ye Tasvir carried articles about several Hollywood female stars including Naomi Watts, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, all accompanied by pictures."