In honor of Thanksgiving, Sarah Palin performed one of our favorite traditions, pardoning a turkey. That's great and heartwarming and all, until she conducts a post-pardon interview with turkeys being killed in the background. Fantastic.
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Columnist, author and drinker Christopher Hitchens says a Hillary Clinton appointment to the Obama Cabinet would be a "ludicrous embarrassment for the President and for the country." Among other things, Hitchens notes that Hillary Clinton's race-baiting during her campaign for the Democratic nomination — "Senator Obama’s support among … hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again…" — makes her unfit to serve with America's first half-black president.
• Joe Scarborough accidentally dropped the f-bomb live on the air this morning. Housewives across America are traumatized, or something. [DListed]
• Angelina Jolie: Still better at life than the rest of us. [ICYDK]
• Because everyone needs an extensive knowledge of Britney Spears' tattoos. [CityRag]
• Lindsay Lohan celebrated the holiday launch of her leggings line by not wearing leggings for the first time in years. [PS]
• Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel continue to look like miserable human beings. [INO]
• Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty have officially broken up. We can't imagine what could have possibly gone wrong. [Yeeeah]
Haven't people learned anything from Jesse Jackson?
If you're wearing a microphone, don't say anything you don't want the world to hear! MSNBC's Chuck Todd, political consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan all put their foots in their mouths today when, after thinking they had gone to commercial, the trio ripped on McCain's "cynical" Sarah Palin veep pick.
It's no big news that Keith Olbermann hates Bill O'Reilly, and vice versa, but the Washington Post today reports that the feud between the newsmen has gone from funny to scary, sparking some very real insidious scheming at O'Reilly's employer, Fox News.
If you've foolishly been watching Fox News in recent weeks, perhaps you've noticed that O'Reilly et al have been ramping up their attacks on General Electric, parent company of Olbermann's network, MSNBC. Veiled as outrage over GE's business dealings with Iran (and thus terrorists), Fox's finger wagging was culminated by O'Reilly declaring that if he had a kid killed in Iraq, he'd "blame the likes of [GE CEO] Jeffrey Immelt." Typical Fox fearmongering, right? Wrong, according to the Post, which claims that Fox's negative portrayals of GE are just the network's way of attempting to get MSNBC to rein in Olbermann's nightly attacks on O'Reilly. If MSNBC agrees to reprimand Olbermann, says the article, Fox will make its negative coverage of GE go away. Neat, huh?
Despite it all, The O'Reilly Factor is still the most-watched cable news show on television.
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The terrorists have won: Rumor has it Heidi Montag was invited to attend the White House Correspondents gala. Unfortunately for absolutely no one, Heidi backed out because nobody would pay for boyfriend Spencer Pratt to shadow her.
MSNBC had invited Montag to be a guest at its table at the Washington Hilton. 'Then Spencer got involved as her manager,' a source told Page Six. 'He demanded first-class tickets for both him and Heidi — even though he wasn't invited.'
When the network balked, Pratt canceled Montag's appearance, claiming, according to our source, 'It wasn't "A-listy" enough.'
MSNBC understandably denied ever having invited them, but a rep for Speidi (read: Spencer) said that there was simply a scheduling conflict — but they always travel together. Of course they do! Heidi would sit with a blank stare on her face without Spencer around to tell her what to feel/think/say.
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Executives behind the upcoming Batman franchise flick The Dark Knight will not alter a scene in the film that depicts the late Heath Ledger's character, the Joker, pretending to be dead. The scene in question shows Ledger hiding out in a bodybag, and it left some test audience members "reeling." Rumors abounded that the film would be reworked to mitigate the shock, but a source close to the production says, "The film remains intact - and nothing of Ledger's will be cut from the movie, including the bodybag scene." Related: Many film studios to stop using seven-year-olds as test audience members.
Media rumors are saying that former View yelling head Rosie O'Donnell is in talks to get her own show on MSNBC. Media theorists – with their beakers and chicken bones – believe this is the network's attempt at fighting liar with liar: "…the cable channel believes there is ratings gold in shows that criticize the [Bush] administration with the same vigor with which Fox News’s hosts often champion it." And isn't biased coverage to counteract biased coverage what the news is all about?
An ailing Farrah Fawcett is said to be in Germany receiving "alternative treatments" for her anal cancer.
Craig Nevius, who produced Fawcett's reality show…says that although Fawcett's cancer has returned, her health has not declined.
"She was declared 100 percent cancer free and then it came back," he says. "She was discouraged by the treatments she got here. The fact that it recurred after all that she went through was heartbreaking."
He adds: "She has been in Germany. That's true. She's getting alternative treatments not allowed in the U.S."
Fawcett was originally diagnosed with anal cancer in September 2006. After undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments, she was declared cancer free by her doctors on Feb. 2, her 60th birthday.
However, in May, doctors discovered that the cancer had returned.
"Alternative treatments," of course, is code for "reckless hippies are stealing from a very sick woman."
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Today, a piece on MSNBC practically gasps, "Did Nicole Richie really send an e-mail invitation to a Memorial Day party, suggesting friends 'celebrate our country by drinking massive amounts of beer'?" Well, I don't know, MSNBC, but who the fuck actually cares?
Granted, it's important to call people on their bullshit, even if it's flippant, but have we really reached a point where absurdly politically correct merges with questionable detective work in such a way that now famous people have to not goof off with their friends in private correspondences? Really? All she said was "let's have a lot of beers." Where was the outrage when Paris was screaming "nigger"?
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