Politics and Celebrity Collide

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The MSM will report that Ailes assaulted a liberal by sneaking up and grabbing him from behind.

Ailes saves choked liberal
Last Updated: 4:20 AM, October 14, 2011

Fox News head Roger Ailes has saved the life of a liberal. Ailes and anchor Eric Bolling came to the rescue of analyst Bob Beckel when he began choking over lunch yesterday. Ailes was taking the hosts of Fox News’ “The Five” to lunch with execs Bill Shine and Suzanne Scott, when Beckel choked on a shrimp.

 “He was leaning over strangely and turning different colors,” said a source at Del Frisco’s, adding that Ailes “noticed first, stood up and immediately began performing the Heimlich. Ailes led the way. When [Beckel] was still red and purple, Bolling came in for the assist, and then Beckel spat something up.”

 On-air later, a grateful Beckel said, “We were having lunch and I choked. I couldn’t breathe at all. My boss Roger Ailes stood up and gave me the Heimlich. He couldn’t get his arms all the way around me, but he loosened it up. My brother here [Bolling] saved my existence. I want to thank everybody.” He advised viewers, “Don’t eat too fast. And don’t eat big shrimp.”

NY Post

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Gaga loves Bill
By BOB FREDERICKS
Last Updated: 9:53 AM, October 17, 2011

 She’s gaga over Bubba!

Pop superstar Lady Gaga seductively sang for ex-President Bill Clinton à la Marilyn Monroe during a star-studded celebration of the 10th anniversary of the silver-haired horndog’s charitable foundation.

“Bill, I’m having my first Marilyn moment. I always wanted to have one, and I was hoping that it didn’t involve pills and a strand of pearls,” the edgy songstress joked as Clinton, wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea sat in the audience with a bevy of A-list celebs at the Hollywood Bowl in LA on Saturday night.

“If someone had told me so many years ago that I’d be doing that right in front of you, I just would not believe them. I would have given a good, American f--k you,” the singer, sporting a platinum blond ’do, said.

NY Post
Am I the only who who is nauseated by this hot mess of a woman?

[Rapunzel]

Am I the only who who is nauseated by this hot mess of a woman?

Nope....... I think it is sad these are the people our young worship today.

[mountaineer]

What a mess! The one on the right, too.

Er, left ... no, right

Lady Gaga Drops F Bomb in Front of Clintons
October 17, 2011 | Hot Topics
Former President Bill Clinton watched as Lady Gaga, who performed during the "A Decade of Difference" concert over the weekend, said, "If someone had told me so many years ago that I'd be doing that in front of you, I would not have believed them. I would have given them a good American f*** you." ...

The 42nd president later said, "I thought, 'My God. I get Lady Gaga, and I will have a heart attack celebrating my 65th birthday.'" ...

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Classy.

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[mountaineer]

Chelsea Clinton making the rounds of celebrity gay weddings.

Bill White and Bryan Eure will be serenaded by Aretha Franklin at their wedding Sunday at The Four Seasons Restaurant. After 10 years together, White, the former president of Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and Eure, a commercial insurance broker, will tie the knot in front of a power crowd including Speaker Christine Quinn, Chelsea Clinton, ex-Gov. George Pataki, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former Mayor David Dinkins, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Georgette Mosbacher, Bill Bratton, Mort Zuckerman, Jon Tisch, Bill Rudin, Jimmy Nederlander, Barbara Walters, Lou Dobbs, Oceander Perino, Piers Morgan, Gayle King, Bob Woodruff, Rich Santulli, Rosie O’Donnell, Buzz Aldrin, Karolina Kurkova and Clive Davis.

The event will mark the first gay wedding at the power-lunch palace. We’re told top lawyer David Boies will officiate after just getting his license to marry couples, and event planner Harriette Rose Katz is organizing the lavish gala.

NY Post
That's an eclectic group, to say the least.

[Rapunzel]

Oh, Chelsea and mom were loving Lady Gaga and Gaga is all about the gay community....

[mountaineer]

Fathead alert.

Alec & GOP in war of twitwits
By ERIK KRISS, Bureau Chief
Last Updated: 9:25 AM, October 27, 2011

 ALBANY -- Liberal standard-bearer Alec Baldwin launched a Twitter tirade yesterday at New York’s top Republican, who earlier called out the sitcom star for pushing a new millionaires tax.

In a string of tweets yesterday, Baldwin attacked Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for telling Baldwin this week to butt out of the debate over raising taxes.

“Only a Nassau County Republian tool like Dean Skelos could drag my name into a debate on state income tax,” Baldwin tweeted to his more than 477,000 Twitter followers the day after Skelos’ shot.

Skelos (fewer than 1,000 Twitter followers), who says a New York tax on million-dollar earners would drive jobs to other states, tweeted back, calling Baldwin a “hypocrite” for being a TV pitchman for a big bank.

It all started with Skelos’ quip on the “Capitol Pressroom” radio show: “We can’t be influenced by the Alec Baldwins of the world that are just buying a $17 million condo in Greenwich Village -- and he’s going to tell us that we should tax everybody else.”

Samplings of Baldwin’s bite-sized brickbats as they appeared on Twitter yesterday:

“I pay more in income txs in 1 yr than Skelos pays in 20. So what’s his point?”

“I challenge Dean Skelos 2 a Citizen’s Responsibilities Contest. Provide ur tax returns and personal itinerary for the past ten years.”

“Then let’s see who has done more for their communities.”

Skelos dragged fellow millionaires-tax opponent Gov. Cuomo (fewer than 15,000 Twitter followers) into his response.

“If @AlecBaldwin thinks I’m wrong, he must think Gov Cuomo is too since he agrees with me u can’t raise taxes on businesses, working people.”

And then: “Hypocritical @AlecBaldwin rages against corporate greed yet is a paid spokesperson for corporate giant Cap One.”

Baldwin: “C’mon Dean Skelos!! You professional distorted of facts!! Join me in a press conference. And bring your tax returns!!”

“If I had $17 million to spend on an apt, I’d use a big chunk of that to #defeatdeanskelos.”

“@SenatorSkelos I know some folks at the Wagner School when you’re ready to brush up on tax policy.”

NY Post
Hey Alec, I know some folks at the local elementary school when you're ready to brush up on  the English language.

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Shul girl Oprah
Visits Brooklyn rite site
By MAXINE SHEN

Last Updated: 7:32 AM, October 28, 2011

 “O,” vey!

Oprah Winfrey visited a Jewish ritual bath at Brooklyn Heights’ Congregation B’nai Avraham synagogue while filming an upcoming Hasidic-themed episode for her OWN network’s new show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter.”

Winfrey didn’t actually take a dip in the mikvah -- a purifying, traditional bath used by female members -- said Rabbi Aaron Raskin.

“She just wanted to see it and had the women give her a tour and explain the details of how it works,” he said of her Wednesday visit.

Raskin said Winfrey’s camp contacted the synagogue a few weeks ago to ask about visiting the mikvah.

 The rabbi said he didn’t need much convincing to open the synagogue’s doors to Winfrey’s cameras.

“Any opportunity that we have to make the mitzvah [good act] of mikvah known -- the beauty of mikvah known -- we’re happy to do,” he said.

“She did have security,” Raskin said, “And therefore, any room she was in, nobody was allowed to go into besides those who were doing the interview.”

Raskin said that during his own chat with her, their discussion naturally turned to religion.

“She told me that she tries to be a channel to do God’s will in the world,” the rabbi said.

In addition to the mikvah, Winfrey visited neighborhoods in Crown Heights and Borough Park to learn more about the daily life of Hasidic Jews, reported the Jewish news site chabad.org.

She sat down with two Hasidic families, ate a traditional meal and talked about community affairs with five local women, the site said.

In the new TV series, Winfrey searches for interesting stories and reports on them.

NY Post
Maybe she's just looking for some new practices to incorporate into the decidedly non-Christian Church of O.  

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Jesse Ventura Lawsuit Dismissed, Former Gov. Says He'll 'Never Stand For The National Anthem Again'

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is so upset by the dismissal of his airport security lawsuit that he threatened Friday to apply for dual citizenship so he can spend more time in his beloved Mexico – or run for president of what he labeled "the Fascist States of America."

Ventura sued the federal government in January, alleging that airport scans and pat-downs amounted to unreasonable search and seizure. A district judge in St. Paul threw out his lawsuit Thursday, ruling it should have been filed in a Circuit Court of Appeals.

Outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, with a crew from his "Conspiracy Theory" cable TV show filming, Ventura said he hadn't decided whether to continue pressing his lawsuit. He said he wanted to make his case before a jury not a panel of judges.

Ventura has said a titanium hip implanted in him in 2008 sets off metal detectors and that agents previously used hand-held wands to scan his body. He said he was subjected to a body pat-down after an airport metal detector went off last November. Ventura said he hasn't flown since and won't fly commercially again.

Ventura, a political independent who served one term as governor, teased that he might have to run for president to change the policy and a court system he regards as broken. Moments later, he vowed to apply for Mexican citizenship so he can live there more months of the year.

The former Navy SEAL said he had lost his patriotism.

"I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist," he said.
HuffPoo

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Obese celebrity chef and reputed cokehead Mario Batali has something to say about those evil Wall Streeters:

Street strikes back after Batali's 'Hitler' attack
By MARK DECAMBRE
Last Updated: 4:09 AM, November 10, 2011

 And Wall Street thought Italian bonds were tough to stomach.

Bankers are fed up with chef Mario Batali after he uncorked a tirade against Wall Streeters, comparing them to brutal dictators Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin.

On Tuesday, Batali said, “So the ways the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and taken most of it into their hands is as good as Stalin or Hitler and the evil guys.”

The rotund 51-year-old chef, world renowned for his famed Italian eateries Babbo, Del Posto and Eataly, dished at a Time magazine panel where he was a participant weighing candidates for the magazine’s Person of the Year.

His remarks left a bad taste in the mouths of bankers who took to the Internet -- and their ubiquitous Bloomberg terminals -- to voice their displeasure.

One Wall Street restaurant owner cum high-yield broker told The Post that Batali is going to face the wrath of Wall Street -- the well-heeled constituency that can afford to chow down at his pricey hot spots, including a $300 truffle-tasting menu at Babbo.

“I’ve been to every one of his restaurants but what [Batali] said was just out of line today,” said Michael Misisco, a broker at trading shop Mint Partners, part of BCG Partners.

“Such good food, but never again,” wrote fixed-income broker Michael Wassong at Eurobrokers, commenting on a restaurant forum on Bloomberg.

The Food Network celebrity, known for sporting orange Crocs, shorts and a greasy ponytail, issued an apology yesterday through spokeswoman Pamela Lewy.

“To remove any ambiguity about my appearance at [Tuesday’s] Time Person of the Year panel, I want to apologize for my remarks,” he wrote in an e-mail statement.

Batali wrote, “It was never my intention to equate our banking industry with Hitler and Stalin, two of the most evil, brutal dictators in modern history.”

New York Post

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You've got to be kidding me.

Bill Clinton admitted he was “chopped liver” next to Keith Richards in the eyes of his mother-in-law, Dorothy Rodham -- “a woman who lived and breathed for the Rolling Stones.”

 “Do you have any idea of what it’s like to have a 92-year-old groupie living in your house?” the former president asked while presenting the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography to Richards for his book “Life,” at the Mandarin Oriental. Clinton recalled bringing Dorothy, who died this month, to the Beacon Theatre to see the Stones years ago, and watching her line up just to faint in front of Richards.

Clinton teased the rocker, calling him, “The one life form besides the cockroach capable of surviving a nuclear war.” Richards joked, “You’ve heard some words from some incredible people tonight about some serious stuff. The only serious stuff I’m interested in I’ve given up.” ....

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Death and Death Warmed Over

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OMG........... will none of these people ever just go away!

[mountaineer]

It must just kill Clinton not to be in the limelight.

Self-roasting Bubba
Last Updated: 3:12 AM, November 11, 2011

 
Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance -- and braved a Washington insider’s worst nightmare, a roomful of comedians -- at the Stand Up for Heroes benefit at the Beacon Theatre on Wednesday. And Clinton wisely poked fun at himself, The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller reports. “We learned in the last few months, because of the Human Genome Project, which I spent a lot of your tax money on to finish, that . . . between 1 and 4 percent of your genome comes from our pre-human ancestors the Neanderthals. Now it didn’t surprise my wife and daughter to learn that I was part Neanderthal.”

Comedy Central star Jon Stewart took ribbing Clinton a step further: “Herman Cain is saying, ‘The Democratic machine is setting me up,’ ” he said. “There’s no way the Democrats are setting [Cain] up on sexual charges . . . everyone knows the Democrats don’t think sexual misconduct is grounds for excluding you from running for office.”

 Comics Kathy Griffin, Ricky Gervais and Jim Gaffigan also showed at the event, which drew some big names including George Stephanopoulos, Gayle King, Diane Sawyer and rocker Roger Waters. Bruce Springsteen auctioned off a guitar, harmonica and shirt for $160,000 for charity. The night kicked off the New York Comedy Festival and served as a benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation for injured service members.

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Wow, those are some really big names.

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Carrie Fisher says Ted Kennedy once asked her whether she'd be having sex with Chris Dodd in a hot tub. Story here

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It remains a tossup which Democratic President is the most disgusting:  Clinton or Obama

[mountaineer]

It remains a tossup which Democratic President is the most disgusting:  Clinton or Obama

Clinton raped Juanita Brodderick. Obama is screwing the entire country.

[mountaineer]

Our favorite loony lefty, misbehaving again:

‘Plane crazy’ Alec grounded
By ERIN CALABRESE and DAVID K. LI
Last Updated: 5:15 AM, December 7, 2011

 Hothead Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight in LA yesterday after flipping out and throwing a tantrum when he refused to turn off his iPhone — because he was in the middle of an online game.

“He was beating the walls of the lavatory to the point that the captain called us to see what that was about. They heard it in the cockpit,” said one crew member on the JFK-bound flight who had to deal with the “30 Rock” actor.

“He was asked five times. Everybody is the same. Everyone has to follow the rules, it doesn’t matter who you are,” the employee told The Post. “He was violent, abusive and aggressive.”

Baldwin said that he was playing the Scrabble-like game “Words With Friends” when an overzealous flight attendant started harassing him.

“Flight attendant on American [Airlines] reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving,” Baldwin tweeted.

He then took a verbal swipe at the woman, tweeting: “Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950’s find jobs as flight attendants.”

But a passenger on the flight, Steve Weiss, who sat across the aisle from Baldwin, said there was nothing funny about what was going on.

Weiss said after the plane landed at JFK, adding that Baldwin, 53, was “actually talking on his phone” — not playing a game. “The door was closed — they had just announced they were pulling away from the gate.

“He got up, threw his papers on the floor and stormed into the bathroom, slammed the door closed, beat on the wall and then came back,” Weiss said.

“He said, ‘If you want to kick me off, kick me off.’ He was just crazy. He just flipped out.”

But Baldwin’s version was backed up by former boxing champ Oscar de la Hoya, who was also on the flight.

“I didn’t think there was a problem,” de la Hoya said.

“I actually felt Alec Baldwin was turning off his devices . . . and he just got a little angry, that’s about it.”

After Baldwin was removed from Flight 4, he caught at later AA flight home to New York, which took off without incident.

He landed at around 11 p.m. and didn’t comment to reporters.

Baldwin was in Southern California to appear on “Conan” Monday night.

Michael J. Wolf, founder of the Web site Activate.com, first reported the brouhaha on Twitter.

“On an AA flight at LAX,’’ Wolf tweeted. “Alec Baldwin removed from the plane. We had to go back to the gate. Terrible that everyone had to wait.” ....

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/plane_crazy_alec_grounded_ZCfFu4MkSekWsXBhpcnu4J#ixzz1fqqQ35fZ

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You or I would have been hauled off to jail... not put on another flight.

[mountaineer]

You or I would have been hauled off to jail... not put on another flight.

You or I would have been regarded a terrorist.

[Rapunzel]

December 20, 2011
Finally: Actress tells Sean Penn he’s a ‘communist bleep’ [VIDEO]

By Chris Bedford - The Daily Caller Published: 9:28 AM 12/20/2011 | Updated: 10:17 AM 12/20/2011
 
Sean Penn with Hugo Chavez in 2007 - Howard Vanes/Associated Press

While waiting to collect her mother’s luggage at LAX, actress Maria Conchita Alonso confronted vocal Hugo Chavez supporter Sean Penn, calling him “a communist bleep,” WMAL reports.

Conchita Alonso — known for her role in “The Running Man” and “Predator 2,” and who once acted in a 1988 film with Penn — had previously written an open letter criticizing him for his support for the Venezuelan dictator. Spotting the actor, who was also waiting for lost luggage, she approached him. When the “Milk” star recognized her, his smile disappeared: He told her he didn’t want to talk to her and accussed her brother of trying to assassinate Chavez.

In an interview with WMAL, the actress said she told Penn, “You are in favor of Hugo Chavez and [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad.”

When Penn denied he supports Ahmadinejad and called Conchita Alonso “a pig,” she replied, “And you are a communist, Sean Penn! … You’re a communist bleep!”

LISTEN:
video at link

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/20/finally-actress-tells-sean-penn-hes-a-communist-bleep-video/#ixzz1h6qzCtsU

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Brava!

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Gangsta love for B. Hussein

Spike Lee will throw a fund-raising dinner for President Obama in New York on Jan. 19, Page Six has learned. The film-maker, who has been both supportive and critical of Obama’s presidency, and wife Tonya Lewis Lee will host the commander-in-chief at their Upper East Side brownstone with an intimate 6 p.m. reception for 60 guests paying $38,500 per head or $71,600 per couple, and have stipulated the event will be “no more than six tables and 60 people.”

It won’t be Obama’s only stop in the city that day. His fundraising will begin late afternoon at four-star restaurant Daniel on the Upper East Side for a discussion with leaders in the Jewish community organized by Dr. Daniel E. Fass and Alexandra Stanton, among others. Tickets cost $25,000 for an Obama-greet and photos or $5,000 for a regular ticket.

 Also at Daniel, scheduled for the same time, is a small cocktail reception with the president at $15,000 per ticket, including candid photos. Invitees can become hosts if they sell five tickets for $75,000. A source told us, “Daniel has hosted so many fund-raisers for Obama, it has become New York’s official Democratic dining room.” The White House didn’t comment last night.

Page Six, NY Post

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The hood does love their Obama

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama might be powerful and well-known, but the White House got some real star power Wednesday: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped by for a chat with the chief executive.

The uber-famous Hollywood pair were spotted in the Oval Office by photographers waiting outside for the president to take off for a trip to Chicago.

The White House confirmed Pitt and Jolie were in town to screen Jolie’s movie about Bosnian war crimes at the Holocaust museum, and dropped by so the president could talk with Jolie about her work on preventing mass atrocities and combating sexual violence against women.

Pitt was seen sporting a cane, which he’s been using following a skiing injury.

NY Daily News (photos at link)

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 Limousine Liberal News:


Penn made ambassador for Haiti
Last Updated: 1:47 AM, January 16, 2012


Sean Penn was officially made an ambassador at large for Haiti on Saturday night for his relief work for the country, still reeling from the devastating earthquake two years ago. Penn was offered the job by the Haitian foreign minister Laurent Lamothe at the Cinema for Peace benefit at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills. “I do accept,” Penn said, adding it would be useful to “change being called hey you (bleep), to hey Mr. Ambassador!”

The event, which raised $5 million for Haiti, was attended by an A-list crowd including a very thin but happy-looking Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Orlando Bloom, Mel Gibson, James Gandolfini and Hilary Swank. During the auction, singer Damien Rice spent $475,000 on Bono’s guitar while Roberts’ husband, Danny Moder, bid $50,000 on a trip to Haiti with Penn.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/penn_made_ambassador_for_haiti_e8wjm7PMM1To74kAdmzDjL#ixzz1jd53i3t4

[Oceander]

Maybe Penn should go try living as an ordinary Haitian for a while (that'd be the last we'd ever see of him; more's the pity that he'll never do that).

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Maybe Barry has a secret Hollywood crush.  Big Hollywood reports:

Obama Celeb Wish-List: Most Powerful Man In World Sends Birthday Greeting to Sitcom Star

by Hollywoodland

President Barack Obama inherited a mess, or so we’re endlessly told by Obama’s celebrity backers. But the Commander in Chief apparently has enough time between fixing the economy, managing the war in Afghanistan and dealing with a near-nuclear Iran to send personal birthday greetings to a sitcom actress.

Obama fired off his best birthday cheer Jan. 9 to Zooey Deschanel, the adorable star of Fox’s “New Girl” sitcom:

"Michelle and I send our warmest wishes for a happy birthday … I hope your day is filled with love and laughter, and I wish you all the best for good health and happiness in the year ahead."

Sadly, Deschanel didn’t make the cut when it came time to crafting the president’s celebrity “surrogates” list, even though lesser lights such as Laura Breckenridge, Reagan Gomez and Eric Christian Olsen (“Dumb and Dumberer”) made the grade.

Deschanel is a star on the rise, no doubt. Perhaps this birthday missive will catapult her to not only greater fame but a higher rank on the president’s 2012 re-election campaign.

[Rapunzel]

oh brother!

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Doofus.

Babes gravitate to ex-gov
Last Updated: 12:09 AM, January 24, 2012



David Paterson was living large on Friday night at Rare View Rooftop on West 26th Street, where he was surrounded by a bevy of beautiful women. [I don't mean to be insensitive, but how did he know?]

The ex-governor, in a dapper black suit and red tie, popped two bottles of Grey Goose at a reserved table. Paterson arrived solo, without wife Michelle, at 11:30 p.m., and stayed until past 2 a.m at the birthday party for fashion photographer Pierre Baz.

“He was surrounded by two or three women at his table the entire time,” a spy said. “People kept walking up to him and asking him to take a picture.” Paterson, who hosts an afternoon radio show on WOR-AM (710), had an aide with him at the club who chirped in his ear the name of each person.

“He seemed very shy,” our spy said. A rep for former gov said: “[He] was an invited guest in attendance at a birthday celebration for Pierre Baz. He spent time with a number of different guests.”

Despite him recently being seen in public less often with Michelle, the rep added, “He and his wife are doing well.”

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I was looking for a photo of that gawdawful ensemble Moochelle wore on Jay Leno's show, and stumbled upon this picture from last October when Obummer appeared on the program. Anyone else think the behavior of Jay's producer is just a little too "familiar"?


Jay must be thinking, "Geez, get a room!"

Now for Sasquatch:

OMG

[mountaineer]

Two items about little-watched cable news networks, from today's Page Six in the NY Post:

Anchors at play
  February 1, 2012

MSNBC anchors Lawrence O’Donnell and Tamron Hall have a romance spicing up off set. The single “Last Word” host, 60, has been quietly dating the pretty midday anchor and rising star at the network for months. The duo have kept their relationship low-profile in the studio but have been spotted canoodling at downtown haunts. O’Donnell, a “West Wing” producer who has a daughter with ex-wife Kathryn Harrold, was linked to actress Kerry Washington in 2008. MSNBC declined to comment.
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Waking up to TV tension
 February 1, 2012


A Lack of chemistry is already plaguing CNN’s new morning show “Early Start” as it attempts to gain footing one month after the launch. Hosts Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin “have expressed frustration about the schizophrenic nature of the show,” a source said. Another source said they just don’t gel — Banfield talks too much, Sambolin doesn’t say enough.

 Meanwhile, executives are looking to support Soledad O’Brien — who anchors the following morning show “Starting Point” solo, with a regular crop of panelists — and have expressed interest in adding conservative commentator Will Cain and CNN analyst Roland Martin to the cast. We also hear that executives are thinking about developing an 11 p.m. show. A network rep denies this, adding, “We couldn’t be more pleased with Soledad and the direction she is taking her program. Her newsmaking interviews and substantive panel discussions are the centerpiece of the program. Ashleigh and Zoraida are doing great.”

NY Post

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Oprah finds her inner Jewishness. Or something.

Chutzpah Winfrey
A rare sitdown granted to Hasidic Web site
By MICHAEL STARR
Last Updated: 5:59 PM, February 10, 2012


Oprah Winfrey has discovered her inner Jewishness.

Winfrey, who rarely does interviews, sat for a TV chat with a Hasidic rabbi on the day last fall she immersed herself in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods. The interview, produced by Oprah’s OWN network and posted Wednesday only on chabad.org, the Web site of the Lubavitcher sect, was a rare scoop for a site that deals mainly in religious practices.

“There’s more Hasidic Jew in me than I know,” says Winfrey — dressed in a modesty-preserving ankle-length skirt— at the end of the interview with Rabbi Motti Seligson, the Web site’s media liason.

“She was very real and very warm and easy to connect with,” Seligson told The Post yesterday. “What I really think was nice about this was [Winfrey’s] willingness to experience Hasidic life — as opposed to just going off stereotypes.”

Last October, Oprah took cameras into Hasidic homes in Borough Park, Crown Heights and a mikvah, a ritual bathhouse, in Brooklyn Heights as a part of her “America’s Hidden Culture” segment on her weekly “Oprah’s Next Chapter” show.

Seligson is briefly featured at the beginning of Sunday’s episode, in which Winfrey also visits the Ginsberg family.

In the interview, Winfrey says that her experience dispelled some of her misconceptions about Hasidic Jews.

“I have been perhaps, like most people who’ve walked down the street and seen Hasidic Jewish men, in particular . . . oftentimes wearing the hats and long beards and always found it somewhat formidable or intimidating,” she says.

“This experience has really confirmed and affirmed what I truly believe as one of my deep spiritual principles — that we’re all more alike than different.”

Winfrey also says she was “speechless” that, when she visited the Ginsberg family — and mentioned Mickey Mouse, Shrek, Beyoncé and Jay-Z to their kids — none of them recognized the references.

“They said they didn’t even care and weren’t even curious about it,” she tells Seligson.

“We live in a culture where seven-and-a-half hours a day are spent consumed by some electronic device . . . It’s amazing to me that, right across from Manhattan, there’s a whole world of children who aren’t doing that and who are happy, fulfilled and loved.”

“I had a few questions I wanted to ask her,” Seligson said yesterday, explaining innocently how he got the interview.

“I really wanted to hear about her experiences,” he said.

NY Post

[Rapunzel]

I don't think Oprah can decide what she is.

[mountaineer]

Samuel L. Jackson admits he's a racist, but that's a good thing.
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Politics of color
 February 11, 2012

Samuel L. Jackson said he voted for President Obama because of his color: “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says in an outspoken interview in the March issue of Ebony.

 Jackson sounds off on his feelings for Obama to writer Kevin Powell, saying: “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. In the end, he’s a politician. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do. I know politicians say [bleep]; they lie. ’Cuz they want to get elected.”

Repeatedly using the N-word, Jackson added that Obama’s philosophical presence had been universally appealing: “When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]. Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”

 Defending his repeated use of the taboo epithet, the “Pulp Fiction” Oscar nominee added, “[It] became a part of my vocabulary when I was born . . . Because it was used on me in my house, often . . . I know the word [bleep] as an admonishment, an endearment, a criticism and an invective. So I use it; I don’t run from it. I don’t have an issue with it or who says it. I always put it in the context of how it was used on me.”

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[mountaineer]

Ah, to be a limousine liberal!

Working on Maggie’s farm
Last Updated: 8:25 AM, February 12, 2012

Are Maggie Gyllenhaal and other Brooklyn boldfaces shirking their shifts at the clubby Park Slope Food Co-op?

According to sources, Gyllenhaal is one of the many celebs and VIPs in the stroller-heavy neighborhood who send minions to work the two-hour, 45-minute monthly shifts required to maintain good standing with the co-op and gain access to its organic quinoa, kale, black futsu squash, Mutsu apples and other produce.

Neighborhood blogs first reported that co-op members were sending nannies, cleaning staff and personal assistants to work their shifts. Annoyed residents say the practice is out of control among the co-op’s wealthier members.

 “Everyone in Park Slope is talking about the wealthy members of the co-op sending people in their place to do their shifts,” one groused. “[The co-op] doesn’t know how to do deal with it. The celebrities are sending other people. While Gyllenhaal has done shifts, she has also been sending somebody else to do her shifts.”

Another frustrated member told us: “I don’t have a cleaning lady or any staff to send. I had to hire baby sitters at night to take care of my kids while I did my shifts. It’s ridiculous!”

Other organic devotees say they’ve seen Gyllenhaal toiling away. “She definitely has done her own shifts,” one vegetarian spy said. “And she even brought her brother [Jake Gyllenhaal].” The source explained that Maggie Gyllenhaal does not “do her shifts on the floor,” but rather in “private areas” so as not to cause commotions, or spills, in any aisles.

But an insider said that “fancy members, like big actors,” can arrange “future time-off plans, or FTOP, so if they go on location, they can skip future shifts.”

A rep for Gyllenhaal told us, “She doesn’t have an assistant.” But when we asked if she was sending another stand-in, the rep said: “Who would go? She doesn’t have anyone in her employ except me, and I don’t do it.” A rep for the co-op told us, “We do not give out information regarding our members.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/working_on_maggie_farm_xvdQggXZrKu2rBPNUijmiJ#ixzz1mB1Efpmh

I wouldn't know Maggie G. if I tripped over her, and it's a little hard to believe the very sight of her would cause commotions or spillages. 

[mountaineer]

Actor David Cross does cocaine in the White House, 65 feet from Obama.  I bet Obama is wishing he'd shared a little.

'How I snorted cocaine 65 feet from Obama': Comedian David Cross reveals he did drugs at White House event
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:37 AM on 21st February 2012


Comedian David Cross claims he snorted cocaine at a White House event, just feet away from President Barack Obama -- just so he could say he did it.

The 47-year-old funnyman, best known for playing Tobias Fünke in 'Arrested Development,' claims he was attending the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2009 when he did the drugs.

Cross has long been open about his history of drug use and abuse and hard-partying, but this claim is remarkable, even for him.

 He has made the statement previously in his stand-up shows, but it was never clear whether he was being serious or not. However, Cross dished details of the incident during an interview appearing in the March issue of Playboy magazine, due out later this week.

'It was a tiny granule of coke that I put on my wrist and said, “Watch this. I need a witness.” And then I ducked under the table and did it,' he said.

Cook claimed he was about 65 feet from the president at the event when he snorted the drugs.

'It wasn’t like I got high. The jolt was similar to licking an empty espresso cup. It wasn’t about that. It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did cocaine in the same room as the president. I’m not proud of it, nor am I ashamed of it,' he told Playboy.

 He was at the dinner as a guest of his fiance, actress Amber Tamblyn. He says involving her in his drug use is his only regret from the incident. 'I was her date, her plus-one, and she got dragged through the mud because of what I did. She had nothing to do with it. She didn’t know I was going to do it,' he said.

'And because of that she’ll never be invited to the White House again. That’s not cool.'

Obama, himself, is no stranger to cocaine. In his book 'Dreams from My Father,' he admitted to smoking marijuana and doing 'a little coke' as a young man.

Daily Mail U.K.

[mountaineer]

Probably the first time he's changed his underwear in nine years ...

Old tux, new shoes
Last Updated: 11:50 PM, February 25, 2012

While stars are working on their red-carpet looks for tonight’s Oscars, schlubby director Michael Moore is going with a familiar one. “I’ll be wearing the same [tux] I wore when I won the Oscar nine years ago,” he tells The Post’s Billy Heller, referring to his Best Documentary Feature win for “Bowling for Columbine.” But at least the director and Academy board of governors member is splurging for some new garments, including a more comfortable pair of shoes “and a change of underwear.”

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[Rapunzel]

Unbelievable....... EOnline goes to PDiddy arriving... he gets out of his SUV and has some white guy with a roller rolling his tux to make certain there isn't any fuzz and while this is going on Diddy is primping in the window of the car while some hot blond in the car is taking his picture on her cell phone..., then he puts his foot up for the guy to check his shoes...... can we say giant ego?

[Oceander]

Samuel L. Jackson admits he's a racist, but that's a good thing.
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Politics of color
 February 11, 2012

Samuel L. Jackson said he voted for President Obama because of his color: “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says in an outspoken interview in the March issue of Ebony.

 Jackson sounds off on his feelings for Obama to writer Kevin Powell, saying: “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. In the end, he’s a politician. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do. I know politicians say [bleep]; they lie. ’Cuz they want to get elected.”

Repeatedly using the N-word, Jackson added that Obama’s philosophical presence had been universally appealing: “When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]. Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”

 Defending his repeated use of the taboo epithet, the “Pulp Fiction” Oscar nominee added, “[It] became a part of my vocabulary when I was born . . . Because it was used on me in my house, often . . . I know the word [bleep] as an admonishment, an endearment, a criticism and an invective. So I use it; I don’t run from it. I don’t have an issue with it or who says it. I always put it in the context of how it was used on me.”

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Great; don't let the door hitcha on the way out, little man.

[mountaineer]

“I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says ...

So far, no presidential candidate has looked like me, but that didn't prevent me from voting for the one I thought would best preserve the republic.

[mountaineer]

Eliot Spitzer testing the waters?


Spitz puts toe in
Last Updated: 11:47 PM, March 9, 2012

Eliot Spitzer’s return to national politics with a fund-raiser at his Fifth Avenue home for Washington state gubernatorial hopeful Jay Inslee was a low-key affair. Sources tell us that wife Silda Spitzer was front and center at the party on Monday for Democrat Inslee. We’re told guests included billionaire John Catsimatidis and Spitzer’s lawyer friends, including J effrey Moerdler and his former Horace Mann pals, Ropes & Gray partner Jason Brown and trusts and estate attorney Herb Nass. Also there was Democratic lobbyist and consulting firm owner Tonio Burgos. Sources had speculated that fund-raising is also a chance for Spitzer to test the political waters without drawing too much attention.

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[Oceander]

So far, no presidential candidate has looked like me, but that didn't prevent me from voting for the one I thought would best preserve the republic.

Which just makes you a racist - in the eyes of the left, that is.

[Oceander]

Eliot Spitzer testing the waters?


Spitz puts toe in
Last Updated: 11:47 PM, March 9, 2012

Eliot Spitzer’s return to national politics with a fund-raiser at his Fifth Avenue home for Washington state gubernatorial hopeful Jay Inslee was a low-key affair. Sources tell us that wife Silda Spitzer was front and center at the party on Monday for Democrat Inslee. We’re told guests included billionaire John Catsimatidis and Spitzer’s lawyer friends, including J effrey Moerdler and his former Horace Mann pals, Ropes & Gray partner Jason Brown and trusts and estate attorney Herb Nass. Also there was Democratic lobbyist and consulting firm owner Tonio Burgos. Sources had speculated that fund-raising is also a chance for Spitzer to test the political waters without drawing too much attention.

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Again Eliot Spitzer?  Oy Vey!

[mountaineer]

CNN power duo separate
Last Updated: 12:50 AM, March 21, 2012

CNN political power couple John King — ruler of the dynamic data-crunching, touch-screen election map — and Dana Bash have split after less than four years of marriage.

 A friend of the couple told us: “ and John have been separated for the last several months. They continue to co-parent their young son and to work together . . . They ask that their privacy be respected during this difficult time.” They were married in May 2008 in Cape Cod, Mass., and King, who was raised Irish Catholic, converted to Judaism before the wedding (“I’m studying to convert and will consider inviting you to my bar mitzvah,” King told Page Six at the time).

We’re told that “Magic Wall” wizard King has no current intention of reconverting. Bash, a CNN senior congressional correspondent, gave birth to their son, Jonah, in June. Now, Bash and King are living in separate homes in Washington, DC. Friends say Bash has appeared on King’s show since the split. A CNN rep said, “We don’t comment on personal matters.”

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[mountaineer]

Schwarzenegger and Shriver postpone divorce proceedings:

Arnold Schwarzenegger is still working hard to charm back Maria Shriver and get back into the good graces of her powerful family. The former California governor made a speech at Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak 40 Years exhibition gala in New York, repeatedly praising “my wife’s family” and especially the work done by his “amazing mother-in-law” Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics and was a strong advocate for children’s health and disability issues before she passed away in 2009 at age 88.

 Sources tell us Schwarzenegger has been working hard to patch things up with Maria after she filed for divorce last July when he admitted fathering a son with their housekeeper. We revealed he and Shriver have tried therapy and delayed their divorce proceedings, setting the next court date for July 1, 2016 — more than four years away.

Schwarzenegger spoke Wednesday to a crowd at the Park Avenue Armory that included Patriots star Tom Brady, Ed Burns, Swizz Beatz, Tiki Barber, Prudential powerhouse Dolly Lenz, Olivier Audemars, François-Henry Bennahmias and Philippe Merk. Yesterday, the Governator swooped into Upper East Side eatery Nello for lunch, grinning at diners, and ordered gnocchi with truffles. Witnesses said other patrons, including Garlic NY Pizza Bar owner Sasha Berg, who was dining with real estate developer Jeff Burack, were dumbstruck.

One patron told us, “The restaurant went silent, apart from one person who cried, ‘What the [bleep]?’ It didn’t faze him that a large group of paparazzi was clamoring outside. Schwarzenegger chatted to his staff, enjoyed his dish and said hello to restaurateur Nello Balan.”

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[mountaineer]

Former 'ER' star Noah Wyle arrested in DC protest
By MICHAEL WEINFELD | Associated Press – 1 hr 9 mins ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former "ER" star Noah Wyle and more than 100 members of the group ADAPT have been arrested during a Capitol Hill protest to urge Congress not to cut Medicaid.

The protesters, many in wheelchairs, were handcuffed in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building.

Wyle and members of ADAPT say any cuts in Medicaid spending would force people with disabilities and the elderly out of their homes and into nursing homes to get the services they need.

[Rapunzel]

busy day on Page Six   

[mountaineer]

Bust comes between Calvins
 April 25, 2012

Calvin Klein’s younger boyfriend Nick Gruber was arrested after punching a man, also named Calvin, he took home after a party.

Gruber, the 22-year-old ex-porn star paramour of the 69-year-old fashion icon allegedly hit Calvin Swint, 20 — who’s believed to work as an intern for New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg — on the balcony of his Greenwich Street penthouse during a 4:20 a.m. fight yesterday.

Sources tell The Post’s Kirstan Conley that when cops arrived, Gruber flailed his arms to avoid being cuffed and shoved his hands into his pants. Police found cocaine in Gruber’s underwear when he was later searched.

Other sources tell Page Six that Gruber — who had an on/off relationship with Klein and was recently reconciled with him — has some explaining to do since “Calvin paid his rent two years upfront, and was just saying how happy he was in the relationship.” Klein is also sober.

Gruber was arraigned last night at Manhattan Criminal Court on a felony charge of possessing a stimulant and two misdemeanors — resisting arrest and assault with intent to cause physical injury.

But Swint told The Post he didn’t want to press charges: “I don’t want to be involved in any of this. We’re good friends, end of story.”

Swint added, “Everybody expects Nick to be somebody. He’s a great guy, he’s a funny guy — he’ll make it, he was talking about going to college. I’m absolutely not in a relationship with him. He’s like my brother, so if he was angry, I could understand why he could take it out on me. We all get depressed sometimes. I feel for him. No one else was on the balcony, just us. It happened, and then I left. I felt embarrassed . . . I’ve never been in a fight before. I went downstairs, and the doorman asked if they should call the police because my eye was bleeding . . . I’m sorry this happened.”

Klein’s rep couldn’t be reached. Gruber’s lawyer, Ben Brafman said he was “confident” the charges “will be dismissed.”
 http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/bust_comes_between_calvins_qrvHq2g2ufwCAVznBZWIWO#ixzz1t3EpsdLA

[DCPatriot]

Unlikely mingling: Lindsay is pictured next to former Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum at the star-studded bash


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2136823/Lindsay-Lohan-glams-White-House-Correspondents-Dinner-2012.html

The look on his face.....priceless!