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Ted Nugent was a special guest on Hannity last night, where he said "we, the Tea Partiers" are sick of Obama "spitting on the U.S. Constitution, the Bill Of Rights, the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule." You tell 'em, Nuge! More »
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She's 16 in the video; the guy is 44. Lil' Wayne gets caught with prison contraband. Tyra picks a fight with Palin. Leonardo DiCaprio is mistaken for a normal person. Ian McKellen is mistaken for a beggar. Wednesday gossip arrives. More »
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Mark this day on your calendars, people. Today is the day that Elisabeth Hasselbeck agreed with Joy Behar on The View. And it was about Sarah Palin, too! Up is down! Black is white! Cake is pie! What's going on!?!? More »
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Sure it's the end of the Mayan calendar and no one is really quite sure how the world is going to end, but in 2012 someone's going rogue and it doesn't look pretty. More »
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Levi Johnston, noted Palin daughter-nailer, has hired Tank Jones, "a size-58 suit-wearing black man," to manage his career and be his bodyguard. He's also developed an alter ego to help him destroy his Wasilla-ness and fully embrace douchedom—"Ricky Hollywood." More »
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The heartwrenching saga of the Wasilla Hillbillies, the most recent installment of which features the dramatic break-up of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, cries out for a reality show. It could be on VH1. More »
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Oh what a year it was! We had some big, boffo posts, primarily about monsters (Cruise, Palin, O'Reilly and Montauk). Yay for riches. Enjoy! More »
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Did anyone receive a new calendar for Christmas? (I got a puppy one.) Perhaps you received the Sarah Palin 2009 calendar—it's the #1 most popular "Office Product" on Amazon! More »
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One of the best parts of that juicy NYT story yesterday about all the infighting in the McCain- Palin campaign was the fact that a huge chunk of the story was given over to exploring who was leaking to sniveling conservative columnist Bill Kristol—a Times columnist! It's pretty unusual for a paper to start digging on its own columnist's confidential sources, but hey, it's Bill Kristol and nobody at the Times likes him, so they just went for it. That prompted some further review by the Daily Beast, which concluded, yep, Bill Kristol is basically just a lackey for political operatives: More »
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When maverick John McCain picked moose-hunting maverick Sarah "Pit Bull" Palin as his running mate, everybody said that it was the typical sort of impulsive McCain gamble that would make him such a terrible leader—and cost him votes. Here's Palin admitting as much. More »
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Looks like Sarah "Pit Bull" Palin is just like your supernice Midwestern neighbor who remains polite and doodly-dorable on the phone, even when annoying telemarketers or French president Nicolas Sarkozy calls. The Canadian radio show duo that prank-called her told ABC how they did it. It was duh-easy, just like they taught you in Reporting 101: they "simply began at the bottom of her staff and worked [their] way up." More »
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Presidential elections aren't just about the candidates; they're about all the random crazy people only tangentially related to the candidates and their campaigns, the ones who are hyped into momentary superstardom by political reporters desperate for storylines. Or by the candidates themselves, desperate to deflect attention. The question for these random people is, how to capitalize on this brief and undeserved moment of fame? Joe the Plumber is determined to become a country music star! And he's just one of multitudes. We're here to help, fame whores! After the jump, we tell the incidental stars of this godforsaken election cycle what they should do with their lives after November 4, so that they may not be forgotten: More »
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What to do if you have a magazine assignment, but the mag folds days before you're scheduled to leave for freaking Alaska? If the trip's already paid for, you go anyway and hope to shop the resulting piece to another publication. That was the case with Jessica Pilot (of the infamous "Hipster Hooker" story) and Radar. "It was purchased on [editor] Maer [Roshan's] card, so I guess I'm good to go," she told us. More »
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Here is Barack Obama and a few of his friends getting together under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis yesterday. "All I can say is wow," said Obama as he took the stage. Meanwhile, let's take a gander at what was going on with the 400 to 500 people who showed up to watch Sarah Palin boost for Senator Norm Coleman in Duluth, MN, the other day. More »
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So, how have our friends at the GOP been behaving themselves this week? Oh, it's not good. First, they tricked Democrats in California into becoming Republicans by telling them they were signing petitions for stiffer punishments for child molesters. Then, in DC, Boston, Seattle, and elsewhere, they sent racially charged death threats to ACORN staffers and vandalized their offices. And how were things in Ohio? Watch the most racist Sarah Palin rally so far caught on tape after the jump. More »
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A roadside billboard sprung up in West Plains, Missouri, recently, featuring a caricature of Barack Obama wearing a turban along with the message "Barack 'Hussein' Obama equals more abortions, same sex marriages, taxes, gun regulations." While some members of that community are shocked and disgusted-the Obama campaign dismissed it as "a distraction"-other locals are of the opinion that if you don't like that sign you can drop dead. The billboard is after the jump. So is a video of McCain/Palin supporters at yet another rally in PA-one of them telling a really funny joke about sex assault victims who are forced to pay for their own rape kits. Starts at about 2:08. Current.com" /> More »
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Early Saturday morning I dragged myself to the New Yorker Festival in Midtown, to see media mensch Ken Auletta moderate a panel discussion with Times editor Bill Keller, Atlantic blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates, Slate press critic Jack Shafer, and breathless WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan, the token conservative. I'll leave out the boring recap parts and distill the experience down to its key point: Peggy Noonan should go back to writing political speeches, because—even taking into account the fact that she's a Republican hack—her dishonesty is embarrassing to watch. Ugh. More »
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It's a fair question. Judge for yourself with this mashup by Nick McGlynn. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because... some people out there in our nation don't have maps..." More »
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"This has to be off the record," New York Times.com Digital Editor Jim Roberts told a room of about 150 people at last night's Future of Publishing panel. No problem, Jimbo. The question? Internet gaffes in the age of online journalism! "We [recently] had two major problems in two days. The Friday after the Democratic convention," as the Sarah Palin-as-running-mate rumor was unfolding, "our blog ran out of gas. Users were without access to the NYT blog platform" for several hours. Oh no! But even worse: the next Monday, when the Bristol Palin pregnancy story broke, "thousands came to the same blog" and crashed it again. If a news story breaks and nobody on the Internet comments, did it really happen? Sounds like the Times blogs can't handle Sarah Palin. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5048397&view=rss&microfeed=true The recently-published Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment Upside Down will be re-issued (250,000 copies) by a Christian publisher, just in time for the election. [NYO] More »
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Uh oh, looks like Vincent Gallo was right—about one thing. Yesterday, the indie actor threatened to "shove [New York magazine's tape recorder] up [our] ass"—and we invited him to do so. Now he has, figuratively. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5047398&view=rss&microfeed=true Should Sarah Palin get contacts or surgery on her eyeballs, just to keep the populace happy? You decide. [People.com] More »
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Vincent Gallo is known for his colorful insults. When critic Roger Ebert panned the freaky indie actor's film The Brown Bunny, Gallo called him a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader" and wished cancer on him (success!) Last Friday, our correspondent, downtown scenester and ex-Defamer Molly Friedman, reported Gallo's comments about Sarah Palin's teenage daughters: "[Gallo] said, 'Look, have you seen that Palin family? She is so hot. And her daughters are so hot.' I said, 'Which one, the pregnant one [Bristol, 17] or the younger one [Willow, 14]?' He said, 'Both of them. They're the hottest family I've ever seen.' I said, 'So are you a pedophile? And he said, "I've been called worse things.'" If you feel you've been wrongly designated a pedophile, an extraordinary outburst in the comments section in which you call a pretty girl an "ugly cunt whore" probably isn't the best way to respond. More »
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John McCain, Sarah Palin, and their campaigners, just won't take a hint—or a flurry of cease-and-desist orders from all the musicians whose music they keep stealing for their nauseating "maverick" campaign. Last week, Van Halen had to tell them to STFU when the campaign started using the song "Right Now" totally without permission. Before that, Jackson Brown and John Mellencamp had to force McCain's minions to stop blasting their tunes on the campaign trail. So what did the McCain morons think was going to happen when they tried to make Heart's "Barracuda" Sarah Palin's theme song without getting the band's permission? Well, what has happened is that the psycho-eyed Veep wannabe now has a nickname based on a song she can never play at a public event again. Ha! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5046432&view=rss&microfeed=true The US Weekly reporter who wrote this week's cover story about Sarah Palin's "Babies, Lies & Scandal" tells the HuffPo she's voting for McCain. (She also got a crapload of angry messages on her answering machine!) Thankfully, she had the HuffPo to journal her side of the story. [Time blog] More »
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18-year-old Levi Johnston is the father of 17-year-old Bristol Palin's baby. (Bristol is, of course, the daughter of McCain's newly-appointed running mate Sarah Palin.) Here's what we know about this young buck: the Daily News calls him a "superhunky bad-boy ice hockey player" who has described himself via his MySpace as a "fuckin' redneck." He likes camping and fishing! He's been dating Palin for about a year, but hasn't publicly stated yet that he will marry his pregnant girlfriend. What if young Levi doesn't want to marry? Too bad! We're guessing his hands are tied. After the jump: photos of the teenage hottie. More »
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