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Who Invented The Bartiromo-Burnett Catfight?

  • Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett of CNBC insist they aren't backbiting rivals. The business network said the Post created the rivalry from thin air. The Post said someone at CNBC "leaked" word of the supposed feud for free publicity and now everyone on the inside is trying to figure out who the leaker was. Which is believable, because it's not like they have anything better to do right now. [P6]
  • Lindsay Lohan is dressing up as Sarah Palin for Halloween. Sam Ronson might be Todd. [Daily News]
  • Sad Suri Cruise longs for friends her age, supposedly. [P6]
  • Does fashion photographer Bruce Weber regret caring for a 91-year-old woman now that he's not been named executor of her estate or paid the $80,000 he said he's owed? The whole situation is so far from the young gay utopia of an Abercrombie catalog. [P6]
  • Mark Wahlberg thought Saturday Night Live's impersonation of him was stupid and not as good as Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impression. But that doesn't matter because he hasn't watched the show in years anyway. In fact, uh, forget what he said about Tina Fey, he doesn't even know who that is, or what sketches she' s been in. [LA Rag Mag]
  • The Sun thinks Leonardo DiCaprio is getting fat: "Hunk To Chunk." [Sun]
  • Sandra Bernhard on Madonna: "I saw her at the gym, and I thought it was Dyan Cannon - all straggly and [bleep]." [P6]

9:53 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
805 views, 15 comments

Latest by tudobem: Poor Suri, I am officially inviting her over for a playdate with my 1-year-old anytime she is in the South more »

PreviewScreenSnapz001.jpg The panic of '08

Market Gains Don't Impress Stockbroker Photos

Asian and European stock markets are posting gains of 4 to 10 percent this morning thanks to a coordinated effort among several governments to recapitalize banks and insure interbank loans. The futures market is predicting a similar rise for U.S. stocks. For a few precious hours, at least, you'll be able to imagine that the worst of the crash is behind you. But heed the all-knowing Web photo editors, who time and again this morning have selected only slightly less terrified stockbrokers to illustrate their market recovery stories (see left). Maybe their enthusiasm is tempered by that story in the Wall Street Journal this weekend in which 18 economists said we've been doing the bailout all wrong: More »

8:20 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,090 views, 8 comments

Latest by MoscowNeverSleeps: Umm, you've clearly not seen the BBC photo, which shows a couple of traders who look like they've just inhaled more »

Nobel Prize For Times Columnist "American economist Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel prize for economics for bringing together analysis of trade patterns and where economic activity takes place, the prize committee said on Monday." [Reuters via Fishbowl] MORE »

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13martin.190.jpg Conspiracy theories

Fox's Obama Expert Fears Jews

Andy Martin is the habitual politician and "researcher" who created the original smear of Barack Obama as a secret Muslim in a 2004 press release, begetting a mutating series of email forwards still coursing through the internet. Last week, he was featured in a Fox News special that, in the words of the Times, "allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government." But, hey, Martin isn't just worried about Obama and Islam, he's also deathly afraid of the Jews! The Times' Jim Ruttenberg dug into Martin's anti-Semitisim in this morning's paper after Martin tried to deny and brush off the issue last week: More »

6:56 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
5,028 views, 51 comments

Latest by veganrampage2: how fucking crazy do you have to beto not be admitted to the bar; a very low bar at more »

The internet

Obama Noose Poster New Low In Citizen Propaganda

obamaPalinNoose.jpg Those people making Barack Obama monkeys and booing John McCain for saying Obama is a person "you do not have to be scared of?" Some of them have blogs! Which means they are free to put all sorts of terrible things on the Web, like the virtual poster at left, the one with Obama, a noose, and the headline, "Asphyxiation/The Fucking Solution." The gent who made that lovely thing, and posted it to his website Sunday night, said he did so in retaliation for comparably nasty images of Sarah Palin (also at left), apparently created by anti-Sarah Palin artists and spread by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin. Want to guess how long his over-the-top act of revenge stayed on the internet? More »

5:28 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
7,946 views, 59 comments

Latest by katastic: Oh Christ. Awful. more »

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Child Obama Consorted With Child Molester

When Barack Obama was 10, his grandfather would take him over to ole Frank Davis' house, where the two older men would drink whisky out of jars and play Scrabble. Sometimes Obama would help the men compose dirty limericks, or listen as Davis read poetry. This went on until the Democratic presidential nominee was 17, and during that time Davis acted as a mentor, according to Obama's memoir. It later emerged that Davis pseudonymously wrote a "hard-core pornographic autobiography" detailing his sex with a thirteen-year-old girl. This was all known in August, after a widely-blogged report in Britain's Telegraph, but the National Enquirer is now reporting it as an "Exclusive OBAMA SEX PERV SCANDAL," because Obama should be ashamed of almost being molested, or something: More »

2:02 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,419 views, 22 comments

Latest by tits.matilda: In true redneck culture, "stickin' it to" a thirteen-year-old girl is considered something between a wet dream and a badge more »

SafariScreenSnapz013.jpg Craigslist

'Edward Norton, You Sure Were A Dick At Vons'

Two years ago, after Ed Norton was chivalrous to a New York waitress, we wondered if his career was on the ropes because "Quality celebrities would never be nice to you." Well, the film star must have let the financial success of the Incredible Hulk go to his head, because now he can't buy groceries without pissing off Hollywood insiders with his insolence. Witness the attached Missed Connections ad on Craigslist, already pulled, which firmly establishes that Norton does not take kindly to being complimented while buying frozen shrimp. (Frozen shrimp? Those are tricky waters for a self-professed environmentalist!) Consider yourself warned the next time you see Norton at the Spotted Pig or whatever! (Click the thumbnail to view the original post.)

12:34 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
9,206 views, 59 comments

Latest by MissNormaDesmond: The stalker sounds like an ass. If he were actually anything like a legitimate celebrity, he'd understand that sometimes you don't more »

oops_cabaret_gawker.flv.jpg Music for poors

Britney Spears, Recast For The Depression

The Great Depression wasn't all bad! There was jazz, big band, cabaret, Irving Berlin and tops and tails! Art deco and modernism! So as we slide toward economic catastrophe, let's all nostalgically embrace the elegance of the era so we can stay in denial about the hobos, soup kitchens and fascist and communist rebellions that will soon be upon us. We've already suggested staging rent parties and carrying flasks, plus some songs about hard times and various relevant movies. But nothing quite says "Great Depression fun" like Weimar-era cabaret, which is probably why Max Raabe and a Berlin orchestra are again traveling around America and calming the former middle class with pop songs remade to sound at home in 1930s Berlin. Raabe's Depression-ey cover of Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again" is just the thing to put on your "turntable" when friends gather for some moonshine in your Victory Garden. It's like Wall Street is serenading you! Sample the song after the jump. More »

12:00 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,726 views, 16 comments

Latest by maitresse: they also do a great cover of "sex bomb." (it's true! go track it down) more »

82181994.jpg Gossip Roundup

Scarlett Johansson Hates Media Sexists

  • Scarlett Johansson may have sent crushy emails to Barack Obama, but that doesn't mean she can't defend Hillary Clinton against sexist political pundits in the racist media. [Star]
  • Michael Phelps is canoodling with the runner-up Miss California. Should we be allowing gold medal blood to be diluted by a Silver?? [R&M]
  • Sarah Palin might appear on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update special tonight to hilariously and viciously mock Tina Fey's American Express ad. Wait, her what now? [Jossip]
  • Ben Stiller thought the Daily Show couldn't take sides in the presidential election. More worrisome, he also thought all nonprofits have to be politically balanced. Googling "527" will show Stiller only part of his error. But it's a start. [R&M]
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, on his wife Maria Shriver, as the state he runs flirts with insolvency: "Being a Democrat is a sickness." Uh, OK. [P6]
  • Charlize Theron was unfaithful to her watch company, Raymond Weil, a court has ruled, so she might have to pay up to $20 million. What time is it? PAYBACK TIME. [Post]

1:24 PM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,433 views, 25 comments

Latest by Randall Tex Cobb: Stiller is correct about the non profit. I'm betting the ALS charity is a 501 C(3). They can't be political. The more »

hp15.jpg Editors from hell

Arianna's Most Tortured Attendants

We asked, earlier this week, if "editors are 'retards' and servants to Arianna" Huffington, subject of an all-too-squishy New Yorker profile this week. After hearing from still more Huffington Post insiders, it would seem the answer is a resounding "yes." And an obvious "yes" to those who have come to appreciate that the ambitious divorcée draws few boundaries between her own professional and personal lives, working manically, phoning and emailing editors in the middle of the night, obsessively arranging the order of stories on HuffPo's front page and in its various sections, and hollering at her staff over an intercom in her Brentwood mansion even while she has her nails done. The only clear line, it seems, is between the smart, charming image Huffington projects to her celebrity friends and the world at large and the rather nastier and more careless Arianna seen inside HuffPo. More »

11:55 AM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Ryan Tate
6,551 views, 31 comments

Latest by JonasReindeer: Not to be indelicate, but tortured souls at HuffPoNYC ought to know there's a managing editor's job that just opened more »

Anna Wintour's Crush Is 20 Years Younger "She thinks he's amazing. She talks about him all the time." [Post] MORE »

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Gee, Why Would Men Use Vaseline?

The men of America simply do not appreciate the virtues of lotion. Nivea Men sold just 15,000 bottles last year nationwide, compared with 6 million for the lady version of Nivea. So consumer products giant Unilever is determined to show males just how critical a role lubricating skin products can have in their lives. It created Vaseline Men, because the standard version of the petroleum jelly is apparently just too feminine. And it's touting the product using a football defensive end, promises involving "performance and endurance" and ads "emphasizing skin's... strength and thickness," the Times reports. Sounds pretty hot. Marketingwise. Also, there's this incredible testimonial, which you should repeat in front of the mirror, every morning, forever: More »

8:13 AM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Ryan Tate
6,789 views, 101 comments

Latest by Tattertotter: I think Gawker should be commended for using a disfigured model to draw attention to this item. Perhaps Denton would more »

Star-Ledger Limps On "The largest newspaper in New Jersey, The Star-Ledger, will not change hands or go out of business — at least not for a while — its owners said on Wednesday, after employees agreed to buyouts and concessions." [Times, Previously] MORE »

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SafariScreenSnapz006.jpg Journalismism

Page Six Lies About Lie

Page Six is gloating this morning. Talent agency William Morris just sold its Beverly Hills headquarters for $143 million and the Post gossip section totally called it, even in the face of William Morris' heated denials. "We told you," brags Page Six. But here's the thing: It took three and a half years for Page Six's gossip to come true. So for their scoop to be valid, you have to believe the headquarters sat on the marker for several years, even though it listed during one of the most frenzied commercial real estate markets ever, only to find a buyer in the worst office downturn in four years. Or maybe a company "desperate... to raise cash" (according to Page Six) took three years to organize a fire sale. Not likely.

5:48 AM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Ryan Tate
278 views, 1 comment

Latest by Greasy Thumb Guzik: Oh, give the Posties a break! Everyone there is under orders to dump on Obama & his supporters & probably the more »

Dirty tricks

'Too Late' For McCain To Win?

So how the hell does John McCain pull this one out of the bag? Even the conservative commentators think the national economic crash has doomed him. Bill O'Reilly said Tuesday the Republican presidential nominee needed to do well at the debate or "say goodbye," and he didn't do well at all. Now comes Joe Scarborough on last night's Colbert Report saying "it's too late" for McCain because he can't win on tax cuts or a sexy VP or terrorist fearmongering or just general demagoguery when voters are scared of starving in the streets. More »

4:09 AM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Ryan Tate
5,866 views, 52 comments

Latest by OrneryBabe: Jon Stewart and Jay Leno aired several montages of McCain wandering around the debate stage looking lost, confused,angry and old. more »

image3260716g.jpg Working 'with' the press

CBS Reporter: Obama's Plane 'Smells Terrible'

Wow, CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds just unloaded a pissy rant on the Obama campaign, saying the Democratic presidential nominee is going to be punished for not coddling campaign reporters well enough. And it sounds like he thinks Obama deserves it. In a "reporter's notebook" posted to CBSNews.com, Reynolds complains that Obama's people pick up journalists' luggage at a very inconvenient hour. It keeps them waiting for up to two hours in parking lots with nothing to do, bored. And they sometimes force them to travel when they could be on live television, goosing ratings for their corporate overlords. Don't even get Reynolds started on Obama's weak-ass plane! More »

1:30 AM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Ryan Tate
10,499 views, 71 comments

Latest by BadUncle: Butch up, Miss Reynolds. It's not like you're cramped in a Humvee in Afghanistan. more »

78606187.jpg Gossip Roundup

Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnant Again

  • Three months after giving birth, 17-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is said to be pregnant. Everyone's freaking out, "pals are begging her to abort." If only there was a national political leader, preferably experienced with teen pregnancy, who could guide the celebrity family in these trying times. [National Enquirer]
  • The boyfriend of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus might be 20 years old, but he's "a good kid," according to Cyrus' dad. He's "searching for the dream," whatever that might be. [People]
  • Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel are hoping groping each other in public will lead to a more meaningful reconciliation. Apparently "taking it slow" includes ass grabbing. Fair enough. [People]
  • Is it really surprising to hear Angelna Jolie had a tummy tuck after giving birth to twins? The real question is whether she got the French government to pay for it. [Star]

10:33 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Ryan Tate
14,460 views, 29 comments

Latest by nltisme: I am genuine, certified, lifelong Mississippi Delta White Trash and the Palin and Spears tribes just make me go "got-DAMN more »

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Graydon Carter Sticks It To Portfolio Again

It was something of a coup when Vanity Fair, in May, did what its Condé Nast sibling Portfolio couldn't and poached Fortune's winsome star writer Bethany McLean. If Portfolio's uncertain editor Joanne Lipman was annoyed then, she must be really steaming now that rival Graydon Carter snagged his latest catch from her own magazine. Vanity Fair's editor just inked an exclusive deal, the Observer reports, with Michael Lewis, who had contracts at both Lipman's glossy and with the Times magazine. Carter lured Lewis even though the Liar's Poker author recently saw his pay upped at Portfolio and despite a grudge the financial writer harbored against Vanity Fair for 10 years over an an unflattering 1997 profile. How did Carter do it? More »

9:19 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,425 views, 18 comments

Latest by Blucheez: I miss Tabitha Soren. sigh... more »

982008172816-1.jpg Magazines

It Was Elle That Spiked J.Lo Story

"Sessums, originally hired to write this month's J.Lo cover story for Elle, was pulled from the assignment after his first interview 'got much too personal' and the magazine put another writer, Peter Rubin, on the profile at the request of Lopez's reps." [Post, Previously]

8:28 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,477 views, 10 comments

Latest by nltisme: This woman has made a public display of her whole life, sold pictures of her newborns to People and then more »

Family matters

McCain Granddaughter Up For Adoption! Maybe!

82646762.jpg A website called View Their Views has put its esteemed, one-month old reputation for YouTube-embedding excellence on the line to bring you some breaking investigative news or false-flag smears or whatever about John McCain's eldest biological daughter, Sidney. Exposed as a showbiz Democrat and "rebellious... boundary pusher" in the Times last year, Sidney supposedly had a baby at the age of 20 or 21 and gave it up for adoption. Of course she wasn't married at the time, so now McCain doesn't want anything to do with the granddaughter, and ignores her desperate calls every Christmas Eve to all 43 of his houses. That could be because she isn't real, except as a Democratic hit piece, or as a supposed Democratic hit piece that makes us pity GOTCHA smear victim John McCain. But it could also be because she is real and the Republican ticket is already too full of obscure sons, daughters, half-siblings, adopted kids and love children to handle another. McCain probably can't keep track of them or even remember their names, so here's a nice list of the more prominent ones: More »

8:16 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Ryan Tate
6,192 views, 57 comments

Latest by ouiserboudreaux: McCain has kept his kids out of the spotlight in general while they are still in school. It has been more »

old laptop.jpg Memos

WSJ Reporters Forced To Lug Laptops

The implosion of American capitalism could not leave the Wall Street Journal unscathed. Newsroom staff, already working long hours covering the financial panic, now have to contend with a computer crunch. The paper is dropping its lavish policy of allowing staff two PCs, including one opulent "ultra-lightweight" notebook. Reporters who want the luxury of working from home or filing from the field will have to haul their full-sized laptops — bought from the company that spied on them — back into the office when done, because the Journal won't spring for a dedicated desktop PC. Those cost literally hundreds of dollars a piece, computer hogs. Also, no Macs, because those are for communists. Just be glad you didn't get laid off like those New Jersey people. Yet. The full internal memo is after the jump. More »

5:41 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,165 views, 28 comments

Latest by it takes a lot to laugh: God, the WSJ routinely takes the government to task for being a stodgy bureaucracy - and then goes and issues more »

Journalismism

Feisty Brokaw Scolds Future President

Tom Brokaw was determined last night that he wasn't going to put up with any crap from presidential candidates or their running mates, who had their way with previous debate moderators Jim Lehrer and Gwen Ifill. So every time John McCain or Barack Obama broke one of the debate rules, Brokaw delivered a verbal slap. The NBC News commentator got increasingly frustrated with infractions as the night wore on, but both candidates seemed to be on their best behavior yet, even when Brokaw rather oddly insisted they yield a heated moment to a question from the entire internet. More »

2:48 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Ryan Tate
11,345 views, 72 comments

Latest by apocalypse-nowish: The sad thing is is that I used to love Brokaw. Maybe it was because I was young and stupid more »

Polls

Did McCain Snub Obama's Handshake?

John McCain at least made eye contact with Barack Obama during tonight's presidential debate. But that seemed to be about all the pleasantry he could manage. First he called Obama "that one." Now blogs are burning up with chatter that McCain also refused Obama's post-debate handshake, pointing him to wife Cindy instead. More »

11:43 PM on Tue Oct 7 2008
By Ryan Tate
23,898 views, 136 comments

Latest by Gatcha_Journalism: McCain can't accept the obvious fact that he is losing to A BLACK MAN...Period =} His lack of basic etiquette is more »

Debates

'John McCain's Last Stand'

One might expect a right-wing shouting head like Bill O'Reilly to help the Republican Party ratchet down expectations for John McCain ahead of tonight's presidential debate. But the Fox News Channel host is raising the stakes. A few minutes before the debate started, O'Reilly said the event will mark the Republican presidential nominee's "last stand." "McCain has to do well tonight, or say goodbye," he added. We're still pretty sure there's a scheme here — O'Reilly's probably got an easy definition of "well" — but this makes it all the more difficult for McCain to spin if he does poorly. Click the video icon to watch the clip. (PS: The commenter liveblog is here in case you missed it.) More »

9:03 PM on Tue Oct 7 2008
By Ryan Tate
5,950 views, 96 comments

Latest by BxGrlJ-Lyn: On Election night I want to be surrounded by Democrats who have endured 8 years of nonsense after the election more »

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