Stephen Price, a senior reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat, was kicked out of the press area of a John McCain campaign event in Panama City, Fla., yesterday. The campaign said that he was asked to leave because no local press was allowed, although Price said that out of the many local reporters there, he was the only one McCain’s security detail asked to leave. He was also the only black person around. He thinks that might have something to do with it.
Colleen Kane spent many years editing Playgirl, and she’s taking the penis-loving magazine’s folding very hard. And deep - especially the lingering tension between the magazine’s lady-centric mission and gay-tinged image:
Speaking of things we can’t believe, human minstrel show Tiffany “New York” Pollard has once again been granted license to stymie the progress of civil rights with a crappy reality show, New York Goes to Hollywood.
This latest installment in the televised downfall of a human being follows Pollard on her quest for “legitimate, Hollywood fame.”
Neil Patrick Harris graces the latest cover of gay glossy Out. And, like the mensch we know he is, the dreamboat actor spread himself wide open - emotionally, that is - to reveal the quiet trials and tribulations of his otherwise well-documented life. A taste:
When Miley Cyrus was chosen to host the Teen Choice Awards, which was filmed last night and will air tonight, we’re unsure whether or not the producers expected her to hog the spotlight as much as she obviously did. Judging from the pictures, she treated the entire awards show like one of her infamous YouTube videos, including her BFF Mandy in most of her bits and ruining a perfectly good LL Cool J performance.
Finally - some closure in South Carolina’s “So Gay” advert scandal.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we all now have an inside view as to what went down after the State’s tourism officials first heard of the controversial ad, which had been designed and distributed in London:
During an ABC News interview in Liberia yesterday, Bill Clinton got “a little testy” with a reporter, as he is wont to do these days. She asked him if he had any regrets about anything he did while he was campaigning for Hillary Clinton. He said he does, but not the ones we think, which tells me he’s probably still in denial about how he might have damaged his wife’s campaign.
Next week I’m scheduled to set foot on US soil for the first time in three months. I suppose it’s about time I begin to get reacquainted with my mother nation’s traditions and values, so I’m really happy this article ran in today’s Wall Street Journal, reminding me that America is a place where serious thought is put into whether our politicians are fat enough to be good leaders.
Bill O’Reilly likes calling people pinheads. He called 50 Cent one a while ago, and, now, after joining Color of Change and MoveOn.org in a Fox News protest, Nas has joined the pinhead ranks. O’Reilly wasted a lot of breath last week deriding Nas, saying, among other things, that “new album is a bomb, a disaster, a catastrophe … Two years ago, his last album sold 355,000 copies in its first week, and this one has sold 187,000 copies. Not good. I hope I’m not a ‘racist’ for pointing that out.” Not racist, but completely wrong:
Al Sharpton recently told the SCLC that just because a person makes a mistake, it doesn’t mean that we should forget all of the good things he has done. No, he wasn’t talking about himself. He wants black America to apply some Christian forgiveness to Jesse Jackson, who has fallen out of favor after accidentally threatening to violate the sanctity of Barack Obama’s balls in front of a live mic.
LA Times writer Eric P. Lucas has had enough of the Heath Ledger hype and wrote a strongly-worded article to argue otherwise. Except instead of convincing everyone that the Oscar buzz is unnecessary, he makes the fatal mistake of insulting Heath and sending his diehard fans into an angry frenzy.
Bow Wow really, really, really, really wants us to know that shooting a sex scene with a porn star on Entourage was no big thing, because it’s normal for him. It happens. It happens all the time, okay!!!!
And if you’re a lady and would like to remain in control of your sanity, you might want to skip this episode. Because you will go crazy if you see it.
Rich white man fight!
Just one day after releasing an attack ad that equates Barack Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears – thus calling the Democratic nominee a vapid celebrity – John McCain has been apprised of the news that Rick Hilton, Paris’ father, is a big donor to his campaign.
“Me love you long time–” the quote comes from a Vietnamese prostitute in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, but 2 Live Crew made it infamous in the song “Me So Horny.” Fergie, Nelly Furtado, and Mariah Carey have all used the line or variations of it in their songs, but do they know that it’s considered a racial and sexual slur by many? Probably not. MTV talked to some prominent Asian Americans, some of whom have to regularly deal with “Me so horny; me love you long time” being yelled at them on the street, about the line and what it means to them when they hear it.
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