Arianna Huffington must have a deal with the chick mags or something, because it's really inexcusable how they started elbowing in on OK!'s home turf over at Huffpost. Do we really care if Sarah Palin's lipliner is cosmetically enhanced? How does that determine the woman's qualifications for VP?

And now this whole business with Kelly Ripa's bellybutton and whether or not fitness magazines have been airbrushing her outie into an innie. Thank god the Huffington Post is here to distract us from this untimely economic crisis and looming election: hate to think of the boring publications that are still saddled with that responsibility in reporting.

After the jump evidence, if you can call it that, of airbrushing. Sorry folks, some days the news just writes itself and you just do your best to report it:

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Gross. Even grossier though, is the admission in this article that Ripa sometimes jokes on Regis and Kelly about "getting her belly button stuck in zippers." Ugh. Shudder. You didn't need to see/hear this today. Sorry.