Iran's sexiest/evilist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is so sick, y'all. He works 20 hours a day making music videos pretending homosexuals don't exist in his country that he's plum worn out.
In fact, Mah-Jad is using one of the most famous excuses in Hollywood in order to avoid doing any work for his re-election. You see, the 50-ish president is suffering from "exhaustion, and low blood pressure."
Larry King has a well-earned reputation for launching soft balls to his interview subjects, but not so when it comes to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in town addressing the United Nations.
While some mainstream media types avoid getting into gay speak, King grilled Ahmadinejad about his country's homophobic human rights record.
[Gay action starts at about the 1:43 mark.]
In the speech which Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was to have delivered at a Monday rally protesting the UN appearance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, she was to have said that the Iranian president "dreams of being an agent in a 'Final Solution' - the elimination of the Jewish people."
Her appearance in the rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza was cancelled in a flap between protest organizers and Hillary Clinton, who had also been scheduled to speak. Clinton aides were quoted as saying that they had been "blindsided" by the decision to invite Palin, which they called a partisan move. In the ensuing controversy, Clinton withdrew her participation, and Palin's invitation was rescinded.
Only The New York Times would have the audacity to pair a headline of "Ahmadinejad, President and Blogger" with a picture of some other Iranian guy using a laptop.
[Update: The headline has been changed! To "From Iran’s Fiery Leader, a Slightly Tamer Blog."]
Tired of a media that insists the Holocaust is true, Mahmound Ahmadinejad launched his own blog to get his propaganda straight to the public.
But instead of being treated like the ruthless dictator he is, readers are treating him like a regular blogger and heckling him online. Finally, all the nastiness on the Web has a purpose.
[Cartoon Credit: Peter Steiner, The New Yorker]
Rejoice belatedly, Harry Potter fans! For your beloved Dumbledore has finally received the SNL treatment.
Sure, it's not nearly as funny/nuanced as Brian Williams' "behind-the-scenes" testimonial (or, for that matter, Bill Clinton's "Mystery" costume) but it's worth noting if only for the fact that Fred Armisen's Larry King is almost as spot-on as his Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And for the fact that, this time, the award for "Beating A Dead Horse" will not be going to the New York Times.
• There's nothing innocent about credit card debt acquired before the age of three.
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was apparently mistranslated, still a jerk.
• Mort Zuckerman claims his New Yorker profile was two-thirds right, which is approximately the point at which which we stopped reading.
•The Hills is like Tasti D-Llite. We know it's fake, but we love it anyway.
• Earth to Maxim: Not every woman looks like an airbrushed C-list tv star.
• Do you think Britney was being ironic when she titled her album "Blackout?" Or just plain stupid?
[Image via CelebrityBabylon]
Although we can’t seem to shake the nasty habit of writing in the royal we, occasionally one of our editors decides to shake off the cloak of anonymity to write a short, pithy statement long, rambling diatribe about a topic of their choice. Today, Debbie Newman is that editor.
While curmudgeonly gossip Cindy Adams typically uses her column as a mouthpiece for lavishing praise on her yappy Yorkshire terriers, she occasionally likes to switch things up by delivering an impassioned old-person rant about the degeneration of society.
Take, for instance, Sunday's column, in which Granny Adams (bless her heart!) seemingly lumps foreigners, immigrants, diplomats and terrorists into the single all-encompassing category of "Them." She then criticizes them for failing to possess "Social Security cards…subscriptions to Reader's Digest and CDs of Kate Smith singing 'God Bless America'" (we're listening to it now, on repeat!) and launches into a perspicacious discourse xenophobic tirade on the indignities of waiting in line behind "some jerk in an ill-fitting suit…from some fourth-rate country so small it's standing in line to dare shake its fist at the United States."
And it turns out ol' Cindy's just getting warmed up.
Blink and you'll miss Jake Gyllenhaal's cameo.
• Sure, you hate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's politics. But what about those adorable dimples?
• Breaking: George Clooney's new girlfriend has a racy past that includes cocktail waitressing and wearing two-piece bathing suits while on vacation.
• Jenny McCarthy is possible engaged, definitely a nose-picker.
• Hayden Panettiere stubbornly refuses to forgo undergarments and exit her limousine crotch-first. Prude!
• Like Today correspondent Ann Curry, Heidi Montag isn't afraid to die for what believes in. Unlike Ann Curry, what Heidi Montag believes in is breast augmentation.
• Kiefer Sutherland joins the Hollywood DUI Club — though his illegal U-turn still doesn't best Nicole Richie's driving up an exit ramp.
• Just be grateful your parents still haven't figured out how to turn on the computer.
• Bill O'Reilly is stunned to discover that blacks are capable of running a restaurant, serving food other than Popeye's fried chicken.
• If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (a.k.a. "A-Jad") were an American, we're guessing he'd be supporting the G.O.P.
• And speaking of gay, Stephen Colbert is on hand to remind us of the hidden danger of baby carrots.
• From US: "Lindsay Lohan's Rep Denies Lohan's Involvement In Divorce." Well that's silly, of course poor Lindsay wasn't to blame for her parents' —oh, this is about Tony Allen? Yeah, that was all her.
• CNN finds non-working comedians to provide unfunny solutions to real world problems.
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