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Deadbeat Photographer Takes Official White House Family Portrait
1:28AM John Cook | The White House has released the official Obama family portrait, which was taken by Annie Leibovitz. What do you think that gig pays? More »
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Lady Gaga: “This Is The Biggest Moment Of My Career”
7:45AM Foster Kamer | If you thought it was going to be a while before you saw Lady Gaga’s chyron on C-Span, think again. Our Lady of the Immaculate Penis spoke at the National Equality March on Washington today. We have video. More »
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Secret Service, Facebook Team Up Over Kill Obama Pollsters
8:50AM Andrew Belonsky | Some twisted soul posted a Facebook poll yesterday asking whether or not President Obama should be assassinated. Obviously that’s a big no-no, and now Facebook and the Secret Service have joined forces to form an elite crime fighting team. More »
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Italian PM: “Oh, Haha, Obama And Michelle Are Suntanned.”
8:40AM Andrew Belonsky | Did you know that the US President and his wife are black? Well, they are, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi finds that endless humorous. More »
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Spain’s Goth First Daughters Embarrass, Embarrassed By Dad
6:06AM Pareene | Here’s Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family. The State Department uploaded it to Flickr. (What an unlikely sentence!) Whoops — no one in Spain has ever seen Zapatero’s Goth daughters before! More »
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Barack Obama’s Eerie, Frozen Grimace Will Haunt Your Dreams
2:36AM John Cook | This video from Eric Spiegelman compresses 130 sequentially taken photographs of Barack Obama with visiting foreign dignitaries Wednesday during the UN meeting into 20 seconds. His smile is immobile and identical in each one. It is creepy. More »
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Jessica Simpson’s Mental Stability Even More Tenuous
7:36PM Andrew Belonsky | Will Jessica Simpson survive her dog’s death? Did Anna Wintour survive sitting next to Pixie Geldof? Did Lindsay know her burglar? Did Anna Nicole’s doctors know pills would kill her? Get some answers in your Tuesday gossip roundup! More »
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Politico: Please Take Your Unauthorised Obama Info Elsewhere
7:14AM John Cook | Politico’s Ben Smith almost WON THE DAY with nice little scoop—the video of Barack Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass” during pre-interview banter with CNBC’s John Harwood. But someone made him take it down. Why in the world? More »
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Even Obama Thinks Kanye’s An Arse
1:02PM Andrew Belonsky | Basically the entire world has rallied around the idea that Kanye West is an entire asshole for ruining Taylor Swift’s big moment last night. So, too, has Barack Obama, the US president. But he won’t do it on the record. More »
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