defamer decides ‘08
When Bush Met Babs: A Defamer Romance
7:14AM STV | A momentous power summit accompanied last weekend’s Kennedy Centre Honours, where Barbra Streisand had her first-ever audience with President George Bush. Video from the event features Streisand — a vicious Bush critic who spent much of the recent election cycle as the Obama campaign’s Deputy Director of Fundraising Medleys — welcoming the outgoing president to not only within bitchslap’s-length, but actually close enough to share a skin-searing bipartisan kiss. More »
Stephen Baldwin Comes Around on Obama, Still Hates Gays
2:05AM STV | After all our trouble wrangling up moving boxes and change-of-address forms, Stephen Baldwin has officially reversed his decision to relocate to Canada. Reports this morning say that the bitter Republican convert was just joking about that pre-election pledge to head north in the instance of a Barack Obama victory, adding that the whole mess amounted to less a broken promise than yet another grave misunderstanding by humourless liberals. Whoops! Now we’re told he even likes Obama: More »
4:38AM STV | And I’m Barack Obama: The post-election afterglow scored a direct hit last night on 60 Minutes, where the President-elect and wife Michelle’s rangy hour-long interview with Steve Kroft drew 24 million viewers. The 6.4 rating is the newsmagazine’s highest in nine years, and what did we learn? There will be Republicans in his Cabinet, no new dog would survive the grueling transition process to the White House, and college football needs a playoff system. Also, if you stuck around to the end, Andy Rooney bemoaning frivolous TV news. And here we thought Obama had dispatched all those mavericks. [The Live Feed] More »
Oprah’s Snot-Smothered Mr. Man Revealed At Last!
7:31AM Seth | At last! We meet one of Decision 2008’s most memorable and accidental heroes: Oprah Winfrey’s anonymous “Mr. Man,” her randomly selected human-leaning-pole and blubber-sponge throughout Obama’s historic Grant Park victory speech. Who was this stoic, liverlipped everyman? An intensive search for the mystery face in the crowd—the likes of which hasn’t been undertaken since the days of American Idol’s Sanjaya-lusting Crying Girl—unearthed unassuming family man Sam Perry, who appeared on her show today to a rapturously appreciative audience. [Oprah] More »
New Mexico Gov. Val Kilmer To Offer Attractive Tax Incentives To Productions Willing To Cast Him
4:01AM Seth | Amazingly, Norm Coleman’s wafer-thin lead over Al Franken in Minnesota’s Senate race continues to erode, with the latest numbers suggesting the former SNL star now trails his Republican foe by exactly one-half vote. (The single ballot bears a crescent moon inside a Republican circle, accompanied by the perplexing message, “It’s Norm Tonight!”). In other celebrity-career-change news, Val Kilmer—yes, the Val Kilmer, soon to be seen as a Dorff-hunting mercenary out to avenge the assassination of a President Palin-alike in an NBC movie of the week—has informed Pomeranian-herding gossipsaur Cindy Adams that he plans on running for the governorship of New Mexico: More »
9:16AM Kyle Buchanan | Why So Audacious? Perhaps we spoke too soon about the tenuous connection between The Dark Knight and The President-Elect, as we’ve just stumbled upon this Obama-evoking Joker design from artist James Lillis. It’s no DJ AM, but it’ll do. Click through for full-size. [/film] More »
The Gays Strike Back as Prop. 8 Protest Targets Mormon Temple
8:35AM STV | An estimated 10,000 marchers descended on West Hollywood last hour to protest the passage of Proposition 8, leading to a bust of outrage large enough to encircle the Mormon Temple on Santa Monica Blvd. before overtaking the thoroughfare itself. Streaming live footage from KNBC features a mostly peaceful protest to date, with only minor incursions resulting in a driveway shout-down and a bit of get-the-homos-off-my-lawn resistance from cops nudging marchers off a sliver of LDS property. The crowd spilled onto Santa Monica around 3:15, shutting down westbound traffic en route to Westwood Blvd. More »
When Oscar Hype Goes Wrong, Vol. MMCXLI: ‘How Obama Helps Batman’
7:04AM STV | It’s never too early in Oscar season to feast on half-baked pundit delicacies like those of Dave Karger, the Entertainment Weekly awards maven who earns a living composing items like today’s “How Obama Helps Batman.” But even despite its modest size and airy texture, this morsel is next to impossible to get down [spoilers follow]: More »
Sarah Palin Goes For One Last, Sexy ‘South Park’ Score
1:45AM STV | This may replace holograms as Election Night’s most stunning TV accomplishment: While the rest of us were recognising the historic evening with a drink or 20, the South Park foremen cranked their assembly line into perversely high gear with animated snippets from both Barack Obama and John McCain’s campaign-ending speeches. And as we should have figured, their statesmanship was simply a means to a lucrative, criminal end at a drunken nation’s expense. Leave it to Trey Parker and Matt Stone to squelch our hard-earned hope that a new era is upon us — or at least that the geography-deficient divazilla Sarah Palin may yet take that long, much-deserved hiatus from our television screens. At least she’s wearing leather this time around; that is change we can believe in. It’s after the jump. More »
