obamamania
Long National Nightmare Is Over As New National Hangover Begins
1:45AM Seth | Natalie Portman did it! Her eleventh-hour phone-banking put Barack Obama’s campaign over the top, eking out a nail-biting victory of 349 electoral votes to McCain’s 173, and ushering in a tidal wave of jubilation we were thrilled to let sweep us away. More »
Paris and Britney Confused By McCain’s Suggestion That They Are Still Famous
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | A clearly flailing John McCain has just released his new Obama attack ad and boy, is it a doozy! Employing a risky “Obama is awesome…but is he too awesome?” strategy that seems designed to fail, McCain calls Obama “the biggest celebrity in the world” (because if there’s one thing America hates, it’s celebrities) and plays footage of Obama’s massive rallies and beatific smile that could have come from an Obama b-roll itself. The only signs that something is amiss are the split-second shots of Britney and Paris spliced into the ad — inclusions that have baffled the reps for both washed-up celebutantes. Says the Huffington Post: More »
Jon Voight Heightens Election-Year Stakes With Patriotic ‘Screw Obama’ Op-Ed
5:20AM Seth | Not since Donald Sutherland unleashed a spittle-flecked torrent of anti-Hillarian propaganda in The Huffington Post—denouncing the candidate’s “wretched illegitimacy,” as if she had ruined Canadian Thanksgiving by pulling off a rubber Kiefer mask to reveal her cackling identity beneath—have we been so shaken by a celebrity-penned attack on a Democratic candidate: National Treasure: Book of Secrets star/estranged grandfather Jon Voight has dared to zig when the Obama-loving free world zags in the op-ed pages of the Washington Times: More »
4:20AM Seth | Blogging on the election (presidential, not Idol) for the Huffington Post, Larry David admits he’s lost a bit of confidence in the increasingly histrionic Hillary Clinton: “There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost…I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don’t want her talking to Putin, I don’t want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don’t want her talking to my nephew. She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away from things for a while, a nice beach somewhere.” We’re looking forward to Jerry Seinfeld’s own op-ed on the race, in which he asks, “What is with this Hillary Rodham Clinton? The woman’s totally a woodwork wacko! And she’s a three-name woman…and many of the three-named people do become assassins.” [HuffPo] More »
4:20AM Seth | Blogging on the election (presidential, not Idol) for the Huffington Post, Larry David admits he’s lost a bit of confidence in the increasingly histrionic Hillary Clinton: “There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost…I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don’t want her talking to Putin, I don’t want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don’t want her talking to my nephew. She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away from things for a while, a nice beach somewhere.” We’re looking forward to Jerry Seinfeld’s own op-ed on the race, in which he asks, “What is with this Hillary Rodham Clinton? The woman’s totally a woodwork wacko! And she’s a three-name woman…and many of the three-named people do become assassins.” [HuffPo] More »
Who Else Has Matt Damon Been Fucking?
12:20PM Mark | As a couple of different people have now pointed this out to us, we feel compelled to share: Before Matt Damon was fucking Sarah Silverman, he was all over Scotty’s ladyfriend in Eurotrip. [via Lindsayism] · Robert De Niro has come down with Obamamania. · Learn all about new Britney Spears lawyer Adam Streisand’s not-so-secret connection to another, much more famous Streisand! Yes, it’s the one you’re thinking of! Turner Classic Movies dares the WGA to stay on strike. More »
8:00AM Seth | Roseanne Barr blogs her take on Oprah and Barack Obama: “barak [sic] obama is an empty suit selling ‘hope’ in lieu of Truth. He has no ideas, no plan and nothing to add other than the cynical pacification of the masses with bedtime stories about hope, while calling Unions ’special interest groups’ that need to be done away with…Oprah, you play the race card and the gender card too. You are a closeted republican and chose Barak Obama because you do not like other women who actually stand for something to working American Women besides glamour, angels, hollywood and dieting! It is historical that Oprah Winfrey, beloved of women, chooses a flashy man with small credentials over a seasoned woman politician with 35 years of experience…and sells that to the female demographic who look to her for inspiration!” [roseanneworld.com] More »
4:45AM Defamer Hollywood | While high-profile Barack Obama supporters like George Clooney have publicly fretted about how too many showbiz endorsements might taint their candidate in the heartland and offered to support him from a safe distance, new Obamamania cheerleader Scarlett Johansson threw such caution to the wind yesterday, delivering a fifteen minute (!) speech in Iowa that removed all doubt about which Democratic candidate has the support of Hollywood’s bustiest, most politically active ingenues. [Open All Night Via Jezebel] More »
Obamamania Update
6:15AM Defamer Hollywood | According to third-quarter donation reports, Hollywood is still lavishing cash at presidential hopeful Barack Obama, the candidate Oprah Winfrey recently dipped in honey, heaved into the money pile her friends built at her Montecito compound, and allowed to walk off with the three million dollars in donations that clung to his sticky, glistening form. But we suspect that most of those fickle little political starfuckers will be cured of their Obamamania and climb into Al Gore’s hybrid bandwagon the minute the Oscar/Emmy/Nobel triple-threat announces he’s running. [HuffPo] More »
