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Jay-Z Takes Credit For Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ Dance

Jay cracks jokes on BBC show about his wife stealing her most famous moves from him. By Jocelyn Vena Jay-Z and Beyonc

Heidi Montag’s New Tits Released 7 New Songs of the Day

If you’re into really bad music, like annoyingly bad music that is self-produced, self released because a bitch thinks she has what it takes to be a popstar but the record labels don’t becuase she should just stick to being a bottom feeding reality show cunt who is lucky to even have the bottom feeding reality show lottery ticket but managed to luck out thanks to some poor executive decision. Then you’ll be happy to know she’s released 7 new songs on youtube, if you click through you’ll find the other uploads that I refuse to post because I’ve been waiting for this bitch to fail, and figure this song is bad enough for you to get the idea of what to expect, leading to keeping views real low so she really understans that suicide is the only option. Here are some pics of her new face and body thanks to surgery from seriously low self-esteem from the media laughing at her for the joke that she is….without realizing that even with the surgery she’s still a fucking joke, just better looking than ever, even though plastic surgery ages horribly, but we don’t have to worry about that just now…here are the pics.. Pics via PacificCoastNews

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Tiger Woods Press Conference Was a Sad Day for Men of the Day

I wrote on twitter that people need to leave Tiger Woods alone. I understand he is a billion dollar industry, but making a man publically admit he’s a little bitch who is owned by his sponsors, while pretending to be defending his wife, when he knows she’s just as bad as the whores he fucked behind her back, in terms of only liking him for his fame and money. I get that he was backed into a corner and had to read the shit 4 months later with no sincerity because he knows in the back of his mind that every single one of us would have done the same fucking thing. I also know that as a billionaire, he should be allowed to fuck anything he wants, from animals on the endagered species list to orphans he imports from third world countries and we shouldn’t have any right to judge him, as he’s proven to us that he’s better at life than we are.. The whole thing was depressing to see no matter how hard he tried to let us know he was being forced to do it…Wanting to fuck is not “having a problem”, it is normal, it is what our civilization is based on and to give him shit about it is so against the American dream, it is just another example of Christians raining on our parade so everyone’s gotta fuck off and stop annoying me with this Tiger shit. It’s done. I’m talking to you TMZ. And I guess this press conference is the official joke of the day. To See The Press Conference Follow THis Link GO

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Tiger Woods: Spotted Running!

After nearly three months of rumors, speculation and salacious gossip, the first actual, visual Tiger Woods sighting since Thanksgiving night has been recorded. Dude went jogging in Florida yesterday. Big news, we know! Wearing a black cap, Nike shirt and gray shorts, the world’s #1 golfer, who had not been seen since wrecking his car November 27, was running with his trainer. A source says the photo of Woods was taken ” with his consent .” The new image surfaced just hours after his agent announced Tiger Woods’ press conference coming up Friday, in which he will finally break his silence . Tiger Woods jogging. This is front-page news. Having been outed as a sleaze with at least a dozen mistresses, Woods “will be speaking to a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates” tomorrow. “While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between him and [ Elin Woods ], he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down many other people who were close to him,” the statement says. “He also let down his fans.” “He wants to begin the process of making amends.” Although the press conference will not be an “open media event,” arrangements are supposedly being made to “pool” the athlete’s remarks to the wider media. He will not answer questions tomorrow. No word if wife Elin will be on hand, or if Rachel Uchitel will be there covering the event as a correspondent for Extra . Click to enlarge more pics of Tiger on the comeback trail …

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Cap and Trade no more? ConocoPhillips, BP and Caterpillar pull out of lobby group

Before we explore any deep thoughts about why ConocoPhillips, BP and Caterpillar the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) (a coalition of environmental organizations and leading corporations pushing for a cap-and-trade bill to curb emissions of carbon dioxide) we might as well drill down to the basics and remind ourselves about what is Cap and Trade. Amy Goodman explains it as the issue that splits the environmental movement in half. While some say it is a way to tax polluters, generate accountability, and raise money for new technologies, other argue that it gives free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you want Annie Leonard's explainer video on Cap and Trade, look no further. So here is the break down: The Washington Post reports the reason as: The oil giants also want to do more to promote natural gas, which has become more abundant because of recent developments in the exploitation of shale gas and emits half as much greenhouse gas as coal does. The legislation adopted by the House included benefits for coal producers and coal-fired power plants in an effort to secure the votes of key lawmakers. Many natural gas producers think that more should be done for them. In other words, these companies are turning towards an industry that is under regulated and somehow perceived as “natural” or “environmentally friendly”. However, ask the residents who live near this form of mining natural resources about the state of cancer rates, houses blowing up, and lighting their water on fire, and you will be initiated into the world of Fracking. BP's statement alludes to that they are pulling out in part because of their deep care for the well being of their customers: BP spokesman Ronnie Chappell said, “We think the organization has accomplished what it was intended to do. It has established a broad, principle-based framework for climate-change legislation. With the completion of that blueprint, that work was done.” “We don't think legislation pending in the House or Senate conforms with the blueprint,” he added. “A disproportionate share of the cost burden falls on the transportation sector and consumers. As a result, we're going to miss out on the most cost-effective measures, and misallocation of resources could occur.” ConocaPhilips provided the following insight in their press release: “House climate legislation and Senate proposals to date have disadvantaged the transportation sector and its consumers, left domestic refineries unfairly penalized versus international competition, and ignored the critical role that natural gas can play in reducing GHG emissions,” [CEO Jim] Mulva continued. “We believe greater attention and resources need to be dedicated to reversing these missed opportunities, and our actions today are part of that effort. Addressing these issues will save thousands of American jobs, as well as create new ones.” Kate Kenny, a Caterpillar spokeswoman, said the company wants to focus on carbon capture and storage projects, such as FutureGen, an Illinois plant that is partly financed by the federal government. “We have decided to direct our resources toward the commercialization of technologies that will promote and provide sustainable development and reduce carbon emissions,” she said in an e-mail. After reading several articles on BP's website, major news sources, and conservative energy blogs, I've come to the conclusion that if you aren't on the inside track of this issue you are out of luck if you actually want to understand this manuver. So I asked one of my favorite bloggers on energy, David Roberts of Grist, to put this into context and explain what it isn't being said in the press releases.

Tila Tequila Announces Retirement

She had a great run while she lasted, didn’t she? But we’re sad to report that Tila Tequila has called it a career. The professional attention hog announced her retirement today, hanging up her fake breasts in an interview with Radar Online: “With so much going on in my life right now and being pregnant, I’m retiring from being a star in Hollywood,” she said.

Kell on Earth: The Check Is in the Fail

We were too busy dreaming about Bodie Miller’s backside to bother watching Kell on Earth last night. Thankfully fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was working there this fall during the filming. We have a feeling she has some stories to share. Double Agent Provacateur by Betsey Morgenstern After getting busy in a Burger King Uniqlo Bathroom last week, things have been progressing nicely between me and Tim, the Irish intern. He’s been coming over to my apartment and brouging into my ear just about every night as we cuddle and coo underneath the covers. He says that he’s not looking for a girlfriend and doesn’t want anything exclusive. I think that’s bullshit. I should be able to sleep with other men, but if he wants to keep riding on the Betsey train, this has got to be the only caboose he’s grabbing. One night during fashion week, we were all working late and Big Stephanie, the one who can’t find her asshole with both hands, a flashlight, and a Google map with a big red circle painted squarely on her pucker, asked if Tim would walk her home because she is scared of the homeless man that asks for money outside the apartment her parents rent for her in the West Village. Doesn’t she know that Tim is my man? How dare she try to take him from me! For this, she shall die. The easy thing about ruining Big Stephanie’s career is that she makes it especially easy. Not only is she whiny and incompetent, but she is also infernally stupid and disorganized, so even a lowly intern like myself can throw her world into a tizzy. Here is how I did it. First, when she was printing out labels for the invitations for the Nicolas Achoo show, I hacked into her computer and had it print out the labels four times. She never even bothered to check the names, and had the interns make up four complete sets of invitations! Ha. Then she told us to get the stamps and mail them, and I took most of the postage and stashed it in my bag. Then she only had 120 stamps and about 8 jillion invites to send out. Really, she only had 2 jillion times four, but it took Big Stephanie’s little brain a while to figure that out. She was so befuddled by the multiple labels and lack of stamps that she stomped around, eyes welled up, screaming about how disorganized everything was. Why not just put a plan into effect and execute it, BS? It is that hard? Finally, after getting chewed out by Emily and annoying everyone in the office, Kelly stepped in and had to take over the whole affair. Doesn’t she have better things to do, like tracking down the long-lost dog that her former maid’s sister gave away to the shelter in Staten Island? I heard that it’s being held for ransom by the lesbian neighbors that hate Kelly. If the invitation debacle wasn’t enough to get Big Stephanie forever away from my boyfriend Tim, the next step in my plan was to ruin the press release she prepared for the Nicolas Achoo show. I went in and added a h into Nicolas, but only one. If I spelled them all wrong then the press would just think that’s how his name is spelled, but if you spell it two different ways, they won’t know which way is correct and then they’ll call the PR girl whose name is on the release and get all bitchy asking her which way it should be spelled. Fucking reporters. Too bad Emily noticed it before it went out and made her change it. She apologized over and over again, but she didn’t even defend herself and say that something must have happened. She just admitted that she had no idea how to spell his name and tried to make it seem like it was no big deal, oh, Stephanie. When it finally comes to the day of the Nicolas Achoo show, everything is going well and Kelly is hitting on all the 19 year-old male models and is in this weird cougar zone where she wants to be both their mother and their lover at the same time. Gross. But none of the models are nearly as cute as Achoo, who is like some grand poobah of menswear. Kelly thinks that his clothes are genius but not wearable. I have no clue what she is talking about. Who doesn’t want to wear a complete body sock with a mask and a tuxedo over it? I have to work the door of the show, and before it all starts, I corner Nicolas and ask him what he thinks I would look like in one of his spandex outfits. “Sorry, but they’re for men.” “Nicolas, don’t you think my bodacious bottom would look great covered in tight fabric?” “I’m sure it would, but these are for men.” “Wouldn’t you like to unzip me from your creation and caress your hands all over my smooth skin.” “Sorry, but I am for the men as well.” What an asshole. And to think I worked so hard to fuck up the invitations to his show and this is the thanks I get. The press starts arriving and I’m trying to think up ways to get my revenge. As he’s talking to the women from Women’s Wear Daily . He starts to give her all this attitude when she doesn’t understand his vision. This is one of those situations where I don’t have to do anything, but watch him self-destruct. He gives GQ the stink eye when they laugh at his clothes, and he give sass to the women from Esquire because she thinks he is too avante-garde for the magazine. The only press people that like him are the Japanese because, well, they are into really fucked up shit like that. He’s not happy with the press he got for the show at all, and calls up Emily the next day to bitch her out. All she wants is his check, which he won’t fork over because he says People’s Revolution didn’t do their job. I was hoping that Emily would fire Big Stephanie over this, but instead everyone gets made at Nicolas Achoo because he won’t pay. Damn it, I’m going to have to mess with her again, and Kelly is going to take him to court. This thing is a huge mess. Maybe I can mess up Stephanie with the Agent Saboteur fashion show. Again it’s a problem with the invitations. This time I didn’t even do anything, Stephanie just fucked it up all on her own, and Emily yelled at her again. She was so mad that she bitched to her sister about it for like an hour while wondering around the streets of Manhattan trying to pick up tricks. She didn’t get a job, and stupid Stephanie still does. I’m going to get her yet. The show itself went fine after they solidified a venue. There was this really mean British bitch who worked for Agent Saboteur, and she kept ordering candles and birdcages like she had some kind of fetish for them. She was really driving everyone insane trying to get everything perfect in the lobby of the SoHo Grand Hotel, but Kelly was all like “Please, bitch, you ain’t got no money.” I don’t know why she was so worried about how the space looked because every girl who walked down the runway had an atomic wedgie, but apparently that was OK. At the end of the day, everyone was very pleased with the show. We know that it’s not going to last long, and I’m going to have to exploit it to get Stephanie fired. And when Tim, who I can’t understand, but is oh so pretty, lies his little head on my bosom at night, that is what I dream of while I stroke his hair. You will pay, Stephanie. You will pay.

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1 more parade for Brees (KPLC Lake Charles)

Associated Press – February 14, 2010 12:54 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) – New Orleans Saints quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees has another appointment with his public Sunday evening.

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Culture of Fear Inflames Financial News Wires

Bloomberg News staffers no longer have the market on fear and loathing cornered: Informants tell us that high-stakes monitoring of reporters’ performance has poisoned the atmosphere at Reuters and the Associated Press business desk, too. On Wednesday we reported on how Bloomberg’s neo-Soviet method of tracking scoop production, “Breaking News Points,” led to perverse outcomes like the obvious misrepresentation of some stories as exclusives and waning enthusiasm for enterprise journalism. On top of all that, we were told the system exacerbated a newsroom culture of paranoia and fear. Almost immediately, we began hearing from business journalists about similar problems at Reuters and AP Business. Our AP source says a majority of the staff — 90 percent, this person claims — are about to send a jointly-signed letter to Business Editor Hal Ritter accusing him of “installing a culture of fear.” Chief among their complaints: An annual review process “in which the entire staff is slammed.” Why would the news cooperative’s management want to demoralize staff like that? One theory is that the negative reviews would allow the newswire to cut more staff loose without having to pay severance. Then there’s Reuters, and its “Beats and Exclusives” scoop-tracking system — “the bastard twin to the one at Bloomberg,” as one source described it, in which the act of breaking news first is recorded via written “notes.” The “Beats and Exclusives” system wasn’t a very big deal until this year, when for the first time it will be used as the basis for pay, says our source, following an impasse in negotiations between Reuters and a union to which its journalists belong. Now “reporters who don’t file the requisite number of beats and exclusives will take it in the paycheck, so to speak.” It’s not clear how widely within the global Reuters newsgathering organization this change will spread, but our source indicated the new connection between pay and “Beats and Exclusives” notes is the reason New York Equities Editor Martin Howell this week implored staff to file fewer such records of scoops. You can read his internal memo here ; it was first printed by Talking Business News. Dig the part where he says Reuters reporters should write more about Reuters clients. The abuse we’re told is rampant under the Reuters “Beats and Exclusives” system should only get worse now that money is involved. Our source: The people who actually file [“Beats and Exclusives” notes] tend to shamelessly game the system by trying to get credit for non-news that no other outlet had or cared about or for “exclusive” executive interviews that broke zero ground. I can’t imagine what’s going to happen now, when jobs and pay are on the line. Of course, the fact that so much is on the line is, from a management standpoint, the precise reason for the system, as well as for the fearsome annual review at AP Business and for the Breaking News Points system at Bloomberg. The financial wires are being battered by several disasters at once: The implosion of financial services; the meltdown in the traditional news media; and a broad economic recession. This is the maelstrom that has AP lashing out at Google , that has seen Reuters spike a perfectly good investigation into one its investors and that led Bloomberg to kill a coverage expansion that was the pet project of its editor-in-chief. Executives are scared, and when executives get scared editors get scared. Said editors are now so frightened that they are positively racing, it would seem, to ape Bloomberg’s longstanding culture of near-psychotic paranoia — racing everywhere but at at Bloomberg, where they are scrambling to become even more Stalinist than they already were. The trouble with panic is that it actually makes a person (or, ahem, organization) less able to tackle challenging situations. Which helps explain why these scoop-measuring systems are now significantly inhibiting the very thing they’re supposed to be monitoring, by sapping time and energy from working journalists. Hence Howell’s memo to chill out with the scoop “notes,” and hence the plan we’ve been told Bloomberg has to tweak its Breaking News Points system again in 2010. Here’s a better idea for finance wire managers: Take the money earmarked for performance monitoring overhauls and rewarding Breaking Exclusive Scoop Beat Things and plow it into several dozen rounds of beers, and maybe some hot cocoa and rice krispy treats or whatever, spread out over the course of the year. Then when the time comes to let people go, as it probably will, do the sort of agonizing you knew deep down you’d have to do at layoff time even after you started pretending you could judge everyone using statistics. You’ll probably still feel terrible, but your (more) relaxed and brave reporters will have created an atmosphere where it’s much easier to hire people back when the rebound comes, and where it’s more likely you’ll still have lots of readers — err, clients — still paying for your content. Or just keep doing what you’re doing and hope (in vain) your staff doesn’t blow off steam by sending their horror stories and rants to tips@gawker.com . It’s cool either way, as far as we’re concerned. (Top pic by artemuestra on Flickr ; second pic by Max Sang )

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Robert Gibbs Has a Comedy Problem

Today, Politico published a hard-hitting report: ” Press Room Laughter Dies Down .” No one is laughing any more at Robert Gibbs! But is it because of a change in “tone,” or because Robert Gibbs is the least funny person in D.C.? It’s the second one. Politico has so many reporters milling around their newsroom watching C-Span that they threw three on the task of sifting through White House press briefings and totaling up the number of times reporters laughed at Robert Gibbs’ press conferences: In the first six months, there was an average of 179 laughs per month—six laughs per day! And so Gibbs became “the funny press secretary”. How did Robert Gibbs get more laughs than Bush’s last two press secretaries plus all post- Happy Gilmore Adam Sandler films combined? Perusing Gibbs’ cringe-y comedic output suggests it was the instictive laughter of relief—a bunch of reporters surprised and delighted to find they had emerged from the class 5 hurricane of the Bush era relatively unscathed. God knows we also wandered the streets for months after the election, deliriously cackling at bums and trees. Ha ha! We made it! But now that everything has settled in, the press corps is able to see Gibbs for the hack that he is: In its second six months, The Robert Gibbs Show generated just 89 laughs/month. (For comparison, a “top stand-up comedy set” gets ” a minimum of 4-6 laughs per minutes .”) Gibbs’ crack wit was on display most recently with his dig at Sarah Palin’s handwritten notes : What could have been a decent bit was made unwatchable by Gibbs’ hokey delivery. Look at me, guys—I’m making a funny! Sarah Palin’s own hand-gate gag— conspicuously writing “Hi Mom” on her hand and waving it around at cameras—was way funnier. Palin’s was a pretty smart, underhanded jab that turned the media back on itself, where Gates’ was a clownish jape meant to please the reporters that are his only reason for existence. Some clowns are funny—think, Charlie Chaplin—but most are sad. A clown is sad because he is so desperate for laughs that he smears an artificial smile on his face; he is always the first to laugh at his own jokes. And so is Gibbs, as evidenced by this truly funny Politico mash-up , “Gibbs Giggles”: A key rule of comedy is: Never laugh at your own jokes. But it often seems Gibbs is attempting only to amuse himself. Like this aborted joke about the “drawing lines in the sand” cliche. It that starts in Gibbs’ own addled brain and ends up bombing with more force than a GBU-28 Bunker Buster missile striking a known Al Qaeda target: What’s sad about this is that the Q & A format of a White House presser is structured perfectly for jokes: Gibbs has a couple dozen straight-men lobbing set-ups at him for an hour. All he needs to do is knock ’em down. The missed opportunities! Like this exchange: REPORTER: Chris Wallace called you the biggest bunch of crybabies I’ve seen in Washington… what’s your reaction? GIBBS: Well… I haven’t cried yet! (LAUGHTER) Here’s what he should have said: Wallace must have been talking about Sasha. Talk about Princess and the Pea. Can’t even give her a little ribbing without her running to Michelle, all: ‘Wah wah, Gibbs called me ‘Little Hitler’ again.” Somebody book that girl on O’Reilly so he can scream in her face for forty minutes. Jesus. Maybe you don’t care about the fact that Robert Gibbs makes Jay Leno look like Mitch Hedberg. But think about this: Gibbs’ words are going down in history. Literally! Some of his words will end up in a history book, probably! And if Gibbs is going to make jokes at press conferences—which we are totally in favor of, by the way—they should be held to the same standard as any of his other utterances. Otherwise, this incredible, real life exchange from a press conference last month will be how our children remember our first black president: REPORTER: Robert, I wanted to go back to the broader message of the Massachusetts election. The tone of your comments yesterday seemed to suggest that you were absorbing the message from that and that there was anger and frustration. But does that mean that there’s any kind of regrouping going on, any kind of change in the agenda, or is there a feeling that the agenda is perfectly fine as it is but it’s just a matter of communicating it better? MR. GIBBS: No, look, this isn’t a “Cool Hand Luke” problem, right? It took a while. Mark, come on, help me out a little bit, right — “failure to communicate.” REPORTER: I had no idea what that meant.

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