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Maureen Dowd And The Making Of Barack Hitler Hussein Obama
NEW York Times columnist Maureen Dowd hears things other do not.
Republican congressman from the South, Joe Wilson, heckles Barack Hitler Obama with the cry “You lie”.
Maureen Dowd pricks up her ears:
“…what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: ‘You lie, boy!’ Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.”
You lie?
Dowd might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying, but Ace of Spades (yeah, Spades) hears you, Maureen and delivers his Top Ten American Political Quotations. Put on those Dowd Cans – speak into one end and hear exectly what you want to come out the other! – and listen up:
10. JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country, you greasy Dago bastard.”
8. Bill Clinton: “I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Sheeney McHebrewstein.”
6. Will Rogers: “I never met a man I didn’t like. On the other hand, I don’t know any chinks.”
2. Richard M. Nixon: “I. Am not. A Jew.”
1. America’s All-Time Longest-Serving Senator, Democrat Robert Byrd: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” [quote unaltered]
Over in the Mail, Gavin Esler asks:
The ugly question that won’t go away… Can America EVER unite behind a black President?
“…you ****!”
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Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)
The Anti-Obama Gadsden Flag Shows We’re All Hezbollah Now
IN Barack Obama’s Post-racial America, there is no race, there is only racism. Republican congressman from the South, Joe Wilson, heckles Obama during a speech on health reform to a joint session of Congress, belching, “You lie.”
So then former US President and author Jimmy Carter opines:
“There is a feeling among many people in this country that an African-American is not allowed to be president, not allowed to be given the same respect.”
The media world goes into spasm. Obama fields the question on child-rape enthusiast David Letterman’s show Says Barry:
“It’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.”
But other with vested interests speak up. Spike Lee is invited on Newsnight, the BBC politics show, to opine:
“I never drank that post-racial Kool-Aid. He [President Obama] was not Harry Houdini. He was not going to be ‘abracadabra, presto change-o’ overnight poof, racism disappears. I never thought that.”
Miranda Devine, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, tunes into the din:
The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd claimed she could hear the unspoken word ”boy” on Wilson’s lips as he heckled the President – which says more about her inner life than Wilson’s. “…what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: ‘You lie, boy!’ Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.”
Anyone else hear boy?
Then there was the Georgetown University sociologist Michael Eric Dyson, who claimed racism was proved by the fact Obama could be applauded for calling the African-Americans rapper Kanye West ”a jackass … But when he calls an anonymous white guy stupid by implication, he has to nearly apologise to the nation. How dare a black man stand in judgment of white intelligence?”
How dare a white man comment on the Cameroon national team, the West Indies or the Dizzee Rascal’s latest hit? How very dare you!
Personally, I tend to agree with President Carter. While certainly not all the anger being publicly vented today can be tied to racism, I believe there is an underlying current of it smoldering [sic] beneath the public discourse and no one dares to mention the pink elephant in the room. Carter was never afraid to speak his mind, which probably cost him a second term as president – Dr Judith Rich, Huff Po.
The headline screams:
COMMENTARY: Carter is right: It smacks of racism
And writing in the Guardian, Daniel Nasaw just knows:
Hundreds of thousands of angry conservatives flocked to Washington on 12 September to oppose Obama’s effort to provide healthcare for all Americans, his pouring of public money into the US economy to save it from collapse, and just about ¬everything else the new president has done or promised to do. The frothing-mad protesters carried signs denouncing the nation’s first African-American president as a Nazi, a socialist, a lump of human waste, the Joker from Batman, and, perhaps most disturbingly, an African witchdoctor.
Maaaaaad. Frothing mouthed. Rabid.
But thousands also carried the flag that is fast becoming a symbol of backlash against the president: a bellicose yellow banner depicting a rattlesnake poised to strike and bearing the slogan, “Don’t tread on me.” Known as the Gadsden flag for its purported creator, Colonel Christopher Gadsden, it was a revolutionary war-era naval standard that was carried into battle during the civil war and flown during both world wars.
Yellow banned with picture on the front held aloft by racist nutters. Where have we seen that before..?
The fury at the protests was palpable – a resentful amalgam of cultural, political and racial animosity levelled at a president…
Among the crowd specific complaints were few, giving the event the feel of a protest against a man and against history rather than any policies. The level of vitriol aimed at the president seemed out of whack with the substance of the grievances. What is it about Obama’s healthcare proposal that makes steam boil out of people’s ears?…
Although the participants in the protest were almost all white, the ¬ reality is more complicated than classic American Jim Crow racism…
In addition, many Americans who would not describe themselves as racists and who claim black acquaintances and listen to black music nevertheless hold deep-seated racial antipathy they are unlikely to express or acknowledge, even to themselves. With its signs and slogans ostensibly aimed at the president’s policies, the anti-Obama movement has given these people what seems like a legitimate way to express their discomfort at seeing a black man from Chicago’s South Side in the White House…
Perhaps the Gadsden flag will similarly re-emerge as a symbol for all Americans, not just reactionary Obama-haters. Next year in South Africa, anyone?
But the last word is with the cartoonist, who delivers this joyous rebuttal…
It’s not that they stick up for freedom and rights – it’s just that they’re on the other side.
Spotter: Barcepundit
Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann Returns To Portugal, In Pictures
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Kate McCann is in Portugal. This is the first time Kate McCann has bene in the country since being questioned by police over her daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.
Gerry McCann, her husband, is there with her.
Also there is Clarence Mitchell, PR for hire. Says he:
“It is Kate’s first visit back to Portugal since 2007 and it is difficult. It’s something that has always been daunting for her, but she knew she would go back at some stage – and she’s always said she’ll do anything necessary to keep the search for Madeleine alive.
“If it means a trip to speak to the Portuguese media, then so be it. But she’s always said she’ll do anything to keep the inquiry alive.”
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Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (20)
The Jaycee Lee Dugard Story Is Now A TV Film
JAYCEE Dugard Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jaycee Dugard in the news – Jaycee Lee TV film; Phillip Garrido’s non-crimes; the Press releases and how the pigs turned the Garrido compound into a pigsty…
Those widely published photos showing the squalid home where kidnapping-rape suspects Phillip Craig Garrido and wife Nancy Garrido lived outside Antioch were a bit misleading.
You mean the pictures of the pigsty sty and the filth?
The photos show rooms strewn with boxes, clothes, garbage and overturned furniture, and a kitchen sink overflowing with pots and pans. But a police investigator involved in the Garrido probe tells us the house on Walnut Avenue, while a bit messy, was hardly the pigsty portrayed in the photos – until the FBI, sheriff deputies and local police went through it.
Cops. Pigsty. Make the link.
“By time we got done, the place was a train wreck,” our source says. “We searched every nook and cranny.”
AUTHORITIES ended a week-long search on the property where Jaycee Dugard was allegedly held captive for 18 years. Police had been looking for evidence linking Phillip and Nancy Garrido, charged with kidnapping Dugard in 1991, to two other local child abductions from the late 1980s, but found no “definitive evidence”.
Can you have evidence that isn’t definite. Isn’t non-definite evidence no evidence at all, more of a clue?
But after an extensive effort in which archaeological experts and employees of multiple law enforcement agencies combed through more than an acre of land in blistering heat — some on their hands and knees — the search revealed no links to the 1988 abduction of Michaela Garecht or the 1989 disappearance of Ilene Misheloff. “While we did not locate any definitive evidence that provides answers, this operation still holds much value and much potential value,” Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey said. “We will walk away from these properties knowing that we left no stone unturned.”
Now to check the grounds of all other known rapists in the area as thoroughly – or is it easier just to check on the nutters you’ve already caught?
Mystery Behind Phillip Garrido’s “Black Box”
Every crash site has one:
Many former business associates of Phillip Garrido agreed he was strange. In the years leading up to his arrest for kidnapping Jaycee Dugard, Garrido was rarely without his so-called “Black Box.”
Right on time… Right on time…
“He said he had invented this device which would allow a person to speak without physically speaking and be heard by the listener,” said Contra Costa County private investigator, Ralph Hernandez. Garrido called Hernandez to help convince people his invention worked and wanted to get a patent for the device.
Can you patent a black shoe box?
“He said he was starting a new religion, he also said the box would let you hear voices from the other side and predict the future,” said Antioch businessman, Tim Allen. The black box looks like a small suitcase with a handle and a couple of jacks to attach headphones.
In laymen’s terms a ‘Godot Blaster’.
About one week before his arrest, Garrido asked a friend to keep the box for him. “I thought he was a total kook but I didn’t want to tell him that,” said Allen.
No, best until he is arrested for raping a child and then tell the media…
Parole panel in ’99 praised Garrido’s behavior out of prison
Nearly eight years after Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped, Phillip Garrido received a certificate from the U.S. Parole Commission lauding him for his behavior since his release from prison in 1988.
“You are hereby discharged from parole,” the March 9, 1999, certificate read. “After a thorough review of your case, the Commission has decided that you are deserving of an early discharge,” said the document signed by administrator Raymond E. Essex. “You are commended for having responded positively to supervision and for the personal accomplishment(s) you have made.
“The Commission trusts that you will continue to be a productive citizen and obey the laws of society.”
His obedience has yet to proven in a court of law, but as for being productive, he is keeping the media in work.
Jaycee Dugard – Fact Or Fiction?
“Go with your gut” is advice regularly given to women, whether the topic is health, relationships or security.
Says experts like…
Most recently the advice came from Judge Judy speaking on Larry King Live and by a guest commenting on the abduction of California schoolgirl Jaycee Dugard by Phillip Garrido in 1991.
Mentorn International is taking a documentary about the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard to Mipcom, billing it as the first in-depth doc about the 29-year-old.
Captive For 18 Years: The Jaycee Lee Story launches the new Cutting Edge series on Channel 4 on October 1 and features an interview with stepfather Carl Probyn – the first full-length interview that he has recorded, according to Mentorn.
The rape of a child , her impregnation and her kids – now that’s entertainment…
Business wire: “Statement of Former U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Attorney for Ms. Jaycee Dugard”
At their request, I met with Ms. Jaycee Dugard and her mother, Mrs. Terry Probyn, last week and offered to help Jaycee and her daughters on a pro bono basis as they move forward with their lives. As everyone can imagine, there are a host of legal issues that the family confronts, especially the prosecution of Jaycee’s abductors. In addition, the family faces an onslaught of media attention that the family understands but does not invite.
Terry Probyn asked me to pass on the following message of thanks from her:
“Jaycee, her daughters, and I are grateful for everyone’s generosity, kindness, and good wishes these past few weeks. Thank you. All of us are doing very well under the circumstances. We especially appreciate everyone recognizing that what we need most right now is to be allowed to become a family again within a zone of privacy and security. We hope that our story focuses attention on all of the children still missing, and on their need to be found. We must keep looking for them. As Jaycee shows, miracles can happen.”
The press release concludes:
We greatly hope members of the media respect the privacy of the Probyn and Dugard families during this time. Any inquiries can be made to me or Ms. Erika Price Schulte.
Privacy asked for in the media. Privacy secured.
Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Strictly Come Dancing: Arlene Phillips Naked And Alesha Dixon Shot
STRICTLY Come Dancing: It’s the row the media are itching to call Arlene-gate and many viewers are calling dull – will Alesha Dixon find her own way to hold a card with a number from 1 to 10 written on?
S&M Come Dancing
Daily Mirror (front page): “STRICCTLY GAGGED- Exclusive: Clamp over Arlene”
And now appearing in the fetish Gimp dance, motor-mouthed point scorer extraordinaire Arlene Philips….
Arlene Phillips Is Dead
“Strictly-ites, who happily scoffed as Arlene stumbled clumsily over her painfully scripted flights of alliteration, suddenly insist they miss her more fervently than their deceased relatives.” – Vanessa Feltz
Arm Done
So no comment on Arlene Phillips, as the BBC directive commands. And as Alesha Dixon tells the Radio Times, the BBC’s TV schedules organ:
“Maybe people wanted to start a catfight. But I didn’t see it as an argument between Arlene and me. We were just caught in the middle. I haven’t even spoken to her about it. Why would I? Was I wounded by some of the comments? Sure. Some of them were very stereotypical and judgmental.”
Arms off the table when you’re talking, Alesha. Arms. Arms. Arms.
“When I read that I only won in 2007 because I was half-naked, I did take that seriously. That’s not someone offering a considered opinion, that’s someone being a bitch.”
For sure: a considered opinion on a reality-TV show dance contest that isn’t a real contest is dull; bitchiness is entertaining.
Wattle. Wattle. Bingo Wings!
ARLENE PHILLIPS acted with dignity when she spoke out in support of ALESHA DIXON – the half-her-age singer who replaced her as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing.
But here’s betting that in the privacy of her own home she danced naked through her living room while shouting ‘whoop whoop’ and punching the air – Martel Maxwell, The Sun
They Shoot Horses
The Sun (front page): “Dance show stretched to 2hrs 15 minutes – Strictlt bum-numbing”
Strictly – hosted by Bruce Forsyth – will run from 7pm to 9.15pm to feature dances by 14 couples in its third-round show. The X Factor starts at 8pm and finishes at the same time.
Last man still watching wins.
Alesha Dixon The Metaphor
YESTERDAY London traders were not downbeat at the prospect of a Lib Dem mansion tax on their docklands pads. No, the assumption that the party will ever get to power in any real sense is an oxymoron but talk of a so-called Tobin tax could be more vexing. Nobel prize-winning economist James Tobin first proposed a tax on currency trading as far back as 1972. The idea, like Alesha Dixon on Strictly Come Dancing, was received with mixed reviews and it was not until the dying decade of last century that a think-tank proffered the suggestion that such a tax could apply to all financial transactions – Tim Jenkins, Western Mail
Your Scores, Puh-leeeeze
ALESHA Dixon-bashing shows no signs of abating, with a staggering 900 viewers complaining about the poor old former Mis-teeq singer’s turn on Strictly Come Dancing – Sun
Strictly Come Dancing is already under fire, with nearly 5,000 fans complaining about 66-year-old judge Arlene Phillips being replaced by Alesha Dixon, 30 – Star
Fact
What would Alesha have done if her pop career hadn’t worked out? Well, she’d have probably been a PE teacher. “I was really good at sports and pretty bossy – the perfect combination. I even did a diploma in sports studies,” she admits. – DS
The Criticism Writes Itself
How I longed to hear her brisk verdict on Kristina Rihanoff and the human wardrobe that is Joe Calzaghe. Joe is a gorgeous bloke and a great boxer, but he is to dancing what David Miliband is to romantic comedy. Kristina, the Siberian siren, was doing everything she could to loosen Joe up, short of making him a father on the spot. Alas, it was still like moving bits of heavy machinery. Alesha’s verdict on the couple was: ‘You was smelling her hair. It looked like you were smelling her hair at one point.’
Pitiful. I felt embarrassed for her.
Briefed by her BBC minders, Alesha dismisses the criticism against her as ‘a storm in a teacup’. Some teacup. She’s going to be in hot water for a while yet – Allison Pearson
Alesha Dixon Is this Year’s John Sergeant
There’s some bloke off EastEnders; a muscle-bound behemoth from Crimewatch, the Oxo Mum, a couple of soap actresses, some sporting has-beens, and… oh, I can’t be bothered to go on. There’s no John Sergeant to care about, no Cherie Lunghi to root for, no Austin Healey to lust after. Where are the personalities? Where is the glamour? The sex appeal? Where is the talent – even if it’s the talent to fail magnificently? – Liz Hunt, Telegraph
Where is the talent…eh?
Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Nicolas Cage’s Superman Audition Pictures
NICOLAS CAGE loves Superman. Just loves him. Cage gave Superman’s Krypton birth name to his own son KAL-EL.
Says he:
“I really like the movie. Each night I have dreams that I’m flying. I’m a real good floater in my sleep. But I wake up thinking the dream really did happen. My wife looks at me and sees I’m lifting up, wondering if I’m really going to leave the ground. It’s quite a wake-up call.”
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Posted: 22nd, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Raped Katie Price’s Married Man Confesses
IN “My nights with married man made Peter leave”, Katie Price “finally confesses”. The cover of OK! captures Katie in a cuddle with Andrew Gould and delivers the headline:
“WHY I CHOOSE MARRIED MAN ANDREW OVER PETER.”
This is the same Andrew Gould who told us:
He said: ‘All this fuss is over one drink I had with Kate. I’ve had drinks with lots of my clients but because she is famous, this has been turned into something it is not.’
But the cover of OK! shows you and Katie in an embrace and says Katie chose you over her husband…
Dressage coach Andrew, 28, angrily insisted he was “f***ing sick” of being portrayed as “the other man” in the couple’s troubled marriage.
Still:
SHAMELESS Kate Price has revealed all about the “sexy nights” that ended her marriage in another twist to her divorce saga. She has opened her heart about her relationship with dressage coach Andrew Gould that drove Peter Andre wild.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, OK! | Comment (1)
Kanye West On Suicide Watch As Obama Diss Pushes Him Closer To Edge
IN Kanye West’s “SUICIDE FEAR”, the NE tells readers that pop brat Kanye West will be visiting Switzerland, place of civic pride and suicide, to whisper in the ears of the morbid:
“Yo Hemingway, I’m really happy for you. I’ll let you finish, but Hitler had one of the best suicides of all time.”
The trust is no less shocking. As an “expert” tells us that the “disgraced rapper needs help for mental illness.”
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Posted: 22nd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, National Enquirer | Comments (3)
Scary 98lb Angelina Jolie Haunted By Jennifer Aniston
DO you know that Angelina Jolie weighs 98lbs? Well, she does. The National Enquirer can tell a person’s weight just by looking at them. One day the magazine will finally launch Weight Bitch, in which a reader can angle the magazine towards a work colleague or family members and learn that person’s true weight.
The NE gives hope to its readers, following the boastful headline figure with news on how to be as thin as Jolie. All you need is one Jennifer Aniston and to shag Brad Pitt.
IN “SCARY SKINNY ANGIE HAUNTED BY JEN – 98lb. star blames shocking weight loss on hated rival”, readers learn all about the Jolie Diet.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, National Enquirer | Comments (3)
Madeleine McCann: 1,000 New Leads To The Australian Beckham
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news: The Third Summer of Maddie, waylaid by Michael Jackson death and Katie Price and Peter Andre’s Tit ‘n’ Tat divorce, has moved into Maddie’s Autumn, as the media brings us threads of news.
Madeleine McCann remains in the news. The parents remain innocent. There are no suspects. There is no evidence of a crime. Now read on:
Daily Express: POSH SPICE’ APPEAL RAISES 1,000 LEADS IN MADDIE HUNT
THE parents of Madeleine McCann have launched a fresh bid to trace a Victoria Beckham lookalike after an appeal sparked 1,000 new leads.
This is the Vicky Beckham lookalike – the witness also described her as “a bit of a Victoria Beckham lookalike” seen pacing about Barcelona looking for a child, or not. And we know Madeleine was in Barcelona because the McCann’s private detective Dave Edgar put down the picture of fat Victoria Beckham to tell us:
“All we can do is try and keep public awareness high – and try and reach as much of that mountainous region outside the resort as we can.”
But Barcelona it is. As Edgar had told us earlier:
Mr Edgar added: “It’s a strong lead. Madeleine could have been in Barcelona by this point. The fact that the conversation took place near the marina could be significant. It is something we are looking at.”
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Posted: 22nd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (16)
Alesha Dixon Says Four Months Training Makes Her A Dance Expert
ALESHA Dixon of The Green Room, the youngest reality TV magistrate on Strictly Come Dancing – Obama’s pick, they say – tells the BBC that it’s “such a shqme” and “really important” to remember that “I do know what I’m talking about” because “I had four months of…training.”
Oh, Alesha, you’re cracking us up. You’re this year’s John Sergeant. Entertain. Entertain. Entertain.
Thanks for listening to our advice. Go for the laughs, Alesha.
You’re the Ellen Degeneres of the Dance Judiciary…
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Posted: 21st, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Bill Clinton’s Aural Histories: Boris Yeltsin Hailing A Taxi In His Underwear
BILL Clinton gave Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and civil rights historian, 79 oral history interviews. Those interviews now form part of a book.
Bill Clinton was reluctant to speak of Monica Lewinsky. Although Clinton told Branch the Lewinsky affair began because “I cracked; I just cracked“. Brand says he “lapsed”.
And then not without humour, perhaps, Branch tells us:
“He said he could have done worse. He could have blown something up.”
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Posted: 21st, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Kanye West Triggers Taylor Swift Hissy Fit
POP star Taylor Swift is now famous for being Kanye West’s foil, the stooge to his cream pie. Swift is on Tampa Bay’s MJ Morning Show fielding questions about music critic Kanye West:
So, Taylor, how did it feel to be work with Kanye?
Taylor Swift: “I really would appreciate it if we could talk about something else.”
The DJ carries on. So Mariah, how was it? C’mon, Mel B, tell us about meeting Kanye? Was it the wost moment of your life (checks researcher’s notes), Lulu?
He wants to know how it felt. How did it feel? How did it feel?
TS: “I’ve asked you three times, and I’m trying to be nice.”
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Posted: 21st, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Omer Bhatti Plays Michael Jackson And Armed Joe Jackson Foresaw His Son’s Death
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Omer Bhatti, the man who is not Michael Jackson’s secret love child is to star as Michael Jackson in a new film about the King Of Prop (ofol). Or as the Sun says:
MICHAEL Jackson’s secret “lovechild” is to play him in a new movie about the King of Pop’s glory years.
This is Omer Bhatti, who met Jackson when he was 12 and who says he is not Jackson’s son?
Omer Bhatti is the boy who Jacko “is said to have told pals in 2004 that 25-year-old Omer was his son from a one-night stand.”
What more proof do you need?
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Posted: 21st, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Katie Price’s Rape In Pictures
IN “JORDAN: HATE MOB WILL GET ME”, the Daily Star has news of Jordan, you know, the former Mrs Peter Andre, the former Page 3 Girl known to celebrity insiders as Katie Price? Well, she’s back in the news:
KATE Price is terrified she will be targeted by hate mobs after facing the most brutal backlash of her life. The model has increased security after a baying crowd turned on her at boyfriend Alex Reid’s cage fight.
Katie Price is so concerned about her security she’s gone to watch a cage fight.
Things were nastier outside the ring than in it, as booing fans screamed insults and shouted in her face.
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Posted: 21st, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (43)
Alesha Dixon Is Strictly’s Ellen Degeneres
ALESHA Dixon, is not a real judge, just as Strictly Come Dancing is not a real dance contest. Dixon is the show’s totty, there to give better arms, breasts and neck than Arlene Phillips, the judge who dispensed wisdom with a wattle.
Dixon was meant to be the show’s answer to the X Factor’s weepy Cheryl Cole, who was added to that show’s magistrate’s panel not in place of the older Dannii Minogue but in addition, offering viewers an advertorial for before and after plastic surgery.
But things are not working out for Dixon, who has missed becoming the show’s Cheryl to be this season’s John Sergeant, or the X Factor’s Chico of any number of hampless but amusing acts that make these show’s bearable.
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Posted: 21st, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
Madeleine McCann: New Prime Suspect As Child Snatched On Beach
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news: A child is stolen on a Cyrus beach, Ben Needham is missing. Madeleine McCann is a keyword and Donal MacIntyre identifies the prime suspect…
The Sun: “Stranger snatched Brit tot, 2, off holiday isle beach”
A MUM told yesterday how a stranger snatched her two-year-old son off a beach on a sunshine island – as she watched in horror. The man grabbed little Presley Cassell and fled.
Horror:
The toddler’s dad Nicholas gave chase and grabbed Presley back 30 yards down the beach in Cyprus before the kidnapper could reach a car. Presley’s mum Keeley, 33, said: “He just picked up Presley and ran off down the beach. It happened right in front of our eyes. It was every parent’s nightmare.”
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Posted: 21st, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (8)
Michael Jackson Pollutes Officer La Toya’s Crime Scene With Sulphur Hexafluoride
DID you know that Michael Jackson “didn’t like Pepsi”; that he had a deep voice; and that Officer La Toya Jackson takes care with her plate?
You know Pepsi, the one who held Shirley back? And not only that, but Jackson didn’t like the the drinks brand called Pepsi, the one he worked for when his hair caught fire, the treatment for which, as popular conjecture goes, began his descent into the drug abuse that finally killed him.
Well, story goes that Jackson was not all that keen on Pepsi Cola. What are the odds?
“I hate Pepsi. I hated doing that dumb commercial,” Jackson reportedly said during a taped interview with the ghost writer of his autobiography Moonwalk.
“The only thing I liked about it was working with the children.”
More from Moonwalk:
NoTW: “Hear secret Michael Jackson tapes – Shock Neverland tapes reveal what Jacko really thought about family”
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Posted: 20th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
SADOS Befriend Kate Moss At Topshop Fashion Show
AT the Topshop Unique Spring/Summer ’10 catwalk show during London Fashion Week at the Topshop Venue, University of Westminster in London, Anorak spots the Sados (Sons and Daughters of Stars), for whom the Celebrity Petri Dish is not only small but fraught with the peril of incest.
So whose children wer at the show?
Peaches Geldof was there. She’s the daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paul Yates. Jamie Winstone was there. She’s the daughter of actor Ray Winstone, and dressed for the evening as Willy Wonka’s “tool“.
Before you know the X Factor and the Simon Cowell factory, realise that without it all celebs would have webbed feet and matching genitals.
Also there is Chloe Green, who says:
“I’m designing my own fashion range, which is really exciting. My father knows that this is what I want to do and is fully supportive. It helps because of what he does for a living and I’ve grown up in the business.”
Chloe Green’s dad is Sir Philip Green, billionaire owner of the Arcadia Group.
As we’ve said bfore being a SADO must be like turning up at the orgy to find mum handing out the towels and dad’s ghost writer taking notes.
Also there was Kate Moss, who is not rlated to anyone famous, although she did once befiorend Peter Doherty.
Talent is relative.
Posted: 20th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
How Manchester United Beat Manchester City In 97 Minutes And Eight Seconds
MANCHESTER United defeat Manchester City 4-3 and the media reacts to Michael Owen’s goal in the 96th minute of match that runs for 90 minutes with 4 minutes of added time:
The Old Trafford Time Zone
* Fergie’s mythical magical stopwatch still reigns supreme at Old Trafford. As the four minutes of stoppage time originally signaled by the fourth assistant came and went, the question, ‘HOW much added time are they playing?’ in the MirrorFootball office was answered – prophetically, as it happened – by one resident Man United fan: ‘As much as it takes’ – Mirror
Play To The Whistle
* City manager Mark Hughes was seeking an explanation from referee Martin Atkinson as Owen’s goal came five minutes and 26 seconds into four minutes of added time” – Reuters
* “I have not had a word with the referee yet but the the fourth official (Alan Wiley) tried to give me an explanation of sorts as I was questioning the amount of time added on even before the game finished,” said [Mark] Hughes. His explanation did not sit comfortably with me. He said a minute plus had been added because of our celebration. We scored on 90 minutes, the board was already up for four minutes, so Mr Wiley said he was going to add that minute on.
“The amount of time from when we scored to when we kicked-off was something like 45 seconds. He has got that wrong as well. It was 95 minutes 26 seconds.
“Obviously he has played too much time and we ended up playing 97 minutes. I just needed an explanation as to why so much time was needed. United were given a little more time than they should have been given to get the goal… It would be nice to get an explanation but I don’t think I will” – BBC
The Timeline
* This probably won’t make it , but here is an explanation of the 6 minutes of added time:
From re-winding the Match, Craig Bellamy scored City’s 3rd on 89:55. The game does not restart until 91:01. One minute and six seconds have been wasted and will be added onto the original four minutes of added time, taking it to at least 95:06. Michael Carrick was brought on to replace Anderson. All substitutions add 30 seconds onto added time, taking it to 95: 36
Owen scored the winner on 95:28, meaning the game was still 8 seconds within added time – Football 365
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Posted: 20th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Alesha Dixon Quits Strictly Come Dancing, Gordon Brown Agrees
STRICTLY Come Dancing judge Alesha Dixon has quit the show. Gordon Brown agrees with the verdcit. Well, not yet. Brown wants to see which way the Sun opts for before making his decision known. Meantime, Dixon is more likely to be Youth Dance Czar than fall foul of Brown. But the tabloids want her to go.
Dixon tells Daily Star readers: “I’ll beat Strictly Boo Boys”
Dixon is the youngest celebrity magistrate since Vanessa Feltz. And she’s fight back as the critics don the black cap and order that Alesha Dixon be taken from his place and hung until dead, or BBC 3 give her a chat show:
“STRICTLY CLUELESS,” laments the Mirror’s front page:
Fans demand dull judge Alesha quits show after ‘so boring’ verdicts.
And those are her fans.
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Full Details Of Katie Price’s Rape
ONE whole day on from news that Katie Price would no longer speak of her rape, the News of The World screams:
Jordan relives agony of her sex ordeal
JORDAN today reveals shocking details of her rape by a mystery TV celebrity for the first time. The 31-year-model ended up in bed with the star at a drunken party in London – only for him to turn nasty when she said she didn’t want sex.
Does she? Before we discover the truth, reach under the duvet and grab hold of the details:
“I said no – but he wouldn’t take no for an answer,” she confided to a pal. “He said ‘How about a b***j**’. I was horrified and burst into tears,” she told her friend. Now every time I see his face on TV I shudder. It brings back such horrible memories.”
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Madeleine McCann Case Solved: What Happened To Her
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news: Donal MacIntyre knows what happened to Our Maddie. It’s front-page news in the Sunday Express:
MADELEINE: WORLD EXCLUSIVE – I KNOW HOW SHE WAS TAKEN. By… Donal MacIntyre.
Yeah, the guy from the telly who investigated football hooligans and ended up being beaten up by friends of the acting hooligan his work helped send down. He knows. Want to know what he knows? The Sunday Express has front-page news:
MADELEINE McCann was abducted by at least two kidnappers who must have carried out several dry runs in the days leading up to her disappearance.
Facts.
After spending a week on the ground investigating the case and the methods used by the kidnappers, I can only conclude that they must have entered the apartment to carry out a rehearsal, because they were working to an incredibly tight schedule.
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Posted: 20th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (40)
X Factor And Strictly Come Dancing Go To War
THE BBC has “let Britain down”, says Simon Cowell, to Sun readers.
Simon Cowell is “STRICTLY SEETHING” with “fury” at BBC “over X Factor clash with Rival show”.
The X Factor is on the telly at the same time as Strictly Come Dancing. This is a crisis of democracy that splits voters between voting for a dumpy stage school also-ran or the part-trained non-dancing celebrity.
Both shows are on at the same as YouTube, which features lots of undiscovered singers who can sing well and any number of nonentities not dancing well.
Cowell said: “It is the wrong decision for the simple reason the public don’t want it to happen. They are the two most popular shows on TV and the fact they go out at the same time is crazy. Everyone knows that.”
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Posted: 19th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Nine Year-Old Schoolboy Turns Into A Girl
AFTER the shock news that a 12-year-old boy had returned to school from summer holidays wearing yellow ribbons in longer hair, had a girls name and had caused one parent to complain, the Mirror delivers:
“NOW BOY 9 IS A GIRL.”
This is what happens when you holiday in a French camp site, mums and dads, or let kids swallow swimming pool water. This is Sissy Watch, and the Sun pushes the Mirror over in the playground and yells:
Classmates of the nine-year-old sex-change boy were told he had left and been replaced by a girl. The pupil returned to school the next day – in female uniform, with long hair in a ponytail, tied in pink ribbon.
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Posted: 19th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
