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31
Mar

Want to Know More About Joe Biden’s Daughter? Snow Problem!

By Simon Scowl 90 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: U.S. Left-wing Politicos

ashley-bidenAre you a fan of the War on Drugs? Sure, who isn’t? And over the years, there’s been no bigger drug warrior than Vice President Joe Biden. As a senator, he championed laws against shipping drug paraphernalia though the mail, going to raves, and using marijuana for medical reasons. He helped create the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He even coined the term “drug czar.” So if you or someone you know has been affected by America’s draconian approach to drug enforcement, or if you just get a kick out of your tax money being thrown at one failed drug-prevention effort after another, you can thank your old buddy Joe.

Which makes it particularly interesting that his daughter Ashley might have been caught on video snorting cocaine.

Continue reading ‘Want to Know More About Joe Biden’s Daughter? Snow Problem!’

31
Mar

Madonna Tours Malawi in $2,800 Worth of Chanel

By Holly Won't 45 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Fashionistas, Musicians, PETA and The Washed Up

madonna_chanel_malawiYou’d think that the image-obsessed Madonna would take pains not to flash her conspicuous consumption while adopting a second Malawi infant. Especially after the controversy she courted the last time, what with the bribes and so forth.

But you’d think wrong.

The Material Girl arrived in Malawi via private jet on Sunday morning, then toured the impoverished African nation in a Chanel tracksuit that retails for $2,800. HuffPo has the sartorial details:

After arriving she toured an impoverished school but refused to talk to reporters. She was, in the words of the AP, “dressed casually” in a black velour tracksuit and white fedora. But that casual look costs about $2,800.

A look at the photos shows her dressed-down attire is a Chanel tracksuit, tone-on-tone labels blazing from her shoulder and the stripes down her leg. Huffington Post placed a call to the 57th Street store in New York Monday with a casual inquiry, and a helpful saleswoman priced a similar ensemble at $2,800.

A zip front jacket is $1,600 and the pants about $1,200. A cheaper alternative to the one Madonna wore in Malawi is the $1,200 pullover jacket.

Now obvs she can afford it. And as someone who’s a bit label-obsessed myself, I can’t fault her for wanting the best.

But seriously? She can’t have forgotten the hullabaloo when she adopted David, as she worked hard to protect her brand against that criticism. Still, wearing a jacket that says CHANEL on the sleeves is hardly discreet. Because nothing refutes the “white colonialist purchasing a native infant as an accessory” stereotype like Chanel and a PJ.

30
Mar

Bill O’Reilly Sends Producer to Stalk Critic of Rape Comments

By Holly Won't 90 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Crazy People, Television Stars, U.S. Right-Wing Politicos and Writers

oreilly_journalismBill O’Reilly might want to explain this before I start stalking and harassing him myself:

Then there’s Bill O’Reilly, who sent one of his producers to creepily stake out, stalk, and harass ThinkProgress writer Amanda Terkel . . . at a conference for victims of rape. O’Reilly was apparently speaking at the conference, and ThinkProgress had the temerity to protest, given that O’Reilly in the past has made the “she was asking for it” argument about a rape victim or two (not to mention that he’s been subject to his own sexual harassment allegations).

The usually reasoned Radley Balko’s claim was so out there that I had to read Terkel’s account for myself and yeah, that’s my jaw on the floor.

In summary, Terkel’s website ThinkProgress.org questioned why O’Reilly was invited to speak at a fundraiser for the Alexa Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting rape survivors, after O’Reilly made controversial comments about what a college student was wearing the night she was raped and killed in 2006.

So O’Reilly responded by sending Jesse Watters, a producer for The O’Reilly Factor, and a cameraman to follow Terkel in a tan SUV as she left Washington for a private weekend vacation. The two men confronted her after following her for two hours to a hotel in rural Virginia and demanded an apology from her for bringing up Bill O’Reilly’s comments about that 2006 rape victim, which included:

“She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at 2 in the morning.”

Terkel understandably refused to apologize. Honestly, if it had been me, Watters and his buddy would have been lucky not to be maced.

And the truly WTF moment: Watters filmed the whole thing, although the footage has not yet aired. Perhaps because it’s completely in bad taste. (Update: Video can now be viewed here.)

Terkel concludes with this bone-chilling observation:

The main issue remains: O’Reilly should offer an apology/explanation of why, when a woman is raped and murdered, it’s relevant what she was wearing or how much she was drinking. O’Reilly never asked me for a statement nor invited me on his show before sending Watters to harass me. Since I’m a 5 ft, 100 pound woman with an opinion that he doesn’t like, perhaps O’Reilly believes I deserve to be treated this way.

(Thanks to loyal reader Toby for the tip.)

30
Mar

Earth Hour Definitely Isn’t a Bunch of Crap

By Simon Scowl 35 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Crazy People, Environmentalists, The Religious and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

You celebrated Earth Hour last Saturday night, didn’t you? Turned off all your lights between 8:30 and 9:30? Of course you did. Because otherwise you’d be denying that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING, which is as bad as denying the Holocaust or the moon landing. Oh, who am I kidding? It’s worse!

You know you’ve got a hit on your hands when even New Yorkers are cooperating:

The Empire State Building, City Hall, the United Nations, most Broadway theaters and other Big Apple landmarks will turn off their lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. for the second worldwide Earth Hour.

“It’s a good reminder to everybody that we are in charge of our destiny,” said Mayor Bloomberg. New York will join nearly 3,000 cities in 82 countries to honor the hour.

The Las Vegas strip will go dim, the Eiffel Tower won’t shine and the Golden Gate Bridge will go black.

Yay! I was kind of worried that the Earth was going to be destroyed, but now that the most prosperous society in the history of the world has bumbled around in the dark for a whole hour in a completely arbitrary show of Ludditism, I think we’re gonna be okay.

Continue reading ‘Earth Hour Definitely Isn’t a Bunch of Crap’

30
Mar

DECEIVER MADNESS: The Artificial Eight

By The Oversneer 69 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Crazy People, Deceiver Madness, Environmentalists, Fashionistas, Legal Messes, Movie Stars, PETA, Scientology, Television Stars, The Religious, The Washed Up and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

deceivermadnesslogo091Eight celebrities. Four matchups. And only one blog where you can see the carnage first-hand.

If you want a replay of this weekend’s amazing NCAA action, you’ve come to the wrong place. (ESPN is that-a-way…). But if you need your bracket fix between now and next Saturday, well… we’re suddenly the only show in town, now aren’t we?

(Mwah-ha-HA-ha-ha-ha-ha….!)

As always, you pick the winners. And this is the big-time. These Regional Final skirmishes will send half the contestants packing, and the other half to the “Phony Four.”

You know you’ve been waiting for this moment — you and about 20,000 of your closest friends. So now it’s time to step up, fire a long jumper, and elevate your game.

Or you could just dispense with the hoops metaphors, and vote for the famous phonies who turned out to be the biggest hypocrites in their entire brackets.

Yeah, that’s it. Do that instead of the weak-ass basketball stuff. Go ahead.

Continue reading ‘DECEIVER MADNESS: The Artificial Eight’

29
Mar

DECEIVER MADNESS: Week 4 Prize Patrol

By The Oversneer 6 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Deceiver Madness

deceivermadnesslogo09Here’s the official list of prizes for Week 4 of Deceiver Madness. Prizes for Week 3 were awarded last Friday.

Prizes will be awarded by a random drawing of commenters on all Deceiver Madness polls held between March 30 and April 2. A special “grand prize” will be announced on April 3 for voters in the final championship poll.

Entries are limited to one per person, per blogpost that includes any polls. So you can enter a total of two times this week.

Winners will be notified by e-mail and announced on this website. And the grand prize will be announced by Friday morning. Good luck to everyone!

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27
Mar

Sleazy Michael Lohan Wishes He Was Cool Like Jamie Spears

By Holly Won't 17 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Movie Stars and Musicians

michael_lohan_in_cuffsMichael Lohan’s official job seems to be to make me stabby.

The worst possible father figure I can imagine must have decided fellow pop star papa Jamie Spears has a pretty good gig as conservator of Britney’s fortune, for which he is paid $192,000 a year.

So like all good dads, Michael Lohan wants to get Lindsay declared incompetent so he can spend her money:

Now Michael is hoping to follow Britney’s dad’s example and take control of his daughter’s affairs.

He adds, “Finally Britney’s father did take control and she got her life back together.

“But Britney didn’t have Samantha Ronson in her life. Lindsay is my daughter and I love her but I’m not there to be a friend, I’m here to be a parent.

“If Lindsay doesn’t like that or is angered by what I have to say, quite frankly I don’t care because.”

Only Michael Lohan is no Jamie Spears. I think his final line is telling. He ends on “because” because he doesn’t have any standing given all the bullshiz he’s put his family soon. Just sayin’.

Moreover, I don’t know if Michael is up on his pop culture history, but Britney had actual, legendary leeches of her own. Namely Sam Lutfi and cousin Alli Sims — both of whom were worse than the long-suffering Samantha Ronson, who at least seems genuine to me.

27
Mar

THE SNARK SIXTEEN: Prize Patrol and Winners from the “Activists” & “Douchebags” Brackets

By The Oversneer 7 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Crazy People, Deceiver Madness, Fashionistas, PETA, Socialites, Television Stars and Writers

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Let’s get the Week Three prizes out of the way first.

We’ll be sending a $100 Best Buy gift card to “luscious_t.” The $50 ESPN Shop gift card goes to “Loop the Lup.” Two Deceiver.com t-shirts will be adorning “The Irish.” And the goofy gift bag of Scientology swag? Well, “invyzible” is stuck with the Booby Prize this week.

If you’re a winner, drop us an e-mail (tips@deceiver.com) and let us know where to send your loot.

If not, keep voting! New goodies arrive after the weekend. we promise.

And now for the moment the rest of you have been waiting for… We had zero (count ‘em!) zero upsets in these two Snark Sixteen matchups, folks. These were solid wins — no squeakers — and it makes me wonder if the world will come to a premature end in a massive ball of fire during the next round. Unstoppable forces, immovable objects, and all that…

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peta -WIN- mills

One of these two powerhouses will be your Activist representative in the Phony Four. They’re both congenitally full of it. They’re both more arrogant than Simon Cowell. And they both make stripping it all off a part of their “charm.”

Can you pick a favorite? Me neither. It’s like having to choose between Wal-Mart and K-Mart. Luckily, we can judge them from a distance, right?

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hiltonperez -WIN- banks

And in what has trned out to be the most surprising bracket of all, Perez Hilton and Tyra Banks are your two remaining Douchebags.

Not Jeremy Piven. Not the Montag-Pratt connection. Not even Martha Stewart. (I thought she had an outside shot on the strength of the horrible chicken-baking incident.)

Nope. It’s these two.The jerk-wad and ol’ poopypants.

But you picked ‘em. And one of these douchetastic celebrities will face the PETA-pegleg winner. So think ahead as you vote next week, people.

I feel so dirty.

Poll results and updated brackets areafter the jump.

Continue reading ‘THE SNARK SIXTEEN: Prize Patrol and Winners from the “Activists” & “Douchebags” Brackets’

27
Mar

Perez Hilton Sticks to His Guns (and to Everything Else He Touches)

By Simon Scowl 23 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Musicians and Writers

The calorically-encumbered bumblef*** has never been known for a high degree of self-awareness, but this one is moronic even by his standards. He’s deeply concerned about a tattoo Rihanna just got:

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Do you know what you do when you’re young and you have too much money? You fly your favorite tattoo artist out to tat up your friend, and then you get some dumb tattoos of your own! According to Life & Style, Rihanna flew artist BangBang out from New York last week. A “big advocate of guns” (in case the name didn’t give it away), BangBang tells the mag he suggested a tattoo of a firearm after RiRi rejected several other sketches. They toyed with the idea of placing the tattoo on her shoulders but eventually decided against it considering RiRi’s Cover Girl status. So the violent image ended up under her ribs.

Oh no, a violent image! Kinda like this one, from his dumb store:

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When he heard that everybody thinks he’s oozy, he thought they said an Uzi. If you want one of these fine shirts, they come in 5 sizes: S, L, XL, XXL, and Perez.

Do you know what you do when you’re fat and you have too much money?

26
Mar

CNN is Running Out of Religions to “Respect”

By The Oversneer 80 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses, Newscasters and The Religious

Have you seen this gem by über-cartoonist and Pulitzer winner Pat Oliphant? It ran in Wednesday’s Washington Post, and in hundreds of other papers around the world. (Oliphant is the most widely syndicated political cartoonist alive.)

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Many prominent Jews are, understandably — how should I put this? — miffed. Nonplussed. Anti-Defamation League national director Abe Foxman had the choicest quote:

Pat Oliphant’s outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic.  It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition.  The implication is of an Israeli policy without a head or a heart.

Full disclosure: I’m not Jewish. But I see his point. I mean — look at the cartoon! It’s disturbing stuff. And it’s right there on CNN where everyone can see it.

cnn-cartoonWha-wha-whaaaaaa? That just can’t be!

I mean, CNN wouldn’t show the now-famous Danish cartoons of Muhammed in 2006. “CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons,” the network said back then, “out of respect for Islam.”

Double-standard? Maybe one for religions whose extreme wing CNN has reason to fear (not t obe confused with “respect”). And another for everyone else.

Remember “The Holy Virgin Mary” by the British artist Chris Ofili? He used elephant dung and images of female genitalia to depict the mother of Jesus. CNN showed it.

And I can’t be sure, but I’d swear the first time I saw Andreas Serrano’s controversial photograph of a crucifix in a jar of urine, it was on CNN too.

Can the Chosen People just get a little respect? Probably not.

Hat Tip: Deceiver reader Daniel. Thanks!

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