The Week in Gossip: Politics, Pistols, and a Bunch of B.S.

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Tempting Timberlake directs his fans to “Vote in the Box.” All of Hollywood is partaking in this movement to sway young peeps to exercise their democratic right to vote; most celebs just cross their fingers and cuss a lot to get the point across. But when JT croons, all the girls swoon, so he rocked an off-the-cuff version of his Emmy-winning SNL ditty at a Vegas “Last Chance for Change” rally last weekend.

KILL YOUR SATURDAY NIGHT PLANS. Sarah Palin is set to appear on SNL this weekend. “It would be fun to meet her, imitate her and keep on giving her new material,” said Palin about potentially sharing the stage with Tina Fey. A certain someone obviously doesn’t realize that the world isn’t laughing with her—just at her. But we’ll keep the vice-presidential nominee in the dark for the time being. I mean, that’s where she’s most comfortable, yeah?

Quote of the Week: “If she wins, I’m done . . . And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth,” said Tina Fey to TVGuide on the topic of Sarah Palin. Whether Fey’s “leaving Earth” would be prompted by the demands of having to impersonate Palin week-after-week for the next four years or the mere idea of a Palin vice-presidency is left to our interpretation, but for the sake of being objective, I’ll tell you—she means the latter. (more…)

Daily News Roundup: the LAPD’s Sticky Fingers

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Courtesy of midnightresearch.com

Troubling Findings Regarding LAPD and Fingerprints Today’s Los Angeles Times has published a very frightening piece. It seems the LAPD wrongly implicated people for crimes based on finger prints that erroneously “identified them as suspects.”

Luckily for us, this confidential report is now in the open. How widespread such mistakes have been is not yet clear and the department is now in full internal investigation throttle. That it occurred at all is cause for worry.

Obama and McCain Trade Some Earnest Jokes at Dinner The rivals got together to speak at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity event held by upper crust New York. After Wednesday’s fraught exchange, the two maintained calm, friendly and even self-deprecating miens. While McCain joked he would fire his advisers in favor of Joe the Plumber, Obama chuckled, and wondered where the Greek columns he’d requested were. He also mockingly explained his name meant “that one” in Swahili while McCain indicated Obama’s nickname for him must be “George Bush.” Guess politicians can always unite on their ability to be…politicians.

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Amuse Bouche: A P+P Exclusive Video of McCain’s Facial Tics

Friday, October 17th, 2008

I don’t have a TV, and while I was *listening* to the debate on Wednesday, everyone kept talking about McCain’s crazy facial expressions. Well. CSPAN threw it up on YouTube, and I gotta say: duly impressed.

For all you peeps like me, who didn’t get a chance to see it firsthand (and everyone who wants to relive the magic of the moment!) I threw together a little vid with some of the highlights set to Justice’s “We Are Your Friends (Never Be Alone.)” Enjoy!