Well not so much a tagged as an environmentally friendly note. Looks like someone took 5 seconds to make a sign and bravely risk life and limb to cross the massive throng surrounding wildly popular possible presidential candidate’s Sarah Palin’s tour bus. Oh, she’s not popular you say? Another crazy hath dethroned the moose-loving bull dog? Well she had a good run, and like any horse-face put out to pasture, can enjoy her waning years galavanting free of attention.

 

 

Via DListed.

In “random photo shoots of the day,” famed silver spooner Ivanka Trump has taken to the pages of Harpers Baazar pregnant and… in a Playboy Bunny costume?

Trump naturally extols the virtues of her fame whore father, saying:

“I think he’s exactly what we need. He’s the best equipped to deal with the most important issues this nation has, which is ultimately that we’re suffering under a massive burden of debt.”

“We need a very acute financial mind to get us out of this mire.”

With every praise of a candidate like Trump, who dropped out after the issue was published, there’s the obligatory Obama dig.

“Of course [once he was elected] I wanted him to succeed, but he’s proven to be a very ineffective leader,” she says of Obama.

“He has just not risen to the occasion. He doesn’t have business experience or a business mind.”

Naturally this interview occurred pre-Osama bin Laden, but I’m sure that too would’ve been a Bush-era win, and have nothing to do with Obama, right?

Image from Harpers Bazaar.

 

In news that will shock no one, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced publicly that he had a child with an unnamed staff member over a decade ago. The woman passed of the bastard kid as her and her husband’s, so Maria was none the wiser. Those silly Kennedy’s will never learn!

When the former governor finally broke the silence, he had this to say:

“After leaving the governor’s office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago. I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I am truly sorry.

I ask that the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time. While I deserve your attention and criticism, my family does not. “

Btw this image came up when I Googled “Arnold love child,” so I’ll let that marinate your eyeballs for the rest of the day.

 

Talk about cojones!

While being honored with the Beacon of Change award before a Braves game in Atlanta, Georgia at their annual Civil Rights Game yesterday, Carlos Santana criticized the states tough immigration laws going as far as to tell the people of Georgia that they “should be ashamed of [themselves].”

Just days prior, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, signed a bill similar to the controversial law in Arizona that allows law enforcement to check immigration status at will.

Says Santana:

“This law is not correct. It’s a cruel law, actually,” Santana, who emigrated to San Francisco in the 1960s, said after the ceremony. “This is about fear. Stop shucking and jiving. People are afraid we’re going to steal your job. No, we aren’t. You’re not going to change sheets and clean toilets. …

“This is the United States. This is the land of the free. If people want the immigration laws to keep passing, then everybody should get out and leave the American Indians here.”

Not to get too political, but can you imagine the awkwardness? You come for a leisurely day of overpriced beer and a boring sport and instead have to listen to a bunch of rednecks react to Santana’s criticism? Actually, that sounds kind of awesome…

Image from Washington Post.

Famewhore fail.

Choosing his mediocre reality show (aka cash cow) over a presidential run (aka cash black hole), the ever-humble Donald Trump released a statement today saying he’s bowing out of the 2012 race.

Quoth the combed-over one:

“After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country. I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election. I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.”

I would have thought that Trump would limp through another few months (all the while providing awesome fodder for The Daily Show), but alas, it’s back to Celebrity Apprentice.

They survived 25 years of marriage and glaringly opposite political views, but the former California “governator” and his robot skeleton wife are donesies.

After a roller coaster term as governor, Schwarzenegger and Shriver’s marriage hit some cliche territory when rumors of movie-set gropings and philandering plagued Ah-nold. Living separate lives for some time now, Shriver has thrived in non-profit work and even guest edited the mighty O’s eponymous magazine while Schwarzenegger mused about revamping his movie career.

The two have four moderately attractive and seemingly well-adjusted children, and met back in 1977 thanks to, of all people, Tom Brokaw.

Damn that sexy political goddess, Hillary Clinton. Deemed too provocative for the Situation Room with the boys, one Hasidic Newspaper in New York City ‘shopped the Secretary of State out of the now infamous reaction shot to Osama bin Laden’s death last week.

According to Jewish Week, the niche Hasidic paper Der Zeitung digitally removed Clinton from the photo because it “will not intentionally include any images of women in the paper because it could be considered sexually suggestive.” Come again? Call me an ultra modern feminist, but last time I checked a woman in a sensible pantsuit at the right hand of the leader of the free world doesn’t exactly conjure up images of Neanderthal sexy times.

Der Zeitung is allegedly planning a retraction next week thanks to the kerfuffle.

Image courtesy nymag.com

From our bro blog, LAgeekly

Escandalo! South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, first embarrassed by the revelation that his five days spent “missing” were actually in the arms of an Argentinean mistress, is now confronted with alleged emails between himself and his lover.

The emails, which were published by South Carolina’s The State, read like something out of a romance novel by a well, schmarmy politician. I think our personal favorite is the bullet pointed “one, two, three and finally” list of roadblocks and confusions that the Governor laments to Maria (full name withheld).

“Two, mutual feelings …. You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, that would be going into sexual details …”

It’s one thing to have a mistress (who doesn’t, but it’s entirely another to be a high-profile politician who had the gall to lie to everyone about his whereabouts (hiking the Appalachians) then disappear for five days, only to be caught and forced to hold a national conference.

Legs. Tail. Insert between.

Good luck with that 2012 Presidential campaign buddy!