Joy Behar, Ann Coulter debate Sarah Palin

I know the title sounds like you are at the Cougar exhibit at the zoo but was actually a segment on Joy Behar's new show on HLN (check it out).

I love Joy Behar, and I love to hate Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter so this made for a very interesting segment for me. Enjoy:

Protect the insurance companies! ;)

Check out this funny "PSA" done by some celebs including Will Farrell, Jon Hamm, and others. A sarcastic, but poignant commentary on the current healthcare debate and the "neverending suffering" of the insurance companies and their executives.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

President Obama calls Kanye a jackass *audio*

Here is the audio of President Obama speaking "off the record" with some reporters before his appearance on CNBC yesterday.

Listen to in HERE

Meghan McCain, E.D. Hill to guest co-host The View

Meghan McCain, the outspoken daughter of not-President John McCain, will join the panel of ladies on the View in September. She will be filling in for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who is home with her latest conservative creation.

McCain was a supporter of her father but is also an outspoken supporter of the NOH8 Campaign and has spoken in favor of gay marriage. "I was so honored to be asked to pose for the NOH8 campaign. I am a proud member of the Republican Party and a proud supporter of marriage equality" Meghan said in an interview; "Marriage equality is not just a Democrat or Republican issue, it is a human one"

E.D. Hill is another story. This Ann Coulter wannabe used to spout her conservative vitriol on Fox News, but her Coulter-esque comments were even too much for Fox. She lost her show and left the network after commenting that President and Mrs. Obama's fist bump was a "terrorist fist jab". Yeah, she should be fun to watch with Joy.

Both women have been guest co-hosts in the past. I like Meghan McCain, I don't like E.D. Hill; but I'll watch both. The fireworks from these women make for good TV. I'm not as big a fan of the "kindler, gentler View". I miss the shouting matches between Hasselbeck and Rosie. Hey, maybe put Rosie on with E.D. Hill. We'll see how long it takes Rosie to climb over that oak table and strangle her.

Kathy Griffin does NOH8 video

Kathy Griffin not only posed with her team and mother for NOH8 portraits but also did a PSA for them! Check it out below. (If you're at work, turn down your sound a bit...she uses words I'm not allowed to say around my mom)

Enjoy :)

Brad Pitt has the right idea

Brad Pitt joined Bill Maher recently. The two discussed acting, Hollywood, politics, and their mutual hobby...rolling joints. Well, Brad stopped once he had kids but Bill's still an herbal fan.

Here's a clip from their conversation where Brad discusses religion, politics, and gay marriage. There was talk about him running for mayor of New Orleans. He's done more for NOLA than anybody. He should def run for office. He has such a logical approach to issues. He just needs to shave that goatee. Thanks for the clip, Antonio

Dancing with the Stars cast announced

Kelly Osbourne and Melissa Joan Hart will join 14 other competitors on this season's DWTS. I used to hate this show and somehow now I'm sucked in. It must be the witty banter and sexual tension between Tom Bergeron and Bruno Tonioli. The show used to be somewhat of a joke because of their consistent D-list cast; but in recent seasons they have stepped up the calibur of contestents. They threw in a few B and C listers, which they have done again this year. Still, a healthy amount of D listers. My fave contestent this year is Tom DeLay. The ultra-conservative Repub from Congress who resigned after getting indicted for campaign finance issues.

Other contestents include Debi Mazar, Entourage actress and friend of Madonna who posed for NoH8. Macy Gray, Kathy Ireland, Mya, and some sports people. Oh, and the son of George Hamilton and Alana Stewart. Yeah, like I said, healthy dose of D's this year. It will be fun to watch Kelly Osbourne and Debi Mazar though, love them.

Tom DeLay will be entertaining too. Oh, I almost forgot Donny Osmond. I'm sure Marie will be right there in the audience every week. Maybe he'll faint too. Did wonders for their ratings and got her the Jenny Craig gig.

Kathy Griffin and Sarah Palin at Thanksgiving?!?

Sounds crazy, right? Well, since Kathy Griffin showed up at the Teen Choice Awards with Sarah Palin's grandbaby's daddy, Levi Johnston, anything is possible. Now, it's obviously a publicity stunt, and a damn good one, but I'm sure it has Sarah and Bristol P seeing red. I could make a joke here about "...and I don't mean the fake crimson that they pump into Kathy's hair" but I like her too much :)

Now, look at this poor kid. He looks scared to death. Does he have any other look? He had that same moose-in-the-headlights look standing on stage at the Repub Convention with his pregnant Palin. It's that "oh sh&t, what did I get myself into?!" look. Here's a suggestion Levi, STOP GETTING YOURSELF INTO SH&T! You think this is going to make it easier for you to spend time with that baby? I mean, come on. Michael Jackson's pharmacist makes better judgement calls (sorry, still in "Roast" mode).

Anyway, this had to piss off the Palin's and that's good enough for me :) Love Kathy Griffin. If the rumor's about the Palin marriage are true, Kathy just might show up at the Emmy's with Todd!

Debi Mazar poses for NOH8 campaign

Debi Mazar joined the growing number of celebrities joining the NOH8 Campaign.

Some other celebs donating their mugs to the campaign are:

Leslie Jordan
Trenyce
Claudia Jordan
Ross Mathews
Steve-O
Kathy Griffin and Team Griffin
Shanna Moakler
Gloria Allred
Hal Sparks
Rachel Zoe
Lisa Ling
Ted Stryker
...and the list is growing!

PS - The guy applying her decal is the same that applied mine!

Bill Maher takes on the "birthers"

Here is a funny video from Bill Maher taking on the ridiculous "birthers" who are still trying to claim that President Obama was not born in the U.S. Love him or hate him, he's funny. Most find him offensive. I find him awesome. Happy Saturday! Enjoy:

NOH8 Campaign hits SF!!

Today, from 11am-6pm the NOH8 campaign will be in San Francisco at the W Hotel to do their Northern California photo shoot. This is a grassroots movement to maintain focus on the injustice of Prop 8 which stripped gays and lesbians of their right to marry in California. There will most likely be a proposition on the 2010 ballot and NOH8 is seeking celebrity endorsers to continue champion their (our) cause.

If you happen to be in or around San Francisco this afternoon, stop into the W Hotel and be part of a just and worthwhile cause.

W Hotel - 181 3rd St SF. Corner of 3rd and Howard Map

Check out the pictures below of some of the celebs that have already lent their support. Thank you!!

Follow NOH8 on Twitter

NOH8 Website

Shatner does Palin

Sunday, Sarah Palin exited her role as Governor, and God willing, the world stage. She went out in the same way she came in: a jumbled, confused mess. "She got lost in that corn maze" yet again (a line Tina Fey used to describe a Palin speech on Letterman). Finally, I present to you something worth watching on the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: The Sarah Palin farwell speech done by none other than master-of-spoken-word...William....Tiberius....SHATNER.


Thanks Antonio for the tip

Jack Donaghy's take on same sex marriage

Ok, well maybe not fictional conservative character Jack Donaghy, but real life liberal Alec Baldwin makes a great argument.

I don't know what the best perspective is on the gay marriage issue. I don't know what to say to people to convince them that the issue of individual rights alone is enough to grant gay couples the right to marry. We live in a time when the idea of individual rights has been relegated to a quaint afterthought during the realignment of American values resulting from the current brawl between capitalism and democracy.

One perspective, however, keeps coming back at me. Fundamentalists believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and for the purpose of creating a family. A gay couple is incapable of having their own children, they assert, so they do not qualify to be married. But what of heterosexual couples who marry with no intention of having children. Beyond any issues of infertility or illness, there are men and women who are married in the eyes of the state, enjoying all of the legal benefits, who have no intention of having children. They seek only companionship and all of the entitlements that come with marriage. Sex, joy, partnership, caring. All of that is theirs, even though they will never bear children and willfully so. If the state says they are free to do that, why aren't gay couples, as well.

This country denies gay couples that right only by asserting that gay Americans do not have the exact same rights as those deliberately childless straight couples. And that is to say that homosexuality itself is illegal. Opponents would have to say that they do not want gay couples to enjoy the same lifestyle as straight couples who refuse to have children because gay Americans are not entitled to have the sex, joy, partnership and caring that their straight counterparts have. They would, therefore, have to outlaw homosexuality itself. Either that or outlaw every single marriage wherein that couple refuses to raise a family. One or the other. That's it. No other choice.

Do you think this society is prepared to outlaw homosexuality? Even with all the fear and hatred of homosexuals that some groups promulgate today? Think about that. Think about the effort and cost involved to argue that case. To write and manifest those laws. To prosecute them and punish the "transgressors." Will our society similarly outlaw childless heterosexual marriage? Of course not. That is ridiculous in the extreme. Ridiculous and wrong.

Once you embrace this basic idea, the rest of the argument falls into place. Gay couples are free not only to marry, but to create families in every way that heterosexual couples who cannot bear their own children do. Adoption, surrogacy, etc.

One does not have to possess one molecule of identification with the gay cultural or political experience in this country to believe that gay Americans have the right to marry. Such a stance is not similar to saying, "I always wanted to play the piano so I favor government scholarships for music study." You do not need to have one ounce of affinity for gay people in our society whatsoever to recognize that they are being shamefully wronged every day we allow this to continue.

Wanda Sykes "too much?"

That's the question Wanda asked of the audience at the White House Correspondence Dinner this weekend. This is always an entertaining event where politics, the media, and A list celebs collide. The President was very amusing but Wanda made the biggest news. Take a look and let us know if you think she went too far. You probably know what I think...

Elisabeth H sitting a little less comfortably to the right on "The View"

I like Elisabeth Hasselbeck. I have for a long time. I have said before on this blog that, although I agree with little that she says, I admire her for standing up and saying it. She has her beliefs and she is proud of them but she never tries to disregard anyone elses. She has admittedly broadened her "View" (pardon the pun) and opened her mind in recent years. This is an excellent example of that.

Remember that douchebag "Joe the Plumber" who's name isn't Joe and isn't even a plumber? Yeah, the bald guy that looks like he keeps a chew spit cup wedged between his 1984 Chevy Silverado bench seat and truck door. You know the one, with the gun rack on the back and the "W" sticker hastily stuck over the "Dole/Kemp 96" sticker. Well, he opened his mouth (which probably reaks of Copenhagen and Coors Light) to the "news" paper "Christianity Today" and lovingly referred to gays as queers and spoke about how he would never let his children near them.

The little Conservative powerhouse Elisabeth spoke up against him on the View today and said that as a repub, she wants no part of him. Good for you Elisabeth! (Since it's spelled with an 'S', can we say good job Lis?...anyway) I can't believe this guy's 15 minutes are still going strong. He played such an intregal part in the demise of the McCain/Palin campaign, you would think the repubs would have cast him aside and disowned him like the gay son they (think they) never had. Maybe him and Ms. Loser U.S.A. should get together and ride that Silverado into the sunset together. Careful Miss Cal, don't get your veil caught in the gunrack.

Oprah interviews Elizabeth AND John Edwards

Awkward! Oprah brings up the affair, cancer, the election. I haven't watched it in its entirety yet but here is a piece. Set your Tivos!!!

"Outrage" opens this week!

If you haven't heard of this documentary, you will. It is getting quite the buzz. Not only does it discuss the very contraversial subject of homosexuality in politics, but it NAMES NAMES. Yes, rumored homosexual politicians are "outed" in this documentary...and guess what, they aren't the liberal "homo-loving" lions like Gavin Newsom and David Patterson, they are the hypocritical "anti-gay" conservatives of Washington. Tap, tap, tap...remember him? He's just the tip of the iceberg. Pun intended. Here's the trailer, enjoy!

Tick-tock, minute 15 rapidly approaching

Miss U.S.A. LOSER Carrie Prejean has decided to capitalize on her now famous pageant misstep by campaigning for "Traditional" marriage. The 21 year old runner-up announced that she is teaming up with the nothing-better-to-do-with-their-time group the National Organization for Marriage to help promote marriage inequality. I mean, wow. Does that group really have such low celebrity support that they have to call on a late night TV punchline to champion their backwards cause? I guess they do. So, enjoy your 15 minutes of fame Miss almost U.S.A., nice to see you are using it to help further a cause of hate and inequality. I'd say her crown must be on too tight but...she doesn't have one.

Miss California reading a bible verse. I hope she had somebody near by to read it to her while she was getting spray tanned and oiled up for the bikini competition.

The swine flew

(Special thanks to my mom for the quite appropriate title)

Arlen Specter, long time Republican from Pennsylvania, announced today that he will switch parties from Repub to Democrat. "I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans," Senator Specter said today. The 79 year old is trying to solidify his chances of winning re-election. This will give the Dems 59 senate seats. One seat shy of the 60 needed for a Fillerbuster-proof majority.


Is there any way for the Democrats to get to 60 seats?


Al Franken, who has been in a record-breaking election recount mess since November, will most likely be determined the winner of the still vacant Minnesota Senate seat. Franken, who has been battling Repub Norm Coleman has been ahead for months but Coleman refuses to concede. For the record, over 60% of Minnesotans would like Coleman to concede.

In any case, a Filler-buster proof majority is in the Democrat's grasp. Giving the Democrats a blank check to write legislature. Is this a good thing? Even a bleeding-heart liberal like myself is only cautiously in favor of this. This would all but silence the voice of dissent in the United States Senate. Something that this nation was built on: The powerful voice of the minority. Though, after 8 diasterous years, American's were so disgusted, they pretty much would have put an Olsen twin in office if they were registered a Democrat. So, we, the people of the United States voted for this fillerbuster-proof majority. Our turn to make change...or make a mess. Time will tell.

UPDATE: "A gay storm is coming!"

Some celebs have put together a hilarious video further mocking the stupid anti-gay "Storm" video. Watch, and laugh. (Thanks Antonio)

A Gaythering Storm from Jane Lynch