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On Saturday, Gibson released a statement apologizing: "After drinking alcohol on Thursday night, I did a number of things that were very wrong and for which I am ashamed. I drove a car when I should not have, and was stopped by the L.A. County Sheriffs. The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person. I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable. I am...

Has anyone noticed that Cal Thomas looks strange lately with his dyed black hair and apparent face lift and/or Botox? He used to look like a distinguished older gentleman.

On April 7, when Britney Spears and Kevin Federline realized that their baby, Sean Preston, had been sleeping more than usual, panic bells went off. Just six days earlier, the 7-month-old had taken a major fall from his high chair, a tumble that had his parents worried that he might have been critically injured. They had every right to fret. After rushing Sean to a nearby hospital, they discovered he had a minor skull fracture (sometimes called a "scalp fracture" in babies), and a blood clot. And the doctors weren't the only ones to take notice! The next day, the...

GEORGE CLOONEY is once again fighting to save the world from evil, but this time he does not need his Batman costume. The Oscar-winning actor is playing himself in a new battle against an internet website that provides maps and addresses of celebrity sightings. Clooney is leading the Hollywood charge against Gawker, a New York-based gossip website that proudly declares itself to be “sick and psychotic�. Concerned that the website may be exploited by obsessive fans, Clooney has launched a campaign to discredit it by swamping its celebrity sightings page with bogus reports. In an e-mail distributed by his publicist...

A judge in Afghanistan said today that Abdul Rahman, the man charged with converting to Christianity, would face the death penalty, or worse, if convicted of the crime. “We could behead him and then throw the book at him,” said the judge presiding over the case, raising the specter that the punishment could include intentional abuse and damage to Mr. Rahman’s copy of the Bible. The threat to the Bible comes as retribution for reported incidents of Koran desecration last year by Americans at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility. Those allegations sparked deadly Muslim riots worldwide. Meanwhile, state governors...

JUST ASKING WHICH political reporter attends so-called "circuit parties" while flying high on ecstasy? "It stuns me that a prominent figure with public responsibility would show such poor judgment," said one witness, "not to mention that it's totally illegal."

Is John McCain a lesbian? Maybe we'll learn the answer from Edward Klein, who insinuated as much about Hillary Clinton in his 2005 biography — largely a clip-job of hit pieces, reviewers said — and is apparently hard at work on a poison-pen book about the Arizona senator. According to Crain's New York Business, Klein claims he'll chronicle the Republican presidential front-runner's "sexual infidelity, chronic gambling and anger management." I can hardly wait

"Diane Sawyer dropped by for a kiss and a hello. She was fresh from her chores filling in on ABC’s “World News Tonight” and said her stint on air with Elizabeth Vargas had been “refreshing and very exciting.” Another hit of the night was Cecile Richards, tall, blond and handsome, now moved to Manhattan to oversee Planned Parenthood. We had a reunion as we are pals via her famous mother, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards. Cecile and her wonderful family are going to be a great addition to New York. Documentary maker Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the...

I think that it's par for the course to yawn when you see stars divorce Sambora, Locklears' marriage: eleven years, Tommy Lee had her first, says my source. The famed biker named Lance Armstrong While on a bike could do no wrong He divorced, you know and then he met Crow will that fling now become his swan song?

Heard from a reliable source that Bush is going to shake up his Staff after New Year. As a minimum Andy Card is going to be replaced by Bush's best friend and former Commerce Secetary, Don Evans. More later.

This is a recent post by Erick on ConfirmThem.com blog (a project of RedState.org):Word in legal circles is that Priscilla Owen is set to become the next justice appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Unfortunately, I have received reliable information late this afternoon that Karl Rove, among others, is making a last minute push for the President to consider Alberto Gonzales, despite previous assurances from inside the White House, Justice Department, and Senate that Gonzales was not being considered. A third party source tells RedState that Rove is pushing for Gonzales and that Larry Thompson’s name has gone off...

Albany [Delmar], New York - Group organizes effort to draft Martha Stewart for NY Senate in 2006 at www.marthaforsenate.com. An excerpt from the site read "New York Politics may be mean and ugly. But Martha is the Queen of clean and who better to tidy up Washington than her? " Unlike Hillary Clinton who spent little time in New York prior to becoming Senator, Martha Stewart received a degree from Barnard and owns several properties in the State. Also, unlike Hillary, Martha is a self-made business woman. Questions about her eligibility due to the ImClone scandal pale in comparison to...

Keanu Reeves was reported last night to be embroiled in a romance with Diane Keaton, the actress who is nearly 20 years his senior. Reeves, 40, was said to have dumped actress girlfriend Lynn Collins, 28, to date the 59-yearold Oscar winner. Reeves met Miss Keaton when they appeared together in the 2003 comedy Something's Gotta Give. He began dating Miss Collins three months ago after they met on the set of the forthcoming drama Il Mare. A friend told the U.S. magazine Star that Reeves was 'hit hard' by turning 40 last year. Breaking up with Miss Collins 'kind...

If knowledge is power, then gossip is powerful currency, traded daily on high school phone lines and at the supermarket check-out lines. "The best piece of gossip always has a little hint of scandal involved," says Paula Froelich, a columnist for the New York Post's "Page Six." "And it's also pretty salacious. And at some point your mouth drops and you go, 'oh no she didn't!'" While Mom always said "No one loves a busybody," some scholars believe gossip is a healthy, essential tool in helping people work together and defining the rules of the tribe. ....

Juicy gossip moves so quickly - He did what? She has pictures? - that few people have time to cover their ears, even if they wanted to. "I heard a lot in the hallway, on the way to class," said Mady Miraglia, 35, a high school history teacher in Los Gatos, Calif., speaking about a previous job, where she got a running commentary from fellow teachers on the sexual peccadilloes and classroom struggles of her colleagues. "To be honest, it made me feel better as a teacher to hear others being put down," she said. "I was out there on...

JUST ASKING WHICH newlywed husband of a TV personality dropped her off at an award show, then went on a tour of gay bars in L.A.? What he didn't realize was that the limo driver had to keep a list of every stop — and that when network execs got the limo bill, the list "looked like a Yellow Page ad of gay bars" . . . WHICH leading man landed his fiancée by giving her a five-year contract for $10 million? Now, she's giving an Oscar-worthy performance acting as if she's really in love with him . . ....

A COLOMBIAN town has taken a hard line against gossip, with fines of up to $US6000 ($7936) and three years in jail. "Residents come out with things that they have no reason to say, that are mere gossip and that have even gotten people killed," Margoth Morales, city manager of Iconozo, 150km south of Bogota, told RCN televsion. Morales explained that only gossips who could not resist talking about their neighbours would be punished to the maximum. Recidivists could get the full three-year, $US6000 punishment. The Iconozo gossip ordinance is not the first in Colombia. Two years ago, the mayor...

Interesting item from today's NY Daily News:Which married cable news executive who's been toiling in Iraq is said to be back in the arms of his stateside mistress, an also-married master media manipulator who appears on his network? Word is they've both been able to keep the affair from their families, but colleagues have caught on.

It's not only the top of the market old media like CBS and the New York Times that are under assault. In the last few days there have been stories about the travails of the National Enquirer and the New York Daily News' gossip columnist, Liz Smith, drowning in the digital storm. It seems the Enquirer has lost a cool million readers per edition in circulation over the last eight years — down to 1.5 million over its historic high of 4 million in the halcyon days of the 1970s. Liz Smith, proud to be a gossip columnist a publicity...

WASHINGTON, 23 March 2005 — Here’s a bit of news that had Washingtonians choking on their coffee this morning: President Bush’s neoconservative hawk Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon’s architect of the US invasion of Iraq, is dating a Muslim! While battle lines have hardened over President Bush’s nomination of Wolfowitz to become president of the World Bank, what many say is really fueling the controversy is concern within the bank over Wolfowitz’s reported romantic relationship with Shaha Ali Riza, an Arab feminist who is the acting manager for External Relations and Outreach for the Middle East and North Africa Region at...

One of the first sex scandals of the blogosphere ended, of course, in a book deal. In May, Ana Marie Cox, the Internet gossip whose Web log, Wonkette, focuses on Washington, published a link to another blogger who called herself the Washingtonienne. In the blog, Washingtonienne, a Capitol Hill employee, used a Senate computer to post intimate details about her experience sleeping with six different men, some of whom were paying for her favors. Washingtonienne listed her partners by their initials and occupations, from the married ''Chief of Staff at one of the gov agencies, appointed by Bush'' to her...

Perennial Republican candidate Alan Keyes - this time running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois against Democrat state legislator Barack Obama - has made it crystal clear that he has no use for gay people. Keyes recently trashed vice presidential daughter Mary Cheney, an avowed lesbian, as "a selfish hedonist" after claiming gay marriage "is based simply on the premise of selfish hedonism." So it came as no small irony yesterday when a cluster of political Web sites, including the well-known blog wonkette.com, suggested that Keyes' 19-year-old daughter, Maya, has herself come out as a lesbian. Their evidence? What appears...

Did George W. Bush ever do coke? And what about wine and women? Now that Kitty Kelley has spotlighted the lurid charge of cocaine use at Camp David in her latest scandal book, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," The National Enquirer is weighing in with its own investigation headlined "More Proof Bush Used Cocaine." The issue hitting the streets today quotes Bush detractor Toby Rogers concerning an April 1998 Houston lunch he allegedly had with Bush family friend Michael C. Dannenhauer, a meal described in detail in Rogers' book, "Ambushed: Secrets of the Bush Family, the...

Bill Clinton made a stunning confession to his wife Hillary as he was hospitalized for chest pains and told he needed life-saving surgery. "I've made terrible mistakes, being unfaithful, but I love you and you're going to see a whole new Bill," he told Hillary, according to an insider. The issue that goes on sale Friday details the huge blowup Bill had with Hillary just days before he was stricken, reveals what Bill told distraught daughter Chelsea before his surgery ... and much more.

The Australian newspaper The Age reported today that the new Kitty Kelley book "The Family" may contain allegations of a gay relationship with President George W. Bush, among other things. This is a mainstream paper like the New York Times or the Washington Post with one of the most popular Internet news sites:

The new Kitty Kelley book that has the Bush campaign's underwear in a bunch is more catty than explosive. It does claim that President Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David. It does repeat rumors that he arranged an illegal abortion for an ex-girlfriend. And it does accuse First Lady Laura Bush of once being a pothead. But the sourcing for these accusations is thin and there are no other big surprises in Kelley's much anticipated "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." Instead, the 705-page tome obtained by the Daily News chronicles the rise of the GOP's First...

Friday, Sept. 10, 2004 3:30 p.m. EDT Kitty Kelley Bush-Bashing Book Publisher Seeks Damages From Newsweek NEW YORK – The publisher of Kitty Kelley's controversial new biography of the Bush family has accused Newsweek of allegedly violating a pre-publication agreement and said the magazine owed "substantial damages." "We demand public acknowledgment and additional remedies," Stephen Rubin, president and publisher of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, said Thursday. Rubin declined to say how much money Doubleday was seeking and whether the publisher would sue. Story Continues Below Newsweek spokeswoman Rosanna Maietta said Thursday that the magazine had no comment. Kelley's "The...

Newsweek magazine has rejected an offer to excerpt Kitty Kelley's Bush family expose, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," because a key allegation in the book couldn't be nailed down. "We were one of the magazines that was given the chance to read that book and decide whether we wanted to buy excerpts," Newsweek's Howard Fineman told radio host Don Imus on Tuesday. "We passed [on it.]" Fineman suggested that Kelley's sourcing for the book's central allegation - a claim that George W. Bush had used cocaine at Camp David during the 1980s - was suspicious on...

A Kitty Surprise? ROGER SIMON COLUMN SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 NEW YORK - - Republican insiders have been huddling in small groups at the Republican Convention this week and talking about what worries them most. It is not John Kerry. It is not the unemployment numbers. It is not Iraq. It is Kitty Kelley. Kelley has a new book coming out in a few weeks titled "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” and it is rumored to be explosive. One source tells me there are “at least five bombshells” contained in it and another source says there is...

Paul Harvey's radio sub, Gil Gross, repeated Kitty Kelly's charges that W used cocaine at Camp David many years ago. This came on at noon on WABC. He didn't say that the only source was an angry ex-wife of the president's brother. Even Newsweek refused to print these charges with only one source.

GEORGE W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14609301&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=bush--took-cocaine-at-camp-david--name_page.html His wife Laura also allegedly tried cannabis in her youth. Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s.

BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID' And wife Laura liked dope, says book GEORGE W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims. His wife Laura also allegedly tried cannabis in her youth. Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s. She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either." Other acquaintances allege that as a 26-year-old National Guard, Bush "liked to...

Fellow Republicans, We seem to have an issue that seems to have struck a nerve in the local Democrats. From a reliable source, I was told that Democratic candidate Beth Troutman, opponent to U.S. Representative Robin Hayes in the 8th District, has heard that "The UCYR's do not like me and are calling me evil", as were her words at a Democratic function. It was also reported that she got this info from our website. That is a lie! Our website is not for the use of a negative campaign against a candidate. Our campaign is used only as a...

WHICH actress who starred in a blockbuster movie trilogy has been spotted at grungy downtown nightspots smoking crack? The soused starlet invited a fellow patron to take a hit in the bathroom, but was politely turned down when distinctive white crack smoke billowed from her glass pipe. Dazed but unfazed, she turned her attention back to her pipe and took another hit.

Bush twins may attend gay wedding August 19, 2004 Could the Bush twins be heading to a gay wedding? First daughters Jenna and Barbara reportedly have told their eyebrow waxer that "we'd love to come" to his nuptial celebration. Their father opposes same-sex marriage, and given the twins have been working for his campaign, he might have something to say about their attendance. Nevertheless, Erwin Gomez, who works at an Elizabeth Arden salon in suburban Washington, told the New York Daily News that he invited the twins to his wedding next month. "I gave them the party invitation, and they...

July 15, 2004POLITICAL MEMOHear the Rumor on Cheney? Capital Buzzes, Denials AsideBY ELISABETH BUMILLER ASHINGTON, July 14 - In the annals of Washington conspiracy theories, the latest one, about Vice President Dick Cheney's future on the Republican ticket, is as ingenious as it is far-fetched. But that has not stopped it from racing through Republican and Democratic circles like the latest low-carb diet.The newest theory - advanced privately by prominent Democrats, including members of Congress - holds that Mr. Cheney recently dismissed his personal doctor so that he could see a new one, who will conveniently tell him in August...

The latest theory about Vice President Dick Cheney's future on the Republican ticket, advanced privately by prominent Democrats, including members of Congress, holds that Cheney recently dropped his personal doctor because of drug addiction so that he could hire a new one, who will conveniently tell him in August that his heart problems have made him unfit to run with Bush! So reports the NEW YORK TIMES, in a planned Front Page story on Thursday. Reporter Elisabeth Bumiller is set to kick the gossip into high gear with a 1,600-word speculative, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE. Developing...

SECRET SERVICE OPTIONS SECRET SERVICE OPINIONS Forwarded by a former FBI agent (Regardless of their opinions of the 'individual(s'), these guys/gals would 'take a bullet' for their protectees and their 'opinions' are more credible than most.) SECRET SERVICE OPINIONS: WHAT WAS, COULD HAVE BEEN, AND WHAT IS What WAS: Hillary Clinton was arrogant and orally abusive to her security detail. She forbade her daughter, Chelsea, from exchanging pleasantries with them. Sometimes Chelsea, miffed at her mothers obvious conceit and mean spiritedness ignored her demands and exchanged pleasantries regardless, but never in her mother presence. Chelsea really was a nice, kindhearted,...

Gossip guru Liz Smith says today in the New York Post that her friend Nancy Reagan "already been asked to speak at the Republican Convention but will decline." Smith doesn't speculate in print on whether the refusal has anything to do with Mrs. Reagan's disagreement with President Bush over using human embryos for research, but others will. The columnist goes on to list some of the celebs who attended the final ceremony for Ronald Reagan at the presidential library in Simi Valley: Tom Selleck, Johnny Mathis, Wayne Newton, Betsy Bloomingdale, Charles Wick, four of the Sinatras and the notably unconservative...

June 10, 2004A REUNIONReagan Team, a Bit Grayer, Gathers AgainBy ELISABETH BUMILLER ASHINGTON, June 9 — "Is David Stockman on the list?" one harried volunteer asked another in the Reagan funeral offices at the Mayflower Hotel."It's being worked on," the second volunteer replied, acknowledging that there had been some "oversights" in invitations to former President Ronald Reagan's state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Friday.So was it possible that Mr. Stockman, the Reagan administration budget director reviled at the White House for his tell-all tales that Mr. Reagan's supply-side economics did not work, had not been invited?"I think they'll...

<p>COCKTAIL talk about the GOP VP nominee: Of course it's Cheney. We know it's Cheney. Everyone confirms it's Cheney. Bush respects and reveres and trusts in and leans on Cheney. It's Cheney. Cheney. Cheney. Cheney. It's Cheney. It's Cheney. But in case it's not Cheney, the P's been VP shopping. See, if the atmosphere goes poisonous and mixes up with pro-war advisers and Halliburton and those uphill energy prices etc., some heads must roll so that the President can keep his.</p>

<p>WHICH lusty local lawmaker has his own "love boat" - a yacht onto which he invites young women to ply them with liquor and try to enlist them in onboard orgies . . . WHICH A-list star has been smoking pot when she's not breast-feeding her baby? The Hollywood hippie doesn't believe she can pass on the mind-bending effects of marijuana through her mother's milk . . . WHICH starlet's deejay boyfriend got his stomach stapled to appear more svelte? Truth be told, she could stand to hit the gym herself . . . WHICH hunky TV actor is about to lose it all? He's been fighting with the show that made him famous and insiders are fuming because he doesn't take his medication to control his anger and addictive behavior - turning taping sessions into a "nightmare."</p>

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April 25, 2004, 12:15AM Rice gaffe at dinner has tongues wagging Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- There's continuing buzz over a comment national security adviser Condoleezza Rice made at what was apparently an off-the-record Washington power dinner with New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. and other Times people at the home of Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman. Rice, according to an account in this week's New York magazine, at one point said: "As I was telling my husb ... " then stopped and said, "As I was telling President Bush. ... " Eyebrows jumped; jaws...

A pressing issue of dinner-party etiquette is vexing Washington, according to a story now making the D.C. rounds: How should you react when your guest, in this case national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, makes a poignant faux pas? At a recent dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven Weisman, and Elisabeth Bumiller, Rice was reportedly overheard saying, “As I was telling my husb—” and then stopping herself abruptly, before saying, “As I was telling President Bush.” Jaws dropped, but a...

Per Breaking News, Michael Jackson has been indicted by the Grand Jury considering his case. Here we go...

Drivel and bilge Taki (Excerpt) Not that I’m exactly a homebody, but never before have I taken lunches by myself next to American ladies who lunch. And never before have I heard such drivel, such bilge masquerading as talk. American women have never been my favourites, but now it’s getting ridiculous. In civilised societies such as ancient Athens and Imperial Japan, women tried to make life a little more pleasant and easier for the breadwinners; only in the United States does the male spend his time pampering and, worse, listening to women. I suppose it all went wrong in 1920,...

The Kennedy family may want to brace itself for another shocker.Someone is shopping a video that is said to show a departed family member having sex...

The Church Gossip The church gossip and self-appointed arbiter of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several church members were unappreciative of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being drunk after she saw his pickup truck parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She commented to George and others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing. George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just walked...

I heard it stated on Tony Snow's show today that Ben Affleck has said his marriage to Jennifer Lopez was wrecked by a "racist, Puritanical" America that can't stand the notion of a white man marrying a Latin woman. Previously, I had heard reports that he was blaming it on the crush of press coverage, and there are lots of stories in the press and available on the Net pertaining to that. However, I haven't been able to locate any confirmation of this apparently new statement where he blames racism. I am wondering if any Freepers have seen a published...