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Keep it up, folks. Us Weekly is feeling the heat. And now, they are pleading with readers to stick with them. Reader Susanna sent the following protest e-mail: During tense political times, it’s always nice to open up US Weekly and lose myself in some mindless gossip and fashion news. So imagine my DISGUST when I saw this week’s US Weekly cover: a revolting, sensationalist, bottom-feeding, partisan attack on mother and career woman Sarah Palin. You know, I’ve been rolling my eyes at your adoring coverage of Barack Obama, but I’ve put up with it in order to be...

<p>MEGYN KELLY, CO-HOST: Well, Us Weekly, the magazine, is under some serious fire today for its new cover. The headline grabber "Babies, Lies and Scandal" is what's causing all the stir. The story, not only focusing on Sarah Palin, but also on the governor's 17-year-old pregnant daughter. It got a lot of attention. So did it cross a line?</p>

If you missed it yesterday...here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjQhiarIQaw Megyn Kelly of Fox News shreds the Senior Editor of US Weekly Magazine for the biased trash hit piece on Sarah Pallin.

“Babies, Lies, and Scandal” runs the front-cover headline over a photo of the Barracuda. What exactly are the “lies,” asks Kelly? Simply the lies that are being told about Palin, comes the reply from this galactic tool, live on satellite hook-up from the media’s tank for Obama. And it’s all downhill from there. Not really an interview so much as a cross-examination. Awesome.

Should Sarah Palin step down as the Republican vice presidential candidate? Yes Votes 28.95%, 120206, No Votes 71.05%, 295058, Total 415264 votes. http://www.usmagazine.com/polladmin/poll_hp2_v5c.php?action=results&poll_id=1149

Word is out that high profile Barack Obama supporter and Us Weekly Magazine publisher Jann Wenner is using his magazine to smear Governor Sarah Palin from grocery store check out aisles and newsstands across the country. (h/t Michelle Malkin) The tabloid style attack hypes the ridiculously out of context claims of the Huffington Post that Sarah Palin ridiculed State Senate President Lyda Green in an interview with radio talk show host Bob Lester on the popular Bob and Mark radio show. On January 15, Alaska governor Sarah Palin laughed along with an Alaskan shock-jock DJ who called her political rival...

AMAZING!

McCain Camp Knocks Down Enquirer's Palin Rumor (CBS)From CBS News' John Bentley: (ST. PAUL, MINN.) – John McCain’s campaign threatened legal action against the National Enquirer today for running a story about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, allegedly having an affair with her husband’s business partner. “The smearing of the Palin family must end. The allegations contained on the cover of the National Enquirer insinuating that Gov. Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie,” said McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt. “The efforts of the media and tabloids to destroy this fine and accomplished public...

Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue. Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy. But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.

Was writing US magazine to let them know that I will never read their rag again (even in the beauty salon) when I saw a McDonalds ad on their site. I say for each media outlet that seems bent on destroying Sarah Palin and her family we get all the more bent to contact their advertisers to show our displeasure. Hit them in the pocket books, and if they don't straighten up may the dinosaur media death watch include every outlet that has dared to attack this precious family.

The next time you’re waiting at the grocery stands and tempted to buy Us magazine, stop and think again. Unless you’re buying it for oppo research, you may not want to put money in the pockets of rabid partisans who have turned their gossip rag into a propaganda arm for the Democrat Party. This is the cover of the latest issue of Us: Now, let me remind you who and what Us magazine put on its June 19, 2008 cover:

If you haven't see the Sarah Palin cover of US Weekly, you will.

Rick Klein, from ABC’s The Note, reports: Let’s say you don’t read The New York Times or The Washington Post (or The Note, for that matter). Let’s say you don’t follow the big political blogs and you’re not obsessed with every turn of the screw of this fascinating presidential race. Let’s say, instead, like millions ofworking-class Americans, you get your “news” on the political race from the supermarket aisle. Let’s say you’re -- I don’t know, a “hockey mom” -- and you’re intrigued by this Sarah Palin person you’ve been hearing so much about since Friday. So you’re shopping this...

It's been learned that a consortium of John Edwards supporters, not Edwards himself, have formed a consortium to purchase the National Enquirer with a promise to return the paper to its tabloid roots. Said a spokesperson, "The National Enquirer has begun delving into what they consider serious news. We feel the Enquirer belongs at the top of the supermarket checkout rack with other such notable tabloids as the Sun and the Globe. This is not an attempt to silence the Enquirer in any way and any inference to that end is misguided." "Stories which they are now printing involving well...

Roseanne said, "do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the Republican party's worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan?"

John Edwards Confirms 2nd Tabloid Report by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · No Comments (2008-08-11) — Former Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, just days after confirming a National Enquirer story about an adulterous affair with amateur filmmaker Rielle Hunter, today acknowledged the truth of another supermarket tabloid report. In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Mr. Edwards confessed that stories and photos in the Weekly World News were accurate, despite his previous denials. “I have, in fact, met on more than one occasion with a large-headed alien from another planet,” said Mr. Edwards. “The pictures in the Weekly World News...

Saturday morning, I went right out to the supermarket to buy the National Enquirer to see what else might be true. And there it was, right by the cash register, with a headline across the top of the cover promising the latest details of a story the Enquirer broke months ago. John Edwards had initially dismissed the Enquirer's allegations of an extramarital affair as "tabloid trash." A saw mill worker's son who was himself once dismissed as "poor white trash," he should have been more cautious about underestimating those who are dismissed out of hand as inferiors. Whatever you might...

Maybe they should change it from "Samanatha Who" to "Whodunnit." Actress Christina Applegate's on-again/off-again boyfriend, Lee Grivas, was found dead at his apartment on July 1 by a neighbor. No autopsy has been conducted, but so far there are no signs of foul play. The National Enquirer broke the story with a source who says Grivas may have died of a drug overdose. "Applegate and Grivas, a 26-year-old skateboarder and photographer, had a rocky on-again, off-again relationship due to his continual battle with drugs and alcohol," according to the Enquirer. "But the couple had decided to give it one last...

Bianchi The doe-eyed beauty at the center of Christie Brinkley's divorce case took the stand yesterday as the star witness and dished on the sordid affair that was ultimately the death knell for the supermodel's marriage......and even wore a rosary on her wrist. Bianchi spoke with a tiny, shaken voice as she recounted the intimate details of their tawdry trysts and the money he showered her with. She met Cook when she was just a 15-year-old clerk in a toy store in 2003. In 2005 Cook hired the young stunner to work at his Hamptons architecture firm when she...

* MISTRESS: I GOT HIRED JUST FOR SEX If Christie Brinkley wanted to utterly humiliate her two-timing husband, she sure as hell got her wish yesterday. In a gasp-inducing first day of their divorce trial, the supermodel's lawyers exposed her wayward husband, Peter Cook, as a sex-crazed, porn-obsessed pervert who hired an 18-year-old girl at his architectural firm just to get her into bed. The normally staid Suffolk County courthouse in Central Islip turned into an adults-only peep show when the 49-year-old cad admitted under oath that he habitually ogles online pornography, (gratifies himself) in front of strangers via a...

WORLD EXCLUSIVE Madonna and Guy to end marriage after seven tempestuous years. Madonna told Guy Ritchie she wants a divorce after the couple agreed they had fallen out of love. They admitted to each other that their seven-year marriage was doomed because they had simply drifted apart. A friend said last night: "They were both very calm. Madonna told Guy: 'I'm sorry, I want a divorce'. And he agreed. It was quite painless but very sad." Last night Guy was holed up alone in his country mansion last night hoping against the odds that he can rescue his doomed marriage...

Washington (ANI): Cancer-stricken movie star Patrick Swayze is expected to reprise his role in the sequel to the hit 1991 film 'Point Break'. If his health allows, the 55-year-old star would be reliving his character of 'Bodhi' for the film, reports Contactmusic. According to The Sun, the sequel is due to be shot in Singapore and Indonesia, however, the cast for the movie is as yet unconfirmed. Earlier this year, Swazye had confirmed that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. The 'Dirty Dancing' legend has reportedly readied his will, transferring his property worth millions to his wife of 32 years....

Robert “Mutt” Lange is no longer still the one for Shania Twain. The country/pop superstar and her music producer husband are splitting after 14 years of marriage, her rep confirms to OK!. “Shania Twain and her husband, music producer Robert “Mutt” Lange, are separating after 14 years of marriage,” Jason Owen tells OK!. “This is a private matter and there will be no further comment at this time.” The 42-year-old singer met Mutt when he was recruited to work on her album in the early 1990s. They married on December 28, 1993 and have a 6-year-old son, Eja D’Angelo. At...

Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported. "I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready told the newspaper in a story posted on its Web site Monday night. "I have known Roger Clemens for a long time," she said, without detailing the nature of their relationship. Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed the pitcher and singer had known each other for a long time but told the newspaper there was no sex. "Mindy McCready is...

Pitcher Roger Clemens, already battling allegations he used steroids and lied to a congressional panel, reportedly carried on a decade-long affair with country music star Mindy McCready that started when she was just 15 years old.

Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News. The revelations could torpedo claims of an unsullied character that are central to the defamation suit Clemens filed Jan. 6 against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. Vivid details of the affair could surface in several media projects that McCready is involved with - including a documentary that begins filming today in...

Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News. The revelations could torpedo claims of an unsullied character that are central to the defamation suit Clemens filed Jan. 6 against his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. Vivid details of the affair could surface in several media projects that McCready is involved with - including a documentary that begins filming today in...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The honeymoon is over for Gary Coleman and his new bride. The 40-year-old actor and his 22-year-old wife, Shannon Price, are set to appear on TV's "Divorce Court" on May 1 and 2. The couple wed in August after meeting on the set of the 2006 comedy "Church Ball." Among the problems the pair discusses with Judge Lynn Toler are Coleman's anger and intimacy issues. Coleman and Price agree they have "ugly" monthly fights.

Putin denies romance reports, Moscow paper shut By Dmitry Solovyov Fri Apr 18, 4:10 PM ET A Moscow newspaper that reported Vladimir Putin had divorced his wife and planned to marry an Olympic gymnast was closed by its publishers on Friday, just hours after the Russian president angrily denied the report. Moskovsky Korrespondent said last week Putin had secretly divorced his 50-year-old wife, Lyudmila, and would wed Alina Kabayeva, a 24-year-old Olympic gold medalist in rhythmic gymnastics, in the summer. The 55-year-old Kremlin leader reacted furiously when asked about the report at a news briefing in Sardinia with Italian prime...

It's official! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got hitched earlier today, Saturday, March 29, in New Orleans. Jolie, who is pregnant with twins, has been dating Pitt since 2005. The couple share four children together: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 1. This is Angelina's third marriage and Brad's second. Story developing!

STIFFED by their superstar brother Michael and plagued by decades of bad fiscal decisions, the once-mighty Jackson family is barely scraping by, with one brother stocking groceries, another repairing cars and others living at home with mom while hoping for sister Janet's next handout. They have fallen far from their days as sequin-studded stage stars who could rake in seven-figure paydays for a single performance. Then they were the Jackson Five, the undisputed kings of Motown, a Berry Gordy-led, bell-bottomed global phenomenon.

Given the bad blood flowing through such a high-profile domestic it was quite a restrained gesture, really. There could have been shouting or even fisticuffs. But Heather Mills restricted herself to throwing a glass of water over the immaculately coiffed hair of Sir Paul McCartney’s lawyer before emerging from the High Court yesterday to profess herself profoundly satisfied with the result. The £24.3 million divorce award, that is, not the wrecking of a tidy legal hairdo. Fiona Shackleton, solicitor for the former Beatle, walked from court looking a little damp but not unduly discomfited. She had, after all, just saved...

BARACK Obama has been gaining momentum in his historic bid for the White House, but a shocking new scandal could derail the Democratic Party's charismatic frontrunner. Find out how an outrageous video made by a dying Minnesota man has triggered a lawsuit against Obama's organization - and read his stunning exclusive GLOBE interview about drugs and forbidden sex.

Britney Spears has been taken to hospital amid fears she might harm herself. The pop singer was escorted in an ambulance by more than a dozen police officers in cars, on motorcycles and in helicopters. A police officer said the 26-year-old was being taken to "get help". Celebrity websites reported that Spears was being placed on "a mental evaluation hold" in Los Angeles' UCLA Medical Centre after her new psychiatrist felt she was a danger to herself and others.

Spears' Lawyers Calling It Quits Court Filing Cites 'Breakdown' In Communication LOS ANGELES -- Britney Spears' lawyers in her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline are calling it quits. A court filing by Trope and Trope obtained by CelebTV.com cites a "breakdown" in communication with the pop princess that makes representing her "impossible." Spears and Federline have been wrangling for months over custody of their sons, 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James. sponsor Federline has temporary custody because Spears, who has limited visitation rights, has defied court orders. On a separate legal front, an attorney for Spears wants the...

LOS ANGELES — A judge issued an arrest warrant for Daniel Baldwin on Friday when the actor didn't show up to court to give a progress report on his drug rehabilitation. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Millington issued the no-bail bench warrant and revoked Baldwin's probation after he failed to appear "without sufficient excuse" and without his lawyer, according to court documents. An after-hours call to Baldwin's attorney, Grant Hoagland, was not immediately returned. Baldwin, brother of actors William, Stephen and Alec Baldwin, was required to meet with the judge in connection with a cocaine-possession case.

It would seem that penning a Christian best-seller can't compete with a flap about how an actress looks in a bikini. Except in Texas. Readers of People magazine in Texas will find a big picture of Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen and his wife, Victoria, on the cover of the Dec. 17 issue that lands at the nearest grocery store checkout line today. The rest of the country gets a photo of Jennifer Love Hewitt creating a stir about whether she looks chubby on the beach. Osteen's photo will have a smaller spot on the national cover. It is clear...

Barbara Walters, famed for celebrity television interviews that often draw on-screen tears, says she's tired of Britney, Paris and the tabloid trend she helped create. Walters, a pioneering journalist who became the first female U.S. network news anchor 30 years ago, has interviewed every U.S. president since Richard Nixon and other heads of state. More recently, she has been credited and criticized for soft interviews that elevated celebrity news above all else. Now, before her annual show, "The 10 Most Fascinating People," airing on ABC on Thursday, the 78-year-old television journalist said she wants to focus on other topics. "I...

Babe-chasing billionaire Ron Burkle is a "sexually inept lover" with "zero sensuality"...... Chevyn McClintock was the "unofficial mistress" of the then-married supermarket czar and pal of Bill Clinton. "The only area in life he appeared not to have confidence in was in natural sexual aggression, so I would initiate that transition after a few strong cocktails or large glasses of wine," she writes. "He loved to kiss me but he was not adept....reminded me of getting kissed awkwardly in the fourth grade." McClintock served as Burkle's "hostess for many of the Clinton fund-raisers held at his Greenacre estate in...

Rumours of ‘Top Gun’ star, Tom Cruise’s alleged gay status have finally been smashed by a private detective who has been trying to find out if the movie star is secretly homosexual for six years. Former porn star Paul Barresi could not land his hand on any evidence suggesting the Hollywood superstar’s secret gay life ever since he has been digging around in Cruise’s private life since 2001. "Everything I've found, and everything I know, points to Tom being heterosexual, Contactmusic quoted Barresi, as saying. Barresi has now handed over his research to British author Andrew Morton, who has been...

Bill Nye the Science Guy has filed a temporary restraining order against his ex-non-wife, author Blair Tindall, in Los Angeles Superior Court. Nye's filing—and the response from Tindall—tell a tawdry tale of mysterious liquids, poisoned gardens, and late-night visits from a troubled, black-clad woman. Blair Tindall describes herself as a "recovering oboist." She authored Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, a well-reviewed account of the life of a classical music freelancer working in New York. Tindall and the bow-tied Science Guy hooked up in 2005 after Nye (whose entertainment career began when he won a Steve Martin...

Anna Nicole Smith, Seeking Justice #4

• Hearing will go public in February • Heather refuses deal to stay silent Sir Paul McCartney Looking for your wallet? Sir Paul McCartney, who stepped out for a quick coffee today in London, heading towards a full-blown public divorce hearing Divorce talks between Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney have completely collapsed. The couple are now heading for a full-blown public divorce hearing after the breakdown of negotiations over his £825 million fortune. Sources close to the case said a date has now been set for a five-day trial, adding: “It is finished. There are no more talks planned....

The ten-year anniversary of the untimely death of the People’s Princess has brought the expected concerts, prayer services, and television retrospectives. Her celebrity sons’, long-since the holders of the media spotlight, can be seen everywhere with greater than normal scrutiny with the collective reminder of their Mom. Lost in the wave of reminiscence is the main cause of the tragedy. The death of Princess Diana was the first real example of Death by Paparazzi.

The Weekly World News is dead, and in the words of its ripsnorting right-wing columnist Ed Anger, the tabloid's dwindling legion of fans should be ''pig-biting mad'' about it. Based for most of its 28 years in Palm Beach County, the Weekly World News delivered the guiltiest of pleasures with wheelbarrows of wit, screaming headlines and a black-and-white design sensibility straight out of 1952. Depending on your perspective, the WWN gloriously chronicled or shamelessly fabricated an alternate reality populated by amorous space aliens, babies born with angel wings and gardeners who marry their vegetables.

American Media, owner of Weekly World News, is shutting down the grocery-store tabloid that once exposed 12 U.S. senators as space aliens. That's right: There were only 12 back then. Long before The Onion, the W.W.N. was reporting the whereabouts of Elvis (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and publishing photos of Heaven taken by the Hubble telescope. Some of its headlines will remain classics. For example, "Dead Rock Stars Return on Ghost Plane" and "Crazed Dieter Mistakes Dwarf for Chicken!" But now its circulation has fallen under 90,000 and this week's will be its last issue. How come? According to the dead-serious news...

Mystery! Horror! a Supermarket Tabloid Calls It Quits MIAMI (AP) -- An angel of death has visited Earth! Aliens have pulled off an abduction! A mystery ailment has claimed a victim! Weekly World News, the tabloid that for 28 years has chronicled sightings of Elvis, extraterrestrial activity and the exploits of Bat Boy, is no more. Its publisher said Tuesday it would put out its last issue next month, maintaining only a Web presence. What does it mean for a black-and-white staple that has delivered news of such historical proportions as Bigfoot's capture of a lumberjack he kept as his...

PARIS GETS OFF EASY May 17, 2007 -- Paris Hilton's pals tried to get her sentence thrown out completely. That didn't work, but the heir-head will serve only 23 days of her 45-day jail sentence in a "special needs housing unit." The sentence reduction is the result of credit for "good behavior," said L.A. County sherrif spokesman Steve Whitmore. Good behavior, according to the sherrifs office, is showing up for one's scheduled court date. However, most perps don't get amnesty for showing up in court when required. Hilton's luxe accomodations are in a 2,200-inmate facility where police officers, public officials,...

First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents, according to law enforcement reports made available to ABC News. It was not the only mishap on the two-week trip to Argentina by Barbara (right) and her twin sister Jenna (left). A Secret Service agent on the advance detail got into an "altercation" with someone after a night out and was badly beaten, according to the law enforcement reports. The Secret Service said today the...