Former President George H.W. Bush paid a visit to the White House to met with with President Obama. The photograph above was taken in the Oval Office, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. The visit was described as a social call. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush also visited the White House with his father.
In an exclusive interview with Matt Lauer, Michelle Obama talks keeping family life a priority at the White House and about her new focus on preventing childhood obesity. Michelle says that parents need help, because they work so hard and endure so much stress. She then talks about the family's "Roses and Thorns" ritual that they participate in every night, in which they each reveal the best and worst thing that happened to them that day. Take a look:
Saturday Night Live took aim at Barack Obama's State of the Union speech. Fred Armisen played Obama with Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden and Kristen Wiig as Nancy Pelosi. Using some clever editing, the camera showed thrilled Democrats and furious Republicans responding to various parts of the speech.
First, Armisen took apart the pathetic campaigning skills of Martha Coakley, who managed to lose Ted Kennedy's senate seat to Republican Scott Brown.
"Our nominee Martha Coakley was single most incompetent candidate ever to seek public office in this nation's history....
Martha Coakley, you are a disgrace. You couldn't beat Dick Cheney for mayor of Berkeley."
Armisen announced that he was ending the ban on gays in the military, which would "create 30,000 new jobs, as well as two new series on Bravo."
As for health care, Armisen threw in the towel saying: "To be honest, I could either way on that. If you want it, pass it. Whatever, I'll sign it. It's your call. I really don't care." The writing was vastly improved on SNL this past weekend. Let's hope they keep it up. Take a look:
Jon Hamm hosted Saturday Night Live last night. In this skit, Jon plays new Republican senator Scott Brown -- you know the nice looking senator who once posed naked for Cosmopolitan? Scott Brown has the top Democratic leadership quite distracted. Take a look:
ITN says Will Smith's wife, actress, Jada Pinkett Smith, says her husband may very well enter politics someday. Jada also said, "Will and I want to leave traces on this planet – and with that I mean more important traces than just films."
This is not the first time rumors of Will Smith wanting to enter politics have surfaced. Pop Eaterreports that Will Smith once told the Mail, "I always wanted to be the first black president but Barack Obama stole my idea. That's OK with me. Barack can go first and then I'll take my turn."
Isaac Mizrahi is very excited that Michelle Obama wore a dress he designed to the State of the Union. The aubergine dress is lovely: it features a scoop necked, fitted top with 3/4 length sleeves, and a fuller skirt with pleated detail. Michelle accessorized with a single strand of classic pearls and a new hairdo.
Isaac posted a video blog about it here in which he proudly displays a photograph of Michelle Obama wearing his dress. Isaac says, "She looked so beautiful last night. Forget the dress. The new bob is devine. The new bob is really gorgeous. Plus, the dress was pretty good, I must say." Isaac described the dress as "bipartisan," which was really quite tactful of him.
John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter has filed a motion to get a restraining order to stop the release of a sex tape featuring her and the disgraced politician. There go all our hopes that the Edwards sex tape was just a myth. The Smoking Gun has the paperwork for the motion.
Now that former aide Andrew Young has gone public with the whole sordid story, Edwards really has nowhere to hide on this one. Andrew Young has a new book called The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down coming out tomorrow which is packed full of ghastly details about the Edwards disaster. Edwards
spoke to ABC about the sex tape and how Edwards tried to make Rielle have an abortion (she refused because she believed theirs would be some kind of "Golden Child" messiah.)
"There was one tape that was marked 'special,'" Young told ABC News' Bob Woodruff in an exclusive interview. "It's a sex tape of Rielle and John Edwards made just a couple of months before the Iowa caucuses."
Though Young never saw the woman's face in the tape, he said she was "visibly pregnant" and was "wearing a bracelet" and a "thumb ring" typically worn by Rielle Hunter.
"It's her jewelry," Andrew Young's wife, Cheri, told ABC News. "It could be on another woman with the same jewelry."
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He details how he and wife Cheri briefly returned to Raleigh, N.C., in July 2008 to clear out the house where Hunter had briefly lived before their December 2007 escape from the media. Young claims they found a box Hunter had left behind, which included some videotapes, in a pile of trash.
"It [the tape] was cut and pulled ... out," Cheri Young told ABC News, "We... taped it back together and we played it."
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"She [Hunter] asked me if I were in her shoes what would I do. And if I said, 'I'm pro-choice, but after having had three kids, if you're asking me what I would do, no, I would not do it,'" Young recalled of his conversation with Hunter.
Young claims that Edwards was infuriated with him for not convincing Hunter and stressed that he was not certain the baby was his because Hunter was a "weird slut and a freak."
Hunter had started out eager just to be around Edwards, but over time became more comfortable in her role as Edwards' lover -- even wife -- having sex in the Edwards' marital bed, according to Young. Eventually, she became possessive and demanding, Young claims.
So, will the sex tape get out? You know they always get out, sooner or later.
Weatherproof is removing its Times Square billboard that shows President Obama wearing a Weatherproof jacket during his official state visit to China. The billboard contains a photograph of President Obama wearing a Weatherproof jacket while visit the Great Wall of China. The Washington Postreports that Weatherproof is hoping Sarah Palin will take President Obama's place on the billboard.
The outerwear company that mounted a giant billboard in Times Square showing President Barack Obama in one of its jackets, prompting a call of protest from the White House, says it's finally removing the offending sign on Wednesday - and it hopes Sarah Palin will agree to take Obama's place.
Weatherproof likely got a sales boost from the campaign which was frowned on by the Obama administration. It's unlikely Sarah Palin will want to pose for a new billboard.
White House adviser Valerie Jarrett says President Barack Obama will be focusing on the economy and health care reform in his first State of the Union address. The economy and jobs are currently of the most interest to the public as the economy continues to struggle and people continue to lose jobs. The public is not very supportive of the current healthcare bill. Take a look:
People magazine reports
that Elizabeth Edwards finally threw her lying, cheating husband out of the house. The couple is formally separated, but Elizabeth has not yet filed divorce papers. She still is undergoing cancer treatment, so whether she filed depends on her health.
"She said, 'I've had it. I can't do this. I want my life back,'" her sister, Nancy Anania, tells People in the latest cover story. Last December, Elizabeth met the 23-month-old Frances Quinn Hunter -- the baby John fathered with mistress Rielle Hunter -- in a mediated visit at a North Carolina hotel.
The couple now occupy separate residences; she in their Chapel Hill mansion, while he divides time between an annex they call "the barn" and their beach house 160 miles away.
The more we learn about John Edwards, the more disgusted we become. We hope Elizabeth can find some peace with him out of the house.
President Barack Obama shared a laugh in the oval office with his predecessor, George Bush and Bill Clinton. The photographs were taken on January 16, 2010.
Sarah Palin stunned Oprah Winfrey today by appearing with a totally different hairdo. Sarah opted for some corkscrew curls, the likes of which have not been seen since Nellie Oleson wreaked havoc on Laura Ingalls' life in Little House on the Prairie.
"Look at your hair!" Oprah blurted out, before finishing her introduction.
"What did you do to your hair?" the normally unflappable Oprah finally asked.
"Do you like it?," Palin replied. "I tried to look like you."
"Yes, I'm not used to you having that many curls," said Oprah. "It's kind of cute, but I was just surprised to see you pop up there with the curls. Great. What's the weather like in Wasilla today?
It is not a very flattering new look. For one thing, it makes her look older.
Sarah Palin talked to Oprah about her new job as a Fox commentator. She told Oprah she is going try to to return journalism back to what it is supposed to be. Sarah Palin said, "When I studied journalism, we learned all about the who, what, when, where and why of reporting. Just stating the facts. "I'll engage in that, kind of ratcheting back down to the simplicity of what journalism should be about: just the basics and letting the people decide what their opinion will be."
Sarah Palin also said she is keeping to the door open on her political future. She said, "I'm not closing any door that maybe I find open in the future. And, thankfully, the Fox Network has allowed me to keep that door open. Maybe [politics] is in my future, but in the meantime [I] just really look forward to being a part of the news cycle again."
Cindy McCain, wife of Senator John McCain has posed for a NOH8 campaign poster, indicating that she supports gay marriage. The NOH8 campaign is against Proposition 8, a law banning same-sex marriage that passed in California in 2008.
John McCain's office said in a statement that he respected the views of his family but remained opposed to gay marriage. "Senator McCain believes the sanctity of marriage is only defined as between one man and one woman," it said. In 2008 McCain backed a measure in his home state of Arizona to ban same-sex marriage.
Cindy McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, posed for the campaign last year. She said on her Twitter, @McCainBlogette, "I was there when she did it and I almost started crying during the photo shoot :-)."
Finally disgraced former senator John Edwards has admitted what we all knew anyway: he is the father of Rielle Hunter's baby, Frances Quinn Hunter. You know, the baby that The Enquirer photographed him holding? The photo about which he said "I don't know whose baby that is"? His spokesperson appeared on NBC News to admit to all his lies and say he's sorry. NBC lets him have it with both barrels. He is such an unbelievable liar. What a creep. Take a look:
Although his spokesperson said Edwards is trying to stay out of the limelight, guess where Edwards is today? Haiti! No doubt he looking for a camera crew right now.
Republican Scott Brown won Teddy Kennedy's former senate seat in Massachusetts with a shocking upset. The newly elected Senator also shocked his daughters by announcing to the world that they are both available. Take a look:
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