The Whisper Campaign Is Dead
If there's one thing the info war between the White House and Jodi Kantor has made clear, it's that waging a successful whisper campaign in Washington is damn near impossible.
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Michelle Obama isn't quite as tolerant of hecklers as her husband is, if a late Tuesday confrontation is any indication.
If there's one thing the info war between the White House and Jodi Kantor has made clear, it's that waging a successful whisper campaign in Washington is damn near impossible.
Also: Jay-Z fired half of the employees at Rocawear the day before his daughter was born, investigating the unusual "tango tinge" of Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper, and Gerard Butler, and Condé Nast buys some more One World Trace Center office space.
Today: Alexander Payne protected his ears with pink earplugs at Fox's Golden Globes afterparty, Russell Brand and Katy Perry reportedly had a "sit-down," and Jon Huntsman's family was apparently worried about the former presidential candidate's campaign being compared to Stephen Colbert's.
Much of the press is done picking over the gossipy bits of meat on the carcass of Jodi Kantor's book The Obamas and is now inclined to toe the White House line that it never should've been written. Oh what a fickle world!
Jodi Kantor, New York Times correspondent and author of White House behind-the-scenes tome The Obamas, acknowleged that people are out to portray Michelle Obama's as an "Angry Black Woman," but it's just not in her book.
The White House campaign to destroy the credibility of Jodi Kantor's new book The Obamas added a tinge of racial angst Wednesday morning, when First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on CBS This Morning denouncing her portrayal as an "angry black woman."
Today in books: Penguin signs its first writer off their "electronic slush pile" Bookcountry.com, nine Chinese authors are suing Apple for copyright infringement, and Tiger Woods' former swing coach has written a non tell-all book about the golfer.
No one's ever considered Michelle Obama a docile first lady, but the catalog of aggressive confrontations and benign squabbles in Jodi Kantor's new book The Obamas are among the revelations that are making the most noise.
Michelle Obama had some very serious disagreements with her husband's staff, and particularly his first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, according to a forthcoming book from New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor called The Obamas, excerpted by The Times on Friday.
It's not considered very nice to be mean to people just for being fat anymore, but there's a lot of pent-up desire to call fat people fatties that gets unleashed when a fat person like Jim Sensenbrenner really has it coming.
If Sasha, Malia and the First Dog Bo want to know what they're getting for Christmas, all they have to do is read Twitter.
A lot of people have no idea that the word "uppity," when applied to black people, has racist connotations, but it's getting harder and harder to understand how public figures, in particular, are able to maintain their ignorance of the term's history.
Mia Farrow's son is a Rhodes scholar, Prince Harry does Vegas, and a new Bruce Springsteen album is on the horizon for 2012.
First Lady Michelle Obama will be an author come April.
Michelle Obama has sent out her first tweet and, unlike the president, she also wrote it in the first person.
Today: Meryl Streep poses with famous women for a Capitol Hill photo shoot, Larry King's roast will be dignified and respectful, and Michelle Obama appreciates the Kardashian family's teachable moments.
Plus: Mitt Romney wants Steve Wynn's endorsement before next week's Vegas debate
Plus: Christoph Waltz dislocated his pelvis training for Quentin Tarantino's new movie
Plus: Michael Bloomberg and Roger Ailes bury the sodium hatchet
The latest: a video that bloggers claim shows Michelle scoffing at a 9/11 ceremony
The fast food chain is putting apples in every Happy Meal
Plus: Nancy Pelosi has flowers--and a message--for George W. Bush
But does he have the power not to gloat about it?
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The official Flickr feed of the International Monetary Fund sure does
Photos from the president's first official visit to the U.K. and Buckingham Palace
Some recent plans to slim down our children are pretty weird
Bares his torso to draw attention to Americans' need to live healthier lifestyles
On bin Laden's Death, choosing provisional leaders, and battling obesity
The Obamas donated $254,000 to 33 charities
The White House Flickr stream is hungry for your commentary
Family of gay and lesbian service members were barred from attending an event today
A survey of books written by presidential spouses reveals some winners, lots of dogs
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