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Jimmy Carter knows why President Obama was re-elected. According to the former one-term president, it wasn't Obama's first-term achievements or his limber campaign staff that secured his second victory. It was Jimmy Carter's grandson.
Today in celebrity gossip: Michael Lohan has a new child, Barry Manilow is causing more trouble on Broadway, and Selena Gomez is doing great.
Tonight, Lady Gaga is scheduled to perform as the parties continue. But to get you through the day, here are the all the standout clips from last night's performances.
Piers Morgan does not mince words, and he routinely gets himself into spats with other media personalities. Andrew Sullivan was the focus of some of his more recent musings, and he let Politico's Dylan Byers know what he really thinks of the independent blogger.
More than 100,000 people signed an official petition asking the Obama administration to consider deporting the CNN host after his focus on gun control after Newtown, and the White House had some bad news for those people on Wednesday afternoon.
Alex Jones, the conservative radio talk show host who created the "Deport Piers Morgan" petition, isn't known for being a particularly level-headed guy, but he straight up lost it on Monday night.
Maybe the traditional conservative media power brokers are starting to falter. Despite support from some of the big names, a White House petition to deport Piers Morgan over his strong stance on gun control in the wake of the Sandy shooting still doesn't have enough signatures.
Researchers have found no connection between autism and violence, but that hasn't stopped the mainstream media from harping on Newtown shooter Adam Lanza's apparent bout with Asperger's syndrome. It hasn't stopped the emotional responses, either.
With a characteristically impassioned rant about David Petraeus's career, Michael Hastings made himself the star of Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday.
Todd Akin isn't the only candidate who could cost the Republicans the Senate.
Antonin Scalia says he's BFF with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he didn't have a falling out with John Roberts, he doesn't think Roe vs. Wade makes sense and how he thinks SuperPACs bring more free speech on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight.
Last night, CNN aired a wild interview between Piers Morgan and Robert Blake that belongs in a special place in the annals of on-air celebrity meltdowns.
If you haven't yet read Mike Giglio's story in NewsBeast about the investigation into Piers Morgan's stock scandal in 2000, you should, if only to read the first few paragraphs about how terrified the then newspaper editor was about bad press and an investigation.
It sounds a little like Piers Morgan wanted to one-up fellow journalists when his dinner conversation 10 years ago turned into an explanation of how to hack someone's voicemail.
Also: Sources say Kris Humphries wants a whopping $7 million divorce settlement from Kim Kardashian.
The born again '80s sitcom heartthrob made his stance on gay rights, and gays in general, crystal clear in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan last night. He does not like them!
Keith Olbermann and Piers Morgan snapped at one another on Twitter Monday, but they don't seem to have the energy for a complete spat.
One day after Piers Morgan's evasive testimony denying phone hacking during his editorship at The Daily Mirror, James Hipwell, an ex-columnist has offered up contrary details to the Leveson Inquiry, claiming the practice was widespread at The Mirror.
Former News of the World editor and current CNN talk show host Piers Morgan looked nervous during his appearance testifying about phone hacking before the Leveson Inquiry on Tuesday.
Piers Morgan has just finished testifying in the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking, but the CNN host and former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor may have already tipped his hand in past interviews, The Guardian points out.
Nearly six months after Heather Mills alleged he had listened to her voice mail, former News of the World editor, current CNN host and now former America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan will "explain himself" via video to the Leveson Inquiry next week.
In a fairly odd Talent swap, NBC has signed Howard Stern to take Piers Morgan's place at the judging table for America's Got Talent.
Today's round of the British government's inquiry into the phone hacks at at News Corp. newspapers just concluded after interviewing three of its former journalists -- but it was Paul McMullan, a seven-year News of the World veteran, who was the showstopper.
It's almost time to go nuts about Twilight again, it's almost time to be civilly excited about The Hunger Games, and Ricky Gervais wants back in.
Bernie Madoff was a creep with women, and Ashton Kutcher only pretends to know about football, and Piers Morgan gives up on spotting America's talent.
It isn't a perp walk, but it's almost as bad
Piers Morgan manages to elicit that answer from the moderate GOPer
Tea Partier refuses to answer questions about gay rights and splits on CNN.
Pressure mounts in the U.K. for the CNN host to answer phone hacking questions
She says a Mirror Group journalist hacked into her voicemail
The CNN host forgives the MP accusing him of phone hacking
The New York Observer joins the small group of people supporting News Corp.'s CEO
The CNN host and former News of the World editor breaks his silence on the scandal
Plus, the etiquette of auctioning the queen's underwear
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