Obama Kissing World Leaders
What? Would you rather have U.S. President Barack Obama bending over or kissing world leaders when greeting them?
You’ve already seen the furor it causes whenever he bows down. So the bowing is out. But there’s nothing wrong with a little peck on the lips — as long as his lips are closed.
Actually, the above images of Obama kissing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and Chinese President Hu Jintaoare, are part of Benetton’s newest controversial ad campaign, according to the Washington Post:
“It means not hating,” Alessandro Benetton, deputy chairman of Benetton Group and son of the founder of the family company told the Wall Street Journal. “In a moment of darkness, with the financial crisis, what’s going on in North African countries, in Athens, this is an attitude we can all embrace that can have positive energy.”
Skepticism abounds, though — the company’s sales have been dragging, and some are speculating that the ad campaign might just be a way of jolting consumers into remembering the Benetton name. The campaign is the first part of a three-step plan to revive the Benetton brand. According to the WSJ, the brand is also rethinking its clothing lines.
Sandusky: “I shouldn’t have showered with those boys”
In an exclusive interview with NBC news, former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky admitted he acted inappropriately by showering with young boys. However he denied allegations that he was a child molester.
Sandusky talked to Bob Costas, and admitted … “I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact.”
During the interview, which airs tonight on NBC’s “Rock Center” … Sandusky claims he is innocent … and concedes, “I shouldn’t have showered with those kids.” Source
Sandusky was arrested last week after a Pennsylvania Grand jury indicted him on 40 charges of sexual child abuse. But a sympathetic judge freed him without bail.
And despite the serious charges against Sandusky, the judge allowed the pedophile to leave the state and he refused the prosecuting attorney’s request for Sandusky to wear an ankle bracelet.
McQueary won’t coach final Penn State game
Yesterday we asked what would become of Penn State receivers coach Mike McQueary who, in 2002, stumbled upon 57-year-old former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the team shower.
McQueary, who was 28 at the time, immediately fled the area. But instead of calling the cops, he called his daddy. They didn’t notify coach Joe Paterno about the incident until the next day.
McQueary, whose father was good friends with Paterno, was named receivers coach for Penn State a short time later — presumably in return for his silence.
On Wednesday, Joe Paterno, 84, was fired for ignoring his moral obligation to the child, and for assisting in covering up the heinous crime for 9 years.
But McQueary was allowed to keep his job even though he did nothing to stop the attack on the little boy.
Yesterday, Penn State announced McQueary will not be on the sidelines when Penn State takes on Nebraska in its final game on Saturday. School officials cited threats made against McQueary’s life as the reason.
According to TMZ, the university released a statement reading:
“Due to multiple threats made against assistant coach Mike McQueary, the university has decided it would be in the best interest of all for assistant coach McQueary not to be in attendance at Saturday’s Nebraska game.”
But the threats weren’t made by angry parents, they were made by the same unruly students who trashed the school hours after Paterno’s firing was announced.
Does anyone at Penn State have any morals?
Ashton Kutcher Quits Twitter
Twitter.com’s biggest egomaniac Ashton Kutcher wrote a post on his blog today declaring his intentions to turn his Twitter account over to his management team.
The move comes less than 12 hours after Kutcher came under fire from his 8 million followers for his tweet slamming Penn State’s board of trustees for firing legendary football coach Joe Paterno.
Kutchers’ followers erupted with angry tweets criticizing Kutcher for his insensitivity toward child sex abuse. 30 minutes later Kutcher deleted the tweet, and then claimed he wasn’t aware of the sex scandal involving one of Paterno’s former coaches.
Kutcher admitted he wrote the tweet impulsively without bothering to research why Paterno was fired.
“Up until today I have posted virtually every one of my tweets on my own, but clearly the platform has become [too] big to be managed by a single individual,” Kutcher wrote on his blog.
He added: “While I will continue to express myself through @Aplusk I’m going to turn the management of the feed over to my team at Katalyst Media to ensure the quality of it’s content.”
Translation: he’s an impulsive narcissist who can’t stay away from his source of supply, but he also doesn’t want to lose his cushy ‘Two And A Half Men’ gig on CBS. So he will ask his management team to babysit his tweets for him rather than delete his Twitter, which he can’t live without.
Joe Paterno, Penn State President Fired Over Child Sex Scandal
Days after a smoldering child sex scandal exploded onto the front pages of the nation’s newspapers, Penn State’s legendary football coach Joe Paterno, 84, announced he would retire at the end of the season.
But that wasn’t soon enough for outraged parents who believe Paterno turned a blind eye to a culture of rampant child sex abuse that was covered up by university officials for years.
Yesterday, Paterno and Penn State president Graham Spanier were fired in phone calls by the board of trustees.
Paterno’s firing touched off riots on the campus, with angry students overturning a TV satellite truck.
“Right now, I’m not the football coach. And I’ve got to get used to that. After 61 years, I’ve got to get used to it,” said 84-year-old Paterno, speaking to hundreds of weeping students outside his home in the shadow of the storied university.
The only remaining question is what will become of Mike McQueary, the former quarterback for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and now the recruiting coordinator and receivers coach for Penn State. (He is pictured at right with Paterno.)
On March 1, 2002, McQueary, then a 28-year-old graduate assistant for Joe Paterno, walked into the team showers and witnessed a horrific scene that would shake Penn State to its core nine years later.
Cain Accuser Works for the Obama Administration
One of the women who accused presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s now works for U.S. President Obama.
You scoffed when I mentioned in this post, dated Oct. 31, that Obama was behind these scandalous allegations.
“Obama???? what makes you think its not his own party???” wrote loyal reader Carmez79 in the comment section. Another loyal reader, Jessie, commented, “I don’t believe for one minute that this revelation came from the Obama camp.”
According to the NY Post, Karen Kraushaar, a 55-year-old former journalist who currently works for the Obama administration, was outed yesterday as one of the three women who had filed sexual harassment complaints against Cain.
But wait it gets better.
According to the AP, after she settled her claim against Cain for $35K, Kraushaar then moved on to her next job where she promptly filed yet another complaint with the help of the same lawyer!
Ex-VIBE Mag Prez Accused of Masturbating Next to ESPN Exec on Plane
VIBE magazine’s ex-president Keith Clinkscales is being sued by a former ESPN colleague who claims he pleasured himself while sitting next to her on a plane. And here I thought Keith was gay all these years.
A former ESPN executive is suing a one-time colleague over allegations he fondled himself underneath an iPad while sitting next to sportscaster Erin Andrews on a flight.
Keith Clinkscales claims the suggestion he masturbated in front of the ESPN and Good Morning America reporter is a ‘flat-out lie’ spread by Joan Lynch, an executive producer he fired.
The 47-year-old ex-Vibe magazine president filed a defamation lawsuit in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, which accused Mrs Lynch, 36, of having a partly racial motive for the accusation.
Mr Clinkscales, who left his role as ESPN’s head of content development when it was announced last month that the group was disbanding, also claims Mrs Lynch was annoyed because he was promoted over her.
Once dubbed ‘the boy wonder of black magazine publishing’ by The Washington Post, Mr Clinkscales became chief operating officer of the hip-hop bible Vibe aged 29 before becoming a senior vice president at ESPN in 2007.
In her executive producer role, Mrs Lynch most notably headed the development of the Emmy-nominated documentary series ’30 for 30′.
