Alaska Governor Sarah Palinhas just announced she will resign at the end of this month and will not run for a second term as Governor in 2010. The Governor, who was Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential candidate last year, will transfer power to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell.
Sarah Palin via Twitter: “We’ll soon attach info on decision to not seek re-election… this is in Alaska’s best interest, my family’s happy… it is good, stay tuned.” This retirement announcement is taken as a step up for a potential run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. However, a source close to Palin said that she is “out of politics for good.”
The first photos of Gov. Mark Sanford’s alleged mistress, Maria Belen Chapur (or is it Maria Belen Shapur!?), have finally surfaced. There are photos and a video of a woman named Belen Chapur but they do not look like the same woman to us (check out photos and video below)…
Maria Belen Chapur is a 43-year-old employee of an international agriculture company who speaks several languages and lives in an upscale apartment building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, local media there are reporting. Belen speaks English, Portuguese and Chinese, and that the company she supposedly works for is massive, with 25,000 employees in more than 30 countries.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanfordrevealed his long-time affair with a 43 year-old woman, whose name is Maria Belen Shapur, from Buenos Aires, Argentina in a press conference on Wednesday (June 24). Sanford apologized to his staff, wife Jenny Sanford and family, and offered his resignation from the position of chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
The State Newspaper obtained e-mails between Sanford and his mistress Maria, who has two sons. These e-mails make us believe romance is not dead – these are absolute masterpieces! I was expecting it to be more X-rated but it is almost poetry (read emails below). We will update with the photo of Maria Belen Shapur as soon as it is released - Maria’s Apartment Photo below.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who had been on an undisclosed location for the past couple of days, finally decided to open up and admit he had been having an affair with a close friend from Argentina. A teary eyed Sanford emotionally apologized to his staff, wife Jenny Sanford and family in a news conference on Wednesday (June 24).
Sanford said, “Let me first of all apologize to my wife and my 4 boys. I’ve let down a lot of people, that’s the bottom line. I’m here because if you were to look at God’s laws they are designed to protect people from themselves…it is indeed to protect ourselves from ourselves.”
“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife. I developed a relationship with what started out with a dear dear friend from Argentina. Recently over this last year it developed into something much more than that.”
“We developed a remarkable friendship over those eight years and then as I said about a year ago it sparked into something more than that,” Sanford explained. “I have seen her three times since then, during that whole sparking thing. … It was discovered five months ago and went into serious overdrive.”
The governor confessed his wife knew about the affair. When asked if he was separated from his wife Jenny, Sanford said, “I don’t know how you want to define that. I’m here, she’s there. I guess in a formal sense we’re not.”
Sanford, who did not reveal his mistress’ identity, offered his resignation from his position of chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Senator John Ensign, actor Morgan Freeman and Police Chief Edward Flynn have also recently admitted their affairs.
Neda Agha Sultan (or Neda Agha Soltan) was a beautiful Iranian girl who died from a gunshot wound to the heart in the streets of Tehran while peacefully protesting with her father. The girl held a sign that read “freedom”, a simple cry for democracy in Iran.
“She only ever said that she wanted one thing, she wanted democracy and freedom for the people of Iran,” Neda’s boyfriend, Caspian Makan, told a reporter. The 27 year-old woman has become a symbol of rebellion/martyr for the cause in Iran.
Neda Agha Sultan Photos
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Senator Barbara Boxersaid toBrigadier General Michael Walsh during Senate hearing Tuesday: “Do me a favor…could you call me senator instead of mam. It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. So I’d appreciate it. Yes, thank you!” (watch video below).
Just ridiculous! Pathetic! And totally disrespectful to the General, who was just answering this woman’s questions with a polite “Yes Mam” and “No Mam”.
Conservative Republican Nevada Senator John Ensign has confessed to having an affair with a married woman, who is reportedly 46 year-old campaign staffer, Cynthia Hampton (not Cindy Hampton!!).
John decided to go public about the affair because of blackmail threat, saying it was the worst mistake of his life and begs his wife, Darlene Ensign, for forgiveness on a special news conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Sen. John Ensign said, “I will not mention any names but the woman who I was involved with and her husband were close friends and both of them worked for me. Our families were close. That closeness put me into situations which led to my inappropriate behavior. We caused deep pain to both families and for that I am sorry.”
Cynthia’s husband Douglas Hampton served as Ensign’s administrative assistant in his personal office from November 2006 to May 2008 while John and Cynthia had a steamy affair. Both Cynthia and Douglas no longer work for Senator Ensign.
David Letterman apologized to Sarah Palin and her two daughters, Willow and Bristol, again, last night on The Late Show (video above). Last week Dave made a joke about Palin’s 14-year old girl having sex with Alex Rodriguez during the game (statutory rape). Letterman has claimed throughout the controversy that he thought the daughter in attendance with Governor Palin was the 18-year old daughter and not the 14-year old Willow.
Dave seemed to truly understand the outrage over his coarse joke and seemed to be somewhat sincere in his apology to the Palin family on Monday night.
“All right, here - I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week - it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don’t know about it. But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah. But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended. The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’ And I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the Governor and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani…And I really should have made the joke about Rudy…” (audience applauds) “But I didn’t, and now people are getting angry and they’re saying, ‘Well, how can you say something like that about a 14-year-old girl, and does that make you feel good to make those horrible jokes about a kid who’s completely innocent, minding her own business,’ and, turns out, she was at the ball game. I had no idea she was there. So she’s now at the ball game and people think that I made the joke about her. And, but still, I’m wondering, ‘Well, what can I do to help people understand that I would never make a joke like this?’ I’ve never made jokes like this as long as we’ve been on the air, 30 long years, and you can’t really be doing jokes like that. And I understand, of course, why people are upset. I would be upset myself.
“And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ - this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’ It doesn’t make any difference what my intent was, it’s the perception. And, as they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it’s not a very good joke. And I’m certainly - ” (audience applause) “- thank you. Well, my responsibility - I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood.” (audience applauds) “Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.” (audience applause)
Yesterday, we told you about a group that had set up the website FireDavidLetterman.com to stage a protest outside of the Ed Sullivan theater today to call for Letterman’s head. Will that group show up at 4:30pm ET today as they had planned, and if so how many will be in attendance?
The first apology by Dave was extremely flawed. His apology on Monday night came across as sincere and should in all fairness to all parties bring a close to this ugly controversy.
David Letterman made several very cruel jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter going to a Yankees game during the former VP candidate’s visit to New York City.
During the opening monologue on Tuesday night (June 9), Dave said: “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game. During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” (watch video above). Bad taste? Yes! Funny? Absolutely!
Sarah Palin took this joke very seriously and attacks Dave Letterman by calling him a pervert for making a sexual joke about a minor (wait! I thought Dave was talking about Bristol Palin!) via the following statement:
“Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands–that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.”
The Late Show host presented another one of his funny Top Ten lists “Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip To New York” and said Palin had the style of a “slutty flight attendant” (watch video below the fold).
Dave had the opportunity to clear up the situation and responded to Sarah Palin on his “Late Show” on Wednesday, June 10 (watch video below the fold). David explains he was actually talking about her 18 year-old daughter Bristol Palin, who recently gave birth to baby Tripp and has became a high-profile advocate for abstinence.
Dave said: “We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me… These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.”
I love Dave! So funny! Speak your mind in the comments!
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President Barack Obama’s former preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright is back in the news again, this time for bashing the Jews that surround and advise Obama. Wright believes Obama is not talking to him because the President’s Jewish advisers are telling him not to right now.
“Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me,” Obama’s former pastor told the Daily Press of Hampton Roads, Va., where he was attending a ministers’ conference at Hampton University. “I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.”
Sadly this anti-semitic rhetoric comes on the same day that James Von Brunn, a racist and anti-semitic, opened fire on at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. today, killing security officer Stephen Tyrone Jones.
Maybe Wright should wake up and realize that Obama is smart enough to stay away from him, especially if he is going to keep spewing his racist hatred.
Actor Jon Voight spoke up against President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, saying the nation is weak and under “Obama oppression” at the Republican Senate-House Fundraising Dinner on Monday (June 8). Jon pins Obama as a “false prophet,” who wants to take over the world with his sweet talk (watch video above).
US Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were arrested in the China-North Korea border on March 17, were convicted of a serious crime against North Korean government and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in prison.
Laura, the sister of former The View co-host Lisa Ling, and Euna, were accused of crossing the China-North Korean border while reporting a story on human trafficking by Kim Jong Il’s regime. The two insist that their border crossing was accidental but because they were tried by The Central Court, the highest court of North Korea, there can be no appeal.
State Department spokesman Ian Kellysaid: “We are deeply concerned by the reported sentencing of the two American citizen journalists by North Korean authorities, and we are engaged through all possible channels to secure their release.”
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Laura and Euna’s families! We hope they can come home soon, safe and sound!
President Barack Obama delivered his very much anticipated first speech titled “A New Beginning” for the Muslim world in an attempt to reestablish a diplomatic relationship with the United States at Cairo University campus’ auditorium in Cairo, Egypt.
Full Text of President Of The United States of America Barack Obama’s Speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims. The attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. This has bred more fear and mistrust.
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Model/dancer Noemi Letizia is the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s mistress and the reason behind his divorce. The PM’s wife Veronica Lario has asked for divorce after finding out he was having a relationship with the underage girl, saying: “I am going to ask for a divorce. I want to do the right thing - I cannot stay with a man who surrounds himself with minors.”
The 72 year-old denied his relationship with Noemi, who calls him “Papi” (“Daddy”), but he was caught at her birthday party last weekend. Silvio gave her a gold and diamond necklace for her 18th birthday.
President Barack Obama has selected Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court according to a published report.
Sotomayor becomes the first Hispanic nominated to the Nation’s highest court. Sotomayor, 54, is currently a Circuit Court judge for the United States.
She will have to go through a tough and likely lengthy Senate confirmation.
Sonia Sotomayor’s Education
High School: Cardinal Spellman High School (Bronx, NY)
College: Princeton University (A.B. 1976, summa cum laude)
Law School: Yale Law School (J.D. 1979, editor of Yale Law Journal)
Federal Judicial Experience
U.S. District Court for Southern District of New York (1991, appointed by President George H. W. Bush)
Circuit Court of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd District (1997, appointed by President Bill Clinton)
The 24 year-old daughter of Senator John McCain, Meghan McCain, was on Stephen Colbert to talk about the future of the Republican Party. Meghan reveals to be pro-sex, pro-life and pro-gay marriage!
Oh, she is making her Republican daddy so proud!! Meghan refuses to make any comments on her daddy’s VP candidate Sarah Palin and to lick Stephen’s face.Ok, I guess it’s pretty clear Meghan absolutely hates Palin!
Former NFL player and long-time Republican politician Jack Kemp has passed away at the age of 73 from a battle with cancer.
Kemp served several terms in Congress before running as Bob Dole’s running mate in 1996.
Kemp, a former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving the House for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988.
Eight years later, after serving a term as President George H.W. Bush’s housing secretary, he made it onto the national ticket as Bob Dole’s running-mate.
Kemp was a 17th round pick of the Detroit Lions in 1957. He was cut and battled his way back into the league with the Buffalo Bills where he made his name as a star quarterback.
Kemp led Buffalo to the 1964 and 1965 AFL Championships, and won the league’s most valuable player award in 1965. He co-founded the AFL Players Association in 1964 and was elected president of the union for five terms. When he retired from football in 1969, Kemp had enough support in blue-collar Buffalo and its suburbs to win an open congressional seat.
Kemp is survived by his wife Joanne, four children, and seventeen grandchildren.
United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter has announced that he will be retiring from the Nation’s highest court at the end of the current court term.
At 69, Souter is nowhere near the oldest member of the court. In fact, he is in the younger half of the court’s age range, with five justices older and just three younger. So far as anyone knows, he is in good health. But he has made clear to friends for some time that he wanted to leave Washington, a city he has never liked, and return to his native New Hampshire. Now, according to reliable sources, he has decided to take the plunge and has informed the White House of his decision.
Many legal experts expect President Barack Obama to select a female to fill Souter’s position since there is currently just one, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, on the Supreme Court.
Possible nominees who have been mentioned as being on a theoretical short list include Elena Kagan, the current solicitor general who represents the government before the Supreme Court; Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Diane Wood, a federal judge in Chicago who taught at the University of Chicago at the same time future President Barack Obama was teaching constitutional law there.
The current members of the Supreme Court are Chief Justice John Roberts, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito.
Pennsylvania GOP Senator Arlen Specter, in a sleazy way to get re-elected next year, is switching to the Democratic party. Specter has been a Republican senator from the Keystone state for over 28 years.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday Obama will raise money and campaign for Specter if asked.
Despite winning election to the Senate five times as a Republican, Specter has jumped ship faced with the prospect of a strong challenge from conservative Pat Toomey in the GOP primary and Pennsylvania trending Democratic.
“I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party,” he said at a news conference, adding “I am not prepared to have my 29 years’ record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.”
The move likely will be the final nail into the death of Specter’s controversial political career once his current term is up. Specter was already trailing Pat Toomey in the GOP primary in PA and the move is similar to switching teams at half time in an attempt for playing time and to win.
I think the move will backfire as long time Democratic residents of PA have despised Specter for years and the Republican voters are going to hate Specter with a passion now. Regardless of party, Specter, like many in Washington, has been in power too long, and it is time for him to leave the scene of his crimes.
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith got into a heated debate with Fox contributor Judith Miller about interrogation techniques. Smith is strongly against and condemns torture.
“We are America, we don’t torture! And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train! This government is of, by, and for the people — that means it’s mine. That means — I’m not saying what is torture, and what is not torture, but I’m saying, whatever it is, you don’t do it for me! I want off the train when the government starts — I want off, next stop, now!”
The thing gets serious when he completely lost it and dropped the F-bomb on the online show “The Strategy Room” later (video below).
Smith says: “We are America!” he shouted, slamming his hand on the table. “I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps. We are AMERICA! We do not f*cking torture!!”
