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The Paris Hilton 'Drunk Text' Ringtone Collection
Maureen O'Connor · 02/23/12 02:58PMFinal Set of Secret JFK Recordings Drops; Rumors of Nicki Minaj Guest Verse Unfounded
Caity Weaver · 01/24/12 06:55PM
The last batch of President Kennedy's secret Oval Office recordings was released today, just barely missing the deadline for everyone's "Best Secret Presidential Recordings of 2011" year-end lists. Archivists from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library have been declassifying and releasing portions of the tapes, recorded so super duper secretly not even Kennedy's top aides knew of their existence before his death, since 1993.
Everyone Is a Terrible Sexist In This Saturday Night Live Anecdote
Ryan Tate · 10/19/11 03:07PMIf you ever need to convince someone that show business is a chauvinist boys club, just play them this clip explaining how, sometime in the 1990s, Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels wanted to install a woman as Weekend Update anchor for the first time in a decade, but abandoned the idea after his hero Steve Martin said "some broad" had "fucked everything up" when co-hosting an awards show with him.
The 9/11 Tapes
John Cook · 09/08/11 12:43PMRush Limbaugh's Got the Perfect Name for This New 'Biracial' Oreo
Jim Newell · 08/17/11 04:26PMRepublican: Working with Obama Like 'Touching a Tar Baby'
Maureen O'Connor · 08/01/11 02:34PMRep. Doug Lamborn likened compromising with Obama to "touching a tar baby" on talk radio today. But he probably didn't mean to use the racially charged term in a racist way, right? There's no way he missed the lesson from John McCain's "tar baby" blunder, or Mitt Romney's "tar baby" blunder, or Tony Snow's "tar baby" blunder, right?
Googlers Do No Actual Work, Says Spy
Ryan Tate · 07/19/11 01:22PMFinally, You Can Listen to Herman Cain's Gospel Album
Jim Newell · 07/11/11 03:14PMA long-lost gospel album that presidential candidate Herman Cain to have recorded in 1996 has hit the Internet. This could prove to be Julian Assange's most consequential leak yet! Or maybe it was just an upload from a Daily Caller blogger. In any event, this is a great discovery for rare music collectors who've spent years, combing through seven continents, looking for this gem — a magnum opus which settles every doubt you ever had about the ability of music to inspire.
Slow Down the Sound of a Dial-Up Modem 700% to Experience an Alien Invasion
Matt Cherette · 06/30/11 04:45AMRemember when somebody slowed down Justin Bieber's "U Smile" 800% and it became a 35-minute symphonic masterpiece? Well, slowing down the sound of '90s-era dial-up modems connecting to the Internet does not a symphonic masterpiece make. It does sound sort of like an alien invasion, though, so there's that. [via Laughing Squid]
Southwest Pilot Accidentally Broadcasts Misogynistic, Homophobic Rant
Brian Moylan · 06/22/11 05:46PMA Southwest Airlines pilot has been suspended after he accidentally broadcast his conversation about the "fags" and "grannies" that he works with as flight attendants. This man should really never be allowed to fly a plane again.
Ed Schultz Shouldn't Use the Word 'Slut' to Describe Ladies
Jim Newell · 05/25/11 02:31PMEd Schultz, the fake, lefty Rush Limbaugh whom MSNBC trots out for an hour each night to botch debased versions of Democratic talking points, had some nasty words for right-wing babbler Laura Ingraham on his radio show yesterday. While Ingraham is certainly an unsavory character, did Schultz really need to resort to the descriptor "slut," twice, over some ephemeral Obama-drinks-beer-in-Ireland nontroversy?
Lindsay Lohan's 911 Call Released
Maureen O'Connor · 04/01/11 04:47PMGov. Scott Walker's Amazing Prank Call with 'David Koch'
Jim Newell · 02/23/11 02:05PMThis is just perfect. Ian Murphy, editor of the Buffalo Beast, prank called union-busting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker pretending to be industrialist and secret Republican overlord David Koch, whose money has been fueling Walker and state Republicans' ongoing battle with labor. And Walker believed it.
Rush Limbaugh Shows Off His Chinese Voice
Jim Newell · 01/19/11 04:15PMConservative radio king Rush Limbaugh sure thinks Chinese people talk funny. Want to hear the impression of Chinese President Hu Jintao he unveiled today? It's 20 straight seconds of cartoonish "CHING CHANG CHONG" sounds. Seriously. The audio is below.
Helen Thomas Breaks Down, Lashes Out at "Reprehensible" Obama
Matt Cherette · 10/12/10 03:11PMBe Careful to Hang Up the Phone Before Calling Your Female Political Opponent a 'Whore'
Maureen O'Connor · 10/08/10 10:25AMMariah Carey's "Oh Santa" Is the Next Christmas Classic
Matt Cherette · 10/01/10 12:58PMThis Is How Playboy Sounds to the Blind
Maureen O'Connor · 09/19/10 09:30PMPhone Sex Takes Over DMV's Old Phone Number
Maureen O'Connor · 09/17/10 03:28PM1-800-DIAL-DMV used to connect you to New York State's Department of Motor Vehicles. Now it directs people to a lady who moans, "You're so big baby, wanna pull it out and watch it explode all over my beautiful backside?"