Last week Rachel Maddow called out failed Clinton consigliere Mark Penn for running an evil PR firm, Burson-Marsteller. The firm is evil, and Penn should just shut up. But he didn't! So he paid: After Maddow reamed Burson for working for a laundry list of the world's dirtiest companies, Penn sent ou...

Barack Obama's barber "Zariff" has no last name and is suddenly in all the papers explaining that the president has GENUINE gray hair after just 44 days in office. Why? Zariff cut Obama's hair for 17 years. He still does, about every two weeks, so the president has presumably flown him out from Chic...

The New York Post issued an angry non-apology for Sean Delonas' monkey cartoon. The New York Times issued a mealy-mouthed non-apology for its winking John McCain(*cough*SEX*cough*)-lobbyist story. Please; it's very important to non-apologize correctly: Don't say 'If you were offended...'—Or wo...

In today's Anna Wintour image rehabilitation news, the Vogue editor is reportedly filmed at yet another charity ball and gives the WSJ an interview. But she called the reporter huge. Whoops! It's so hard to keep the nastier side of your monster-editor personality in check when you go from "no interv...

Without admitting anything specific, Chris Brown apologized for "what transpired" with Rihanna, the girlfriend he allegedly attacked right before the Grammys. Savvy timing, jerk. Brown recently hired a crisis-management team, and he appears to be getting his money's worth: By apologizing in the midd...

Press release of the day: Do you care deeply about landmine victims, and also about your own personal cleanliness? Now you can combine those two interests, with the world's grimmest bar of soap: With a simple act of washing our hands, we can help wash the earth clean of landmines. Cleanup is a new l...

Caroline Kennedy has been telling people she pulled out of senate contention due to uncle Ted's deteriorating health. But that was apparently after she learned she wouldn't get the gig anyway. The Post's original, cryptic scoop offered no rationale for Kennedy's withdrawal. Then, a person "told of [...

newVideoPlayer("/wintour_film_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Anna Wintour said she wishes the new documentary about her had ventured beyond the offices of Vogue. And no wonder, because it is there that the editor made her ruthless reputation. It would soften Wintour's image had documentary-maker R.J. Cu...

Israel announced today that it's close to ending its war in Gaza, possibly as early as this weekend. Just in time for the news to be swallowed by the Obamanauguration coverage saturation. As predicted, wrapping up the war now will allow news of its aftermath and the inevitable tallying-up of the des...

A flack for Ketchum named James Andrews had to fly into Memphis yesterday for a client meeting with FedEx, and observed, correctly, that Memphis is a hellhole. This could get him fired. See, he made his observation via Twitter (side note: another reason not to use Twitter), and some of the FedEx peo...