newVideoPlayer("/andersoncooper_begala_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Were Democratic attacks on Rush Limbaugh coordinated with the White House? Watch Paul Begala hilariously duck and dodge and dance around Anderson Cooper's many futile questions about the matter. Begala joined with fellow ex-Bill-and-H...

Chris Burden, the controversial performance artist, has become a high-profile victim of Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford. Stanford never delivered the artist's precious, artistic pile of gold bars. One hundred kilos of gold bricks, bought from a Stanford company for Burden's installation "One Ton One Ki...

After a Dublin blogger highlighted flaws on the RyanAir website, airline staff slammed the "pathetic life" of the "idiot and... liar" in the comments. Headquarters staff intervened — to sharpen the cruelty. "It is Ryanair policy not to waste time and energy corresponding with idiot bloggers," ...

Rachel Dodes, the Wall Street Journal reporter who Anna Wintour seemed to diss in a weekend interview, said she wasn't offended to be told "we had a little sequined thing that wouldn't come down to here on you [points to chest.]" Responding to our email inquiry, Dodes wrote, She was referring to a l...

Here are some of Chris Cillizza's tweets from the White House press briefing, where he represents the Washington Post. What is wrong with him, and why won't he stop? Cillizza covered Capitol Hill for Roll Call, and has freelanced for the Atlantic Monthly and Slate. It's not like he's some random int...

We hear CBS' 60 Minutes is preparing a profile on Anna Wintour. Though takedowns are the news magazine's claim to fame, we're betting the Vogue editor will emerged puffed up. Wintour's reputation is not only that of a ruthless office dragon, but also as a something of a hissing serpent when cornered...

Like many celebrities, Tom Cruise tries to control journalists. He hates talking about his heavy involvement Scientology, for example. But who knew he'd try to force his interviewers to like Valkyrie? Italian publication LeiWeb opened its interview with Cruise by describing all the restrictions impo...

Scientology prince Tom Cruise is supposedly no longer speaking publicly about his membership in the cult, a far cry from the days he used new films as a chance to promote the "church." The actor gave an interview to Britain's Sun , which today reports, Stung by negative comments about the religious ...

In April, the Times published a 7,600-word story on how major news networks presented as their own military "analysts" former officers who were on the payroll of major defense contractors and who had received talking points in special Pentagon briefings. The networks declined to cover the story and ...

Like an old, scorned lover, Scott McClellan can't quite fully betray and repudiate the man who made him do awful things, George W. Bush. The former Bush press secretary has written a fairly extensive and blunt tell-all book about his time with the president, but he's still splitting hairs about what...