Judge for yourself

Here's the URL for the blog that busted the former page of Mark Foley. Read the whole story, he did a good, thorough job.

http://passionateamerica.blogspot.com/

Really BAD prank

Sorry, drugereport, but I gotta share this.....

You know, sometimes when you think it would be really funny to do something, it might just be a good idea to listen to that little naysayer in your head...the one that says "this could come back to bite me in the ass"...

from the drudge report:

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 5 2006 2:53:48 ET XXXXX

CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY

**World Exclusive** **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**

According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.

The primary source, an ally of Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund. Both are fearful that their political careers will be affected if they are publicly brought into the matter.

The prank scenario only applies to the Edmund IM sessions and does not necessarily apply to any other exchanges between the former congressman and others. The news come on the heels that Edmund has hired former Timothy McVeigh attorney, Stephen Jones.

Developing...

False Scandal

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmfa.htm

I have heard from some camps that this was a careful orchestration by Democrats to get votes in their favor, since elections are in a few weeks and this just fuels that fire. Apparently, because of an easy IM glitch, the former page accusing Mark Foley of harrassing him while underage was actually 18 years old when it happened. He is now 21.

See, and people want to think that teens are so sweet and innocent. Look at almost any account of a teen on myspace.com and you'll see that most teens are, in fact, not that innocent.

My question is, who put this former page up to accusing Foley? Who stands to gain from this?

Split!

So he finally got sick of her? He moved out of her house?

Or more like, who the hell cares anymore? Maybe that's why they split, nobody gives a rat's ass about them now. Bad for publicity.

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from US weekly:

Us Exclusive: Jen and Vince Split

After weeks of distance both emotional and real, the relationship ax fell the week of September 9 for Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. A source close to Vaughn tells Us that the split happened just before the actor left for London to begin work on his holiday comedy, Joe Claus. “It’s not common knowledge, but we’re not together anymore,” Vaughn told the insider September 13, adding that they solidified the breakup in a long phone conversation.

“We’ve split up.” Confirms an Aniston pal: “They’re 100 percent done.” Soon afterward, Vaughn, 36, canceled plans for Aniston, 37, to visit him in London for a September 23 party, says the source.

What went wrong? Sources tell Us that the relationship began to unravel almost immediately after Vaughn’s June 27 proposal to Aniston. So what has become of the $500,000, 9.5-carat canary yellow diamond Vaughn picked out for Aniston? What did Vaughn’s mother say to Vince to make him think twice about marrying Jen? What does Jen’s ex Brad Pitt think of Aniston losing at love? For more details on Jen and Vince’s split and what they’re up to now that they’re single, check out the current issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

Be afraid, be very afraid...

Tory Spelling is pregnant!

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off of page six:

October 4, 2006 -- IT'S for real - Tori Spelling is pregnant, friends of the starlet confirmed to Page Six. She's about three months along, and she and hubby Dean McDermott are said to be overjoyed. Maybe the baby's arrival will help heal the rift between Spelling and her mother, Candy, who have been fighting for the past year. Candy was upset with her portrayal in Tori's short-lived, reality-based VH1 show, "So NoTORIous." This will be the second child for McDermott, who has a son with his ex-wife. Spelling's rep declined comment.

Strange & Perverted

But this makes sense...Is Mark Foley, the Florida congressman who was busted for messing with teenage pages, a $cientologist? After all, they encourage messing with minors....and for the record, I am hardly condoning his actions or letting the guy off the hook, what he did was very inappropriate, ESPECIALLY for a public figure, but C'MON, we all know that teenagers just aren't that innocent....and having cybersex is not that big of a deal. Really. Ok, maybe it is during a vote.

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off of defamer.com:

Foley sent his “Gone to Detox Mansion” fax from Clearwater, Florida. Are there any rehab joints there that aren’t run by Scientology? Remember, that’s the same cult that says they can ‘cure’ homosexuality ….Let’s investigate, after the jump.

Clearwater is known as the town Scientology built … or at least the town Scientology almost completely redeveloped. Clearwater is also home to Narconon, L. Ron Hubbard’s homemade rehab program.

And it turns out Foley was no stranger in Clearwater.

At a 2003 Scientology meeting, Foley gave a speech and was photographed happily accepting “leatherbound copies of Dianetics and The Way to Happiness.”

In 1999, Foley joined three other Scientology-friendly politicians in condemning Germany for outlawing Scientology — German law is very strict about cults, because of previous problems.

The Clearwater Scientologists also held a fund-raiser for Foley’s aborted Senate run; he dropped out after the gay thing was mentioned.

And on Friday, the Creative Loafing blog in Tampa reported that Foley attended a Scientology gala in Los Angeles five years ago.

Holy Crap!

Our fav snarker around, Ted C., according to defamer.com, is leaving e! come june 2007. Apparently his contract is coming up and he's none too pleased with how things are going so he's taking the highway! Explains why the assistants have been doing more contributions with writing lately....and why the blind items have been so lame and flat.

and he'll be takin all his secrets with him!

sorry, e! but you're stupid to let him go!

Does this really surprise anybody?

I just wonder....does Long-Ho keep the house?

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off of TMZ.com:

Eva and Tony Call It Quits – For Real

After a day of rumor, suggestion, and speculation, now it's official: Eva Longoria and NBA star Tony Parker are finished as a couple. "They did break up. It's amicable," says a source to People magazine. "It's distance and demanding careers and not living in the same city. It didn't happen yesterday. It's been going on for a while."

Earlier in the day, a source from the San Antonio Spurs, Parker's team, had said the break-up rumors weren't true, and Longoria's rep Liza Anderson had said that the two were "going through a very difficult time." The pair met in November 2004 and confirmed their coupledom by August 2005.

Guilty Pleasure

Ok, I would so do Bob Sagat. Sue me. I really would. This vid makes me cry tears every time I watch it, it's so funny.

Lindsay denying split

off of X17:

We caught up with La Lohan at the Ivy today where she lunched with semi-boyfriend Harry Morton and on her way in she told us she's still "with" him. When asked about her rumored hookup(s) with Stavros she said ... well, check it out ...(video available at X17)

and off of TMZ:

Though Lindsay Lohan told cameras on Monday she's still with boyfriend Harry Morton, he's got a different story.

"Lindsay is an amazing girl and we're just sort of taking a little breather right now," Morton told "EXTRA" correspondent Carlos Diaz, adding the two are "slowing things down." The pair garnered a lot of attention from the paparazzi, something Morton took issue with.

He tells Diaz, "There's just a lot of pressure sometimes, it can screw things up, the media getting involved, it always makes it more difficult."Harry's also slamming reports he bought La Lohan an engagement ring in August while cameras caught him shopping at Cartier. His actual purchase that day -- a lighter.

Though his personal life may be having a rough patch, his Pink Taco restaurant chain is taking off. With one in Las Vegas and another in Scottsdale, AZ, Morton plans to expand the chain to at least six other locations, with one in Los Angeles opening in January 2007.

When is a wedding not a wedding?

When Anna Nicole does it! I also heard somewhere that this was done so that the Bahamian gov't. would legally recognize Howard K. as the father and no one else would be able to legally claim paternity with the baby. But somehow, deep inside when I watched that trainwreck of a show that Anna had, I think Howard K. has always wanted to bang her all the way to China.

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Off of ONTD:

Anna Nicole NOT married, publicist clarifiesAnna Nicole and Howard Pledge Their 'Commitment'

ET has confirmed that ANNA NICOLE SMITH and her friend and lawyer, HOWARD K. STERN -- who claims to be the father of her newborn baby -- were united in a commitment ceremony early Thursday morning in the Bahamas, according to her publicist.

Anna Nicole and Howard "escaped their house" at three o'clock this morning, according to their press release, "and boarded a boat to quietly sail the ocean around Nassau ... on a clandestine sail to recapture simple pleasures -- fresh salt air on the face, a sunrise on the ocean, and wind in their hair. And then a good thing happened: during the sail, Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern made a commitment before God to be there for one another, to be each other's strength during this difficult time."

By mid-morning, helicopters flew overhead, speed boats approached, and camera-equipped scuba divers invaded what had been an otherwise perfect moment of peace, solitude, and hope," continues the statement. "The event was intended to be totally private between two adults deeply in love with each other and needing simple reassurances that they could count on one another through life's ups and downs. The outing was never expected to be shared with anyone other than Howard, Anna, [her newborn daughter] DANNIELYNN HOPE and a few close friends and family."

Although the ceremony was officiated, it was not a wedding and no marriage certificate was issued, according to the release.It was on September 10 that Anna Nicole's son, 20-year-old DANIEL, tragically died in her hospital room of what turned out to be a lethal combination of prescription drugs.

Lindsay likes Paris' sloppy seconds

I wonder what diseases they all swap? Go to TMZ.com to see the video.

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off of celebrity terrorist:

It seems all those whisperings of a newly single Lindsay Lohan sucking face with ex-BFF Paris Hilton's ex-BF, Stavros Niarchos, are true!

The happy couple were spotted outside of Dragonfly nightclub in Hollywood Sunday night doing what celebs do when in love -- canoodle.

But it seems our freckled friend wants to keep her new blossing relationship under wraps for the present time as illustrated in THIS video of LiLo telling the 'razzi to "f**k off and die!"

Steven Tyler & Pam Anderson have something in common

Hepatitis C. How did he NOT get it earlier?

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off of Tabloid Whore:

The New York Daily News reports that on Access Hollywood tomorrow night, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler reveals that he had been battling hepatitis C for the past few years. Tyler said that he was officially diagnosed 3 years ago, but he has had it for a long time, being asymptomatic for many years.

Hepatitis C, which according to the CDC is a disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV), is also what Pamela Anderson announced a few years ago she has and claimed to have caught from sharing a tattoo needle with her ex-husband Tommy Lee.

Tyler said that he underwent a year of successful interferon treatments to battle the virus and told host Nancy O'Dell the Hep C is now "nonexistent in my bloodstream, where it's like a complete cure." He added, "I've been pretty quiet about this." "The band took a break about three years ago. [My doctor] said now is the time, and it's 11 months of chemotherapy," actually, interferon, which strengthens the immune system "so I went on that, and it about killed me." Tyler adds, "It's a shot and pills and all of that. But the good news is I stood the test of time."

Paris admits the truth

or she was just trying to fool the cops. Media whore. I say it's the bong resins in her brain talking.

off of Digital Spy:

Paris Hilton has confessed she is "not that smart" in a newly-released police interview tape.The recording was made when the star helped officers with an investigation into a burglary at the house of Hollywood porn baron Joe Francis.

Hilton had previously tipped off the movie producer that she heard a man boasting he was behind the crime.

Having interviewed the offender, however, police called Hilton in to ask her if she could help with the prosecution. "Like I really, I don't remember," she is heard to tell them on the recording, which was uncovered by US television show Dateline. She added: "I'm not, like, that smart. I forget stuff all the time."

The man in question, Darnell Riley, admitted the offence earlier this year and was sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison.

On the tape Hilton also complains to police that someone had tried to blackmail her for the return of 'private tapes' which were stolen from her home. She said an anonymous caller tried to sell them back to her but that she had refused."They were tryin' to sell it to like a newspaper or something," she explained. "So if you pay somebody, then you're gonna be paying for the rest of your life. My dad always taught me. They'll keep the tape anyway."

Harry + Lindsay R.I.P.

Wow. weren't they just eating each other's faces off in Hawaii? Oh, and I call BullShit....when you're in your 20's, you definitely DO get dumped.

off of People.com:

Lindsay Lohan and Harry Morton split up Thursday, multiple sources confirmed to PEOPLE – but now they seem to be speaking again.

"They are together now," Lohan's rep tells PEOPLE. A source close to the actress adds: "They argue, they don't argue." At the moment, "They're communicating. They're hanging out. Whatever's going to transpire there is going to transpire."

The outlook for the couple was more dire on Thursday. "Harry broke up with Lindsay yesterday at Chateau Marmont after they had dinner on the courtyard patio," a source tells PEOPLE. "Nothing happened at dinner, but shortly afterward, he broke up with her."

Why the split? "She was too much drama," says a source close to Harry.

"Lindsay did cut down on the partying, but with her it's all relative. Harry is sober. It wasn't the partying that broke them up. Harry's more low-key and not into the same stuff she's into." However, the Lohan pal says, "No one 'dumped' anyone. You don't dump people when you're 20 and 25. You have a mature relationship, and you take a break and you see what happens. Everyone does that."

More on Lindsay & Harry

Lindsay & Harry: The Boyfriend Files

Indeed, Lohan, 20, was spotted at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont on Thursday, running onto the patio where four of her friends were sitting – and weeping, a wad of tissues on one hand, her cell phone in the other. "She ran in, sat with her group, put down her cell phone and cried to her pals," an observer tells PEOPLE.

"The group looked very concerned and listened intently to what she was saying." After the Chateau, Lohan went to Hyde Lounge, where she arrived around 12:30 a.m. and stayed until the hot spot closed at 2 a.m. She mingled with friends and didn't appear to be distraught: "She was having a blast," says one patron, "even with a broken hand." Lohan's rep tells PEOPLE, "The story is untrue."

Lohan and Morton, 25, owner of the restaurant chain Pink Taco and son of former Hard Rock Cafe chain owner Peter Morton, started dating on July 2.

Their relationship started out promisingly: They spent a cozy Fourth of July week in Malibu lounging at Morton's pad (where they blasted Led Zeppelin over the speakers), dining at Nobu, shopping at the Malibu Country Mart and going out with pals. By mid-month, the lovebirds were nearly inseparable.

Among their many outings: holding hands at the Prada party in Beverly Hills on July 13, hitting hot spot Les Deux with pal Nicole Richie on July 14 and celebrating David Spade's birthday together on July 15. "They get along great and have a lot in common," a source told PEOPLE in July.

Morton had been credited with Lohan's recently toned-down lifestyle – and helped her through more than one sticky situation: He was on the scene when she was briefly hospitalized on July 26 (her camp blamed dehydration and exhaustion) and subsequently missed work on her upcoming drama Georgia Rule.

He was also there for her when her Hermes handbag went missing at London's Heathrow airport earlier this month after they attended the premiere of Lohan's upcoming film Bobby at the Venice Film Festival.

Guess who's blog this is from:

source: ONTD:

nate, luke and i headed to paris's house where it was just nutso. everyone was there.

'i hate brandon davis i kicked him out of my house! i hate him....!'

oh by the way this is paris, nicky, and lindsey lohan talking by the pool.

'look paris i just want all this drama to stop' 'dont believe anything they say lins!!!! theyll say anything its not true. fuck brandon and fucking firecrotch shit. we love you so much.'

'you look so hot btw'

-lindsey laughs-

gross

but to continue yes lots a hilarious dialogue heard from the party. i dont think i should really go more into detail than that about the conversations... they were kind of disgusting. especially nicky, shes really raunchy.... pole dancing with perez and i! and she kept calling everyone in the bathroom a coke whore, which was probably true but still.

i just laughed lounging on the emilio pucci couch, and then we headed back upstairs to sit on the fendi couches. p.s. paris's underwear were laying around the bathroom everywhere. it was kind of cute but..... kind of not at all.

Guilty Pleasure

I cannot get over all the stuff that's on YouTube.com. I was ecstatic to find "Fascination Street" by The Cure:

*Points and laughs*

altho I would like to get my hands on a Banksy duplicate! funny how she never sang live at her promo parties. So I hear.

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off of FoxNews.com:

Paris Hilton: No More Singing

Well, it was a fun idea while it lasted. But Paris Hilton’s debut album has sold a paltry 120,000 copies. It’s already pretty much off the charts, too.

With new releases from Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson and other big actual recording stars, Paris’ foray into the music business is about to become a Trivial Pursuit question.

However, the melody lingers on like bad fish. The costs on Paris are said to be ridiculously high, probably around $1 million considering travel, video and dog food. The album itself was also costly, with production fees usually seen on albums by — ahem — actual recording artists.

For Warner Bros., that’s not great news as they head into the fourth quarter. The label has no CDs with its name on it anywhere on the charts except for the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ now fallen recent album.

While competitors like Universal Music and Sony BMG barrel ahead with one Top 10 release after another, Warner Bros. remains stricken by a failure to launch.

The Paris disaster could signal a sea change at Warner among execs. I'm told by insiders that Warner Music Group overlord Lyor Cohen did not want to do Hilton's album, and that it was pushed by label chief Tom Whalley.

That jibes with what Paris herself said last winter when she gave this column an exclusive listen to her brand of anonymous Europop. She exclaimed: "Tom Whalley is really behind this. He thinks it's the greatest album."

Warner's success rate may change next month when Sean "Diddy" Combs releases his new album, "Press Play." It was shepherded not by Whalley but by Cohen's secret weapon, Kevin Lyles.

As I told you in July when Combs played me excerpts from his album, he may have a sizeable hit on his hands. Combs’ Bad Boy Records, which releases through Warner’s Atlantic division, has actually had a couple of middling hits this summer. This much can be said for Bad Boy: they’re trying at least.

As for dear Paris, a recording career was only one of many ways for her to market herself. She still has jewelry (designed by someone else), books (written by someone else) and drunk driving (that she does herself).

The strangest thing about Paris might be her publicist. Since John Lennon’s murder in 1980, Elliot Mintz has fashioned himself as Yoko Ono’s public barricade and keeper of the Lennon flame. It’s hard to imagine two clients less alike than Paris and Yoko. But in Hollywood, money talks, and that’s the bottom line.

I love the National Enquirer

TOM'S FIRING THREATENS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH KATIE
By ALAN SMITH

Katie Holmes is terrified Tom Cruise is going to wreck her career — and her fears are threatening to shatter their relationship, say sources. After Paramount Pictures bounced Cruise in one of Hollywood's most embarrassing firings, Katie is worried her involvement with the impulsive actor is a knife at her own professional throat, according to insiders.

"Tom's public humiliation made Katie realize that his wacky stunts and kooky beliefs could be damaging her career as well as his own," a Hollywood insider told The ENQUIRER.A polling service that measures the popularity of stars shows that Tom's rating has plummeted in the last year.

His bizarre appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show — in which he jumped up and down on her couch — and public jousting with Matt Lauer and Brooke Shields cost him dearly."It's gotten so bad that Katie's apprehensive over what Tom will do or say next," confided the insider.

My little pony Parker gonna have another foal?

off of SFGate:

Parker Pregnant With Second Child?

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Sarah Jessica Parker is pregnant with her second child, according to reports.
The former "Sex and the City" star and her actor husband Matthew Broderick are reportedly expecting a brother or sister for their son, James Wilkie.

An insider close to the couple tells the Globe, "They've been keeping a lid on their happy news because the pregnancy is still in the early stages. But once she's three months along, they plan to shout about it from the rooftops."

The source suggests Parker's pregnancy is the reason she pulled out of shooting the new thriller, "Vacancy." Her part, as a serial killer's prey, will now be played by Kate Beckinsale.