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The Cradle Of Civilization [Fake New York Times]
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 1:21pm CST by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: Fake new york times
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Massive Liberal Conspiracy Behind Fake Times [Fake New York Times]
Posted: November 12th, 2008, 10:06pm CST by Ryan Tate
Tags: Fake new york times
It's true, as we reported this morning, that the the liberal prank group The Yes Men was behind today's spoof left-utopian Times. But there were so many more commie pinkos involved in the plot! The cabal sent out a press release tonight, revealing that their ranks include the Yes Men, protest group Code Pink (which disrupted the Republican National Convention and fought Marine Corps recruiting), Improv Everywhere (they did that tear-jerking little league thing), Anti Advertising Agency (the ad-sticker people) and a few others we're less familiar with. They want to make the headlines come true! So cute. After the jump, read the press release and find out which of their claims is being disputed by the Times.The Times is covering the prank on page C7 of tomorrow's paper. The newspaper seems to be taking the spoof issue in reasonably good humor, but does note that the pranksters' stated 1.2 million circulation is higher than that of the real Times and is otherwise " suspect, if only because of the printing costs that would be involved."
We bet the paper is going to look eerily prescient in July — for accurately predicting a 14-page Times print edition.
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The Official Times Spoofer Video Celebration [Fake New York Times]
Posted: November 12th, 2008, 2:16pm CST by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: Fake new york times
The commie pinkos behind today's liberal fantasy spoof of the New York Times have released a video communiqué! It's basically a rundown of the printing and distribution and fabulous wonderment of the stunned populace as they considered a world free of bloodshed. The best part comes half way through: Actual NYT employee: "I don't understand what statement they're trying to make. We've been all over the Bush administration since day one. We set the standard for coverage of the Iraq war!" The faceless response: "Like Judith Miller?" NYT Guy: (turns around and leaves). Ha, they're both right! The video is below:
New York Times Special Edition Video News Release - Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.[A more generous response from Alex S. Jones, a former Times reporter and author and Harvard professor: "I’m just glad someone thinks The New York Times print edition is worthy of an elaborate hoax." That is correct.]
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Star’s ‘Twins for Jennifer Aniston Story’ is unsurprisingly misleading
Posted: November 8th, 2008, 7:26am CST by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
Aniston on Friday not looking pregnant at all. Credit: FameStar Magazine is running a cover story that pretty much states Jennifer Aniston is pregnant with twins. The headline on the gossip magazine breathlessly reads: “She’s having John’s babies - TWINS for Jen!” with bullet items: “Secret fertility treatments, She’s stopped drinking, Surprise call to Brad.” The only problem is that the accompanying article doesn’t even suggest that she “looks” pregnant or that “friends say” she’s pregnant. According to Star, she’s undergoing “fertility treatments” in order to increase her chances to conceive, which could possibly result in twins. The heading should read “She’s planning on having John’s babies,” in order to correspond with the weak article they use to back up their misleading cover.
Given that this is Star, Aniston may not even be having fertility treatments though. The only evidence they seem to have that she wants to have these supposed twins is the fact that she’s getting acupuncture and taking herbal supplements, which Star calls “fertility treatments.” The lead-in to the article is a sing-sing children’s rhyme and that pretty much sums up the whole tone:
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer with a baby carriage - big enough for twins. That’s right, twins! Star has learned that Jen has been undergoing fertility treatments, determined to have a pair of babies with John. As we reported earlier this year, Jen’s biological clock began ticking so loudly that she had some of her eggs frozen just in case she didn’t meet Mr. Right in time. But now that she’s proposed to John - as Star also reported - and he’s excited about being a dad, she’s doing everything she can to conceive before her 40th birthday in February. She’s even been having alternative medicine treatments to increase her chances of having twins…
While friends say the actress would be happy with a single healthy child, two babies at once would be a dream come true. “She’ll try anything to help her chances,” says her pal. She and John are doing a lot of yoga together, and Jen makes sure to do specific poses her instructor suggested to help her get pregnant….
“Jen has visited fertility doctors for years because she’s nuts about being prepared,” says a source.
And during the past few weeks, she’s been exploring Eastern and alternative medicines to help her achieve her mommy dream…
The 39-year-old star “is taking about 20 herbal pills a day,” says the source. “They have no side effects, so it’s not a big deal. She says she already feels better and stronger. She’s totally prepared to be a mom.”
Jen, says the insider, has been to Santa Monica Acupuncture several times in the past few weeks. “She’s taking notes and learning a ton and is really excited about this.”
Star’s other compelling evidence that Aniston is gunning for a baby include her supposed diet changes, like “taking a lot of folic acid” and increasing her consumption of milk and beef, and the herbal supplements she takes. She also didn’t drink alcohol once on a night out with John Mayer. We can pretty much call this an article based on almost no evidence that comes to a completely bogus conclusion.
People sometimes wonder why we cover these fake stories if we don’t believe them. Even though this is from Star Magazine, there will be people who think that Aniston is pregnant because the tabloids are pushing it. Last week In Touch published a cover story that Aniston “looks” pregnant. There’s just no evidence to back it up right now and Star is grasping at acupuncture needles trying to sell copies.
Here’s Jennifer Aniston outside the Ivy yesterday on 11/7/08. Although she’s hiding a little, and is said to have left through the back door, she knows by going to the Ivy that her flat non-pregnant stomach is sure to get photographed.
Photo credit: Fame
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Jamie Lynn Spears isn’t pregnant, say sources
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 12:54pm CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
This morning when the news came out that Jamie Lynn Spears, 17, was pregnant with her second child less than four months after having her first a lot of people were willing to believe it, including us. In fact I’m still not convinced that there wasn’t some truth to it - like maybe she had a pregnancy scare or something. Her sister Britney had her second child just about a year after her first, so that kind of fertility seems to run in her family and you could easily imagine the same thing happening to Jamie Lynn.It’s not true, though, according to TMZ and OK!. There’s a cover story on OK! this week featuring Jamie Lynn and her fiance, Casey Aldridge, in which they respond to the multiple infidelity rumors about Casey. The accompanying teaser article about how well they’re doing isn’t that convincing, though, and neither is OK!’s denial of the pregnancy. They just say Jamie Lynn told them she wasn’t pregnant and dismiss it as gossip. TMZ claims they have it from an “unimpeachable source” that she isn’t. Does that mean that her rep told them off the record that she’s not?
It doesn’t seem likely that Jamie Lynn would get in the family way again so soon after having her first, but the story originated in the National Enquirer and they’re usually right about those big stories even if people like to dismiss them at first. They may have had it wrong, though, and it could have been just a scare or a rumor. It’s for the best if Jamie Lynn really isn’t pregnant again. Two children in about a year is too much for any teen to handle.
Jamie Lynn Spears is shown out getting DVDs at Blockbuster in LA on 9/14/08. Credit: Fame
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The New Goldman Sachs [Fake Ads]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 9:43am CDT by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: Fake Ads
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Goldman Sachs has never had to depend on TV advertising. It's far too populist a medium for the king of investment banks. But now that Wall Street is dead, Goldman may have to actually go after the public at large. So Gawker video maven Richard Blakeley and his comedic pal Fritz Donnelly made up this ad prototype that Goldman will likely want to steal. Pay attention, fancy financiers: this is how you sell to real people. Click to watch the future of American economic messaging.
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All 17 of Paris Hilton’s dogs are fine
Posted: September 19th, 2008, 3:58am CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
Paris Hilton with two of her dogs on 7/20/07. Credit: FameYesterday we ran a story that wild coyotes had run off with two of Paris’ at least 17 dogs. The story originated with paparazzi photo agency X17, and it’s possible that it filtered down to one of their photographers in the “telephone game” type way that rumors get twisted and turned around when they’re repeated. Maybe Paris was upset over something else, someone wondered if one of her many dogs had been hurt, it got misunderstood and repeated and the story turned into a coyote killing two of the pups. Or maybe they just made it up on a slow news day.
Paris’ rep told People that all the dogs are living the high life in their little doggie mansion, waiting to be picked by Paris for an outing like so many neglected pairs of shoes:
Contrary to Internet reports, two of Paris Hilton’s dogs were not eaten by a coyote. They’re not only alive, but living better than many humans.
“They were at Paris’s house Wednesday in her recording studio, and all the dogs were playing and looked as healthy and happy as can be,” a rep for the heiress tells PEOPLE. “Paris even had a doggie mansion built for them and it is very secured. ”
Her rep was responding to reports that Hilton, 27, has been crying non-stop due to the dogs’ deaths.
[From People]
Why Paris has 17 dogs: They keep having babies
Paris Hilton told Ellen Degeneres in February that she has 17 dogs. Ellen asked her why she has so many dogs, and she said “they keep having babies and I feel bad to give them away.” Ellen said “Paris you have to spay and neuter your pets,” and Paris answered “They all just got fixed.” Ellen asked “All of them?” and she hesitated and said “Yes.” Ellen called her out on the fib, saying “Paris you’re lying,” and she was forced to admit “two of them weren’t [fixed].” It just takes two! Hopefully they’re the same sex, not that Paris would know.
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Mischa Barton and Josh Hartnett?
Posted: September 16th, 2008, 10:56am CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
The Daily Mail is reporting that Mischa Barton was “desperate to impress” Josh Hartnett when she ran into him at a London club on Monday. The way they tell the story, Mischa practically threw herself at Josh and he only gradually came around to the idea. In their first description of what went down, they say Mischa went back with Josh to his hotel and then left after an hour, but later on in the story they admit that Mischa and Josh were with a group of people so it’s likely they just all hung out together and this story is overblown. Mischa is newly single after breaking up with her boyfriend of seven months, Rooney singer Taylor Locke.Mischa, who recently split from musician boyfriend Taylor Locke is clearly keen to put the past behind her.
Hollywood ex-pats Mischa Barton and Josh Hartnett hooked up at nightclub Bungalow 8 and later shared a ride to his London hotel
Not to suggest that anything happened between the extremely good-looking and single pair - and Mischa did trundle back to her own hotel an hour later.
The actress, 22, looked desperate to impress Josh at the Temperley afterparty at Bungalow 8 when she arrived at 11pm.
Hartnett, whose screen credits include Pearl Harbor, is in London to play Charlie Babbitt in the Apollo Theatre’s production of Rain Man…
Josh, 30, was sitting with Kings Of Leon drummer Nathan Followill and seemed more interested in his conversation than the strutting beauty…
Later, in the toilets, Nathan was overheard warning Josh off Mischa. The source added: ‘Nathan told him that he thought she talks too much.’
At any rate, Josh mustn’t have listened to his pal’s opinion, as Mischa got the breakthrough she’d been waiting for and started chatting with Josh.
Her charms seemed to work, as both left with a group of friends to head back to the nearby Soho Hotel at 1.30am. With his pick of the ladies, Josh certainly seems like a hard guy to please.
[From The Daily Mail]
If you read just the first part of the story it sounds like they got up to something, but then it turns into a party type scenario and nothing special. I wouldn’t put it past Josh because he’s been linked to a lot of women, but the Daily Mail should be careful - he’s been feeling litigious lately and recently sued The Mirror over a fake story that he was taped having sex in the library of a hotel.
Josh Hartnett is shown leaving Bungalow 8 in London last night. Mischa Barton is shown outside the Chateau Marmont on 9/12/08. Credit: WENN
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Washington Mutual Will Do Anything For Your Business [Fake Ads]
Posted: September 15th, 2008, 1:56pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: Fake Ads
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Pope-hating straight talker Bill Maher is seriously considering putting some money in failing Washington Mutual now that they're offering free blow jobs with every account. Click to watch the sadly plausible series of fake ads that get worse and worse until we're all broke and can't afford a blow job anyhow.
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Katherine Heigl will eat the puppy
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:39am CDT by Celebrity Gossip Blog
Tags: Fake Celebrities
Katherine Heigl looks like some sort of a freak-show.
I feel bad for this puppy. I think it’s trying to escape Katherine’s grip of death. Or it’s about to take a shit on that dude behind it. ( Which would be pretty damn funny)
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Jamie Lynn Spears sent Bristol Palin pink burpcloths for her baby
Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 1:37pm CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
Those blabbermouths at Petit Tresor are getting press again by revealing maybe-fake celebrity purchases at their overpriced baby boutique. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes sent the LA store a cease and desist in May for telling Life & Style that they’d blown over $350k on baby goods for Suri. The Holmes-Cruise’s lawyers said it just wasn’t true and that it violated their confidentiality to even reveal they’d shopped there. The letter read in part “We also understand that you have informed other tabloids that our clients have purchased various items at your stores that they have not in fact purchased, and that they have shopped there at times that they have not.”So take this latest news as either true and questionable on Jamie Lynn’s part or rather desperate on Petit Tresor’s part. Supposedly Jamie Lynn Spears, herself a famous young mother at 17, sent her latest teen pregnant tabloid replacement, Bristol Palin, also 17, pink burp cloths from the boutique. Does Jamie Lynn know that Bristol is having a girl? It seems more prudent to send blue stuff if the baby’s sex is unknown since Bristol has a little five month-old brother. Bristol is five months pregnant and due in December, so she could know the sex of the baby already. If this story is true, and that’s a giant IF in bright yellow sans serif, then maybe Jamie Lynn knows something the rest of the world doesn’t:
If there’s one person who gets a pregnant teen, it’s Jamie Lynn Spears.
Britney Spears’ little sis is reaching out to Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, John McCain’s vice presidential pick.
A source close to the Beverly Hills baby store Petit Tresor tells CelebTV.com exclusively that a gift from Plain Mary was sent to Bristol Palin on behalf of Jamie Lynn Spears.
An insider says it was actually Lynne Spears, Jamie Lynn’s mom, who called about the gift, and requested the gift come from her daughter.
“It was ordered by phone, and they asked what could be done for under $100. They spent $60 on pink burpcloths,” said the source.
[From CelebTV.com via WeSmirch]
Burpcloths should not cost $60. I was kind of flabbergasted at that price, but then I looked up burpcloths on Target.com and see that even at Target a nice set can run up to 1/2 that cost, which sounds about right if you’re looking at the cost of regular vs. designer goods.
How would Jamie Lynn Spears know Bristol Palin anyway? Could she maybe feel sorry for her because she knows what it’s like to be in the spotlight as a pregnant teen? Surely some pink burpcloths aren’t the way to express that kind of remote solidarity. She might not even be able to use them for all we know.
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Denied! Anon AA Ad Artist Slams Faux-Bam Culture Jam [Fake Fake Ads]
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:50am CDT by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: Fake Ads
So yesterday we posted what seemed to be a new work by the anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer—this one featuring Obama being menaced by a big dick, with the familiar slogan "The Assassination of Barack Obama" and an American Apparel logo. Then we heard that it might not be a work by the actual spoofer, which was confirmed by the spoofer's own blog, then confirmed again by Copyranter, who thinks the Obama piece is a Photoshop fake. Now the spoofer himself has sent us a statement, of sorts, saying he welcomes copycats as long as it's clear they're different copycats (and he's not a Dov Charney employee, thank you):Hi Hamilton,
I am the "aa ads spoofer."
I am not the creator of the Obama poster you posted yesterday, and don't deserve the little fame it temporarily got. I never mix art and politics, the billboards in Tribeca have never inspired me, and I don't do use the Photoshop posterization filter. I gladly welcome copycats though, as long as people don't think it's my doing.
Also, to answer a floating question, my fake AA campaign is a personal project. American Apparel isn't behind this campaign, I don't work for them, I don't know them, and all I ever got from them is a pleasant mute tolerance...
I picked up AA essentially because their ads were sex-oriented, which was a good place to start. This work is about inspiration in art and advertising, and manipulation, if I get it right...
i'll be wrapping up the project in sept w/ a little showdown on stereohell.
[Disclaimer: To the extent we were able to check around, we're pretty sure this is the real spoofer. Although you never really know when it comes to spoofers.]
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OK! Magazine runs Aniston & Mayer’s “wedding of the year” (update: denied)
Posted: August 6th, 2008, 11:08am CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
OK! Magazine claims to have an exclusive story with all the details of Jennifer Aniston’s planned backyard wedding to John Mayer. They claim it will be the “WEDDING of the YEAR” in that bright yellow font the tabloids love to use. Judging from the quotes that are included in the teaser article posted on OK!’s site, it’s probably one of those stories that is entirely based on “insiders” and “sources,” and it sounds like it will sell a lot of copies even if it strikes me as completely fabricated at first glance:In the coming months, Jennifer Aniston will be celebrating two major milestones in her life: turning 40, and marrying the new love of her life, John Mayer.
“She’s at an age where she is thinking with her head not just her heart,” a source close to the actress tells OK!, adding that the event will take place this fall. “No way would she still be with anyone if marriage wasn’t a real option.”
When Jen married Brad Pitt eight years ago, they spent $1 million on the ceremony, which featured a gospel choir, four bands, fireworks and an estimated 50,000 flowers!
But this time around, Jen wants something entirely different. “She doesn’t want anything elaborate or showy,” one friend tells OK!.
With best friend Courteney Cox as her matron of honor and godchild Coco Arquette as her flower girl, Jen will have all the attendants she needs or wants.
With both of them sharing the same laid-back and down-to-earth lifestyle, friends say Jen and John, 30, are made for each other.
“They are just a perfect match,” says a friend. “And everything about that will come through in this beautiful wedding.”
[From OK! Magazine]
You know those inspirational e-mail chain letters that Snopes calls glurge? They usually focus on stories of questionable origin like a terminally sick child getting his hospital bills paid by someone he once talked to in a restaurant. That’s what OK! Magazine is like at times. They’re one of the nicer celebrity glossies, and they never give us grief about using their exclusive photos, but it’s part sickly sweet fiction with enough details added in that you might be inclined to believe it if you don’t dig any deeper.
The bulleted details that OK! includes on the cover to add legitimacy to this article are:
- Intimate Beverly Hills I Do’s?
- Strapless Vera Wang Dress
- Matron of Honor Courteney Cox
- Orchids, Oysters and Champagne
- Honeymoon in Greece!
Ten to one these are just suggestions for Jen and John on their special day and the rest of the article is filled with quotes from a source, but we’ll have to see. I know I’ll be buying this issue to find out what all the fuss is about, and so will countless other people. OK! couldn’t afford the photos of Knox and Vivienne, but they can help us imagine what Aniston’s dream backyard wedding would be like. If she were actually engaged and planning to marry that guy she’s been with for about four and a half months.
Update: Aniston’s annoyed rep calls this story, along with another one that ran in Star about how Aniston wants Mayer’s surly baby “complete fabrications”
But her rep tells Usmagazine.com: “She is not getting married.”
See what a body language expert had to say about Jen Aniston and John Mayer.
Meanwhile, Star claims in its latest issue that she is going to have Mayer’s baby “as Brad and Angie’s twins wow the world.”
Says Aniston’s rep: “Both headlines are complete fabrications.”
[From US Magazine]
He forgot to add - “but if she was getting married again, it would be just like OK! describes, and she’s always wanted a honeymoon in Greece. That sounds so dreamy.”
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Paris Hilton Fake Bakes, Gets Pulled Over
Posted: July 24th, 2008, 4:40pm CDT
Tags: Paris Hilton portofino Sun Fake
With all of the beautiful sunshine hitting southern California as of late, you’d think Paris Hilton would be getting a tan by lying outside. But you’d be wrong.
The former Simple Life hottie was spotted on her way to Beverly Hills tanning salon Portofino Sun Center and Spa yesterday (July 23) for a little fake baking.
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Did Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband Matthew Broderick cheat on her?
Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 11:38am CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
Star Magazine has a new cover story that Sarah Jessica Parker’s husband of 11 years, Matthew Broderick, 46, had a now-over affair earlier in the year with a 25 year-old “youth counselor” he met in a bar. Star has plenty of details and supposedly has “sources” to support their tale, but they have been busted making up supporting information for completely bogus stories in the past and this isn’t necessarily accurate or even based on any eyewitness accounts. It’s worrying, though, and you wonder if there’s any truth to it:
In the new issue of Star — on newsstands now — we report that while the beloved actress was frantically searching for hubby Matthew Broderick one night earlier this year, he was having sex in the city with a gorgeous redhead half his age, the young woman told a friend.After meeting in a bar, Matthew began text messaging the 25-year-old youth counselor, says the woman’s pal. Soon after, the insider claims, they began seeing each other and things got passionate quickly when they met at the Manhattan townhouse of a showbiz friend.
Sources say the woman felt conflicted with her relationship with Matthew, whom she nicknamed “Matty Cakes.” She tried to end it, say insiders, but that didn’t happen and over the next month — when Sarah Jessica was filming Sex and the City: The Movie in Los Angeles — multiple eyewitnesses say they saw Matthew make late-night visits to the other woman’s apartment building.
During one tryst, they arrived at her friend’s apartment after a night of heavy drinking, says a source. She dragged Matthew into the friend’s bedroom, then shut the door. “A half hour later, Matthew opened the bedroom door, mumbled ‘Well… ‘bye!’ and walked out. The friend found her passed out on the bed in her panties.”
[From Star Magazine’s website]
There are rumors that Broderick plays for the other team, but those seem to be based on the fact that he does a lot of theater work and has gay friends as a result. Parker and Broderick have been married for over ten years and those rumors have little merit.
Maybe some fan girl made up a story and told Star she has a friend who had a fling with Broderick. Remember that crazy story that a French prostitute told X17 about how she had an affair with Eva Longoria’s husband Tony Parker? That wasn’t true at all and the woman even tricked a “Germany’s Next Top Model” contestant into reading from a script and recording videos claiming she had an affair with Tony.
This is Star, though, so there might not even be a woman who claims to have a friend who had an affair with Broderick, or she might work in their mail office and happened to have agreed to the story after a few cocktails. MSat reminded me today that a photo Star ran on their “ANGIE COLLAPSES!” cover was just Brad helping pregnant Angelina up after she was sitting on the beach.
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are shown at the Sex and The City premiere on 5/27/08. Credit: Michael Carpenter / WENN
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American Apparel Spoofer Embraces Equality In Genitalia [Fake Ads]
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 11:02am CDT by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: Fake Ads
The notorious, mysterious, and sexy American Apparel ad spoofer raises so many philosophical questions: What is art? What is advertising? What is porn? And does showing blowjobs count as "sexual equality?" The spoofer has a long history of drawing female genitalia (and dildos). But now he or she has made the leap to showing penises for the cause—something Dov Charney can only dream of. Click through for the most overt (possibly NSFW, although it's just a drawing) example:
[Stereohell via Copyranter]
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Woman implicated in John Mayer affair says it’s not true
Posted: July 18th, 2008, 6:48am CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
Yesterday In Touch ran a story that we were about to cover which claimed that an American journalist in Amsterdam was hit on by John Mayer in a “coffee shop” there. According to In Touch, she recognized him but didn’t let on that she knew who he was. When she asked him what his relationship status was, he said “it’s vague.” This would mean that Mayer isn’t hesitating to hit on other women while he’s away on tour and that he’s either no longer with Jennifer Aniston or is cheating on her. The woman Mayer supposedly talked to says it’s not true, though, and that she did meet him but it was like a year ago. In Touch mentioned her by name, and she says she’s really upset they did that and that the distorted the story so much. Chaton Anderson has a friend at In Touch and says that’s how this story got started, but that the result was a near complete fabrication:The magazine claims in a story titled “Jen’s Betrayed Again” that Mayer, 30, got “very flirty” with Chaton Anderson, 32, in Amsterdam on June 20. The magazine reports that Mayer described his “relationship status” as “very vague” and that he maintained “very intense” eye-contact during a two-hour conversation.
“None of this is true,” Anderson told Us from her home in Manhattan Beach, CA on Wednesday.
“I met John Mayer almost a year ago,” she explained. “I don’t understand why they’ve said it was this year.
“Nothing happened anyway – nothing at all,” she added. “I just met him briefly and he said, ‘Hello, I’m John,’ and that was it! It was just groups of people in a coffee shop.”
A rep for Mayer also told Us: “The In Touch story is false.”
The origin of In Touch’s story?
Anderson says she told a friend who works at the tabloid that she met Mayer “a long time ago” – and the story was fabricated from there. She says she had no idea she would even be appearing in the magazine.
[From US Weekly]
The thing is, if In Touch didn’t mention this other woman by name she probably wouldn’t even know the story was based on the brief time she met Mayer when he wasn’t even flirting with her. All we would have would be a denial by Mayer’s rep and I know I would be shaking my head and assuming he did this. It’s a much-needed lesson in how the tabloids make up fake stories. Think of how many other times this happens that we’re never privy to the origins of the fake story.
John Mayer is shown out shopping on 7/16/08. Credit: Splash News.
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Angelina Jolie Hospital Shots Prove Fake
Posted: July 9th, 2008, 6:38pm CDT
Tags: Angelina Jolie Fake baby bump
The has been some controversy swirling around the supposed pictures of Angelina Jolie through the window of her hospital room, with some sources saying that they’re not really her.
And now the Lenval Hospital in Nice, France has gone on the record that the woman in the photos in question are most certainly not the “Tomb Raider” actress.
Gawker
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Me and My Gay Husband [The Fake Straights]
Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 12:53pm CDT by Richard
Tags: the Fake straights
Marvel if you dare at a real-life Craig and Janine, two married contestants on the Gong Show-esque fiasco America's Got Talent (no it does not) who sing and gay their way out of America's hearts.
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Pete Wentz: As Gay as He Needs to Be For Gays to Like Him [The Fake Gays]
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 3:40pm CDT by Richard
Tags: the Fake Gays
Hey you know what's cool about Pete Wentz? Absolutely nothing. Well, OK, fine. It's cool that the Fall Out Boy bassist, professional celebrity, and Joe Simpson son-in-law is not homophobic, as is evidenced by his recent Out magazine cover story. But the way he scampers along, teasing about his various make-out seshes with boys "on a dare" ten years ago is just so pandering and false. He claims that he's sorta queer, but only "above the belt," because male "equipment" just doesn't do it for him. He doesn't even like his own cock! How zany, how hip, how fucking rock 'n roll. Except, you know, it's not at all because it's as put-on as his "so silly by now that he's almost doing a pastiche of himself" eyeliner. Some choice quotes from the article after the jump.And if people are confused about Wentz's sexuality, he deserves at least half the credit for that too. Onstage he'll lick a stripe up the neck of his bass or his bandmates' guitars. He hooks his chin over singer Patrick Stump's shoulder, mouthing his own words against Stump's cheek. When they covered the Killers' "Mr. Brightside" on a recent tour, he would punctuate the line "it was only a kiss" by aiming with varying success somewhere in the vicinity of Stump's mouth. In "Sugar" he boasts of "always sleeping in and sleeping for the wrong team"; the line "He tastes like you, only sweeter" in "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" paraphrases what's spoken by a female character in the play and (by Julia Roberts) in the movie Closer. It loses any jealous, alpha-male edge when repeated over and over as the song's key emotional refrain. Eventually, I point out to him, it just sounds, well, gay.
"It is pretty gay," Wentz easily agrees, grinning as we discuss how the crowd still sings right along. "A big portion of our fan base are these white-hat jock dudes who maybe actually have some kind of homoerotic behaviors," he says. "They're so violent — but they feel pretty free at Fall Out Boy shows." So does he: "It's all because I know I'm going to get a reaction — but it's all things that I believe anyway. I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer."
He doesn't seem to think he has much to prove to Out, and I ask a lot of follow-up questions. Wentz answers them all, even when he's not sure I'll like the answers. "When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that," he admits. "And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was." He thinks the first time he kissed a guy was when he was 16 or 17, probably on a dare at a party: "Like, 'You make out with this dude and we'll make out.' " And of later experiments, at 18 or 19, he says it was more like, "I'm going to try this thing." And most recently? He actually apologizes before responding. "A long time ago," he says with a slight wince. "Probably when I was 22?"
He has no qualms talking about his attraction to men (including a big, stupid crush on John Mayer), which still puts him on a very short list of famous young male musicians and actors who haven't been convinced that confession is in and of itself a career killer. But as he said in The Advocate in 2007, the stopping point truly does come when the action strays below the belt. "It's really about the equipment," he tells me, gesturing at his crotch with a grimace. (Decide for yourself: The first unfiltered hit for an image search on Wentz's name still yields the shots he took of his equipment in hand, which leaked from his Sidekick in 2006.) "I really don't think it's an attractive quality. That's what it comes down to. I don't even like my own. Like, I really don't like it. I don't like anything about it."
John Mayer! Hah! So am I wrong to think that Pete is a complete poseur?
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American Apparel Spoofer Goes Retro-Porny [Fake Ads]
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:06pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: Fake Ads
The now-famous but still anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer has always done his or her part to portray the hipster robot clothing company's ads as they are in CEO Dov Charney's mind: tasteful porn. The spoofer knows that the mandate to actually put clothes in his ads is just a necessary evil to Dov; he'd rather just see naked, self-stimulating, shaven women writhing around in space—perhaps accompanied by a cute animal. But now the spoofer is urging a return to the unshaven days of yore; a move that fits in with AA's faux-natural branding quite nicely. Clever viral marketing (doubtful)? Or just an unspoken call for variety in AA's secret full-on nude ads, to be unveiled as soon as society is ready for them? After the jump, full photos of the spoofer's latest porny—yet natural—line drawings:
[Stereohell via Animal NY, Copyranter]
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Barack Obama: President of Make-Believe [Fake News]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 1:42pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: Fake News
Barack Obama talked to some governors about the economy Friday but all anyone really paid attention to was the weird pseudo-presidential seal on his podium. It is the eagle from the real-life presidential seal, holding arrows and an olive branch, but it says "Obama for America" on it and he replaced our country's Latin motto with "Yes We Can." So he's obviously un-patriotic, or arrogant, or something? It's going to be a big stupid issue. But even if it was just a bit of fun, we think it was clever. Because yes while everyone castigates the dude for pretending he's already the president, the news will show photos of him standing at that podium with that seal over and over again, making him look really presidential. Also it will remind people of how awesome the Ramones were. Now he'll be thrown in jail, just like they were. (An awesome YouTube video about this is after the jump.)
Cele|bitchy
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Joel Madden blogs that he and Nicole got married… to show how gullible we are
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 6:07am CDT by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
Joel Madden addressed the rumors that he and fianc&eaute; Nicole Richie are getting married in a $2 million ceremony at the end of the month. On a post on his band Good Charlotte’s blog, he poked fun at Star Magazine’s report, which we repeated here, that a three day wedding was in the works. Joel titled the post “WE DID IT!! NICOLE AND I FINALLY GOT MARRIED!! click here for the pictures!!” and started out the article saying “CHECK OUT MY BLOG FOR A PICTURE OF ME AND MY BEAUTIFUL BRIDE. ALL I CAN SAY IS I AM SO VERY HAPPY……”A black and white photo of a wedding cake was visible and when you clicked through to the rest of the post it showed a picture of a bride and groom with monkeys’ heads Photoshopped in. Joel explained that he had to clear up the rumors about a wedding because he was getting messages from his friends asking why they weren’t invited:
So i feel really stupid even posting this, but i’ve been getting calls and texts from my family all week asking me why they weren’t invited to my wedding. I guess the only answer i could give them was that i didnt know we were having one. So i just found out that star magazine wrote some story about a 2 MILLION dollar wedding we are supposed to be having, and thats where it came from. Sooooo if you were pissed at me for not inviting you or even telling you, dont blame me, theres nothing to worry about. Its just star magazine. How long do you think it will be before they write we called it off, or we broke up? i give them a week or two……
[From GoodCharlotte.com]
He’s right about Star and he’s obviously writing from experience. I was fooled by that story because they had a whole itinerary for the three day wedding and so many details that it sounded like they had at least one source. Usually when the tabloids make up entire stories they’re vague and include a lot of insider quotes about the supposed fights a couple had or how they feel. In this case Star fabricated a whole wedding with details that they must have pulled out of their asses. Or maybe someone sold a story to Star and they got duped. Either way, Joel and Nicole probably aren’t getting married this month. It’s always possible that they’re trying to keep their wedding private, but since this is Star we’re talking about and Nicole and Joel won’t be shy about selling their wedding photos, I’ll take Joel’s word for it.
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are shown at the LA Lakers vs. Boston Celtics game 5 in LA on 6/15/08, thanks to WENN.
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Fake Ass Kim K: Not a Drag Queen, She's a Mizz
Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:40am CDT by TMZ Staff
Tags: hotbodies kimkardashian Fake Kim
Filed under: Hot Bodies, Kim Kardashian
TMZ.com: Meet the woman who is making money off impersonating a woman who became famous for being friends with a woman who became famous for making a sex tape. Got that? Ladies and gents, meet Mizz Na'Tasha.TMZ tracked down the Kimpostor -- who a Houston club... Read more
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Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen: Still Fighting
Posted: May 21st, 2008, 3:57pm CDT
Tags: denise richards Charlie Sheen Fake
Stepping out early on Wednesday morning (May 21), Denise Richards was all smiles as she left The Rockefeller Center in New York City following an appearance on the Today Show.
Continuing on with the three-year battle between herself and Charlie Sheen over custody of their two daughters, Richards spoke about “a previously never-seen e-mail in which she purportedly requested a sperm donation from Sheen, after their split.”
Gawker
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Maureen Dowd Unconcerned About Fake News [Fifth Columnists]
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:26pm CDT by Pareene
Tags: Fake News
Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd sat down with the kids at the Harvard Political Review and discussed the important issue of "real news" verus "fake news." The debate has raged for years now, and it pits the network evening news against Comedy Central, basically. The New York Times counts as "real news," even though they publish Dowd's column. Dowd, obv, is unworried about this pretend news crisis. Because, she would like to remind you, she invented it! Sort of."When I first started my columns," Dowd explains, "Michael Kinsley and Bill Safire said to me, 'You have to stop doing humor columns because you'll be seen as too girly.' And I said I would never take humor out of politics." Thank god she didn't listen to those buzzkills and stop doing funny columns! Think of how many tortured Sex & the City references and cutesy nicknames we were almost denied!
Perhaps Kinsley and Safire meant "You should stop doing humor columns because you don't do it as well as Molly Ivins," but they were too gentlemanly to spell it out?
Dowd isn't worried about the rise of "blogs" either because she doesn't know how to turn her iPod on. So she probably doesn't even know the terrible things some of us have been saying about her for years now.
Anyway we can't wait to see what new way she comes up with of calling Barack Obama a fag tomorrow.
[HPR]
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2nd bigwig lib backs out of 'Colbert' [Fake News]
Posted: January 4th, 2008, 12:16pm CST
Tags: Fake News
Now Naomi Klein turned down Colbert! Didn't anyone tell her and Katrina that the Colbert writers' "strike" is just an elaborate meta-media joke? No...? [NYO, Previously]
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You know what? Appointing Bill Kristol as ... [New York Times]
Posted: December 31st, 2007, 9:50am CST
Tags: Fake diversity
You know what? Appointing Bill Kristol as a New York Times op-ed columnist is pretty much the worst idea ever. Guess what? We all already know what the one-time chief of staff for Dan Quayle thinks. We've heard it all. Are we expecting great original thoughts from someone who really thought the Iraq war was a totally super idea? "His work will undoubtedly be provocative in this election year," said editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal in the press release. No, actually, we can doubt that, as it'll be exactly what we expect it to be. There have gotta be younger, more interesting, better-thinking conservatives than this. (And it's not a fear of "opposing viewpoints," for Chrissakes. He's just a ninny.) [NYT]
Cele|bitchy
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Angelina’s comments to Grazia Magazine are old; she bought Brad 100k bike
Posted: December 20th, 2007, 11:21am CST by Celebitchy
Tags: Fake News
Every time a sketchy British magazine repurposes Angelina Jolie quotes everyone gets all up in arms and says she’s talking again about how she hates Shiloh or is bitching about her charmed life. She does talk a lot of smack and should take a lesson from Johnny Depp and STFU, but it’s not like she’s continuing to give interviews to random gossip magazines when she doesn’t have a movie to promote.She’s not my favorite person, but if she’s not saying these things again now why should we dig them up and complain about it like it’s new? Oh I know, it was expected to have been a slow news week but then Jamie Lynn got knocked up. We need a break from her so let’s talk about these suspicious quotes.
Here are the latest quotes from Grazia Magazine which a lot of sources are reporting are new. Compare them to her past statements.
From Grazia according to US Weekly, published today:
Jolie, 32 — who says she lost weight while grieving over her mother’s passing in January — opened up in the new issue of Grazia magazine.
“The thing that’s disturbing is that instead of people saying, ‘This looks like a person that’s actually dealing with something, probably from emotions,’ they say, ‘Does she fit into skinny jeans and look thin?’” Jolie said.
“I want people to understand who I am as a person is not somebody that’s trying to look thin, but just trying to work through a very difficult year,” she said.
Compare to US Weekly, published on June 14, 2007:
“I’ve always been lean and this year I lost my mom and I’ve gone through a lot…”
“Instead of people saying I look like a person dealing with something emotionally, they assume it’s because I want to fit into skinny jeans.”
She added, “Someone saying to me that I’m thin is not a compliment.”
From Grazia according to US Weekly, published today:
Jolie said she got through her death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, thanks to the support of her beau Brad Pitt.
“He is just a great friend and when my mother passed, he was so great,” she said. “He sat with me and held [my mother’s] hand. After she passed away he spent the night asking me and my brother about our mother and got us to tell funny stories about her.
“He focused on all the love and joy we were fortunate enough to have had,” Jolie said. “He was extraordinary.”
Compare to Fametastic, published on June 11, 2007:
Angelina told the Mirror recently: “When my mother died, Brad held her hand and helped me through all the stages of dealing with someone dying.”
“After the funeral Brad brought everyone back to the house and asked questions about our mom. He focused on all the love and all the joy we were fortunate enough to have had. He is an extraordinary man.”
“I am a very lucky woman. I have a beautiful family and Brad is a supportive friend and a great father. And he is very romantic. We talk very deeply about how we feel.”
Grazia was successfully sued by Kate Winslet for making up shit wholesale. Do you think it’s more likely that they have a new interview with Angelina that sounds almost exactly like her previous interviews or that they rephrased her sentences slightly to make it seem new?Meanwhile one story about Brad and Angelina that sounds more current and likely is that she bought him a custom $100k motorcycle for his birthday. It is said to have a plaque on the front that reads “My sweetheart, the drunk,” a reference to the posthumous album released by musician Jeff Buckley.
ANGELINA JOLIE treated BRAD PITT to an extra-special 44th birthday present - a $100,000 (£50,000) motorcycle engraved with a tribute to his favourite musician.
The actor was seen taking the bike for a spin earlier this week (begs17Dec07) after taking delivery of it before his birthday on Tuesday (18Dec07).
In front of the handlebars is a plaque with the words, “My Sweetheart, the Drunk”, the name of a Jeff Buckley album - Pitt’s favourite singer.
[From PR-inside]
Brad and Angelina are shown in pictures you’ve already seen at the Mayweather-Hatton boxing match in Las Vegas on 12/8/07, thanks to Splash News.
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Nick Lachey & Vanessa Minnillo didn’t get married this weekend
Posted: December 10th, 2007, 6:01am CST by JayBird
Tags: Fake News
Fox News reported that Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo were in the Bahamas at one of the Carlyle Hotels to have a secret wedding this weekend. “Fair and balanced” Fox seemed to think that they had everyone else scooped.He may have been a “Newlywed” once before, but it seems Nick Lachey is ready to march down the aisle again … this weekend. Pop singer Lachey and his MTV star girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo will be married in a secret ceremony at one of the Carlyle Hotels in the Bahamas this weekend, a source told FOXNews.com’s Pop Tarts columnist Hollie McKay.
Minnillo’s entourage arrived at the dazzling digs Friday afternoon, the source said. Reps for the comely couple could not be reached.
[From Fox News]
The story made waves this weekend, with excited bloggers buzzing. I always find it funny how often the line “Reps for _____ did not immediately return our calls” appears in articles. When you really pay attention, it seems half of the articles you read carry this little caveat, essentially saying, “Reps for ___ didn’t call us back within ten minutes, so we went ahead and printed the story.” After reaching most of the major gossip blogs, Lachey and Minnillo’s reps did manage to get a hold of Fox News, and told them their story was bunk. Interestingly, they still haven’t taken it off their site.
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are not getting hitched this weekend, his rep tells Usmagazine.com exclusively. FOXNews.com’s Pop Tarts columnist Hollie McKay had quoted a source saying that Lachey, 34, and Minnillo, 27, were expected to tie the knot in a secret ceremony at one of the Carlyle Hotels in the Bahamas this weekend.
But a rep for Lachey tells Us the singer is in his hometown of Cincinnati working on his new NBC show Clash of the Choirs, as well as another show he is producing for MTV.
[From Us Weekly]
Minnillo was also supposedly spotted several times in Los Angeles over the weekend. I am kind of surprised these two haven’t gotten married yet. They seem really into each other, and Vanessa is supposedly bugging Nick about it constantly. She seems the type that could definitely annoy a guy into marriage. He didn’t rush into marriage