Bad Year For Jacksons

First, Janet's album bombs. Her concert tour falters, and she fakes vertigo.


Michael loses Neverland and gets sued by a Sheik.

Then Jesse makes stupid ass comments about Obama on air, and now his son is getting in on the action...

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to emphatically deny involvement in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged "pay-to-play" scheme to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat.


A lawyer for Jackson acknowledged earlier Wednesday that the Illinois Democrat is the so-called Senate Candidate 5 in the federal complaint against Blagojevich. Though the affidavit says Blagojevich named Senate Candidate 5 as an individual potentially willing to raise money for him in exchange for Obama's seat, Jackson said he was assured by federal prosecutors Tuesday that he is not a target of the investigation.

"I want to make this fact plain. I reject and denounce pay-to-play politics and have no involvement whatsoever in any wrongdoing," Jackson said at the press conference in Washington, D.C., calling on the governor to resign. "I did not initiate or authorize anyone at anytime to promise anything to Governor Blagojevich on my behalf."

Jackson's attorney, James D. Montgomery Sr., said Wednesday that Jackson learned he was mentioned in the complaint against Blagojevich the night before the governor's arrest on Tuesday.

According to the affidavit, in a Dec. 4 recording of Blagojevich with an unnamed adviser and unnamed fundraiser, the governor says he may be able to cut a deal with Senate Candidate 5 that provides Blagojevich with something "tangible up front."

The affidavit says an associate of Candidate 5 discussed raising $500,000, and then another $1 million, for Blagojevich. But Montgomery suggested Jackson could have been set up, and said he wasn't aware of any associates making such a proposal.

"I wouldn't put it past someone to be purporting to represent Jesse without authority," Montgomery said. He said Jackson is still interested in filling Obama's open Senate seat.

Beyonce Needs To Put a Check On It!!

Beyonce and her sister Solange have canceled their planned Houston concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Ike due to "a set of irresolvable scheduling conflicts," according to a press release.

The one-hour "Beyonce and Solange: Hope for the Holidays" benefit concert was to take place Dec. 9 at Houston's House of Blues.

The Knowles sisters' concert was supposed to debut on the Fuse network on Dec. 21, and was intended to benefit the Gulf Coast Ike Relief Fund to aid Texas victims of Hurricane Ike.

So you mean to tell me the Heir & The Spare cannot take time out of designing their atrocious House of Derriere Designs to put on a benefit?

Who wants to see Solange perform anyway?

Just pull out the checkbook and sign it.

If they can even fuckin' write to begin with!

He Finally Got It Right

I hope his pimp hand is strong when he slaps the shit outta Hasselcrack!

In a sermon delivered Sunday at his old stomping ground, Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright referred to one of his harshest critics, Elisabeth Hasselbeck of ABC's "The View," as "that dumb broad."


Speaking at Trinity United Church of Christ for its 47th anniversary, Rev. Wright included his trademark array of history lessons, mimicry and singing, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. His ire, however, was saved for Hasselbeck, who Wright twice referred to as a "broad," including once as "that dumb broad."


Wright expressed pride in Obama's longtime association with Trinity United Church of Christ, where he recently retired after serving 36 years as senior pastor.

The 'L' Is For Least Favorite Dyke

Showtime’s drama about a circle of lesbian friends and lovers is going to kill off one of its major characters on the premiere of its sixth — and final — season.

The victim is Jenny Schecter, Showtime has disclosed. Jenny, a would-be writer and accomplished two-timer, has long been embraced by fans as the character they most love to hate.

The episode, which airs Jan. 18, begins with a splash as Jenny’s body is discovered in a swimming pool. Accident, or murder — and whodunit? Viewers will have to wait for those answers.

We don't have to wait. We know what killed ehr ass.

Low ratings and viewer backlack. They should have killed her ass in season one before she got too attached to a steady income!

Oprah Can't Afford Lipo?!

The talk show queen continues the honesty, saying in the January issue of “O” magazine out Tuesday that she now weighs 200 pounds and has “fallen off the wagon” when it comes to healthy living.

“I’m mad at myself,” Winfrey writes in an article provided early to The Associated Press by Harpo Productions.

“I’m embarrassed,” she writes. “I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, ‘How did I let this happen again?”’

In the piece, Winfrey, 54, details her recent struggles with an out-of-balance thyroid and how the condition made her develop “a fear of working out.” She says she’s added 40 pounds to her frame since she weighed 160 pounds in 2006.

“Yes, you’re adding correctly; that means the dreaded 2-0-0,” Winfrey writes. “I was so frustrated I started eating whatever I wanted — and that’s never good.”

We're embarassed FOR you, O. If we were billionaires, we'd have nymphs sucking the fat (and other parts) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!