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Amber Lee Ettinger, aka “Obama Girl” who sang her way to fame via the YouTube video “I Got a Crush on Obama,” is kinda over it. When speaking to Sean Hannity of Fox News, Ettinger said she no longer has that crush, but astutely added, “at least I wasn’t the ‘Edwards Girl.”
In a surprisingly intelligent move, tween heartthrob Miley Cyrus closed her Twitter account. She chose to make her exeunt with a YouTube rap song, which has all the trappings of your standard low-budget YouTube home video and even some catchy lyrics:
“The reasons are simple: I started tweeting about pimples/ I stopped living for moments and started living for people”
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“Everything that I type and everything that I do/ all those lame gossip sites take it and make it news.”
Her dad Billy Ray Cyrus was unhappy with Miley’s non-publicitycentric move, and himself tweeted: “You can’t leave everyone now.We r countin on u.”
It’s the eternal conflict of interests: a teenager just wants some privacy, while her money hungry parents are happy to have her expose herself to the world without spelling out monosyllabic words. Oh, the plight of the American teenager.
Pulte Does Politics is written by Lauren Pulte.
Between the Baldwin brothers’ acting careers, reality TV appearances, and mostly negative media attention, you would think that they had already exceeded their 15 minutes of fame. But it seems that one Baldwin might have another trick up his sleeve.
Last week, Stephen Baldwin of “I’m a Celebrity Get me out of Here” “fame” announced that his older, more famous brother, Alec Baldwin, has been seriously contemplating running for political office, specifically against Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.
Earlier this summer, the outspoken democrat was quoted in “Playboy” magazine saying that he has been considering politics for years, and feels that there is “no use” for Lieberman in the Senate. When asked what qualified him for political office, the “30 Rock” star simply stated, “finances”.
The rumor mill continued to churn over the weekend, as Senator Lieberman challenged Baldwin on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, telling him to “make my day” with his Senate challenge.
The Baldwin clan was eager to fuel the political flames as well. This weekend, Stephen Baldwin appeared on The Washington Times’ radio show, “America’s Morning News,” saying “I think Alec has some very interesting ideas that he would like to share with folks. And the best way to do that is to hold political office.”
Here are a few of Alec’s great ideas, which he perspicaciously decided to leave on a voicemail. So intelligent, that one:
Fortunately, a spokesman for Alec Baldwin finally put the rumors to rest, stating that the actor has no plans to challenge Senator Lieberman in 2012. He says Baldwin doesn’t want to see Lieberman leave office because there are so few moderates in the Senate. However the spokesperson for Baldwin did not deny that the actor could potentially run for office in the future. Oh goody.
