Have you ever been on the official White House Flikr page? It’s amazing. I could totally waste hours on there, looking through photos of the first family (and the Biden family too). Anyway, on Thursday Pres. Obama finally met with the “Fierce Five” – the girl gymnasts who won Team Gold at the Olympics in August. Pres. Obama never did make it to the London Olympics (I was disappointed… Pres. Bush managed to make it to the Beijing Olympics!), so Michelle was sent to cheer on Team USA. Thus, Michelle had already met these young ladies a few times, but finally (months later) Pres. Obama got to meet all of them. The White House posted a nice photo on Flickr of the young women in the Oval Office with Pres. Obama looking engaged with them, but then Obama and McKayla Maroney posed for one silly pic – Obama does the “McKayla is Unimpressed” meme.

President Barack Obama is not impressed — and he has a pretty funny way of showing it! Team USA’s Fierce Five Olympic gymnastics team — including McKayla Maroney, Kyla Ross, Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas — reunited in Washington, D.C. Nov. 15 for an audience with none other than President Obama. “All together again!! FIERCE 5 reunited. So good being back with my best friends,” Maroney, 16, tweeted Thursday.

When meeting Obama, 51, in the Oval Office, Maroney kidded around with the Commander-in-Chief and got him to mimic her “not impressed” expression that was all the rage this summer during the London Games.

“Did I just do the Not Impressed face with the President . . . ?” Maroney tweeted to her 481,000 Twitter followers. Later, the White House posted photographic proof to their Flickr page that Obama did indeed get in on the fun and impersonate the look the athlete had on her face after receiving the silver medal in the Olympic women’s vault competition August 5.

Maroney has had quite a ride since becoming an Olympic champion and household name earlier this year. In August, Us Weekly surprised her and her teammates with a visit from Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford at our New York City offices, she bonded with Ashley Benson and Lucy Hale on the L.A. set of Pretty Little Liars and even got to attend the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards with her teammates.

[From Us Weekly]

Am I the only one who was not impressed with McKayla overall? Granted, Gabby Douglas got most of the attention, and she deserved most of the attention, but I thought McKayla was honestly being very unsportsmanlike and bitchy when she faltered on her routines. I hate that McKayla’s behavior was read as somehow “cute” when it was just rude. As for Obama doing “The McKayla” – sure. It’s cute.

Photos courtesy of the White House Flickr page.

It’s kind of funny to me that Pres. Obama is such an unabashed fan-boy of Homeland. He brings it up all the time, and he always name-checks the (brilliant!) show as his favorite. I don’t think he’s ever named another show as his favorite – maybe an ESPN show or something, but he really does get all fan-boy-ish about Homeland in particular. He’s such a fan that he invited Damian Lewis, the English star of the show, to the White House for a state dinner, and Obama even had Damian and his wife placed at the president’s table during dinner. Unfortunately, the one time I saw Damian discuss the honor of a state dinner invitation, Damian seemed like he was kind of bragging about being rude to the president (it might have been awkwardly worded though – Damian might have been aiming for self-deprecating and it just failed).

Anyway, Damian was on The Jonathan Ross Show over the weekend, and he told another Obama story. This one is hilarious, though. The headline at Entertainment Weekly was “’Homeland’ star made Muslim joke to Obama” and I thought “Oh, God. This is going to be AWFUL.” But I ended up LOLing. Here’s the video and the context:

Homeland star Damian Lewis told a British talk show he sent a Muslim joke to president Barack Obama. During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show Saturday night, the Emmy-winning actor says the president wanted a signed DVD box set of the Showtime hit to give to the Teamsters labor union (the president has previously revealed Homeland is his favorite show).

Lewis says co-star Claire Danes wrote something along the lines of, ”I was a fan of yours long before you were a fan of ours.” But when it was the British-born Lewis’ turn, the actor says he jokingly wrote: “From one Muslim to another.”

“I thought I’d think of something great and funny … and wrote: ‘From one Muslim to another’ in an indelible Sharpie,” the actor recalls. “And I couldn’t take it back … I was then writing emails for the whole of the next week going: ‘I do hope he understands irony.”’

Lewis’ character on Homeland is an America POW who was tortured while in captivity and converted to Islam. Now back in the United States, he’s wrestled with a terrorist agenda and keeps his religion a secret. Obama, of course, has been pestered by unsubstantiated conspiratorial theories suggesting he’s a Muslim.

Lewis adds that he asked the president during a dinner how he finds time to watch the show.

“Aren’t you busy running the free world?” the actor recalls asking. Lewis, while impersonating the president’s speech cadence, says Obama replied: “On Saturday afternoons. Michelle, she takes the two girls, they go play tennis. I go into the Oval Office. I pretend I’m gonna work and I switch on Homeland.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

I think that joke is the kind of thing that a Homeland-watcher would laugh at, and therefore it’s something that would make Obama laugh. But I’m sure that kind of thing will just become further fodder for the birthers and wingnuts.

SPOILERS FOR HOMELAND SEASON 2 BELOW:

We’ve had some requests to discuss Homeland, but I sometimes have doubts about how many people are actually watching it as the episodes air these days. I do think this season has been… interesting. It wasn’t what I was expecting, and I’ve been impressed with some of what the writers have come up with. Like, I loved how Carrie was initially brought back into the agency and all of the Lebanon storyline. I loved Saul finding Brody’s suicide video. I loved everything about those two episodes where Carrie is trying to knock Brody off-kilter (once she knew she was right) and then the interrogation. And I about had a heart attack when poor Rupert Friend and his team were taken down by terrorists in SWAT gear. But this past Sunday’s episode was kind of dull, right? I only liked two parts – Carrie and Brody in the woods, and Rupert Friend’s cute farmer’s tanned butt. How excellent is this role for Rupert Friend? I was not expecting to like him as much as I do. He’s a lot like Carrie, I think. And he could be a great ally for her and for Saul, they just need to let him in. Oh, and I did enjoy Carrie’s “Cease and f–king desist.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

President Obama has won his re-election! I can’t tell you how happy I am about that. We’re an equal-opportunity gossip site, and all political persuasions are welcome, but I have to admit… all of us, me, Celebitchy and Agent Bedhead, supported the President’s re-election and we’re all thrilled this morning. What was weird/unique about watching the election-night coverage was that I was oddly confident that Obama would win – I had weirdly placed my faith in the Democratic party back in September, when they ran such an efficient, passionate and organized Democratic Convention. Since then, I followed Nate Silver’s statistical predications/analysis (and no, he’s NOT A WITCH), and Silver kept saying that the electoral math only made sense for Obama (and he was right). So… I was oddly confident. It was weird. I think Obama might be an even better politician than Bill Clinton – only because Obama is much more disciplined, while Bubba is a glorious mess (I still love him).

Obama tweeted his followers last night, writing “This happened because of you. Thank you.” And “We’re all in this together. That’s how we campaigned, and that’s who we are. Thank you. –bo”. And this one was my favorite:

Sigh… here’s Obama’s victory speech.

Political analysts say that Obama’s coalition of voters was simply BETTER, more active, more passionate. Obama led with women, Hispanics and the under-30, and he did very well in “the Rust Belt” in the mid-West.

Several other winners I want to name-drop: Elizabeth Warren won her Senate race in Massachusetts, after what was one of the oddest strategies from an incumbent senator ever. Scott Brown’s supporters and staffers doing “war-whoops” and Brown himself relying on “LOOK at her, she’s not Native American”? Also, here in Virginia (where CB and I live – not together!), Tim Kaine won the open seat left by Jim Webb, which thrills me to no end. A lot of outside money came into Virginia and George “Macaca” Allen (who previously held the seat from 2000-06) tried to negatively tie Kaine to Obama. The result? Kaine won the seat and Obama won Virginia. Kaine now joins Sen. Mark Warner as a wonderful centrist Democratic voice in the upper chamber.

So, what did you think of the elections? Florida is the only state still out at this point, although I think there are some people in New Jersey who are still voting. From what I’ve seen, Florida’s trending Obama, and he’s likely to win those electoral college votes by a margin of about 200,000 ballots or less.

PS… You know Bubba is going to get credit for a lot of this. And even if he doesn’t GET credit, he’s TAKE credit. Bless him.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This is a reminder (that you surely don’t need at all) that today is election day in the US and you should get out to your local polls. If you’re uncertain where to vote, you can quickly learn where your polling place is with this tool from the non-partisan League of Women Voters.

You can share your election stories here. I have an interesting one. Yesterday my local polling place, a Baptist church, had their sign changed out front to an anti-abortion message for the first time that I can remember since I’ve lived here. Usually they use a Bible passage or a saying about how God is looking out for you, but yesterday it said “25,000 babies lost their lives in Virginia in 2012 to abortion.” I complained to the local registrar’s office and they told me I wasn’t the first one to take issue with that sign. Today, just in time for voting, the sign was changed to “Jesus loves all the little children.”

I voted this morning without a problem. We were in and out with ten minutes. It was my first time using an electronic voting machine as I voted absentee for previous elections. It was kind of cool to use a touchscreen to vote, but I was hoping to show my son how to push the little levers down and crank the curtain shut. There was something so visceral and real about the old voting booths. It’s strange how I’d rather read an e-book than a real one, but miss voting the old fashioned way.

How was your voting experience? Did you go yet? There’s something so exciting and nerve-wracking about this day. My most memorable elections were the last three: 2000 (oh that was awful!), 2004 and of course 2008. We’re unlikely to top the experience of 2008 for some time to come.

Photo credit: WENN.com and PRPhotos

These are some new photos of Beyonce and Jay-Z having a “date night” on Saturday in New York. According to Fame/Flynet, they had a “romantic, sunset dinner in Battery Park.” As you can see, it doesn’t seem like Bey and Jay really dressed up for their dinner date whatsoever. I’m sorry, but Jay’s “date night” turquoise hoodie looks really, really cheap. And Beyonce just looks dated in those high-tops and unflattering leather pants. You know my first thought when I saw Beyonce’s leather pants? “Huh, I wonder if she borrowed them from Kim Kardashian.” Still, maybe THIS is when you know that you’ve married your true love – when a romantic date night involves your husband wearing a turquoise sweat-hoodie and you don’t care about how out of date you look. And seriously, I wish Bey would stop trying to make those glasses happen. They do not suit her at all, and she’s been wearing them for most of the year. Somebody needs to take them away from her and break them.

In other Bey and Jay news, during a recent radio interview with Cleveland’s z107.9, Pres. Obama was asked about his friendship with the Bey and Jay. By the way – because I know some of you will be like “I hate Obama because he gave a radio interview about Beyonce, NOBAMA,” let me just point out that the interview was wide-ranging, it was about politics and the economy and all of the presidential stuff, and Obama took a few pop culture questions as well. Anyway, Obama said he gave Jay parenting advice like, “I made sure that Jay-Z was helping Beyonce out [with the baby]. And not leaving it all with mom and the mother-in-law.” Obama also said that he has “gotten to know these guys over the first several years. They’re good people. They’re down to earth. Beyonce could not be sweeter to Michelle and the girls. So they’re good friends. They really are down-to-earth folks. We talk about the same things I talk about with all my friends.” Huh. Pres. Obama thinks Beyonce and Jay are “down to earth”? That makes me question EVERYTHING.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Last night, The Al Smith Dinner was held in New York City. The Al Smith Dinner is one of the biggest events in politics and media in any given presidential election year. The dinner is always scheduled close to the election, and it’s always a forum for presidents and presidential candidates to show their softer, more humorous side. The dinner is given in honor of Al Smith, the first Catholic to run for president (in 1928, I believe), and the dinner raises money for Catholic charities. I’m doing this little history lesson because I really don’t want twenty-million comments of “I hate that Obama is doing this dumb event” or “Romney should be thinking about the economy, blah.” Nearly every president and presidential candidate has done the dinner for the past 60-odd years. It’s a tradition, and it’s for charity, and it’s always bipartisan. So here are Romney and Obama’s speeches – Romney went first:

And here’s Obama’s speech:

Just on a style issue, I like the way Obama tells a joke. I like that he delivers his line, stops, processes, then laughs to himself. It cracks me up when he laughs at his own joke. As for the jokes themselves… Romney surprised me by having some really solid jokes. He made me chuckle several times. But Obama did make me laugh more often throughout his speech, and I thought Obama struck the better tone – more self-effacing, self-deprecating, lighter in total. Romney seemed to treat it more like a comedy roast, and I thought his ham-fisted wink-and-nod to Catholic voters at the end was tacky – like he was basically saying, “I’m the pro-life candidate, remember that Catholics! THINK OF THE POPE.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

On Monday night, Madonna performed in Washington, DC, and she took the opportunity to use her platform to provide a nuanced political argument advocating for women’s rights, gay rights and civil rights for all. Just kidding. She called President Obama a “black Muslim”. Here’s the video:

I mean… she’s an idiot. It was obvious that she was saying it as a mockery of the minority of people who really believe that Pres. Obama IS a Muslim, but it reminded me of The New Yorker cover controversy from 2008 – an attempt at high-handed, tongue-in-cheek, too-cute-by-half satire which only served to provide more ammunition to those who actually believe that Obama is a “black Muslim”. Anyway, Madonna issued a clarifying statement. And she also went to Yom Kippur services dressed in a purple sweatsuit. Because she’s a classy bitch, that’s why.

After referring to President Obama as a “black Muslim,” Madonna was back to taking center stage with her fellow Kabbalah followers at a Yom Kippur ceremony in New York.

According to a witness, the superstar arrived at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday in her own kind of spiritual garb — a bright purple sweat suit bearing the number 86 and a hat emblazoned with the word “Vogue.”

Our spy said, “Madonna was the last to arrive, and it seemed like they were holding up the ceremony to wait for her. She came through a back entrance with her daughter, Lourdes, and was seated in the front row. Once she was seated, it could begin. All the men were in white but Madonna had a loud track suit on. Also there was her younger boyfriend, who arrived wearing cream.”

A listing of the event on the Kabbalah Web site reads, “We refer to Yom Kippur as Binah . . . On Yom Kippur, we sit on the throne with Binah and remove the fog in our lives for the entire year to come. On Yom Kippur, we become spiritual royalty, with the ability to increase and improve the quality of life of all human beings.”

Madonna remained quiet and meditative through the service and didn’t greet other followers, not even Donna Karan, who was seated nearby. Our witness added, “She definitely set herself apart from everyone else. She is like the queen of Kabbalah.”

Yesterday, Madonna put out a statement following a backlash over her Monday speech in Washington, DC, where she said, “Now, it’s so amazing and incredible to think that we have an African-American in the White House . . . We have a black Muslim in the White House . . . It means there is hope in this country, and Obama is fighting for gay rights, so support the man.”

Madonna then said through her rep, “I was being ironic. Yes, I know Obama is not a Muslim — though I know that plenty of people in this country think he is. And what if he were? The point I was making is that a good man is a good man, no matter who he prays to. I don’t care what religion Obama is — nor should anyone else in America.”

[From Page Six]

The Queen of Kabbalah. Ugh. I don’t know what to say about all of that, except that it’s hilarious to me that Madonna showed up for Yom Kippur services in a purple sweatsuit that said “VOGUE”. I mean… why not “Material Girl”? As for Madge’s clarification statement on Pres. Obama… that’s pretty much what Colin Powell said when he endorsed Obama on Meet the Press in 2008. Speaking of, I’m really wondering if Powell is going to do an endorsement this year.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Our general rule for covering politically-charged stories is “We’ll cover it if it has a celebrity/gossip/tabloid element.” I think appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman is celebrity/gossip-y enough. So here you go… Pres. Obama appeared on The Late Show last night for an interview that went longer than 30 minutes. It was particularly interesting timing – once again, in a gossip context – because yesterday, Mother Jones released the full video of Mitt Romney’s comments/Q&A at a Florida fundraiser, and Romney even name-checked Letterman. Romney said – to his contributors – that he would never do Saturday Night Live because it had “the potential of looking slapstick and not presidential,” but that he has done Letterman AND Leno and “Now Letterman hates me because I’ve been on Leno more than him; they’re very jealous of each other, as you know.” You can watch the full video of Romney’s fundraiser comments here.

As for Obama’s interview with Letterman… I still haven’t watched the whole thing (it’s so long!). But I thank CBS for making the full video available:

Here’s what Obama had to say about Romney’s “47 percent” comment (which, btw, Romney has doubled-down on although he admitted he stated his case inelegantly):

“Well, I don’t know what he was referring to, but I can tell you this. When I won in 2008, 47 percent of the American people voted for John McCain, they didn’t vote for me. And what I said on election night was, even though you didn’t vote for me, I hear your voices and I’m going to work as hard as I can to be your president. And one of the things I’ve learned as president is you represent the entire country. And when I meet Republicans as I’m traveling around the country, they are hard-working, family people, who care deeply about this country and my expectation is that if you want to be president you got to work for everybody not just for some.”

“You don’t meet anybody who doesn’t believe in the American Dream and the fact that nobody’s entitled to success… There are not a lot of people out there who think they’re victims. There are not a lot of people who think they’re entitled to something. What I think the majority of people, Democrats and Republicans, believe is that we’ve got some obligations to each other and there’s nothing wrong with us giving each other a helping hand.”

Obama even half-defends Romney during part of the interview, saying that “People understand, I think, that you’re going to make mistakes on the campaign trail.” But Obama counters, “What I think people want to make sure of though is that you’re not writing off a big chunk of the country.”

I believe was this was Pres. Obama’s last time in New York before Election Day – in addition to doing The Late Show, he also appeared at a fundraiser hosted by Jay-Z and Beyonce, which was held at Jay’s 40/40 club. Us Weekly says that Obama praised Beyonce in particular during the fundraiser, saying: “To J and B, thank you so much for your friendship. Beyonce could not be a better role model for my girls. [As for Jay], we both have daughters and our wives are more popular than we are. So, you know, we’ve got a little bond there. It’s hard but it’s okay.”

Last thing – if you’d like to read an excellent interview/profile of Obama, Vanity Fair’s Michael Lewis did a wonderful piece in the October issue, and VF has put it online here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

As we discussed last Friday, Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican Convention will go down in pop culture history. Maybe not political history, although win or lose for Mitt Romney, I’m sure the “Yelling At Invisible Obama” thing will definitely be including in many memoirs and political tell-alls about the 2012 campaign. Now that we’re several days past Clint Eastwood’s speech, was it really that bad? Was it a “game changer”? Eh. Not really, in my opinion. Making Sarah Palin the vice presidential nominee was a “game changer” – having Clint Eastwood yell at a chair during the final night of the Republican convention (IN PRIME TIME!) was just a really awful PR mistake and a moment of pop culture infamy.

As for the infamy… I’ve included some of my favorites in this post. “Eastwooding” quickly became a meme, and there are lots of Twit-pics and Instagram photos of people pointing and blaming empty chairs, which were funny for the first day. So, what did Visible Obama (otherwise known as POTUS) think of Clint Eastwood and Invisible Obama? The President was kind. Turns out, he’s a Clint fan.

Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood criticized U.S. President Barack Obama while giving a lengthy, unorthodox and divisive speech at the Republican National Convention August 30, but the commander-in-chief hasn’t lost respect for the Hollywood icon, 82.

“I am a huge Clint Eastwood fan,” Obama, 51, told USA Today while traveling to Iowa aboard Air Force One Saturday. “He is a great actor, and an even better director. I think the last few movies that he’s made have been terrific.”

During Eastwood’s 12-minute improvisation, the actor pretended to have a conversation with Obama by addressing an empty chair. “I’ve got Mr. Obama sitting here. I was going to ask him a couple of questions,” Eastwood told Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s supporters. Obama’s campaign staff responded by tweeting an image of the married father-of-two sitting in his presidential chair with a very clear message: “This seat’s taken.”

When asked point blank by USA Today if he was offended by Eastwood’s “interview” at the Republican National Convention, Obama smiled and said, “One thing about being president or running for president — if you’re easily offended, you should probably choose another profession.”

Eastwood’s bizarre speech befuddled many stars, including Adam Levine and Olivia Munn. “Clint Eastwood has gone f—in’ nutterbutters yo,” The Voice’s Levine, 33, tweeted. “Clint Eastwood was talking to an empty chair at the RNC,” Newsroom’s Munn, 32, wrote. “No, that’s not the set up to a joke. It’s not even a joke.”

Obama assured USA Today he has no intention of pulling a similar stunt at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 4. “I think we’ll be playing this pretty straight,” he said.

[From Us Weekly]

I think Pres. Obama’s response is smart. At face value, he was nice and he complimented Clint as an artist and didn’t feel the need to respond to Clint’s politics. But by commenting at all, Obama has extended the story and now everybody, from gossip blogs to legit newspapers, gets to recap the RNC’s disastrous move to have Eastwood speak at the convention. Do you think some of the speakers at the Democratic National Convention will have some fun with Eastwooding? I do. But probably not in prime time, and I doubt/hope it won’t be any of the major speakers.

Eastwooding Memes courtesy of Mashable, other sources..

A few days ago, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) broke the epic political news that Pres. Barack Obama had given an exclusive interview to… Glamour Magazine! The editor-in-chief of Glamour, Cindi Leive, had flown to Portland, Oregon in the middle of Obama’s campaigning to interview the president herself. This, of course, is the biggest, most gigantic political scandal ever. Conservatives and Washington media types (“media elites,” I almost wrote) are really angry that the leader of the free world would sit down with a glossy fashion magazine! And I’m sure they were equally pissed off when George W. Bush sat down for an interview with Glamour in 2008.

GLAMOUR GETS TIME WITH O: Add Glamour magazine to the list of nonpolitical publications that have scored an interview with President Barack Obama.

Editor in chief Cindi Leive flew to Portland, Ore., last month to sit down with the President for an interview that will appear in the magazine’s November issue. It is not the first time Obama has sat down with Glamour — he did so in 2008, along with John McCain — but it is his first time as a sitting president.

A woman’s magazine like Glamour would not traditionally be in play for an interview with the President — first ladies have been more their turf — but agreeing to the interview is a mark of changing media strategies. The Obama campaign has recently been exploring alternative news outlets to press their message — ESPN Magazine, People magazine and Entertainment Tonight have all scored interviews, much to the dismay of the White House press corps, who have not enjoyed the usual privilege of questioning the President since Aug. 19. Stephanie Cutter, a spokeswoman for the campaign, described these outlets as being “equally important” to traditional political media.

Glamour pitched them on a big audience, said Washington editor Linda Kramer Jenning. “There’s a lot of attention being paid to young, women voters,” Jenning said. “That’s the calling card that opens the door.” It took five months to lock down some face time.

Jenning said Leive asked the President about women’s health care, among other topics, even though the interview took place before the recent uproar over the antediluvian comments about rape by Missouri congressman Todd Akin.

The Obama interview is not the extent of Glamour’s political coverage. Like other magazines, it is sending staffers to report from both political conventions, with the Republicans beginning [this week]. All and all, 15,000 credentialed media are expected at each event. Tina Brown buddy Martin Amis is traveling to Tampa as part of Newsweek’s six-person team to cover the RNC; the same number is at the DNC, minus the novelist. Esquire is sending five staffers to Tampa and four to Charlotte to report for both its political blog and the magazine; contributing editor Charles Pierce is working both events, while writer at large Tom Junod is going only to Charlotte. GQ is sending a team of four, including senior editor Mark Lotto. Marie Claire editor in chief Joanna Coles is moderating a panel — on women’s leadership, natch — and Seventeen has asked six teenagers to blog for its relaunched Electionista blog.

Jenning, who’s been covering the conventions for Glamour for four years, wants to share with the magazine’s readers “what it’s like to be there.” Sometimes, she’s also just looking at the fashion. “There are more pearls at the Republican convention.”

[From WWD]

On one side, I can see why the White House press corps would be pissed off that Obama isn’t giving them enough access (during an election cycle, which seems weird) all while reaching out beyond the Washington “echo chamber” to less political media outlets. But the bulk of the criticism is ridiculous, sexist and hypocritical, in my opinion – why wouldn’t the POTUS (any POTUS) want to reach out and speak directly to women? Sure, the president should give interviews with Meet the Press and Face the Nation and 60 Minutes. But I think it’s smart for Pres. Obama (and any politician) to reach beyond the traditional news outlets. Glamour Mag has an average circulation of 2.3 million, and my guess is that not many of those women watch Meet the Press (no disrespect, I haven’t watched Meet the Press in a few years too). And Pres. Obama has made it clear that he’s actively seeking the women’s vote. Why NOT give interviews to fashion, health and beauty magazines? Or, put another way, why isn’t Mitt Romney also giving interviews to women’s magazines? Or is Romney content to let Todd “Legitimate Rape Won’t Get A Lady Pregnant” Akin speak for the GOP’s platform on women’s issues?

Photos courtesy of WENN.