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Performer M.I.A. — Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam — deftly disguised herself as a singer and infiltrated the heavy Super Bowl security of NBC, and the TSA, and the DHS. Her mission? To flip a middle finger to the camera all while singing a four-letter word that is part of “Luvin”‘s original lyrics.

Might as well get the wWAAAAH-mbulance on standby for the outraged parents groups that will surely come out of the woodwork over something their kids probably didn’t even notice. I know I certainly didn’t catch it during the live broadcast. It got past, after which an attempted digital blurring came oh so late. NBC censors either fell asleep at the wheel, or someone thought it was good entertainment (it is, now).

The real question is if stage-mate Madonna will ultimately come forward to stick up for them or let them twist in the wind should an FCC fine be levied. In 2004, Janet Jackson’s wardrobe fiasco ultimately led to a whopping $550,000 headache payable to the finger-wagging nanny state.

UPDATE: The New Yorker is erroneously reporting that M.I.A. has apologized, based on an LA Times story that cites a “source, who requested anonymity but was with the artist at Lucas Oil Stadium.” Her publicists at Interscope have issued a “no comment.” We are following this story intently, mostly because we know at the end of the day an entourage lackey speaking out of turn doesn’t mean squat.

As I predicted before, Parents Television Council has become the first outraged parent group to rush to the scene with stern words. I humbly suggest they spend their time and energy providing a useful product for parental television control, not blowing hot air over a bunch of known provocative artists.

Greetings and salutations gossip junkies, we interrupt this broadcast to inform you that democracy needs your help today. With your help, an actual constitutionalist candidate and principled president could finally LIVE UP TO all that hype and hope everyone seemed to have inadvertently put in that jackoff with the teleprompter.

#2 – Spread the word about BlackThisOut on Facebook
25,000 people are going to be HAMMERING facebook ALL DAY TODAY about BlackThisOut. Please add your voice! Send out private messages, post of your friend’s walls, post on your own wall, “Like” any and all posts related to BlackThisOut so that your friends will seem them in their newsfeed.

There’s an entire internet out there, kids. Facebook is just one website.

Of course, they address that:

#3 – Spread the word about BTO on ANY WEBSITE THAT HAS TRAFFIC
Post about the BlackThisOut Money Bomb anywhere and everywhere you can online. Blogs, news websites like FoxNews.com, CNN.com, HuffingtonPost.com, etc., web forums ot where ever else you spot an opportunity to share. As with facebook messages, these things add up fast when performed by thousands of individuals at the same time.

Oh yeah, here’s earsucker telling you to go ahead and donate already. You cheap fucks.

I’m not sure why Lindsay Lohan was invited to some party for ‘Saints Row: The Third’ last night in Hollywood — but if the driving dynamics of the newest addition to the Xbox exclusive title are as bad as previously, then messy Lindsay might just be the perfect cover girl for the game.

The 23 year old actress was spotted with yellow, chipped teeth, and her hands were badly smudged with nail polish along with what appeared to be soot — having not-so-glamourous shots taken on photographer’s row.

Is the downhill slide of Lohan’s career starting to actually get ugly or will she realize that it’s time for some dental veneers and sober manicures?

Correction: ‘Saints Row: The Third’ is actually not an exclusive title and will also be on PS3, I still maintain that the driving and physics in GTA IV is far superior and that if it is as bad as #2 then they might as well just call it ‘Saints Row: The Third Turd’. This has no bearing on Lohan’s apparent entropic failure, I just wanted to clear up what’s really important here.

Spammers, you’re on notice. I handed out a ban today and it felt wonderful. The rest of you, please feel free to flag that crap because we’re usually too busy fetching the juicy gossip news, not moderating anyone’s comments into oblivion.

We appreciate the community, but you guys gotta help police things around here otherwise it’s going to be a spam crapfest and we can’t have that.

Thanks, and hugs and kisses!

That’s the question a full page ad in The Austin Chronicle asks. The following was dropped in the alt-weekly by Robert Morrow, CASH president:

The ad has been noticed across a wide spectrum of media outlets from The Washington Post to The Huffington Post and several other blog pickups. Many of them seem to be mentioning Ron Paul like it’s going to make people not fist pump Robert Morrow’s epic crusade in search of Rick Perry’s kinky sex history in a proven method. Whatever, tools.

Sure a few opportunists will show up looking for CASH with a salacious tale. But we have a feeling more than a few real skeletons might get knocked out of the closet with this kind of bold and independent investigative journalism style (backed by CASH).

The internets has discovered that Rick Perry spent $78 at La Te Da “Drag Queen Show” in Florida in 2009. Check out the website of Mr. Randy Roberts, who is headlining at the La Te Da Cabaret this week. We don’t need to spell it out to family values people: Where there’s hypocritical smoke, there’s flamingly fabulous Rick Perry.

For the record, I like the ad’s approach. And no, I’ve never had sex with Rick Perry.

[h/T to John Bush in Texas]
[Cross-posted from Hammer of Truth for lulz]

Weird Al is throwing his hat in the political arena with his latest hit-sucker recognizable song with new lyrics and a nerd voice musical parody Party in the CIA. Fans of pop singer Miley Cyrus will instantly recognize it as a spoof of Party in the USA. Even though lyrics are intentionally typed out in lowercase to go with the bubblegum pop feel, the subject matter is anything but cute:

i moved out to langely recently
with a plain and simple dream;
wanna infiltrate some third-world place
and topple their regime.

their men in black with their matching suitcases;
where everything’s on a need-to-know basis;
agents got that swagger;
everyone so cloak and dagger.

i’m feelin’ nervous but i’m really kinda wishing
for another undercover mission

that’s when the red alert came on the radio
and i put my earpiece on!
got my dark sunglasses on!
and i had my weapon drawn!

so i get my handcuffs,
my cyanide pills,
my classified dossier!

tappin’ the phones like yeah, shreddin’ the files like yeah,
and then i rised all the enemy spies i’ve got to neutralize today.
Weird Al Yankovic Party In The CIA
yeeeaaahhh, it’s a party in the cia!
yeeeaaahhh, it’s a party in the cia! (continue reading…)

“Ashton, you’ve been Punk’d. This account is not secure. Dude, where’s my SSL?”

“P.S. This is for those young protesters around the world who deserve not to have their Facebook & Twitter accounts hacked like this. #SSL”

Earsucker has learned from our field hacktivists lurking in a secret Internet chat room that Ashton Kutcher had his twitter account jacked for a brief period because he’s a total noob at this stuff or something: “LOL, he got punk’d. That’s what you get for not using SSL over wifi.” our Anonymous source informs us. “Most people don’t realize their passwords/usernames are cleartext if the connection isn’t SSL… it’s one of the biggest open doors into someone’s shit.”

“Packet sniffing isn’t even that hard anymore, there’s even like GUIs and shit for the mac.” In fact a simple Google search turned up a link to Cocoa Packet Analyzer, which could probably have even someone like Ashton up and packet sniffing within a few minutes on their laptop, maybe punking others.

The messages were still viewable on the account @aplusk at the time of this report.

You gave it a good try, but we regret to inform you your fifteen minutes are officially over, thanks for playing. Please please please take care of your kids, we don’t need your brand of craziness infecting them.

Octomom stars in a fetish video, in which she whips a grown man wearing a baby diaper and a bonnet.

Octo whips the dude in the diaper, so much so he has welts on his back.

Via our garbage-rummaging friends at TMZ.

If you haven’t been visiting our sister political site Hammer of Truth, these are the big stories you’ve been missing:

• US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies’
• UPDATED: Reverend Terry Jones is an attention-seeking moron
• Stealing Votes?
• This kind of disturbs me
• Truthers get a bad rap. But there’s a ray of hope…

Update by Roberta: Check it out!! HoT is awesome, Stephen puts a lot of hard work, time and effort into his baby, SHOW HIM THE LOVE!!

DO IT NOW, WE’LL WAIT.

John Cusack may be a douche for having supported Barack Obama in 2008 (join the celebrity douche-club on that one, right?), but I think his recent twitter antics are clearly meant to be taken tongue-in-cheek:

I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS

The funniest part is how Fox News responds and is so obvious in their creative editorializing. I’ll bold things so you can see how they do it so beautifully:

He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and has contributed to The Huffington Post, but this is the first known time he has stooped to the level of making threats.

And while the U.S. Constitution protects Cusack’s right to speak his mind, some critics say he should be more careful about what he says, since he has more than 200,000 Twitter followers.[...]

[ED- an "expert" arrives!] Cusack could also be doing his career some damage. Image consultant Michael Sands says that Cusack should be worried that his vituperative words could turn off some of his fans.

“I think his fans will not appreciate his tone. They will be turned off to his rhetoric,” Sands told Fox411. “John Cusack is taking his fame too seriously. He is having delusions and his anger towards Fox News may get him arrested!”

I love how Fox News (and Jo Plazza, who some would say is a member of a Satanic Death Cult) starts off claiming that Cusack has all these free speech rights, works diligently to make him a dangerous person and ends with Cusack possibly facing arrest. All without actually… you know… saying anything unfair or unbalanced.

Originally posted at Hammeroftruth.com. Reprinted with permission.

FREE MP3 download: http://evamoon.net/bailout_song.html

Smooth, sultry and seductive are the words that come to mind listening to this little ditty that has a 60s lounge feel to it. Being as it is also relevant to my interests (money, I likes it), I am posting it here to share with you. Here’s how the artist describe themselves:

Can anything make the Wall Street bailout even slightly more palatable? Probably not. But Eva Moon mixes it up with a little funk and sex? Music and lyrics by Eva Moon. Ferko Saxmanov on sax, Tym Parsons bass and guitar.

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