WARNING: this post is so "inside", you have to be on the guest list just to read it.
I hope by now you've had the chance to check out the new "Obama Girl" video, which features three "Obama Girls" "fighting" [including pillows!!!] three "Guiliani Girls". Haven't seen it yet??? It was only the #2 meme on the 'tubes on Monday -- after the photoshop hackjob Redbook did on Faith Hill. Anyway, if for some reason you still haven't seen it, you can check it out here. But I should warn you -- you'll probably fall asleep three times just while reading the associated article.
Okay, anyway, our good friends Julia Allison and Rachel Sklar had a big debate recently about whether this video signaled a new low -- or possibly a new high -- for women in the political sphere.
[image courtesy Julia Allison. L: Julia Allison. R: Rachel Sklar.]
And check out the fact that JA is arguing for the "low", while RS is being all "lighten up, girlfriend".
The "transcript" of their possibly-nonexistent "conversation" is courtesy Gawker editor Alex Balk. Which means, of course, I didn't trust it for a second...
...Until our dear friend Julia "endorsed" it on her own blog.
So...Enjoy!!! [P.S. We heartily encourage you to click on the many links in Balk's link-ified post...well worth you time!!! -- Ed.]
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Okay, so who are Julia Allison and Rachel Sklar?
Julia Allison fancies herself as "this generation's" Candace Bushnell. She's a "dating 'columnist'" who also has made multiple appearances on the Fox News Channel and was recently hired by Star Magazine as their new [teevee-centric] Editor-At-Large.
Oh, and there's also that thing involving former Representative Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN), but Allison doesn't really like talking about that -- except, of course, for the fact that she does -- so let's just move on.
Rachel Sklar is the editor of Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post: Eat The Press media meta-criticism blog.
Allison is also an occasional contributor to HP's ETP blog.
Allison is also Gawker's best "frenemy".
And Sklar is also Canadian..."Not that there's anything wrong with that..."...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
BREAKING: "Obama Girl v. Guiliani Girl" Fake Smackdown Leads To "Blogger v. Blogger" Real Smackdown
Monday, May 21, 2007
This Week In Recently In Julia Allison's Life-Sized Cardboard Cut-Out [21 May 2007]
[serious "inside baseball" alert -- don't say we didn't warn you -- Ed.]
So, Julia Allison, you've had an awesome quarter [or so]...
...or, at least that cardboard cut-out of you that you trot out every so often when you're too busy to keep up with your social calendar has had an awesome quarter.
[Confused DHMBIB readers may want to take a few minutes to brush up on our dear Julia...
Back yet? Okay, let's go!!! -- Ed.]
Julia -- you the former AM New York dating columnist, current Fox News Channel Talking Head and Huffington Post Eat The Press correspondent, and brand new Time Out New York dating columnist -- not to mention Gawker's number one frenemy and the real-life inspiration for one of the most notorious campaign commercials in history -- you sure have been a busy social butterfly recently. So busy, in fact, that it appears you've had to resort to sending your cardboard-cutout "Julia" doppelganger in your place a few times.
Julia, there's no need for you to be so over-extended. Seriously, I can help!!!
Observe...
Here's your cut-out recently with Fishbowl NY Editor Dylan Stableford...
Obviously, you were also too busy to make the Radar release party, so you sent your cut-out to stand in for you with Chris Tennant...
...and Tinsley Mortimer [a/k/a "The Tinz"]...
and, finally, Defamer editor Mark Lisanti...
And oh! The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner!!! I'm guessing you knew Rich Little was going to be heinously unfunny, so you sent your cut-out in your place, where "she" was photo'd with, among others...
...your-hometown-ragsheet's [Chicago Sun-Times] EIC Michael Cooke...
...and...TONY KORNHEISER???...
...and MISS FREAKING AMERICA [yes, we edit ourselves sometimes -- Ed.] Laura Nelson...
...and tsunami-and-James-Blunt-survivor Petra Nemcova...
...and even possibly the next losing candidate for President of the United States, former Tennessee Senator Fred "I'm not 'Tommy', I'm that guy on Law & Order" Thompson...
...and...and...OMG!!! LOL MY HEADZ EXPLODING!!!
And most recently, here's your cut-out at the Time 100 party a coupla weeks' ago...
...and here again with your sometime-boss-and-all-the-time-BFF, ETP's Rachel Sklar, at the same party...
Julia, I know you were pissed off about not getting a proper invite, so you ended up asking your cut-out to crash the party for you. But I woulda been happy to crash in your place, if only so I coulda been your "stand-in" in this awesome photo of "you" and fellow non-ivitee ANA MARIE COX!!!
Now, I realize that AMC is time.com's Washington "bureau chief" [and Wonkette's founding editor and -- still -- "Wonkette Emerita"], and as such could reasonably have expected an invite to this event. But I'm her "boss" [disclosure -- Ed.], and not even I got invited. Thus, I would've been more than pleased to be her partner-in-crime and stand in for your cut-out if you were too busy to make this soiree.
[long-time readers and/or friends know that we at DHMBIB seriously <3 AMC!!! -- Ed.]
Seriously, Julia, I know you've over-booked your social calendar recently. As a fellow Hoya, I would love to help you out of these sticky situations.
[whispering]Julia! Call me![/whispering]
