Caught On Camera of the Day: National Enquirer has released a snippet of the hidden camera footage alleging to show To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen cheating on his wife with 30-year-old WPTV NewsChannel 5 reporter Kristyn Caddell.
According to the Enquirer, the couple can be seen entering the Ritz-Carlton’s Angle restaurant in Palm Beach. The tabloid says Hansen later spent the night at Caddell’s apartment, and they have the photos to prove it.
Mr. Colbert Goes To Washington of the Day: Stephen Colbert’s request to form his very own Super PAC — a type of political committee capable of raising unlimited funds from corporations and individuals for independent expenditures — has officially been approved by the Federal Election Commission.
“I am here to represent your voice so you can all hear what you have to say through my mouth,” Colbert told a cheering crowd outside the FEC’s HQ in DC. “”I’m sorry to say, we won!”
The FEC’s decision, however, restricts financial support from Viacom, Comedy Central parent company, to advertising aired during The Colbert Report alone; any funding of ads outside the show would void the press exemption and would need to be disclosed.
Concern was raised over the possibility that the FEC would approve one of Colbert’s less limiting drafts, broadening the press exemption to allow politicians employed as commentators to obscure funds through their media entities. One of those expressing concern over the FEC’s decision was none-other-than Colbert’s lawyer, Trevor Potter, who serves as chairman of The Campaign Legal Center.
tl;dr: Stewart/Colbert 2012.
After The Jump: Colbert and his council testify before the FEC.
Dance Moves of the Day: Just a regular guy dancing to Daft Punk’s “One More Time” who happens to be really good at dancing to Daft Punk’s “One More Time.”
[towleroad.]
Well This Is Sufficiently Terrifying of the Day: And when you gaze long into the hair helmet-mullet combo, the hair helmet-mullet combo also gazes into you.
Oh, and here come the memixes:
[reddit.]
Mashup of the Day: Nyan Cat meets Bollywood? Missed opportunity to remix with Tunak, but I’ll allow it.
Difficulty Level: 15 minutes.
[videogum.]
Short Film of the Day: In Plot Device, Seth Worley’s nine-minute short film/promo for Magic Bullet Suite 11, “a young filmmaker obtains a mysterious device that unleashes the full force of cinema on his front lawn.”
See Also: Behind the Scenes of Plot Device.
[b3ta.]
Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson’s silver-screen adaptation of John le Carré’s same-named novel, which spawned a BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness.
The film, which stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, and Benedict Cumberbatch, is scheduled for wide release September 16th in the UK and November 18th in the US.
[pajiba.]
[photo: reddit.]
Tell Us How You Really Feel of the Day: On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, Time editor-at-large Mark Halperin was asked by Joe Scarborough about the President’s strongly-worded press briefing.
“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin responded, after an assurance from Scarborough that the show was on tape-delay. “I was joking,” Scarborough exclaimed.
Halperin issued an apology later in the show.
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