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Mike Huckabee sent this e-mail to an Evian PR person — seriously. Is he really so poor?

Meet Chris Lehane. He was a spinmaster for Clinton who served as Gore’s spokesman during the 2000 campaign but ditched Kerry in 2003 over stylistic differences. Since then he and his business partner, Democratic hack Mark Fabiani, have built a (one assumes) lucrative business as hacks-for-hire, representing everyone from Kobe Bryant to former California Governor Grey Davis to the Screen Actors Guild to a number of unions united under the Change to Win banner. Recently, though, Lehane and Fabiani picked up a new client: the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, who are trying to bust the writer’s strike. Hmm.

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Sundance Film Festival promises to be a political battlefield this year. In an election year it always is. The latest hype machine to join the Sundance lineup is Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?. Only a handful of potential buyers have seen a 15-minute clip of the film, which premieres this January at Sundance, but the director claims they “definitely got the holy grail.” Has Spurlock succeeded where the US government has failed? Has he found Osama bin Laden? I call bullshit. After the jump, Spurlock speaks.

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Rosie O’Donnell confessed to the crowd at the New York Comedy Festival Tuesday night that former president Bill Clinton once made her cry. According to Page Six, Clinton sent O’Donnell a note and his phone number after the comedian slammed him during a standup performance five years ago. “He disgusts me,” O’Donnell recalled saying during the performance. “I’m not supposed to say this because I’m a good Democrat, but I didn’t want to [talk] to him because he lied to me when he said, ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman,’ and then put the scarlet-letter [bleep]-job on her for the rest of her life . . . I still hate you!” Well, when Rosie called the number, guess who answered? MORE »

For sure. It’s a major happening on the Hill, man. You know? It just feels like the 1970s with all this ‘No Nukes!’ stuff. MORE »

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Hollywood glossy Fade In has entered the political slipstream with celebrity one-on-one interviews with presidential candidates. In its current issue, the mag teams Gigli star Ben Affleck with Hillary Clinton, grinning coke monkey Oliver Stone and John (His hair was perfect) Edwards, and Bermudian Michael Douglas with the overlooked and understated Bill Richardson. Celebrities and Politicians? Hmmm…if only we could tap that sort of synergy! We could, like, launch a magazine named after a president or something. MORE »

San Francisco mayoral politics are bad. So bad, in fact, that actor and director Sean Penn once offered hunky-hipster attorney Matt Gonzalez $5 million to fund his war chest if he were to run as a Democrat against Mayor Gavin Newsom. MORE »