TONIGHT: Michael Moore

He took on America's health care system! Now he's taking aim at capitalism in his most controversial movie...yet? Love him or hate him - Michael Moore for the hour!

Tonight, 9pm ET!

AND NOW 50!

YOU BE THE JUDGE!!!

Jay-Z might’ve brushed off Kanye’s stage bum-rush, but when it came to Lil’ MaMa’s ignorant move…he was not feeling it all. Despite putting on the mean grill and giving her the ill side-eye, Jay-Z kept his cool on stage. But backstage was a totally different story…
According to NYDailyNews, a backstage snitch claims,
“He went ballistic. He was screaming at the MTV producers about the lack of security. He apparently thought at first she was just a fan. Beyoncé finally calmed him down.”

5 ways to meet someone this fall: A back-to-school special

5 ways to meet someone this fall: A back-to-school special


Yes, you just spent nine hundred dollars on textbooks, but the girl at the cash register might want to date you!

By Caitlin Gray



The leaves are changing, the air is getting crisper - or if you go to school in Arizona, it’s dropping from 115 degrees to a cool 105, in any case, it’s back to school time. It’s a time for fresh starts, new classes, and, wouldn’t you know it, some amazing opportunities to meet some girls and guys! Let College News be your guide.

How to meet someone special this fall (I know meeting the partial cast of Twilight Comic-Con was also special, but we mean people at your school):

1. Reconnect with old flames

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and, if summer was the culprit separating you from someone you like, the fall is the perfect time to re-establish a romance. Arrange a time to get together and “catch-up,” even if you sort of mean “hook-up” at the same time. Chances are, they are equally excited to see you again as well.

2. Introduce yourself to potential class crushes

Ah, the tradition of a new class, and a new crush. How many times did I scan the room for that special guy I would obsess over throughout the semester? Occasionally, obsession would turn into an actual real-life relationship!

I remember Jared, a super cute musician who I gawked at for weeks in our Linguistics class. It was actually called, “Morphology.” Somehow, I managed to become partners with him for a big project. We gave a presentation together, and then ended up dating for three racy, lip-locked months! You never know what a class crush could “morph” into. Sorry, bad joke.

3. BFF your new neighbors

There is nothing more fun in college than your house full of people becoming BFF’s with your neighbors’ house full of people. My two best friends, Willa and Michelle, lived in a house right next door to a bunch of guys. Everyone bonded at a back-to-school block party, and after a few years, and and a few Melrose Place moments, Willa and Michelle married Jake and Jeremy, two of the boys living in that house! Go ahead, borrow a cup of sugar, be bold, be neighborly!

4. Take advantage of back-to-school banter

Let’s say you are biding your time in the snaking, unreal, super-long line at the bookstore. That’s a perfect opportunity to start some small talk with the people around you. At the start of the school year, we are sharing so many common experiences - the nightmare of desperately trying to add an in-demand class, laughing out loud in a silent computer lab at the latest viral video, tripping over the crazy bricks in your school’s giant square. There are icebreakers all around you! You just have to be brave and take a chance to make that connection.

5. Crazy theme parties

When in doubt, throw a party. Now, it sounds dirty, but it was really meant to be funny, and it ended up being hilarious; my roommates and I threw a “two article of clothing party.” My roommate, Jesse, actually wore a pair of snake pants (borrowed from me) and a wig. I was just thinking about them the other day. I had to dress up for an ‘80s party and I wondered, “I did dry-clean those, right?”

Needless to say, I wore an alternative outfit rather than risk it. The point is, you can have a crazy party that ton of people, and potential dates, can talk about for years afterwards. Have a celebrity party, a Double Dare party, a historical Halloween party, whatever. Just get creative and live it up.

College years are some of the best years of our lives, and fall has to be one of the best seasons - especially for meeting someone special. Good luck and happy dating!

For more information go to http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/dating/5_ways_to_meet_someone_this_fall_a_back_to_school_special_3295746363/

Race and Politics in the Age of Obama

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Race and politics are a combustible combo that explodes into headlines when an ex-president lights the fuse, as Jimmy Carter did recently.


President Obama during the 2008 campaign faced questions over race and politics.

"When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds," the Democrat told students at Emory University on Wednesday.

"I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American," he added.

The controversy erupted this week when Carter first raised the race issue to NBC.

"An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man," he said.

Bill Cosby, a black comedian and actor, said Wednesday in a written statement that he agrees with Carter.

"During President Obama's speech on the status of health care reform, some members of Congress engaged in a public display of disrespect," he said.

CNN contributor David Gergen said that some of the allegations of race-baiting might have some weight among Democratic voters.

"Jimmy Carter, I'm afraid, is not alone in his views," he said.

But Gergen warns that the racists tend to be on the fringes of the right and do not reflect on the greater field of opponents to Obama's ideology.

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"But I think it's wrongheaded, and I think it's unfair, and I think it's indeed a libel upon many of the opponents, most of the opponents of health care reform, to say that they're racist," he said. "Seven previous presidents have tried to bring health care reforms of this kind. All seven have failed. And, as I recall, all seven were white."

Carter's comments, though, are the kind that raise people's defenses. In particular, they turn off independents, who by nature tend to hate the hard edges of politics.

The White House, for its part, wants no part of the Carter controversy.

"The president does not believe that that criticism comes based on the color of his skin," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

As a candidate, Obama understood the political danger in letting his race become a major topic. He largely avoided it when he could, but race was always a subtext, as it is now in his presidency.

"But I can also say, frankly, that this White House and even his campaign were very afraid to even go down this road dealing with anything with race," said CNN contributor Roland Martin.

Carter also told NBC that there is an "inherent feeling among many people in this country that an African-American ought not to be president and ought not to be given the same respect as if he were white."

Framing criticism as racism cropped up several times during the campaign.

When Geraldine Ferraro, a Clinton supporter, said during the 2008 Democratic primaries that Obama would never have gotten as far as he had if he had not been black, candidate Obama pointedly left race out of it.

"I think that her comments were ridiculous," Obama said at the time.

But Ferraro blamed Obama supporters for her hate mail, saying "I have been called all kinds of names. And the attacks are ageist. They're sexist. They're racist." iReport.com: Freedom from speech?

And the topic of race even came to haunt Bill Clinton, the so-called first black president.

Before the New Hampshire primary in January 2008, Clinton told an audience that "there's no difference in [Obama's] voting record and Hillary's ever since. Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen."

Some interpreted that as belittling Obama's campaign. After much criticism, Clinton later said he was talking about Obama's opposition to the war in Iraq, not his campaign.

But those two words -- "fairy tale" -- launched weeks worth of accusations, sometimes on the front page of The New York Times, that the Clintons were playing the race card. iReport.com: Share your thoughts on race and politics

Some observers said Carter's statement was far too broad, and that many of the attacks on Obama are about policy, not race.

"I don't think one can paint a broad brush in saying that all of these folks who have criticism, anybody who criticizes the president ... is based upon the issue of race," Martin said.


Mary Matalin, a CNN contributor and Republican strategist, said Carter's criticism is "absurd."

"It's very dangerous politics," she said. "Barack Obama got, in the last election, more white male voters than any of his predecessors. ... Republicans and conservatives and Democrats and liberals, the whole country felt very good putting -- setting aside policies after his election."

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Lil Wayne To Appear In VH1's 'Behind The Music' Weezy 'has all the requisite drama in his life' for the show, a VH1 exec says.

Lil Wayne's star-studded turn from rapper to rocker is going well: Not only is his first rock single, "Prom Queen," picking up steam, the Cash Money star will get the royal rock treatment with his very own VH1 "Behind the Music" episode.

The network announced on Thursday (March 19) that the seminal documentary program will be relaunched, and Lil Wayne and Scott Weiland have already signed on.

Plans call for the new incarnation of "Behind the Music" to focus more on contemporary artists than the veteran talent of previous incarnations — after all, with 200 previous episodes, the show has covered a majority of iconic talent. And according to Rick Krim, executive vice president of talent and music programming at VH1, a number of superstars have emerged since 2004 that deserve the "BTM" treatment.

"We had to rethink a little bit and look at these current artists that are really big stars now, and maybe it isn't the classic rise and fall," Krim told MTV News on Thursday. "There's the classic 'Behind the Music' arc, but in this crop we wanted to get some artists that were on top of their game now instead of looking back. And also, just because their big stars now doesn't mean they necessarily have a great 'Behind the Music' kind of story.

"From our research, [Lil Wayne] certainly does. From the fact that when he was a kid he accidentally shot himself and almost died at age 12 while playing with a gun, he went through Katrina, he has [a possible stint in] jail pending. He has all the requisite drama in his life, which I think ultimately makes for the great story. The fact that he's one of the biggest stars out there makes it the right combination that we're looking for.

The revamped "Behind The Music" is set to debut in July. As of press time, the air date for Lil Wayne's episode has not been scheduled.

I GOTTA GET INTO BOWTIES MAN... (HYPEBEAST)

American fashion designer and former creative director of Gucci, Tom Ford is a creator who likes mixing printed matters and styles. Ford has recently become known as a pioneer of taking clothes that are perhaps no longer worn and giving them a contemporary twist. This time around Ford has created two colourways of the classic Silk Bow Tie which adds to his Autumn/Winter collection for ’09. The ties use black white and grey patterns over a chunky looking bow. For those of you who are feeling this piece but aren’t sure how to tie it, fear not, it’s a clip on! Both colourways are now available at colette.

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