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• Beyonce, Trey Songz and her hubby Jay-Z made a visit to President Barack Obama at the White House.
• Keyshia Cole gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. This is her first son with fiance/baby daddy Daniel Gibson. Cole gave birth to Daniel Jr., who wights 7-lb., 3-oz, on Tuesday, a representative for Cole said. “Both mother and baby are doing great,” said Tresa Sanders, who is Cole’s publicist.  “Keyshia would also like to give a special thank-you to her fans that have been with her since the beginning, sharing in her growth as a woman and an artist.” Cole, 28, and Gibson, 24, announced both their engagement and pregnancy in January.
• Diddy and his “unofficial girl” Cassie do Paris.
• There are rumors that Angelina Jolie hooked up with Mick Jagger after she starred in his music video.
• Jermaine Jackson’s kid, Jermajesty, was involved in a fight and a stun gun incident. Someone needs to rescued Michael Jackson’s kid Blanket before it’s too late.
• Whitney Houston sang to her 17 year old  daughter, Bobby Christina, on her birthday.
• Rihanna makes music history with her number one hits.

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MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews made a ridiculous comment after Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech that he forgot President Barack Obama was “Black” for and hour.  Can you believe Matthews said this  and tried to explain is ignorant comments by saying it meant we were living in a post racial America?  Obama never forgot he was a Black man who was addressing the senate and the nation. Barack Obama is focusing on doing his job. Chris Matthews deserves to have the blogosphere and Twitterverse put him on blast for his ignorance.

Chris Mathews on Obama “I forgot he was black for an hour”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews says President Barack Obama has done so much to heal racial divisions that he “forgot he was black” while watching his State of the Union address.

Hardball Host ‘Forgets’ Obama Is Black

Those four words — “forgot he was black” — so instantly set the Twitter world afire that Matthews came back less than 90 minutes later Wednesday night to explain what he meant.

The MSNBC commentator said it was noteworthy to him that a black president was addressing a room of mostly white people and how it didn’t seem to be an issue. He said he saw it in the context of growing up at a time racial divisions were ever-present.

Says Matthews: “I went in the room tonight, you could feel it wasn’t there tonight and that takes leadership on his part, to get us beyond those divisions.”

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President Barack Obama addressed the Senate before the nation in his State of the Union address.  The President urged bipartisanship to help the country focus on creating jobs.

In a State of the Union address with a Clintonesque range of policy initiatives, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress found moments to cheer:

“Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010.” Check. “We will double our exports over the next five year.” Check. “I do not accept second place for the United States of America.” Check. “In the 21st century, one of the best anti-poverty programs is a world-class education.” Check.

Republicans also leapt to their feet at President Obama’s call to build “a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country” and make “tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.”

But the key to moving policy on Capitol Hill, especially after Massachusetts voters last week gave Senate Republicans the 41st vote to sustain a filibuster, is breaking partisan gridlock.

“What the American people hope – what they deserve – is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics,” the president said.

But he offered no new template for achieving that outcome, beyond the promise of monthly meetings with leaders of both parties and more common sense. “Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it’s time to try something new. Let’s try common sense,” he said.

Republicans countered that it’s not common sense to ask for bipartisanship, then lambast the opposition. “He did not help himself with Republicans,” said Sen. Jon Kyl (R) of Arizona, the minority whip. “You don’t bash the opposition and then expect cooperation.”

Republicans bristled at references to the Bush years as “the lost decade,” especially soaring federal budget deficits and an economy in crisis. “Every third reference was to President Bush. After more than a year, the president should take ownership,” Senator Kyl added.

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Wyclef Jean spoke from Haiti about the humanitarian efforts in the country. The singer urges President Obama to announce a state of emergency and asks for donations to the Yele Campaign to help victims.  According to the Red Cross the online fundraising campaign  for Haitian earthquake victims has surpassed $3 million dollars. UPDATE: President Barack Obama promised $100 million dollars in aid and troops to the region.  We must also mention that George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and producer Jerry Weintraub have donated $ 1 million dollars to Haitian relief. We initally thought they were each donating $1 million dollars to charity since the money would barely make a dent in their $10 million+ per movie paychecks.

A 48-hour-old fundraising campaign to help Haiti earthquake victims, done solely through text messages, was already stunning Red Cross officials on Thursday when it hit $3 million. By Friday morning, the tally had more than doubled.

The campaign, made viral on networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, had raised $8 million by Friday, according to a Twitter message from the White House that was reposted on the Red Cross account.

The campaign leads a spate of online efforts that have allowed people to help victims of the devastating quake.

The Red Cross campaign’s tally would be double the $4 million that was donated to all charities by mobile texts in all of 2009, a spokeswoman said.

Abi Weaver, spokeswoman for the Red Cross, confirmed that the mobile giving campaign hit the $7 million mark about 11 p.m. Thursday.

“It’s shattered any record that we’ve seen with mobile giving before,” Wendy Harman, social media manager for the Red Cross, said Thursday.

Friday morning, “Red Cross” was among the 10 most popular topics on Twitter.

Wyclef gave a sobering outlook on the country after he explained to a reporter that he spent the day picking up dead bodies.

George Clooney is hosting a Haiti Telethon which is scheduled to air  Friday January 22nd on MTV, ABC, NBC, HBO, and CNN.

We commend the help of Hollywood celebrities but why isn’t the telethon airing before the Golden Globes? What is more important than saving lives to benefit people with charitable actions or to focus on an event to sell tickets to see movies? We send our prayers out to the victims and survivors of this terrible tragedy.

Haitian native Wyclef Jean spent Thursday clearing bodies from the streets of Port-au-Prince, as he called for the government to impose a state of emergency and warned of impending chaos.

Jean, who became famous as a front-man for the superstar Fugees hip hop group, has long been active in promoting Haiti’s development, but that focus has shifted markedly to disaster relief in the wake of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

Describing conditions in the Haitian capital as “the apocalypse,” he said Haiti needed to raise a million dollars a day to survive.

“We spent the day picking up dead bodies, all day that’s what we did. There’s so much bodies in the streets that the morgues are filled up, the cemeteries are filled up,” he told Fox News.

“The count is not 100,000 there’s at least, has to be four to five hundred thousand people that is about to die.”

Born near Port-au-Prince, Jean has raised money through his Yele Haiti charity since 2005.

“We have to raise a million dollars a day. In four or five days, this whole country is going to be in chaos. We are calling for a state of emergency,” he said.

“We are calling for a state of emergency please President (Barack) Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton… we have to do something for this country.”

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The 2010 Grammy Award Nominations were announced in Los Angeles at a live concert.

Beyonce led with 10 nominations with Taylor Swift following in a close second with 8 Grammy noms. Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Maxwell and Keri Hilson were also nominated. Congrats to all of the nominees!

Taylor Swift has won just about every top music award there is this year, but the possibility of winning not just one, but eight Grammys, had the 19-year-old screaming for joy as the nominations were announced.

“I started freaking out and jumping up and down,” Swift said in a telephone interview Wednesday night after learning of her nominations, which included album of the year for her sophomore CD “Fearless” and mentions for song and record of the year.

“I honestly never would have predicted this, eight nominations — I’m ecstatic, and blown away and so so thankful,” the stunned country sensation said.

Swift’s haul of eight nods was only second to another blonde superstar — Beyonce, who got 10. The multi-hyphenate diva, who had an amazing year even on Beyonce terms, including performing at the inauguration for President Barack Obama and the first lady and a No. 1 movie with “Obsessed,” was rewarded for her fierce year. The Grammy-winner was nominated once again, this time for album of the year for her double CD, “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” song of the year for her ubiquitous anthem, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” and song of the year for “Halo,” as well as other awards.

Another diva was also nominated in all three categories: Lady Gaga. The eccentric entertainer, who had five nominations overall, garnered a best album mention for her debut CD, “The Fame,” while her “Poker Face” got nominations for record and song of the year. Other nominees for album of the year were the Black Eyed Peas for “The E.N.D.” and Dave Matthews Band’s “Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King.”

The Black Eyed Peas were also nominated for record of the year for their feel-good song, “I Gotta Feeling,” while the Kings of Leon were nominated for “Use Somebody.” The Kings of Leon hit was also nominated for song of the year, as well as Maxwell’s comeback hit, “Pretty Wings.”

The Black Eyed Peas, Maxwell and Kanye West got six nominations each, while Jay-Z and DJ David Guetta got five.

The country act the Zac Brown Band was nominated for best new artist, along with R&B siren Keri Hilson, rockers MGMT, the punk duo the Ting Tings and the rock group the Silversun Pickups. The year’s most popular new artist, Lady Gaga, wasn’t eligible; her single “Just Dance” had been nominated last year, before she was a platinum-selling act; previous Grammy nominees can’t be nominated in the category.

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• According to TMZ  Tiger Woods sustained injuries after a dispute with his wife and not a car accident.  Tiger has not spoken to anyone in an official statement to confirm that he was a victim of domestic violence. There are claims that Tiger was fleeing from his wife Elin who accused him of having an affair. If this is true then Tiger’s wife is dangerous and she should be charged with assault.  He could have been seriously injured in the car crash.  Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident.
• They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren — according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident.  Tiger has yet to be formally interviewed by the Florida Highway Patrol — that should happen this afternoon. But we’re told Tiger had a conversation Friday — with a non-law enforcement type — detailing what went down before his Escalade hit a fire hydrant.We’re told he said his wife had confronted him about reports that he was seeing another woman. The argument got heated and, according to our source, she scratched his face up. We’re told it was then Woods beat a hasty retreat for his SUV — but according to our source, Woods says his wife followed behind with a golf club. As Tiger drove away, she struck the vehicle several times with the club. We’re told Woods became “distracted,” thought the vehicle was stopped, and looked to see what had happened. At that point the SUV hit the fire hydrant and then hit a tree.
• White House gate crasher, Michaele Salahi, has dubbed the new “balloon boy”. The reality show wannabe may face criminal charges after she  snuck into the White House State dinner without an invitation. Salahi is a potenital Real Housewives of D.C. cast member and posted photos of her posing with President Obama on her now infamous facebook page.
• Keyshia Cole’s reps denied the rumors but appears that the R&B singer is pregnant. Keke was recently spotted trying to hide a noticeable preggers baby bump at an event. Back in September, everybody (including Keyshia’s manager Manny) denied that Keyshia Cole was pregnant. All despite this Preggers Watch post we did on September 17th that clearly showed the beginning of her baby bump during her appearance at a Wal-Mart. But it looks like she can’t hide it anymore.This weekend she and her Cavalier boyfriend Daniel “Boobie” Gibson gave away turkeys and a bag of groceries to families at Bethany Baptist Church in Cleveland. And when she got up to speak, her hand placement and thick belly definitely give way to a pronounced baby bump.
• There are claims that Angelina Jolie is not happy with President Barack Obama.  Althoug the rumors have yet to be confirmed, the actresses’ father Jon Voight has taken an outspoken political position against Barack Obama.   “She hates him,” a source close to the actress said in the latest issue of Us Weekly magazine. “She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise.”Despite her displeasure with the leader of the Democrats, the 34-year-old actress is reportedly not a Republican like her father, actor Jon Voight.Jolie, who has been a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador since 2001, is said to think the President is all “smoke and mirrors.”
  But what about her famous other half, Brad Pitt? Apparently, the two don’t agree. Pitt, 45, who attended the 2008 election party in Chicago, is apparently a big fan of the President.
  “They get in nasty arguments all the time about it,” the source said. “She doesn’t respect Brad when it comes to politics, but, in the end, this won’t tear them apart.”
• ABC has sparked outrage from viewers after the network booked Chris Brown to appear on Good Morning America. 
• Heidi Klum and her hubby Seal have released baby pics of their adorable baby girl Lou. She is so cute! Congrats…
• Lil Wayne he was raped at 11 years old! In this clip from his QD3 documentary,  Lil Wayne tells Lil Twist about how Birdman got a girl to engage in sexual activity with him when he was a child. Wayne said he enjoyed the sex so much that he wasn’t pressing charges. Check out the video!
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