Hillary Clinton sat down with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell in Pakistan recently to discuss her current efforts in the region to gain government support against terrorist groups. However, thanks to a statement about her daughter’s upcoming wedding, the takeaway from the extensive interview about her time in the Middle East is a short soundbite in which she seems to forget that gay Americans still can’t legally wed.

What’s a girl to do after she’s been publicly outed as a spy trying to procure American intelligence information?

Well, if she’s young, sexy, and Russian like Anna Chapman, the answer is apparently simple: join parliament.

The audio from wiretapped phone conversations between Rod Blagojevich and his closest aides was so entertaining to reporter Brian Mackey that he decided to pull the best snippets and turn them into ringtones, which are now available for free on the SJR affiliate blog Off the Clock.

Several states are reportedly using expensive stimulus-funded signs to promote stimulus-funded projects that are “putting America to work,” and a handful of Republicans in the House are less than pleased. Illinois has put up 950 of them for $650,000, and Pennsylvania has bought 70 at an average cost of $2,000 per sign.

Like any good pop diva, Lady Gaga is constantly reinventing herself. She was the commander-in-chief of an all-male naked army in her video for “Alejandro,” and soon after she appeared on the cover of the General McChrystal-ousting issue of Rolling Stone with heavy ammunition on her chest.

And now a new implication in the developing Wikileaks investigation is adding some credibility to her army shtick.

The musical fever that has secured 19 Emmy nominations for Glee has busted through the TV screen and into American politics with Florida State Representative Mike Weinstein‘s recently released campaign jingle and accompanying video. Unfortunately for our eyes and ears, the song-and-dance genre doesn’t translate well enough outside of the hit show to garner this musical number any awards, but just enough to make it go viral.

Lady Gaga might not be so popular with everybody on the Internet, but no one would know that by looking at her Facebook profile – Gossip Cop just broke the news that the pop culture juggernaut has become the first living person to reach (and rapidly exceed) 10 million fans on the social networking site.

In response to President Obama invoking the image of the Statue of Liberty during his speech on immigration today, Rush Limbaugh took the time to inform his listeners of the true meaning of the big green broad by proving that she “was never meant to be a symbol of immigration.”

The Department of Health and Human Services launched two new websites last night: HealthCare.gov, a portal to learn more about the new health care laws, and a corresponding Twitter account. At first glance, they both seem like pretty average administration sites, but to especially hawk-eyed folks like Sarah Kliff at Politico, something about the Twitter was slightly amiss – the brand new site had year-old tweets from P. Diddy and an Indian politician marked as favorites. Wait, what?

The New Republic just published a piece by Gabriel Sherman documenting how John Edwards spends his endless hours of spare time now that his political career has been chucked in the wood chipper. Jogging on the beach in North Carolina, taking lengthy lunch breaks at Wendy’s, and partying with drunk Duke coeds are just a few of his hobbies. Sound familiar?

Forbes released its annual list of the 100 most powerful celebrities today, and look! Some of your favorite media moguls, TV hosts, and radio personalities made the cut. Here at Mediaite, we rank these folks against each other on the regular with our trusty Power Grid. Granted, the numbers on the two lists differ with Forbes’ inclusion of other types of celebrities (like Britney Spears, coming in at #6 – nice comeback, girl!) but let’s take a look at how they compare, shall we?

Elena Kagan took her place on the hot seat today for the beginning of the confirmation hearings that will decide if she becomes the newest member of the Supreme Court. But Fox News host Megyn Kelly doesn’t need to wait for the results of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s round of harsh questioning to decide if she will be a liberal Justice – Kagan’s childhood zip code is evidence enough.

Remember The Real World: Boston? Like every other season of the show, it had its OMG moments – like when roomie Montana got accused of giving children alcohol! OMG! And now, thirteen years after it first aired, the show has produced yet another shocker: cast member Sean Duffy (the conservative Republican one thrown into the house to act as a foil to all that MTV liberalism) is set to run for Congress in Wisconsin, and has a good chance of winning.

No country puts a positive spin on the news better than North Korea, habitually using censorship to hide problems in the nation and boost “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Il‘s public image. So the fact that no major North Korean news outlet has reported on their team’s devastating 7-0 World Cup loss to Portugal is nothing out of the ordinary.

Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown‘s Republican competition in the California gubernatorial race, does not hide the fact that she’s rolling in eBay money and willing to use it for her campaign. Brown, on the other hand, presents himself as a humble bargain shopper in hopes of stealing the non-billionaire vote from Whitman. There’s just one problem: Brown isn’t telling the whole truth about being a spendthrift.

Everyone has been talking about General Stanley McChrystal after the now-infamous Rolling Stone article was released, now resulting in President Obama‘s acceptance of his letter of resignation. Not many, however, have bothered to talk to Michael Hastings, the writer of the controversial story that started this mess – except for John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee at The Takeaway, who scooped everyone when they interviewed him yesterday morning

There is such a thing as looking too hard for the upside to things, and BP has apparently discovered it. Benoit Faucon at The Wall Street Journal somehow got a look at an excerpt from Planet BP, an online publication exclusively for BP employees, in which a “BP reporter” put one of the most outrageous [...]

The Internet is buzzing today with news that President Obama has called on General Stanley McChrystal to head to Washington and explain himself regarding an interview to Rolling Stone in which he harshly criticized how Obama has handled the War in Afghanistan. However, readers looking to take a peek at the story that started all the kerfuffle have to dig way past a photo of Lady Gaga and her locked-and-loaded brassiere to find it.

Mike Huckabee loves to talk, whether it be on his Fox News show or during an interview with Ariel Levy that resulted in an 8,378-word profile for The New Yorker. And while the article is meant to explore the persona of the likely contender for the 2012 GOP nomination, the shining moments in the piece come when Huckabee opens his mouth and spits out beautiful little gold nuggets, embedded in quotation marks and sparkling amongst the pebble-gray type on the page.

Soccer teams from countries all over the world have already gathered in South Africa to compete in the World Cup, but at the end of the month the country will play host to different types of national representatives, like heads of state and CEOs of the world’s biggest companies. Did someone say boondoggle?

As CEO of Cablevision and executive chairman of Madison Square Garden, James L. Dolan has had his fair share of spats with members of the news media, his most recent being an advertising boycott over an unflattering joke that cost The Village Voice $1 million. But when asked by reporters about his frequent quarrels, Dolan rarely gives interviews as heated as the arguments themselves. Instead, he channels his frustrations into lyrics and sings them over a bluesy country beat.

When James Risen‘s story about the bankable mineral deposits in Afghanistan ran in The New York Times on Monday, bloggers were quick to declare that something wasn’t quite right about the timing of the piece, calling the article a reiteration of previously known information in order to beef up support for the war effort in Afghanistan. Now, Risen is telling bloggers that he’s no mouthpiece for Big Brother – and that they should “do their own reporting instead of sitting around in their pajamas.”

Kathy Griffin went on The View this morning to promote the upcoming season of her Emmy-winning show (which premieres tonight on Bravo) and talk about the stunts viewers should expect to see in the new episodes, like entering herself in a children’s beauty pageant and receiving a very public gynecological exam. It was co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, however, who provided the self-proclaimed self-promoter with the best press for the premiere: an onstage host spat.

AP reports that local police officers discovered Gary Brooks Faulkner, a 52-year-old construction worker from California, in the forests of the Chitral region in northern Pakistan carrying a dagger, a pistol, a 40-inch sword, and some night-vision equipment. His mission? To single-handedly take out al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

MTV has reportedly begun the search for the network’s first Twitter Jockey, an internet savvy individual who will act as a liaison between MTV viewers and executives via the eponymous social networking site. Duties include reporting on MTV events, interacting with the audience through tweets, and sporadically crawling away from the computer to appear on screen.