Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has been taking heavy criticism over a joking reference to Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren‘s physical appearance, including from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The cast of ABC’s The View weighed in on the controversy today, and took Brown’s side. The discussion included a loose grasp of the facts, and an interpretation of Brown’s comment, from Whoopi Goldberg, that even the most imaginative press flack couldn’t have thought up.

Women from the most sparsely populated independent country on Earth are in for a treat this week, when a new Mongolian-language edition of Cosmopolitan will start appearing on shelves. As Jeremy W. Peters at Media Decoder notes, this is the 61st international iteration of the women’s magazine juggernaut; different versions of Cosmo are already being sold in countries including Croatia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Slovenia, as well as nations throughout Europe and South America.

OK. Okay. Scott Brown is very charming. If Brown’s election last week caught you off guard last night’s Ten@Ten segment on Jay Leno might go a long way to explaining why the people of Massachusetts were so willing to throw over health care reform: Brown is not only charming he’s very sincere.

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After a strong showing in The September Issue, Vogue‘s Anna Wintour tops Forbes‘ “2009′s Most Powerful Fashion Magazine Editors” list. But more interesting than the number one spot are the multimedia moves Wintour and her fellow editors made to retain relevance, not to mention Forbes‘ overlap with our own Power Grid rankings.