After launching an all-out boycott campaign against the bite-sized Canadian crooner over fictitious remarks he made supporting the construction of the Park51 Islamic Center project, opponents of the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” have now extended an apology to Justin Bieber, but promise their campaign will continue in full gear.

You tweeted them right to the top. The most talked about–and tweeted about–people in the world are Barack Obama, Justin Bieber, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

The president, though, was way out in front on both the “People” and “Politicians” lists, according to Klout, a company that tracks influence across social media and released the study today.

What did people on Twitter ever talk about before WikiLeaks and its little cousin GawkerLeaks? According to the list of 2010′s top Twitter trends, a lot—from vuvuzelas to the BP oil spill to, of course, Justin Bieber. The company analyzed the 25 billion tweets sent over the year and found that the following ten topics were what kept the world buzzing in 2010.

Time Magazine has released its list of the Top Ten Twitter Moments of 2010, and at least one member of the Twitterati isn’t happy. Mediaite columnist and White House reporter Tommy Christopher, who nearly gave his life in a bid for Twitter celebrity, bitterly rejected the magazine’s snub via his Twitter account. I reached out [...]

Viewers watching one of Germany’s longest-running and most-popular game shows–and awaiting a performance by Justin Bieber– instead witnessed a terrible accident unfold live before their eyes Saturday night, as a father-son car-jumping stunt turned tragic.

According to the Associated Press, a contestant on the show Wetten Dass (Bet It) was attempting to jump over a car driven by his father. The son was wearing special shoes with a suspension system that may have failed, and instead of clearing the car safely, viewers witnessed the son hit and critically injured:

As she has done for the last 17 years, Barbara Walters has once again drafted her Ten Most Fascinating People of the Year list. And it’s quite a list: Sarah Palin made the cut, as did Justin Bieber, LeBron James, and the entire cast of Jersey Shore. And if that doesn’t sound… enticing enough, Walters is also keeping hidden the identities of two mystery guests, which she’ll disclose on when her special airs on Dec. 9th.

People of Earth: Soon you will no longer feel the inadequacy of smelling different than teen pop sensation Justin Bieber. Because, thanks to the smart folks at Etoile Nation Beauty (and the sure-to-be impeccable fragrance choices of young Mr. Bieber) you can now choose between FOUR custom fragrances to impress your friends. Finally, the “change we can hope for” that so many voted for in 2008 will soon be upon us.

In an incident that’s being widely reported on the internet, 16 year-old pop superstar Justin Bieber was accused of assaulting a 12 year-old boy during a game of Laser Tag on Friday. Most news accounts of the incident indicate that, according to the Laser Tag facility’s staff, Bieber was singled out and cornered by a group of players, and that Bieber accidentally struck the boy in an attempt to get away. However, TMZ is reporting that the 12 year old who made the assault accusation called Bieber “faggot,” and that Bieber did not strike him.

One might think that Justin Bieber making a cameo on CSI would be relatively harmless affair. Yet as we reported before, Megyn Kelly thinks the episode could have been CBS’s attempt to smear the Tea Party. Now Laura Ingraham is also finding traces of harm in the episode. “It seems like this was just classic Brentwood, Malibu elitism,” Ingraham said on her radio show yesterday, “Making these Tea Party people out to be a bunch of yahoo morons who want to burn down the United States to try to take it over. It’s just, to me, it seemed like such a facile treatment of the subject.

As Deadline Hollywood’s Nellie Andreeva says, “This is news that will probably make Twitter explode”—dreamy teen heartthrob and noted lesbian lookalike Justin Bieber is reportedly about to finalize a deal to become the host of a new version of MTV’sPunk’d. This, apparently, is not a joke.

The executives behind CBS’ hit cop drama CSI had a rather (evil?) genius idea for their season premier when they cast teen heartthrob Justin Bieber to play a troubled kid involved in a Tea Party-esque conspiracy. Not only did they help their ratings by likely addign loads of adoring teenage eyeballs, but they also knew that a news media outlet would provide free publicity surrounding the “controversy.” Enter Megyn Kelly.

Bill O’Reilly‘s “Culture Warriors” segment is dedicated to protect all the wholesome American kids out there from the barrage of deviant elements to which they are exposed on a daily basis through the media. Needless to say that, excluding the giant Canadian elephant in the room, the segment lends itself perfect to talking about Justin Bieber. Tonight, O’Reilly was concerned about Bieber’s fraternizing with famous lady of questionable repute Kim Kardashian.

Justin Bieber is a powerful force in music and media, with his enormous album sales and millions of YouTube views.

But he also has 4.5 million Twitter followers – and this weekend we saw what happens when you get on Bieber’s bad side. He might tweet your phone number.

It’s been only a few weeks since Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert enacted a mutual detente with arch frenemy Andrew Breitbart, but Boehlert hasn’t shied away from making new foes, the loudest of which is Fox News’ Red Eye host (and future Muslim gay bar proprietor) Greg Gutfeld. After allegedly tweeting “EPIC FAIL” at him, Gutfeld dedicated a special Greg-a-logue (and Robot Theater!) to his new rival.

The chyron writers on The O’Reilly Factor got a chance to write the name “Justin Bieber” last night, as Bill O’Reilly devoted a segment to the teen pop star getting hit in the head with a water bottle at a concert.

FNC host Juliet Huddy joked about it, but O’Reilly got very serious about the incident.

Film theory fans take note! In one of the most brilliant examples of perfectly matching medium to subject, a film employing the ridiculous fad of 3D will be released next year starring the ridiculous fad Justin Bieber. In the glorious tradition of Cool As Ice, the “biopic” (what, is it 10 minutes long?) will be released right around the time Bieber’s fans get bored and find someone else to spend their babysitting money on.

Our friends at Gossip Cop have cracked open a potentially huge story that perfectly captures the divided nation in which we now find ourselves. During the much criticized taping of The View this morning, President Obama revealed that he does not have Justin Beiber on his iPod. Given that Bieber is a Canadian pop star, this clearly has Foreign Policy implications.

Forget that Black Panther voter intimidation nonsense, this is the real scandal! An Australian organization named uSocial has accused a number of public figures of gaming their Twitter accounts by inflating their numbers of followers. The list of people accused includes Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and even the most powerful man in the free world: Justin Bieber! Oh, and also President Obama.

It’s Justin Bieber’s world, we are all just living in it, waiting obediently to be squirted with a watergun.

Confession: I sort of love HollywoodLife. I can still remember the first time Bonnie Fuller’s Us Weekly mesmerized me at the checkout counter (it was a Britney cover, I will admit that) and I have always been super-partial to the irresistible color combo of bright yellow and hot pink. I don’t always know who the [...]

As my colleague Steve Krakauer pointed out earlier today, Larry King and his 9 pm hour on CNN have been the subject of speculation lately, amid that network’s ratings woes and staffing shakeups. But aside from all that, what he should be getting attention for right now is his great fundraising initiatives, not the least [...]

Today, yet another layer of the George Alan Rekers “Rentboy” story was peeled, as Rekers resigned from his position at the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) for, apparently, his inability to keep even himself from being gay. To discuss this story, and the apparent declining credibility of America’s premier gay-to-straight conversion grounds, Keith Olbermann had Village Voice columnist Michael Musto as a guest last night.

As reported by Robert Quigley over at Geekosystem, a pretty substantial change was reported as coming to a classic language-driven board game: the legalization of proper nouns in Scrabble. Robert was able to track down a Mattel rep to discuss the change (he’s a little shaken up about it), and he found some good news to assure purists that the traditional game is not being altered. The change seems only to apply to a more “family-oriented variant” of the game.

By now you’ve all seen those ads for the just-released fantasy epic Clash of the Titans, with Liam Neeson as Zeus declaring from on high, “RELEASE THE KRAKEN!” The Kraken is a giant sea monster with huge tentacles and rows of razor-sharp teeth. Ooh scary, how will the hot Australian guy from Avatar defeat it? [...]

It’s Justin Bieber‘s world, we’re all just living in it. If you have not accepted that fundamental truth, well then, you don’t understand the Internet or the raw power of pre-tween lust. Funny or Die, however, does understand that power. And they respect it. And, they’re probably gonna get mad pageviews from it. So go [...]