In what reads almost like an Onion parody of the Herman Cain alleged sexual harassment story, The New York Times‘ Caucus blog reported, Sunday night, that a woman has come forward to accuse Cain rival Mitt Romney of being polite but disinterested in her health care reform suggestions during a recent Delta Airlines flight. Following a week in which disastrous PR only made his rival stronger, Mitt Romney is getting bad press for minding his own business on an airplane. I now officially feel sorry for Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney is back in action, and this time around he is committed to campaigning as a casual, approachable president-in-waiting: the sort of guy you’d like to have a beer with, except he doesn’t drink. Romney visited Today this morning to chat about his campaign but, more importantly, shed light on what he does with his spare time– which apparently includes listening to ’60s rock and, even more shockingly, reading Twilight.

Is Fox News like…a vampire?

That’s one of the jokes in the parody movie Vampires Suck, which was released last weekend by News Corp.-owned movie company 20th Century Fox.

President Barack Obama has been under criticism for some time now about the continued functioning of the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, more than a year after he passed an executive order to shut it down. But while some are decrying the lack of follow-through on that campaign promise, Charles Krauthammer is just jealous he doesn’t have the fancy lifestyle of the average Gitmo detainee.

The O’Reilly Factor Culture Warriors are assigned to two things: policing the American pop culture scene and keeping Bill O’Reilly hip on what all the cool kids are into these days. So, really, it was inevitable that they would have to explain to O’Reilly what Twilight is, and why there have been incidences of young teens trying to suck each other’s blood in the news.

Three days into Elena Kagan‘s confirmation hearings, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar decided to enter into uncharted territory: Twilight. The vampire versus werewolf debate has reached a whole new level.

In Sunday’s column by Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander, the increase in typos and other copy editing errors stood trial. Angry letters have started coming more frequently, wondering, “If they don’t care about basics… how much do they care about factual accuracy?” Alexander served up the standard answer: our staffs have shrunk! But he also had a bizarre new scapegoat; namely, search engine optimization. Huh?

Technically speaking we could also title this ‘Our Most Popular Posts Ever!’ or alternately ‘Our Most Popular Posts Of The 2nd Half Of 2009′ since Mediaite actually didn’t come into existence until July of this year. Regardless, any way you slice it these were our most popular posts in 2009 reposted here with their original excerpts and links. Media Muggles, Sarah Palin, and Noam Chomsky may make for a strange mix but turns out they are all very popular!

On this Thanksgiving, Mediaite turns 143 days old. We’ll be checking in today between turkey courses, and throughout the rest of the long weekend, but we also wanted to look back on the 143 days since we were first born on that early July morning.

And what better way to look at our history than to break down some of the things we’re thankful for.

Harry Potter fans may roll their eyes, but a Mormon housewife’s vampire romance rivals the popularity of the wizard world. Ever since publishing house Little, Brown took a chance on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, America has been bitten by vamp-lust.

With this weekend’s release of the latest entry in “The Twilight Saga:” New Moon, it’s safe to say a new publicity blitz is upon us. In this edition of Cover Wars, we remember the classics from the Twilight franchise, knowing full well that many more are now in print. We call it The Greatest Twilight Cover So Far.

Sure, a few male moviegoers are going to willingly tag along as dates with their female companions to see the next installment of Hollywood’s brand-new powerhouse franchise, and many single men of all sexual orientations will be lining up at theaters. But none of those men matter. Twilight is powered by girls, specifically teenage girls — and they are taking it right to the top.

When rumors surfaced that editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey was putting Janet Jackson on the cover of the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar following the tragic death of her brother, many wondered whether the magazine had finally sold out. Well we can now confirm said sellng out, now that the stars of teeny bopper favorite Twilight and the wildly anticipated New Moon were announced as next month’s cover stars.

Here at Mediaite we have had a disproportionate number of horror-filled posts, about monsters and vampires and zombies and Glenn Beck. And no, this isn’t just an excuse to post a picture of Megan Fox, how dare you imply such a thing!

Yesterday, we got extremely excited for the next entry in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and to celebrate we took a look back at the all-time greatest Twilight magazine covers so far. We picked one cover, but the fans had other ideas. And the winner is…

Vampires are having a moment. True Blood is a much-needed hit for HBO, with its latest episodes passing the 5-million viewers mark; Twilight is already churning out the third movie of its franchise, Eclipse, with newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard upping the star power of the cast. Kevin Williamson’s Vampire Diaries looks like Dawson’s Creek with [...]

Like vampire or zombie bites, geekdom is infectious. But this year it really seems like something has changed. Everyone seems to be talking about Comic-Con. With an entertainment industry that is interested in sequels, franchises and the already-proven value of any new investment in an entertainment property, Comic-Con has become the center of both the entertainment-industrial complex as well as the countless fan-universes that each franchise has created.