JAMIE TAETE’S INTERNET ROUNDUP

DO AS DIDDY SAYS, NOT AS DIDDY DIDS an interview The Source “I love the president like most of us, I just want the president to do better. There’s a difference between us voting for somebody and us believing in somebody… He’s the person that we believed in so I pray night and day that he understands how God ordained his presidency. I feel there was a promise made to God to look after people that was less fortunate and [many] of those people are African-American.”

The majority of this video is pretty boring, so I’ve scheduled it to play at the point where his awfulness plateaus. Just to be clear, we are seeing Diddy, a 41-year-old multi-millionaire, dressed up as Soulja Boy, with an ice cream in one hand and a wad of cash in the other, saying the word “swag” with each step. Obama, if you could just be a teensy bit more like this, that would be great. Thanks. IRONY ECLIPSE APPROACHING

Did I miss something? I thought everyone was still only on about 1999 when it came to retroactive irony? How did mid-00s irony get so saturated that a big company like L’Oreal is using it in its advertising already? Unless… wait… you don’t think that someone at L’Oreal thought that, in 2011, it would be OK to dress Gwen Stefani as Switch from The Matrix, then show her graffiti’ing along to “Hollaback Girl” in “Hey Baby” houndstooth? That would be too much for me to take. DAILY MAIL PICKS NEW AGENDA It’s been a while since the Daily Mail last made gays their minority of choice to attack (last instance I remember is when Jan Moir decided she was more qualified than an official post-mortem in deciding what killed Stephen Gately – a story that now sits at the top of Google’s search results when you type in “Gately.” RIP in peace.). So it’s really great to see them back on form this week:

two gay guys who got turned away from the hotel Daily Mail this article Daily Mail Daily Mail they shit this article out ATLANTA GRANDMOTHER SELLS SON’S RIGHT TO PEACEFUL SCHOOL LIFE Bloomberg “ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia woman is suing a downtown Atlanta hotel after she says her 4-year-old grandson contracted herpes from a used condom found in their hotel room bed sheets last year. “The lawsuit was filed by the boy’s grandmother, Carmen Jones, and seeks damages from Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, as well as Crescent Hotels and Resorts and the hotel’s manager. The family’s attorney, Thomas F. Jones, said the boy has suffered from lesions in his mouth, vomiting and fevers since the August 2010 incident. “Jones said the grandmother came out of the shower and found the boy with the condom in his mouth, attempting to blow it up. Jones said the boy has been diagnosed with herpes. “Evy Apostolatos, spokeswoman for the New Jersey-based Wyndham, declined comment because the lawsuit is pending.” JAMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE