BlogHer's Wall of Shame (and Fame): Tiger Gets Lectured From the Grave, Bristol Plugs Teen Pregnancy for the Rich

Welcome to BlogHer's Wall of Shame and Fame, where you'll find the stuff so crazy we can't make it up: the most inspiring and insane of the week's headlines. Below:

Wall of Shame:

  • Tiger Woods Gets Lectured From the Grave
  • Bristol Palin Says Unmarried Teen Pregnancy Is OK ... if You're Famous
  • Woman "Returns" Adopted Child to Russia
  • Cosmo Presents: Crafts for Your Crotch!
  • Tina Fey Gets Mean Girl on "Saturday Night Live"

Wall of Fame:

  • Bloggers Turn "Mommy Meanest" Today Show Segment Into Awesome
  • Pulitzer Prize Tiptoes Into the 21st Century
  • CNN, Huffington Post Realize: Food Blogging Is Hot
  • Headline of the Week: "Dumb Masochism"
  • Justin Bieber and Tina Fey are Hysterical on "Saturday Night Live"

And now for the good stuff...


WALL OF SHAME

Tiger Woods Gets a "Keep It in Your Pants" From the Other Side

Which facet to this commercial is more horrifying? Is it the use of the late Earl Woods' voice? Is Nike's crawling through the mud of Woods' personal story in a commercial to sell shoes? Is it the creepy, stunned look on his face? Or maybe the sea change from "Just Do It" to "Well, You Did It?"

Bristol Palin's Public Service Announcement: Have a Kid! If You're Rich!

As an "Abstinence Ambassador" for the Candie's Foundation, Sarah Palin's 19-year-old teen-mom daughter asks: "What if I didn't come from a famous family? What if I didn't have all their support? What if I didn't have all these opportunities? Believe me, it wouldn't be pretty. Pause before you play."

Cosmo Mag Presents ... Crafts for Your Crotch!

Cosmo Crotch Craft Stencils

As Dodai at Jezebel puts it, "You know, mixing hot wax, paper stencils, and lady bits — while trying to read — seems like a painfully bad idea. " The best worst part: Cosmospeak like "Add some down-there flair" and "Start a game of naughty GPS. Destination: Downtown."

Tina Fey Goes "Mean Girl" on "Saturday Night Live"

Fey's attack on Bombshell McGee for Jesse James' infidelity to Sandra Bullock -- calling her a whore and "a dirt bag's binder from 7th-grade metal shop" -- felt a whole lot closer to Lindsay Lohan than Liz Lemon. (We're sick of "Mean Girls" references, too -- but can't resist, since Fey both wrote and starred in .)

Woman "Returns" Adopted Child to Russia

A Tennessee woman, Torry Ann Hansen, sent her seven-year-old adopted child back to Russia alone with a typewritten note explaining why she wouldn't be parenting him anymore. With only a backpack full of candy and Magic Markers to accompany him. While we haven't walked a mile in her shoes, since when do people treat kids like Amazon orders?


WALL OF FAME

Mom Bloggers Own the Today Show

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

The Today Show profiled mommybloggers this week under the headline "Mommy Meanest." Good thing the guest bloggers were Isabel Kallman, Susan Getgood and Jen Singer -- who were able to play "Mommy Quick on Their Feetest," turning the conversation around to the support parent bloggers receive in our community.

CNN, Huffington Post Finally Realize Food Blogging Is Hot

KFC Double Down

On the heels of the launch of HuffPo Food, CNN announced Eatocracy, led by Tart.org blogger helmed by CNN food reporter Kat Kinsman, aka KittenWithaWhip -- all just in time for a collective American heart attack at the launch of the KFC Double Down Sandwich (pictured above).

Sheri Fink of ProPublica Wins a Pulitzer for Online Reporting -- Well, Half-Online Reporting

In a collaboration with the New York Times magazine, Sheri Fink of the nonprofit news service ProPublica was awarded a well-deserved Pulitzer for investigative reporting. Her series on euthanasia in hospitals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is the first Pulitzer for online reporting. The first. In 2010. Yes, really.

With "Dumb Masochism," Jezebel Achieves Best Post Title Ever

Jezebel Dumb Masochism Stencils

"Dumb Masochism: Give Yourself a Brazilian With These Handy Stencils" is equally horrifying and hilarious. Brava, Dodai and the Jezebel team. Slow. Hand. Clap.

Tina Fey + Justin Bieber = Funnier Than Maybe It Should Be

Go ahead and accuse us of Bieber Fever -- but The Beeb (a "dreamy Christmas elf" whose whose "smile is like watching a baby bunny sniff a tiny flower") bleating inappropriate fantasy serenades to Fey ("Hey girl, I wanna watch you do your Pilates. And skip the hard part. Cause baby? You’ve got the motherlode")? Comedy gold.

Get more bizarre, brilliant and beastly news in BlogHer's Wall of Shame (and Fame) archive.

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Oh, that's not what Bristol

April 14, 2010 - 12:47am

Oh, that's not what Bristol is saying at all. Bravo to her for sharing the whole story.
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Yeah.. uh... no..

April 14, 2010 - 6:16am

Tina and Bieber are on the wrong list. That's just creepy.

Adela
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Tina Fey is on the Wall of SHAME?

April 14, 2010 - 7:48am

I personally LOVED all that Tina Fey said about Bombshell McGee - why on earth would she be on the Wall of Shame next to that tacky Nike ad about Tiger Woods - for telling it like it is? Seems like Tina Fey's sharp wit is perfectly appropriate for such an ugly topic.

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Never a Loss for Blogging Material

April 14, 2010 - 1:39pm

You know you don't realize how bizarre and off the news has been until you see it all clumped together like that!

However, I gave a standing ovation to our "mommybloggers" representing the great in blogging even when pushed into a corner.
Take that, Media!

Jen

Mama 2 Quadruplets

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That stencil idea...

April 14, 2010 - 4:16pm

That is brilliant. Really brilliant. I never thought of that before. No wonder my shapes never look like shapes.

Retro-Food.com

 

Tina Fey

April 14, 2010 - 5:53pm

Yeah, I kind of have trouble seeing Tina Fey as the enemy here. It's okay for a woman to look critically and satirically at another woman's choices. Are we only allowed to call out men on their bad behavior? I guess we could choose to pity Ms. McGee and look for the good in her heart, and maybe someday it will come out that a merciless tide of events led to her getting a swastika tattoo on her abdomen. But in the short term, she's part of a team that made some bad choices. Her tattoos aren't the problem, and her having sex isn't the problem, it's having white power tattoos and helping a married man destroy his wife's love and trust that are the problems. And you think Tina's the "mean girl"?

 

I'm with you on that. Visit

April 17, 2010 - 2:37pm

I'm with you on that.

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Can we add Tina Fey's part in

April 17, 2010 - 2:36pm

Can we add Tina Fey's part in The Invention of Lying to the list of Wall of Shame moments? Holy crap, that was a terrible movie.

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Hmmm...I didn't think Tina

April 17, 2010 - 5:29pm

Hmmm...I didn't think Tina Fey was "mean" in the first clip. I think she's tired of women like that destroying what other women spend their lifetimes building.

The clip with Justin Bieber, though, was too creepy for me to watch the whole thing. Yuck.

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