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Tipper Gore

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    May 10, 2012

    The Top Seven Broadsides Against The PMRC

    The PMRC is one of those faint memories that music fans that grew up in the '80s try to brush away. The Parents Music Resource Center was launched in 1985 by a group of Washington power wives—the most visible face being the wife of then-senator Al Gore, Tipper—who saw rock and rap as, in ... More >>

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    July 11, 2011

    Betty Ford, R.I.P.

    ​In recent years, people holding the vice-presidential seat have had complicated, if not vaguely hostile, relationships with pop music. Before Al Gore became Bill Clinton's veep in 1992, his wife Tipper founded the PMRC. In 2002, six years before taking his seat to the back-left of Barack Obam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Common Goes To The White House: In Which Okayplayer Hater Sarah Palin Gets A-Moralizing

    ​In case you haven't been paying attention to Sarah Palin's antics lately (in which case: good for you), she recently got mad on the Facebook and the Twitters about noted rapper Common Sense performing at a White House poetry event. Like everything Palin says, this is gross and wrong. She appa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Everybody's Breaking Up!: R.I.P., Celebrity Couples We Never Knew

    ScarJo, before RyRey.​Alas! Or...hooray! Or...well, how should we know how to feel about any of this, anyway, since we don't actually know them and have only seen them looking generally smiley in pictures? Still, given the news coverage, it seems very important! Breaking: Scarlett Johansson an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2010

    Al Gore is Not a "Crazed Sex Poodle" in the Eyes of the Law, Cleared of Allegations

    ​It's been a tough few months for former Vice President Al Gore, who after announcing he and his wife of 40 years, Tipper, were separating, was accused rumored to have been cheating with Larry David's wife. As if the jokes from that to come aren't bad enough, more serious allegations soon surf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Al Gore and Bill Clinton Together Again in CGI "Crazed Sex Poodle" Extravaganza (Video!)

    Even though Chelsea's secret wedding is now significantly less of a secret (or so we think), not everyone is welcome. It seems that Al and Tipper Gore won't be going, but it's not known if that's because they're divorcing, weren't invited, or because of that whole "crazed sex-poodle" allegation in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2010

    Al Gore Lesson: Before Divorce, Buy a Big-Ass House

    ​Maybe he learned a thing or two about shady real estate deals from an old friend. In the lead-up the Al and Tipper Gore's divorce announcement, the couple made some very deliberate real estate moves, according to the New York Post. It may or may not have had something to do with Big Al's trys ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Karenna Gore to Join Mom Tipper in Marital "It's Complicated"

    ​A week and a day after the news was released (by email, if you recall) that Al and Tipper Gore are calling it quits, the Washington Post informs us that the eldest Gore girl, Karenna, has been has been separated from her husband, Andrew Schiff, for a couple months now. Oh dear. The couple is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Al and Tipper to Divorce, Give Up Second Cutest Political Couple Crown

    ​Forty years in, Al Tipper = 4Ever is no longer forever. Sigh. Per Politico, the couple, who met at a high-school graduation dance and were really quite adorable as far as political couples go (no babies out of wedlock or Argentinean mistresses, for example), are calling it quits.

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Here Is An Uncensored Version of Drake, Lil Wayne, and Eminem's "Drop the World/Forever" From the Grammys Last Night

    Those who watched the Grammys last night know that the evening's closing performance was censored by CBS with the avidity of Tipper Gore attempting to set a 2 Live Crew record on fire. Whoever was working the silence button worked it long and hard. Luckily, a renegade broadcast caught the uncensor ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 1, 2009

    'Twisted Sister Presents A Twisted Christmas on Broadway'

    Those who watched the Grammys last night know that the evening's closing performance was censored by CBS with the avidity of Tipper Gore attempting to set a 2 Live Crew record on fire. Whoever was working the silence button worked it long and hard. Luckily, a renegade broadcast caught the uncensor ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2009

    Blowfly+Anal Cunt

    Those who watched the Grammys last night know that the evening's closing performance was censored by CBS with the avidity of Tipper Gore attempting to set a 2 Live Crew record on fire. Whoever was working the silence button worked it long and hard. Luckily, a renegade broadcast caught the uncensor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2008

    Hillary Clinton's "Exit" Strategy

    Those who watched the Grammys last night know that the evening's closing performance was censored by CBS with the avidity of Tipper Gore attempting to set a 2 Live Crew record on fire. Whoever was working the silence button worked it long and hard. Luckily, a renegade broadcast caught the uncensor ... More >>

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