On the Daily Beast this week, Tina Brown called out President Barack Obama for keeping Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “invisible” during Obama’s recent whirlwind diplomacy tour of Earth.

Brown frames the piece—how else?—by a Middle-Eastern take on the “stuck in the kitchen” analogy:

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Journalists invited to an afternoon NATO phone conference presser with Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones yesterday were treated instead to a far sexier invitation. From the Washington Post:

But when we called the 800 number, a very alluring woman’s voice intoned (click through for audio): “Do you have any hidden desires? Well, if you feel like getting nasty then you came to the right place.”

Sure didn’t sound like Clinton. And it definitely wasn’t Jones.

The White House “said it later corrected the number, which had been mistyped.”

Cruuuuush heeeer

IF SHE DID RUN, HE WOULD CRUSH HER, a new poll finds [PDF]. “A new national [Public Policy Polling] poll finds that nominating Palin could be a death wish for the party, with Barack Obama leading Palin 55-35 in a hypothetical contest. The key reason Palin would lose to Obama by so much is that even though she might be the top choice for a certain segment of voters within her party, there’s also a number of Republicans who say they would vote for Obama if their party nominated Palin.” [via ThunderPig].

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Do you think he thought it sounded sexier in his head?

Alan Scherstuhl at the Village Voice has unearthed the audiobook recording of Bill O’Reilly’s lost 1998 novel, Those Who Trespass. For the uninitiated, Scherstuhl provides some background on the thriller:

1998 novel about an O’Reilly-esque TV journalist who is trained by an Irish Republican Army terrorist to kill the people who deserve it the most: the broadcast news bastards who interfered with the O’Reilly character’s career. It’s personal on the political level, too—his victims includes a powerful “bitch” named Hillary and a fat “slob” named Martin Moore.

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From tipster Mike Licht at Notions Capital comes this sexist Google correction:

My God. What could it all mean?

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Welcome back to Daily Palin, in which we detail Sarah Palin’s refusal to go away—every day. The morning news from the Sarah Palin daycare center, below:

BE LIKE BRISTOL: Because they are sexist and/or simply completely inane, U.S. News and World Report asked readers who they’d rather have run their kids’ daycare center: Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi. Guess who’s winning?

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What do the First Lady’s toned arms truly represent, for the future of America? How will J. Crew be remembered in presidential history? Do Joe Biden’s teeth gleam when he makes love to Jill?

. . . And other burning questions—revealed!—in this edition of Sexist Beatdown, wherein Tiger Beatdown blogger Sady of NYC and yours truly of Washington D.C. discuss Vogue’s latest covergirl, Michelle Obama:

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Hush. Grandma loves her “cute” elderly home, which is not overcome with the unspeakable stench of death.

* Spend Valentine’s Day at “several cute DC, Arlington elderly homes!” helping the D.C. Young Republicans administer manicures to the elderly in their “Mani’s for the Grannies” initiative. Sexist says, the grannies may be cute, the mani’s may be cute, but the elderly homes? Don’t kid yourselves.

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As President Obama prepared to assume office earlier this month, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Dr. Mark R. Dybul—a W. appointee—circulated a memo saying that the president-elect’s transition team had asked him to stay on “temporarily.” On Jan. 22, Dybul found out what “temporary” meant—a little under two weeks. Last week, the scene at Dybul’s office was an “emotional goodbye” after what Hillary Clinton’s staff deemed a “resignation”; by the next day, rumors were circling about who would replace Dybul—and the real reason for his unceremonious exit. Today’s New York Times piece on the speculation behind the employment scuffle, by Donald G. McNeil Jr., is worth reading in full, free from the oppressive summarizing of this blog aggregation.

Today, New York Governor David Paterson announced his pick to replace Hillary Clinton’s seat in the U.S. Senate. Paterson tapped Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a 42-year-old from upstate New York who also appears to have stolen Hillary’s haircut. Gillibrand will serve as the Junior Senator from the state until a special election is held in November 2010.

Who does Governor Paterson think he is, anyway, appointing this new Senator by apparently legal means and failing to satiate the nation’s clear desire for circus-like appointment scenarios? SIgh, okay, well, tell us a little bit about yourself, Senator Gillibrand! How will you fill Hillary’s shoes? What are your positions on women’s issues? Do you wear pantsuits?

Well, it looks like her Congressional Web site is like, really fucking slow for some reason. More later.

UPDATE: There are rumors on the Internets that Gillibrand supports gay marriage. Unreal!