Gossip Roundup: Parasites on Parasites

• Names & Faces: Tourism officials in Tupelo, Miss., the birthplace of Elvis Presley, are hoping to get Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and President Bush to swing by Tupelo after their visit to Graceland on Friday… A new novel by Thomas Pynchon will be released in December. [WP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Malcolm Gladwell cheerleads for the MSM, derides bloggers as “parasites.” [NYDN]
• Rush & Molloy: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave an interview to the National Enquirer after the tabloid threatened to write about an alleged tryst between him and Brigitte Nielsen. [NYDN]

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Remainders: Not About the Ports (We Promise)

• It’s too bad that this NYP Tammy/Tammy NYP character — the 17-year-old Singapore schoolgirl who recorded a homemade sex video on her cell phone, which then got stolen (and the rest is history) — wasn’t a Capitol Hill or White House intern. Searches for her sex video have been straddling the top of Technorati for days. [Dream Logic; Technorati]

• Avian flu? What a joke! What we really need to worry about is “White House reporter syndrome.” (Actually, as bloggers, a lack of press credentials immunizes us against this dread disease.) [NRO; NYT]

• Malcolm Gladwell now has a blog. [gladwell.com via Gawker]

• Michelle Malkin hearts Huckabee (for the most part). [Michelle Malkin]

• Okay, we lied, this last item is somewhat related to the Dubai ports controversy: President Bush’s approval rating has reached an all-time low of 34 percent. [CBS News via Daily Kos]

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