Putin Does Bill Clinton One Better, Crooning ‘Blueberry Hill’
Want to get caught up on all the juicy quotations and funny moments from over the weekend? Here’s a quick rundown of the best lines.
1. Move over Bill Clinton and your saxophone. Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, might have an icy stare. But he melted everyone in the room at a fund-raiser for a children’s charity in St. Petersburg when he sang “Blueberry Hill” — in English — in front of a room packed with celebrities. American movie stars like Kevin Costner and Goldie Hawn gave the Russian leader a standing ovation.”I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill. On Blueberry Hill, when I found you.”
2. Kate Gosselin, whose own show on TLC –”Jon and Kate Plus 8? — was once a top hit, went camping with Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, on Ms. Palin’s TLC show Sunday. But it didn’t go well. Ms. Goslin whined and complained about the cold, the food and, well, just about everything. “I don’t see a table, I don’t see utensils, I don’t see hand-cleansing materials,” she said. “This is not ideal conditions. I am freezing to the bone, I have 19 layers on, my hands are frigid. I held it together as long as I could, and I’m done now!”
3. John Boehner, the soon-to-be speaker of the House, demonstrates a bit of trouble with the word “compromise,” telling CBS’s Leslie Stahl on “60 Minutes” that he rejects the word itself, if not the idea behind it. “When you say the word ‘compromise’ … a lot of Americans look up and go, ‘Uh-oh, they’re gonna sell me out.’ And so finding common ground, I think, makes more sense,” Mr. Boehner said. Asked whether he’s afraid of the word, Mr. Boehner added: “I reject the word.”
4. There are moments when “Saturday Night Live” is especially funny. Saturday wasn’t one of them as the show opened with Fred Armisen playing President Obama. Mr. Armisen explained that he had compromised on the tax cuts for the rich because the Republicans had — literally — held him hostage for three days. “Bound, gagged, blindfolded, in a dark room somewhere outside Washington,” he joked. On top of that, he said, Stockholm syndrome had set in: “On the fourth day, I suddenly decided that I kind of agreed with the Republican philosophy of trickle-down economics.”
5. David Axelrod, the president’s senior adviser, was all over the Sunday talk shows, and at one point called parts of the tax deal worked out with Republicans “odious.” But speaking on ABC’s “This Week” with Christiane Amanpour, Mr. Axelrod added “that was a part of the deal – odious though it may be – that we had to accept in order to get all the good things that come along with – that’s the nature of compromise. So I’m sure there will be some who will have a hard time getting over that hump. Others will see that this is extraordinarily important for our economy and for people across this country – that we not let this get to a Washington-style standoff.”
6. Mike Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, must get tired of being asked. But at least he’s consistent. Asked by NBC’s David Gregory on “Meet the Press,” Mr. Bloomberg said there was no way he was running for president in 2012. “No way, no how,” he said. Of course, the political pundits have never been satisfied with that answer before (especially because Mr. Bloomberg keeps giving talks that oddly resemble campaign-style speeches) so there’s no reason to think the speculation will cease.
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