Journalist Jerome Corsi's new book hopes to "tell all" about Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his "leftist" politics, but all the tome's doing is telling lies:

A WorldNetDaily.com article about author Jerome Corsi's forthcoming book, The Obama Nation, asserts that the book "points out" that "Barack Obama admitted using drugs in his autobiography but never revealed if or when he stopped."

In fact, Obama wrote in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father, that he "stopped getting high" shortly after moving to New York City to attend Columbia University.

Corsi's no stranger to mudslinging - he helped pen Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.

Isn't it funny, then, that the book has been described as "well-researched?"

South African newspaper The Sunday Sun must print an apology after publishing an inflammatory article by journo Jon Qwelane.

Qwelane caused a stir earlier this month after writing that while he doesn't approve of Robert Mugabe's insanity, he does appreciate the Zimbabwe President's anti-gay politics. Homo activists were not impressed and promptly organized a protest.

After hearing activist calls for media justice, press ombudsman Joe Tholoe ruled yesterday that while Qwelane didn't necessarily incite homophobic hate, he did cross the line:

There is nothing in the column that incites hatred and calls for the harming of homosexuals.

Columnists are protected by the constitution for as long as their comments don't propagate war, incite imminent violence, or advocate hatred that constitutes incitement to cause harm.

Qwelane was well within the law but fell foul of the Press Code.

Yeah, real foul…

Still following Madge brother Chris Ciccone's lengthy press tour? Well, we are, so suffer with us, will you?

After hitting up Good Morning America and Chelsea Lately to promote a tell-all about his singer sister, Ciccone now sits down - or, rather, has sat down - with the barely-there Page Six Magazine.

If you're like us, you want to go straight to the end, so here it is, as told by a press release:

[Ciccone] knows the book won’t bring them closer together, and she’ll probably be furious. Christopher, however, is optimistic. “Look, I don’t think the book is going to make us closer at this point,” he says. “But when she reads it and finds out what I was going through and who I am as a person… well, I just don’t think anything bad can come of that.”

"When she reads it?" Oh, you dear, dear boy…

Read the press release after the jump, if you dare…

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People magazine this week shelled out $300,000 to publish photos of trans man Thomas Beatie and new baby. And it's apparently paid off. The article is, according to People's website, this week's most read story, beating a cover story on Barack Obama's home life.

Questions of Beatie's intent aside, we're pretty impressed that a national magazine's going after this story. And Beatie's hardly the only queer who shows up in the weekly's pages, as a reader points out:

…Please do an amusing biting gay critique of how People has gay stories like EVERY WEEK! Seriously. This week there's something about ugly Lane Bass's HUNK, and Lindsay's dyke moment. I swear that section in the front, Scoop or insider or something either has shirtless guys or stories about gays, or is quoting GLAAD.

We're not surprised, of course. Gays do make the best gossip.