FACEBOOK POLL ASKS IF OBAMA SHOULD BE KILLED: Survey on social networking site prompts Secret Service investigation. The Secret Service is investigating a poll posted Saturday on the social networking site Facebook that asks if President Obama should be assassinated, with possible answers “yes,” “maybe,” “if he cuts my health care” and “no.” “We are aware of it and we will take the appropriate investigative steps,” Secret Service Darrin Blackford told the Associated Press. “We take of these things seriously.”
At least 730 people took the user-generated poll before Facebook officials found out about it and yanked it down. Results of the survey were not available. The company said the person who created the poll has been suspended from using the site. “The third-party application that enabled an individual user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning,” said Barry Schnitt, Director of Policy Communications for Facebook. “The application was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content.” “We’re working with the US Secret Service but they’ll need to provide any details of their investigation,” he added. Meanwhile, another Facebook poll has since surfaced, asking “Should the creator of ‘should Obama be killed’ be arrested?”
SWIZZ BEATZ’S WIFE CALLS OUT ALICIA KEYS: ‘You know what you did,’ writes Mashonda in an open letter to the alleged other woman. Singer Mashonda, who says she is technically still married to rap producer Swizz Beatz, has written an open letter to Alicia Keys regarding the alleged relationship she is having with her husband. Rumors of the Keys/Beatz hookup began to circulate in early 2008, after Beatz and Mashonda were separated. According to the Web site Rap-Up.com, Mashonda has been trying to reach out to the Grammy winning singer/songwriter ever since, but never received a response. So, the open letter was the only way she could communicate with the singer. It was sparked by a Twitter message Keys posted on Friday. She wrote: “Having a heated debate n the studio. Question is … N love is it better to go 4 the choice that is ‘SMART’ or the choice that has ‘SPARK’??” Here’s the letter in its entirety, according to Rap-Up.com:
After having a great evening with my son and enjoying some fun twit chat, I decided to sign off and get some work done. However, a few hours later I was advised that I should check @aliciakeys twit page. I’ve never reached out to her on twitter before. I feel our issues are a lot more serious than a website conversation. Not to mention that I’ve reached out to her many times in the beginning of this whole thing, as any wife would do. Unfortunately, I never succeeded in getting a response.
The 1st time I meet AK, my husband introduced us to each other at an event. (I have no choice but to call him my husband, until he is not anymore) In the messages that I sent to her (AK), I made it very clear that on the contrary of what she might be hearing, I am still married to my husband, living with him and just had a child. Its been two years and I still have not received a response.
What I do receive, is constant displays of selfishness and disconcern to me and my son. I was a fan of AK’s last album, we were both signed to J Records and I always checked up on her projects. I sang her songs and admired her for creating Superwoman and Karma, I would never deny her, her talent. I believed in her until I found out she was possibly sleeping with my husband. The affair was denied by both, until it was finally admitted months later.
Already I can hear some of you saying “why are u blaming her, You cant make someone leave their wife, You can’t break something that’s broken.” Well, my marriage was not broken, as far as I knew we were celebrating our sons birth and getting ready to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary . Call it blind love, whatever. I call it being a devoted wife.
As far as me blaming her and not blaming him, that’s false. Me and my husband have worked out our differences. We are in a good place as people and as parents. I accept his choices and I am comfortable enough with myself to move on. I am so very blessed in many ways. My concern with AK is no longer the fact that she assisted in destroying a family but that she has the audacity to make these selfish comments about love and wanting to be with someone, even after knowing their situation. How is this the same Superwoman that I sang out loud with in my truck? I ask myself sometimes.
If you are reading this Alicia, let me start by saying, you know what you did. You know the role you played and you know how you contributed to the ending of my marriage. You know that I asked you to step back and let me handle my family issues. Issues that you helped to create. I’m not saying everything was perfect all the time but no relationship is perfect. We made a vow to God and I believe you should have respected that, as a woman. I know you owe me or my son nothing but I just wish you would’ve handled things more carefully.
I’m not judging you, I put you and the whole situation in the hands of God, the Higher Power. Just know that as a woman, I expected so much more from you. I never had intentions on reaching out to you this way but after reading your twits tonight, and the constant disregard, you left me no choice. I feel that after 1 and a half years of you hiding this affair and acting like it doesn’t exist, that now is the time to confront it, since you talk so openly about it now
This is not a publicity stunt, I don’t have a record coming out. I just need to close this chapter in my life and that means confronting our issues. There is a small child involved. His dad loves him to death and he wants to spend more time with him but he’s afraid because he knows we don’t have a relationship. This is my main concern. My son NEEDS his dad and I NEED to be comfortable with you. For him!
I know many will see my point and many will not be able to look into what’s real because they only want to see Alicia Keys the celebrity, not the human. This is not for the “people”, this is for you. Like I said I was left no choice but to reach out to you this way. By now, I’m sure you want to find a balance in this as well. I read your tweets tonight and I felt they were very insensitive. You have no idea how much pain I was caused because of this affair. Its baffling to me that you don’t understand what I might have gone through with this situation. I don’t consider myself a victim anymore, I’ve learned alot from this! I just ask you to try and be a bit more realistic and delicate to the situation, at least until my divorce is final.
I felt me attending the party would have been a starting point for us, since you shook my hand after I offered it, but I suppose I was wrong. If its so, that you and my husband are meant to be together, then God bless you both and I hope you never have to deal with what I did. I would not wish it on my worst enemy. If you two being together forever is the case, its more of a reason for us to get along, because I’m not going anywhere. There’s a child to be raised.
To answer your tweet, choose smart over spark. Sparks burn everyone, be smart! Its simple actually, just think of the shoe being on the other foot. Stay blessed and let’s work this thing out with respect and dignity.
KANYE HAS ANOTHER TANTRUM: Rapper reportedly riled up over chicken at Common’s charity concert. Gossip blogger Janet Charlton is claiming that Kanye West had a fit Saturday night over food service before his surprise appearance at Common’s benefit concert in Hollywood. As the story goes, West arrived in the green room of The Palladium minutes before he was set to appear as the last act of a star-studded evening, which included Nas, Ludacris, Mos Def, De La Soul, Heavy D and Queen Latifah. Charlton writes: “Kanye walked in and noticed a guy eating chicken. He took offense and blurted petulantly ‘Why wasn’t I offered chicken? It’s not fair – you want me to perform for free – everyone is eating – why am I not eating?’ “A waiter apologized and pointed out ‘You didn’t ask for chicken!’ Well, I’m asking now!” Charlton said other celebrities watched his tantrum in total shock, while his girlfriend Amber Rose” just stepped back and let him rant.” “The waiter rushed him a plate of chicken and Kanye literally took one bite and dumped it before he grabbed the mic and went onstage, leaving everyone shaking their heads,” Charlton wrote.
MOTHERS OF SUSPECTS IN TEEN KILLING SPEAK: They acknowledge their sons in video of beating in Chicago. According to chicagobreakingnews.com, two of the city’s South Side mothers on Monday acknowledged it was their sons who were allegedly involved in the brutal killing of an honor roll student last Thursday. One tearfully said she could not bear to look at the video. The other regretfully acknowledged it was her son on the video depicting the fatal beating of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert, 16. “That’s Gene. That’s my son. I’m not going to lie about that,” said Sherry Smith, the mother of Eugene Riley, 18, one of four teens charged in the attack. “I do give my condolences to that family because (their) child shouldn’t have lost his life over this.” Riley and Fenger students Silvonus Shannon, 19, and Eric Carson, 16, were charged Monday with murder and ordered held without bail. Eugene Bailey, 18, was charged later Monday. A Cook County prosecutor said Albert’s death was a result of a brawl between two neighborhood groups, one from the Altgeld Garden public housing complex and the other from the neighborhood known as the “Ville.”
ESSENCE ATKINS MARRIES HER INTERNET BEAU: Couple jumped the broom Saturday in Pasadena. G. Garvin provided the food. Actress Essence Atkins, best known for her role on the UPN sitcom “Half and Half,” has married her boyfriend Jaime Mendez after meeting him less than two years ago through an online dating site. According to People.com, the wedding took place Saturday at the Ambassador Mansion and Gardens in Pasadena, Calif, The couple met on Valentine’s Day of last year through Match.com. “I wrote him a quick little note that I had read his profile, and then I signed off, Happy SAD Day – that’s Single Awareness Day,” says Essence, 37. A week later the couple went on their first date, and they were engaged a year later. The bride wore a Stephen Yearick gown for the ceremony and an Angel Rivera dress for the reception, according to People. “I felt like a princess,” she says. Her former costar Valerie Pettiford performed original music at the reception. Plus, the bride surprised her husband with a salsa band to celebrate his Puerto Rican heritage. “We’ve been taking salsa lessons. It’s part of what we’ve been doing together as a couple,” she says. TV One personality, chef G. Garvin, blended Puerto Rican and traditional soul food dishes, which included mac and cheese, roasted pork, peach cobbler and plantains. As party favors, guests received match books and travel-sized candles. But singles guests were given six-month memberships to Match.com.
FABOLOUS BELIEVES HE WAS POISONED: Rapper falls ill while driving; calls for an ambulance. Rapper Fabolous used his Twitter page to set the record straight about rumors surrounding his trip to the hospital on Saturday night. The Twitterverse lit up with messages from folks seeking “prayers” for Fab, but did not offer any details. On Sunday, the Brooklyn MC explained that he fell ill while driving and pulled over to call an ambulance. He tweeted: “I’m ok everyone..thanks 4 the concern. I was not in a car accident, but I think i know where it started.. Let me explain. I was drivin yesterday morning & started feeling very sick & felt like I was gon pass out while driving.. I veered off 2 da side of the road.” There, he called for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. “I believed I was poisoned so I checked in & was given medical treatment..a lil sedated so I didn’t tweet but was released 2 go late last nite,” the rapper wrote. In other Fabolous news, the rapper is currently working with Ryan Leslie and Ne-Yo to form a new as-yet-untitled super group, reports Allhiphop.com.