Via Associated Press:

The Colorado Senate has fired an unpaid intern accused of “glitter bombing” Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after the Colorado caucuses. College student Peter Smith, 20, was fired Thursday afternoon. Police say Smith threw glitter at Romney as the candidate greeted supporters in Denver Tuesday night. Smith is a student at the University of Colorado Denver who was interning in the Democratic Senate as part of a college course. Smith’s boss, Senate majority office chief of staff John Cevette, says that Smith was terminated after a staffer alerted him to the incident. . .

From Dem intern to convict. I like it. . . — Greg Pollowitz

Via Miami New Times:

On Tuesday, January 31, hundreds of cops forcibly shut down Occupy Miami’s tent city at Government Center, ending nearly four months of protests. But instead of heading home, dozens of protesters mysteriously migrated to a half-empty apartment building in Overtown. Apparently with the permission of the building’s owner — an enigmatic Occupy Miami member who has changed his name to Sr. Paz, or Mr. Peace — they have taken the doors off of 26 units, spray-painted Anarchy signs on walls, and re-established “Peace City.” Rent-paying tenants, however, claim the protesters have only brought noise, drugs, and filth. “They poop on the walls!” says Sharene Odho. “It’s like we live in a huge crack house now.”. . .

Over to you Sr. Paz. . . — Greg Pollowitz

Via HuffPo:

The GOP? “Totally unfashionable!” Scarlett Johansson told us. The Obama campaign, on the other hand, has gathered up fashionable friends in spades.

With just two days till New York Fashion Week, plenty of designers (and a few stylish celebs) turned out to fete President Obama’s Runway To Win initiative at the Theory store on Tuesday evening.

“I think the designers are going way beyond the call of duty, turning out tonight when they really ought to be back in their showrooms working,” said Anna Wintour, who co-hosted the event with Scarlett Johansson and was smiling more than we’ve ever seen her smile. “I think it shows how devoted they are to the president that they’re all here tonight.”

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I wonder what Scarlett thinks of the fashion sense of the #OWS crowd? Shabby chic? — Greg Pollowitz

Via ABC News:

The girl who had the “biggest crush on Obama” in 2008 is planning to resurface this time around to support her man one YouTube hit at a time in his bid for re-election. But while the Obama Girl character will always stand behind Obama, Obama Girl actress Amber Lee Ettinger said her support for the president has faded over the past four years. “I always will feel like I have a connection to him, but this time around I am still undecided about who I will vote for,” Ettinger told ABC News on Tuesday. . .

I bet she votes for Ron Paul. . . — Greg Pollowitz

Via CBS News:

President Barack Obama’s campaign is asking top fundraisers to support a Democratic-leaning outside group that is backing the president’s re-election bid, reversing Obama’s opposition to “super” political action committees, which can spend unlimited amounts of cash to influence elections. Obama’s campaign urged wealthy fundraisers in a Monday night conference call to support Priorities USA, a super PAC led by two former Obama aides that has struggled to compete with the tens of millions of dollars collected by Republican-backed outside groups. . .

Waiting for the MSM spin on this one. . . — Greg Pollowitz

Via AP:

President Barack Obama isn’t picking sides this Super Bowl Sunday. In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer before the championship game, Obama would only say he expects a “great game.” “You’re not to get me (to pick), I’m going to look for a great game,” Obama said with a coy smile. In a pre-Super Bowl interview just a few days into his presidency in 2009, Obama correctly predicted a Pittsburgh Steelers win over the Arizona Cardinals. . .

Come on! It’s the Super Bowl, not some geopolitical crisis where America’s neutrality is necessary. — Greg Pollowitz

Via New York Times:

BEIRUT — Syrian opposition activists raised the death toll to 260 in a military assault Saturday on the ravaged central city of Homs, an attack that opposition leaders described as the government’s bloodiest in the nearly 11-month-old uprising. Reports were contradictory, given the difficulty of communications with Homs, and the Syrian government flatly denied the toll, calling it an attempt at propaganda ahead of a United Nations Security Council meeting Saturday on Syria. But videos smuggled out of the city and reports by opposition activists showed a harrowing barrage of mortar shells and gunfire that left hundreds more wounded in the city. “It’s an unprecedented attack,” said Mohammed Saleh, an opposition activist from Homs who recently fled to a nearby town to escape the mounting strife there. As word spread of the barrage, opposition protests broke out Saturday at Syrian embassies around the world, including Egypt, Germany and Kuwait. In Cairo, protesters stormed the compound, smashing furniture and setting part of the first floor on fire. Accounts by activists, independently basing their information on what they described as contacts in Homs, said the barrage was apparently unleashed after defectors attacked two military checkpoints and kidnapped soldiers. One activist put the number of abducted soldiers at 13, another 19. They suggested that enraged commanders then ordered the assault, which lasted from about 9 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday, focusing on the neighborhood of Khaldiya. Five other neighborhoods were also assaulted. . .

And the UN does nothing. . . — Greg Pollowitz