A staffer for the CNN anchor thinks Cindy McCain dresses well and has nice hair. She also details a lot of nice things about Sen. John McCain’s spouse, apparently in an effort to help you get to know her. And then she mentions that Cindy was once a drug addict.

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What was up with the anchor’s dramatic spray tan/makeup during tonight’s Republican debate on CNN? He looked more made up than the dearly departed Tammy Faye Baker.

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“CNN’s Anderson Cooper asks: ‘What does it say about Mitt Romney that the more money he spends and the more people get to know him, the less they like him? If anyone should know the answer to that question, it’s A.C.’” So says Seattle Times columnist Ron Judd. Ouch. Finally, someone who’s meaner than us.

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Ellen DeGeneres is playing a little hardball with her male cable anchor crushes, it seems. Yesterday, the talker got MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews on the phone during her popular daytime program.

But, alas, it was just a play to get the attention of the real man of her dreams. While chatting about the new O.J. Simpson case, a crawl across the bottom of the screen read: “Ellen’s on the phone with Chris Matthews because Wolf Blitzer wouldn’t take her call.”

When DeGeneres asked Matthews about CNN’s Blitzer, the squawker was obviously hurt: “He’s a little different than me.” Matthews then told the gay icon to “dump him, get me on. Forget him. It’s a rivalry here.”

Which leaves us wondering: Who’s cuter? Matthews or Blitzer? And who would be better in a threesome with Anderson Cooper?

Earlier: Wolf Blitzer Gives Ellen the Cold Shoulder

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So the second hour of Anderson Cooper 360 is getting the ax… but CNN would have you believe that it’s because Anderson is TOO successful to handle a full two hours!

Variety’s Michael Learmonth reports today that “Cooper averaged 747,000 viewers in his second hour in August, less than O’Reilly’s 965,000 and a steep drop from the 1.1 million he averaged during the first hour, according to Nielsen.”

Well, Cooper must have a best friend named Nielsen, because if you look at the year to date numbers for the show (instead of just August), they tell a much different picture.

YTD, 360 averages 831,000 total viewers from 10 p.m. - 11 p.m., and only 524,000 from 11 p.m. - midnight.  This is even using the famous “live plus Same Day” info that CNN uses to tout ratings.

Rumor has it that the real reason Cooper’s second hour got axed is not only because of the drastic decline in the second hour, but that Prima Donna Cooper hated doing a second hour… he felt that since he is the marquee talent for the network, he shouldn’t have to do two hours in prime!

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Maybe Anderson Cooper needs a “time”-out? His network currently has a press release out saying that “CNN continues the trend of record-breaking debates with Monday night’s CNN/YouTube Debate posting the highest P18-34 delivery in cable news history.”

But that statement doesn’t tell the full story. According to the Nielsen ratings, CNN’s debate ranked ninth among debates since 1999. And it’s quite unusual for a network to tout 18-34 rankings as a victory for a primary debate.

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Rosie O’Donnell calls him a gay Nazi. The Toronto Star calls him the Hunter S. Thompson of snark. Perez Hilton calls him his mentor.

We call him just another guy who hates bush.

Big Head DC recently caught up with legendary NYC columnist Michael Musto as he prepares to embark on a tour of Washington, DC to promote his new book La Dolce Musto, a gathering of his greatest hits from his popular Village Voice column over the past twenty years. Watch, love and learn, kids:

BHR: People probably best know you as the prince of celebrity pop culture, but sometimes you have Washington-focused items. Have you ever thought about leaving NYC to come here to gossip?

MM: Ah, there’s no way that’s gonna happen (laughs). I only can exist in New York, really. I know that there’s been gossips who’ve come out of DC to New York – and maybe did better in DC – but New York is just the milieu that’s right for me. I can’t drive. I don’t drive at all. I’m completely hopeless in any place other than New York City.

BHR: In your book, you recall an interesting time at the one of the Reagan inaugural balls. Have you been to any Presidential balls since?

MM: No. I was really a fish out of water in that case… It was the second batch of Reagan inaugural balls that I went to, I went to one of them, and I describe it as one of the eight circles of hell. I just didn’t belong. I had on a ratty rented tuxedo, you know, I was the only non-Republican in the room. I was trying to stuff myself on the trail mix. I think they called it shuttle mix. Yeah, I went running back to New York.

BHR: So you don’t feel comfortable here?

MM: Well, when I’ve gone there for nightlife jaunts, I’ve felt very comfortable. I’ve had a great time.

BHR: Mary Cheney has been in the news recently because of her pregnancy. Love her or hate her?

MM: Well, everybody’s always coming down on her, but I think it must be really difficult to be Mary Cheney. You know, she’s between a rock and a hard place. She’s a lesbian in a family that can’t be thrilled about the fact that she’s a lesbian, and her family has to act like they’re okay with it because she’s their daughter. Yet, they have to advocate public policy that seems to be against her way of life. So, I wouldn’t want to be her… She has to feel kind of like a second-class citizen in her own family. It’s easy to target her as a villain, but she’s in a very unenviable position.

BHR: What about Dick Cheney? Do you think he loves Mary or hates her?

MM: (laughs) I think he’s probably torn between the policies he’s chosen to espouse and the fact that she’s obviously a decent person and she’s his own flesh and blood. The good thing about Mary Cheney is that she holds up a mirror to the Republican Party’s own hypocrisy. And people keep reminding him and asking him how he feels about his daughter. He says it’s irrelevant, but it’s not irrelevant… If your own flesh and blood is a lesbian and has a family, then why shouldn’t she be afforded the same rights as anybody else?

BHR: Does Dick scare you at all? Read more…

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