The details of Chelsea Clinton's wedding have been subject to much speculation — including the make of Chelsea’s wedding dress! — as well as confirmed attendees and the estimated cost of the lavish affair. A few photos from the event were released to select media outlets, including the Times, as well as the Washington Post and Politico, showing a smiling Chelsea with Mezvinsky, Secretary of State Clinton radiant in fuschia, and a very slim-looking President Bill Clinton walking his daughter down the aisle.

Something strange is going on here: Conservatives don’t like money. That’s the message I’m getting from the extreme distaste some conservative critics have shown for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. Forget about Rush Limbaugh’s $54 million Gulfstream jet, Mitt Romney’s $42 million donation to his own presidential campaign, John McCain’s seven or eight houses, the RNC’s vacations in [...]

video Yesterday, incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley announced that the company would initiating a pullback of the cleanup efforts, with "less boom, fewer hazmat suits, but no less commitment," according to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. This was deemed appropriate because, according to Dudley, no oil was flowing out of the oil well. Except there was no way to verify that, because the live feed of the seafloor had been shut off for three days.

We know most of our loyal readers probably had trouble sleeping last night without knowing the fate of tiny drunken jailbird Snooki, who was arrested in Seaside Heights, NJ yesterday afternoon while filming the third season of Jersey Shore. Well, you can all conclude the candlelight vigils and hunger strikes: Snooks is roaming free on the boardwalk, and didn't have to stay the night.

This was probably not the best way to draw attention to a cause. Two fans ran onto Citi Field last night during the Arizona Diamondbacks' 9-6 win over the Mets to protest Arizona's controversial immigration law.

video Perhaps the most eccentric show on cable news (not that there isn't competition) had one of the most eccentric media characters on as a guest today: Judge Andrew Napolitano's Freedom Watch on Fox Business Network interviewed the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange about the recent flood of sensitive national security documents released by his site. Assange was unapologetic and meticulous in detailing how his site processes and confirms information.

video In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper last week, ousted USDA official Shirley Sherrod accused Andrew Breitbart of racism and supporting a return to slavery. On Thursday night, Cooper apologized to his audience for not questioning that claim and letting her "get away with saying things which cannot be supported by facts."

video Thank goodness for media moms that aren't afraid to share funny home videos. Fox & Friends weekend host Clayton Morris became a proud father three days ago (as evidenced by the stream of excited "Thanks so much!"s on his Twitter feed), and, of course, was happy to show off his first photos with his son, Miles. What he wasn't quite expecting, however, was showing off footage of him changing his first diaper, which Miles' mom sent into the show without telling him.

Deep in the heart of the Shirley Sherrod scandal, the RNC made the eyecatching announcement last week that it would host a fundraiser in Beverly Hills headlined by Andrew Breitbart and Chairman Michael Steele. Today, donors received a letter announcing that the event, sceduled for August 12-14, would be rescheduled for September.

video While his predecessor, Tony Hayward tried to clear his image in America in his first interview since announcing his departure from the company, incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley wet his feet in the American media pool last night in an interview with Greta Van Susteren, where he expressed optimism in the clean-up operation and the belief that the open well is now probably capped permanently.

audio Yesterday on Fox News, New York Congressmen Anthony Weiner and Peter King did battle over the passing of a bill to aid 9/11 first-responders that developed health problems. Even with discussion moderated by a fairly silent, impartial Bill Hemmer-- who piped up mostly to point out that everyone hates Congress-- it got pretty heated. Now imagine that same conversation with Sean Hannity as host.

video We've written before about the way NBC's Late Night franchise is thriving with Jimmy Fallon as host in one very new area - the web. Which is why when a segment on the TV show features Fallon, as Neil Young, singing a song using the lyrics from the Double Rainbow Guy YouTube sensation, the real success will come online.

video In a clip released by CBS News of their exclusive interview set to air on Sunday, President Barack Obama speaks out on the Rep. Charlie Rangel ethics scandal for the first time, calling the allegations "very troubling" and expressing hope that the long-serving Congressman will be able to "end his career with dignity."

In the United States, outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward is, at best, a national joke, and at worst, an incompetent, deliberately heartless oil baron who deserves not an ounce of sympathy. In the UK, people buy him drinks when they see him in nightclubs and greet him with standing ovations. In his first interview since announcing his departure, Hayward tells the Wall Street Journal that the difference in image is due to his demonization in the American media.

After reopening a case against former Vice President Al Gore accusing him of sexually harassing a masseuse almost exactly one month ago, Portland, Oregon police officials have announced that they are ending the investigation against Gore due to lack of evidence on the part of the accuser, Molly Hagerty, who made national news when she accused Gore of assault in the National Enquirer.

podcast CNN's Rob Marciano has been in four different states since the BP oil disaster began just over 100 days ago. We talked to Marciano today about BP's lack of communication, his recent CNN special about environmental and wildlife Gulf storylines and more.

Could our two-week-long national nightmare be nearing an end? In an interview with Newsweek today, Andrew Breitbart spoke to the magazine about the Shirley Sherrod speech scandal and expressed regret, acknowledged that it has "been difficult for me as well," and claimed he would "be more than happy to meet with [Sherrod] in private" to settle the matter.

Lawrence O'Donnell's future 10pmET show with MSNBC now has a name and a premiere date. The Last Word will premiere September 27, putting MSNBC in the same category with CNN and Fox News with three prime time hours of original programming.

VIDEO On Wednesday, The Danger Room blogger Noah Shachtman profiled a young information services company called Recorded Future, which monitors the web in real time and, to be perfectly honest, sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi film. Recorded Future uses a collection of futuristic-sounding analytical tools like a “temporal analytics engine” and “sentiment analysis” to “find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents—both present and still-to-come.”

The publisher of the Advocate and Out magazines--Here Media--has sent a letter threatening legal action to a former employee of its skin magazines for making negative comments about the company on his Facebook page.