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SALT LAKE CITY — Hillary Clinton turned down an offer to make a movie with actor Jason Segel, according to Segel.
Segel said on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" that he got a "rejection letter" from the secretary of state.
"As you can imagine, I am a little occupied at the moment," Clinton wrote, in part. "My only condition is that there be muppets involved, and that is non-negotiable."
Joe the Plumber goes to Washington
"Joe the Plumber" — of 2008 presidential campaign fame — recently visited the White House, but couldn't get in.
Joe, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, recently secured the Republican nomination for Congress in Ohio's 9th district. Wurzelbacher on Wednesday released a campaign ad in which he says "a few years ago, Barack Obama dropped by my house, and we started a conversation. I'd like to finish it, so I'm gonna drop by his."
Wurzelbacher is shown waiting at the waiting at the White House — purportedly for most of the day — until finally, with an exasperated sigh, he retreats.
"Well, it's 3:00 and apparently no one's home," he says. "I'd like to come back and finish this conversation."
The ad has been criticized as being disingenuous because the same tourists can be seen in the left corner throughout the entire video, taking away from the sentiment that "Joe the Plumber" had waited for hours.
Wurzelbacher shot into the spotlight in 2008 when, at a campaign stop in Ohio, he asked then-Democratic candidate Barack Obama a question about small business tax policy.
"I think that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," Obama said, giving John McCain fodder for future attacks on what he said was Obama's socialist view on the economy.
Bachmann to endorse Romney
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., will endorse GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney at an event Thursday in Portsmouth, Va., according to Romney campaign officials.
The Tea Party Republican was one of Romney's harshest critics on the campaign trail, often criticizing the former Massachusetts governor for passing a healthcare law that she said was too similar to Obamacare.
Former Bachmann campaign manager Keith Nahigian told MSNBC there was something personal about the endorsement, despite differences during the campaign.
"She really liked Romney during all the debates," he said. "Really liked him behind the stage, behind the scenes. He was so polite to her every time they saw each other."
Romney mocks Obama's new slogan
GOP candidate Mitt Romney mocked Pres. Obama's new slogan Wednesday at a high-end fundraising event.
"His new slogan is: Progress - no, forward. Forward! That's it. Progress would be better," Romney said. "I must use that one myself, actually. Forward is his new slogan, and it's like, forward, what, over the cliff?"
Romney was speaking at the Pentagon City Ritz Carlton at a fundraising event that made about $625,000 for the candidate's campaign. Attendees had paid between $2,500 and $10,000 for tickets to the event, depending on the level of access they wanted to the candidate.
Ann Romney's really expensive shirtAnn Romney was criticized Thursday for wearing a $990 shirt on CBS This Morning, and the shirt's designer said he had nothing to do with the decision and would rather stay out of politics.
"We had nothing to do with it," a representative for designer Reed Krakoff told ABC News. "She must have bought it from Saks or Bergdorf's, we definitely didn't send it to her."
Romney has in the past received attention for her expensive taste, as critics have pointed to her wardrobe as further evidence that the Romney's have difficulties keeping "in touch" with the average American.
