Jesse James publicly offered up an excuse for his multiple affairs on ABC’s Nightline last night: his sad feelings about his dad beating him when he was a little kid made him do it. He said in the interview:

“Bike builder, Monster Garage TV star, all that stuff is a huge smokescreen so that people won’t see that I’m a scared, abused kid, a seven-year-old. [My father] beat my ass pretty good… I just remember, like, clinched teeth, strained-neck look on his face. My whole childhood, I was always scared.”

“[One time my dad was chasing me in the dark and] I tripped and snapped my wrist and I remember my dad laughed at me when I hit the ground and called me a dummy. I was petrified of my dad. I was a terrorized kid and, I mean, it’s really tough for me to think about now because… [my daughter] is the age that I was when my dad broke my arm.”

Unless his dad beat him with biker chick fetish magazines and white supremacist porn, I fail to see the correlation between his affairs and his abuse. I don’t buy into that whole culture of victimhood rhetoric. Your “feelings of worthlessness,” your “self-sabotage,” your “innate struggle between Eros and Thanatos” — all of it’s bullshit, every last bit of it. You want to assign blame, you need to start pointing the finger where it belongs: at the Jews.

Watch the interview after the jump.

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Naomi Campbell stayed true to form and punched a cameraman after a ABC News reporter continually questioned her regarding a “blood diamond” reportedly given to her by deposed African dictator Charles Taylor. For those of you who don’t keep up with ousted African despots, Taylor is currently facing trial for using the uncut diamonds to embark on five-year long butchering spree that left thousands people in Sierra Leone dead or amputees. According to NY Daily News

“I didn’t receive a blood diamond and I’m not going to speak about that, thank you very much” Campbell barked before storming off and punching the camera in the producer’s hands.

Campbell’s association with Taylor was brought to light by actress Mia Farrow, who told prosecutors that she heard the model describe a “huge diamond” she had received from the dictator.

“You don’t forget when a girlfriend tells you she was given a huge diamond in the middle of the night,” Farrow told ABC. “She said during the night, some men had knocked at her door and she, half asleep, had opened the door and it was representatives of President Charles Taylor and that they had given her a huge diamond,” Farrow recalled.

Prosecutors say the incident could directly link Taylor to the possession of uncut diamonds [used to] purchase weapons for his Sierra Leone soldiers, [but] Campbell has refused to be interviewed [by the] UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone about the allegations against Taylor.

Jesus Christ. She’s like a real-life Cruella de Vil. Only instead of Dalmation puppy fur, her coat is made out of amputated limbs and human souls, with extra pockets for her Morgul blades. I hear there’s this great Nazgûl seamstress down in Minas Morgul who does all her custom-tailoring.

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ABC ran a two-part investigation into Scientology last week that explored the allegedly violent tendencies of leader David Miscavige (as well as delving into the whole “aliens and volcanoes” crap on which their religion is based) in an interview with Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis. But it seems Tommy got cold feet after the interview, because less than an hour before it was set to air, Tommy showed up unannounced at ABC’s studio in an attempt to get the segment squashed. Page Six says

In [the] interview, Martin Bashir asked Davis to comment on the church’s bizarre founding mythology, which involves an intergalactic god named Xenu who brought his people to Earth 75 million years ago and stuffed them in a volcano.

After telling Bashir he wouldn’t discuss “disgusting perversions” of the religion, Davis, with the camera still rolling, removed his microphone and stormed off the set. The dust-up was included in the piece.

But just 45 minutes before the segment was to air on Thursday, Davis showed up at ABC headquarters on West 67th Street and asked to speak to Bashir and the show’s executive producer.

“He demanded to a security guard that he be let in,” a network insider [said]. “He was told as politely as possible that the piece could not be changed. He was then asked to leave.” Adds the source, “He was not happy.”

All this comes hot on the heels of news that Oscar-winning “Crash” director Paul Haggis has publicly resigned from the church on the basis of their gay-bashing and escalating lies, and then there’s the matter of a $900,000 fraud conviction in France today. According to Yahoo News

The court convicted the Church of Scientology’s French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud, [saying] the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used “commercial harassment” against recruits.

Four of the leaders were given suspended sentences of between 10 months and two years. The other two were given fines.

Statistics indicate that he only way this religion could be more unappealing now is if it were somehow covered with bean curd and swastikas and served on the back of Margaret Cho’s thighs.

Part 2 of the interview after the jump.

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