Message to Lloyd Grove: We Are In NYC not DC

Former Washington Post Reliable Source columnist Lloyd Grove is increasingly passing off bad beltway gossip for the good stuff in his NY Daily News Lowdown column.

Today he writes:

"Mon Dieu!: I hear real estate mogul George Klein is telling friends about a remarkable incident at a recent lunch with Vice President Dick Cheney. When the waiter brought a bottle of Evian, the veep's face took an expression of obvious distaste as he waved off the French import. I guess France is still in the Bush administration doghouse. Klein did not return my repeated phone calls."

Say what?! Okay, as a lowly blogger I know that there are slow days when the ideas and the scoop just isn't forthcoming. Cool. But, to quote beloved 80s icon Clara Peller: "Where's the beef"?

In this city of the fabulous Page Six and Gawker.com we need our gossip served pipin' hot, not lukewarm. I throw down the gauntlet, Lloyd Grove: extricate yourself from those swishy dinner parties at Tina Brown's pad and put your nose to the grindstone and give us the real lowdown. There's a city full of gossip out there -- get to it, man.