Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"WHEN Jay-Z is away, his bootylicious babe Beyoncé will play. Spies at The Box Thursday night saw her and three girlfriends enjoying the club's risque show while flanked by a 'huge bodyguard' and protective curtains around their table. 'Beyoncé was really making the most of the burlesque strip show,' said the source. 'She was on the table in the VIP balcony cheering loudly as two girls got naked and licked each others' feet. She stayed until 3:30 in the morning.'" (PageSix)

"When meeting with reporters on Friday, the first, most important message from Bill Richardson, the Democratic presidential candidate and governor of New Mexico, was for voters back home: He has no interest in running for the U.S. Senate. Back home, the whole state is churning over Republican incumbent Pete Domenici’s announcement this week that he’ll be retiring next year — having been diagnosed with an incurable brain disease. It’s yet another U.S. Senate seat that Republicans will have to fight hard to keep. In Atlanta to speak to the Legislative Black Caucus and union leaders, Richardson said he had no interest in the Senate — even if he’s eventually forced out of the presidential contest. 'I’m a governor. Being a governor is better than being a senator,' Richardson said." (AtlantaJournalConstitution)

"In the same era, Schlesinger reported Henry Kissinger's view of Vice President Dan Quayle. 'Henry . . . said he couldn't understand why Quayle had such a bad press; he found him well-informed and intelligent. (I take this to mean two things: that Quayle listens reverently to Henry and that Henry thinks Quayle may be President some day.)' ... Over lunch at the Century Association in 1977, Kissinger told Schlesinger that 'Donald Rumsfeld was the rottenest person he had known in government -- that it was Rumsfeld who, in pursuit of his own ambitions, had set Kissinger and [Secretary of Defense James R.] Schlesinger against each other, and had persuaded Ford to make George Bush head of the CIA so he would be extinguished as the vice presidential candidate in 1976 (and thereby, Henry added, probably lost Ford the election)." (WashPo)