Media-Whore D'Oevres



"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday that they plan to introduce legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The House passed companion legislation earlier this month. Awarding Aung San Suu Kyi the medal would get Congress involved in the turmoil Burma experienced earlier this year when the military regime suppressed the protests led by the country’s monks." (TheHill)

"The Hilton family patriarch, Barron Hilton, will pass on the $1.2 billion windfall from the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation - not to his famous progeny, but to his family's philanthropic foundation, Fortune has learned. Barron Hilton's donation will effectively double the size of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, named after Barron's father, the man who built Hilton Hotels from scratch and great-grandfather of celebutantes Paris and Nicky Hilton." (CNNMoney)

"But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a copy of the president’s daily intelligence briefing. She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda. And during one of President Bill Clinton's major tests on terrorism, whether to bomb Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998, Mrs. Clinton was barely speaking to her husband, let alone advising him, as the Lewinsky scandal sizzled." (NYTimes)

"One of the most highly anticipated political telefilms being released next year is 'Recount,' a fast-paced depiction of the behind-the-scenes drama that took place in Florida during the disputed 2000 Gore-Bush election. Eager to avoid the last-minute flap over accuracy that beset the ABC miniseries 'The Path to 9/11' last year, the makers of HBO’s upcoming docudrama allowed real-life figures depicted in the project to make script notes, visit the set and offer advice to director Jay Roach." (Politico)