Media-Whore D'Oevres



"Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi's Democratic primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania. Obama was winning roughly 90 percent of the black vote but only about one-third of the white vote, extending a pattern that carried him to victory." (AP)

"Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is apparently handing out Waverly Inn tables to anyone, as though he doesn't mind his 'hot' restaurant showing up so much on has-beens portal DListed.com." (Gawker)
" (I)t was a treat to attend HBO’s reception last week for the new mini-series, 'John Adams,' based on David McCullough’s hefty Pulitzer-winning biography of the nation’s first vice president and second president, starring Paul Giamatti as Adams, and produced by Tom Hanks ... The printed guest list indicated almost every member of Congress was invited, and before the guests walked over to the Cannon Building for the screening, some of the notables I spotted in Statuary Hall were: Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois ... also down from New York, Peggy Siegal." (NySocialDiary)