Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"When I got Monday’s Fashion Week afterparty invite via Facebook (hence the blurry title picture), I was prepared to treat it like all my other club conquests. Attend just to say I’ve been and then return to unpretentious fun with real friends at a local divebar. But the Eldridge legitimately shocked me .. Moreover, I experienced the kind of camaraderie that I had only heard about from Bungalow 8 urban legends. Inside the tiny Eldridge, Lydia Hearst and Matt Levine sat atop the couches beside the DJ booth (housing babyfaced Jesse Marco), giggling and passing around bottles of Armand de Brignac. At 11:30pm, Levine, shushed the music and sans mic, informally toasted Hearst as one might at a dinner party. At one point, he apologized for the AC malfunctioning to which another fired back 'we like it hot.'" (SociallySuperlative)

"Failing to go all the way with the Clintons. Yes, I know, Bill and Hillary got prime speaking roles in Denver. And yes, I know, the Clintons are difficult to deal with and probably hope Obama fails. Still, it’s Obama’s task to latch on to them, even against their will. But he was too proud. Although he’s going to see the former president this week, Obama should have broken bread with Bill months ago. Obama needs the Clintons to defend and work for him. They are not eager to do so, but it was still Obama’s task to trap them into displays of political enthusiasm. It’s just my guess, but I think Mr. Clinton would have been open to the wooing – if for no other reason than to recapture his reputation as an avatar of the civil rights cause." (Fineman/ Newsweek)

"Rep. Charles Rangel and Minority Leader John Boehner locked horns on the House floor Wednesday evening over a series of ethics allegations Rangel has been trying to fend off in recent days and months. For the first time since responding to three separate ethics charges, Rangel reminded Boehner about the time back in the mid-1990s when the minority leader violated House ethics rules by handing out campaign checks from the tobacco industry to lawmakers on the House floor during a Congressional debate over eliminating a tobacco subsidy. He said the two had been real friends and that friendship and the last shreds of bipartisanship that exist in the House shouldn’t be ruined by threatening each other for the purpose of scoring political points before an important election." (TheHill)