Posted on 04/29/2006 11:28:30 PM PDT by STARWISE
NEW YORK Saturday night’s much-awaited White House Correspondents Dinner, featuring appearances by President Bush, George Clooney and Valerie Plame, among others, kicked off with a round of cocktail parties scattered over two floors at the Washington Hilton. At the Reuters’ party you could get a drink called The Cheney Shot—made with Wild Turkey.
Over 2700 attendees were expected. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of the Doobie Brothers, a guest of The Washington Times, was dressed in a kilt.
About 15 protestors from the conservative Web site Free Republic raised a fuss outside on a sunny evening, passing out baby pacifiers with “CNN” written on them and carrying signs. One featured a picture of Osama bin Laden and the words: “My best friends are Dana Priest, James Risen, and Eric Lichtblau” (all recently named Pulitzer winners).
Inside, Valerie Plame and husband Joseph Wilson were in the crowd spilling out of the ABC News party (they are guests of the network at the dinner). Plame was pleasant, but asked by E&P why she came tonight she said, “I’m sorry,” adding in mock-red carpet lingo, “I’m wearing Armani.” Her gown was ivory.
Asked what might happen if she met the president, she repeated, “I’m wearing Armani.”
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I think Joe S has taken too much pain medication and it has dried out his brain. He sure is not the same Rep. Joe Scarborough who represented Florida in Congress as a conservative.
staytrue. That was his idea and work.
Hey, there's our Pulitzer prize winners now...
Good job.
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Venerable ?
Main Entry: ven·er·a·ble Function: adjective
1 : deserving to be venerated -- used as a title for an Anglican archdeacon or for a Roman Catholic who has been accorded the lowest of three degrees of recognition for sanctity
2 : made sacred especially by religious or historical association 3 a : calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments ; broadly : conveying an impression of aged goodness and benevolence b : impressive by reason of age
synonym see OLD
Venerable:
ain Entry: aged Part of Speech: adjective Definition: old Synonyms
age-old, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, been around*, biddy, coot, creaky*, elderly, getting on*, gone, gray, hag, hairy, moth-eaten*, oldie*, passé, relic, rusty*, senescent, shot*, timeworn, venerable, worn
LOL!
Me too!
HAG........most descriptive......LOL
Just shows how much more creative the Modern Media is than the Stone-age Press. Those posters are choice, although it should be WH Press Corpse. Salutes to all ya!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I USED to love Colbert, but he was NOT funny and went out of his way to skewer Bush, when on his show he says he's an "independent" which is Hollywood speak for conservative.
If I had to sit with Helen Thomas I don't think I could be very funny either....how many times did Colbert throw up while seated with her? Did they serve roasted ugly pig in her honor? Just wondering. I was glad to read that Val & Joe showed up. I think she meant to say she was wearing armor, not armani since she was with her POS husband. (must have been a "typo" at E&P) :0)
Joe is pure scum, there is nothing worse than a "conservative" turned media whore.
Thank YOU for using that voice to combat the moonbats in our society. God bless you and FR!
What a dumb reporter. Doesn't he realize that Valerie was speaking in spook-talk code words? What is wrong with him? She gave him the code words twice, and he flubbed it.
He was supposed to respond with "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."
Whereupon Plame was supposed to hand him a microdot containing Cheney's numbered Swiss bank account where Halliburton has been sending the payoff money. I'm surprised that Valerie didn't down the cyanide capsule right then and there.
Perfect.
I like the sign "US MEDIA TOO SCARED TO PUBLISH THIS..."
sign.
I like the sign "US MEDIA TOO SCARED TO PUBLISH THIS..."
sign, referring to a mohammed cartoon (and a funny one at that).
Thank you. A lot of pedestrians liked it too. they laughed at the cartoon because they had not seen it because no US media will publish it.
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