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Access Pollywood: Fox’s Bipartisan Party
BY JOHN ARUNDEL · MARCH 19, 2010

Fox News Brings out the Star Power

Any ideological friction between Fox News Channel and the Obama Administration appeared to melt away like February’s snow Wednesday night at the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner.

“The Most Powerful Name in News” became host to “The Most Powerful Party in DC” as Fox’s founding CEO Roger Ailes feted several hundred policymakers and media friends with a lavish pre-party at the Washington Convention Center.

The event was as elaborately conceived as a Hollywood soundstage, with burbling fountains, Parisian-styled lamposts, elaborate murals and a guest list heavy on the heaviest that might even impress a White House social secretary.

Several Obama Administration officials showed up in high spirits. They included Obama’s Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowksi, Domestic Policy Council Advisor Melody Barnes, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, TARP Adminisrator Kenneth Feinberg and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

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Laurie Luhn and Donald Rumsfeld.

On the Congressional side, the Republican load factor (Donald Rumsfeld, Fred Thompson, Rep. Roy Blount, Sen. Bill First, Sen. John Thune, Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Sen. Arlen Specter), appeared to be evenly counterbalanced.

Some of the other high-powered Dems working the crowd included Jesse Jackson, Sen. Evan Bayh, Gov. Ed Rendell, Rep. Elijah Cummings, former Clinton campaign spokesperson Mo Elleithee, Sen. Arlen Specter, former Sen. John Breaux, Austan Goolsbee of the Council of Economic Advisors, Sen. Kay Hagan and Democratic political strategist Joe Trippi. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman, a non-partisan Obama holdover from the Bush administration, kept things even more in check.