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Local media insider blog FishbowlDC for the past few weeks has been holding its annual “Hottest Media Types” competition and yesterday, after 512 nominations, intense voting, you name it, they announced the winners. And WOW, we knew the Washington press crowd wasn’t exactly a model shoot, but… seriously? Has it always been this bad? For what it’s worth, we think it’s a crime that a certain someone didn’t make the cut. He’s a known slut, and he happens to be the editor of FishbowlDC itself: Patrick Gavin, seen here mocking poor old Henry Kissinger in a Wonkette archive photo. Gavin is always drunk and unprofessional and we have more photographic proof of this that we’ve been using as blackmail for months. Well, he stopped paying us a week ago, so here goes.
That’s Patrick Gavin on the right, next to Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. Gavin is holding a sign urging liberal writer Howard Zinn to become president, at the Pearl Jam concert. Who knows? Gavin’s career is over.
Hottest Media Types Winners [Fishbowl DC]
Yow, for real? (Makes plans to move to DC and go into media.)
Olivier Knox of AFP was ROBBED, I tell you.
Mmmmmm…..I’d like to see Gavin in an Olympic wrestling match. Might be dumb but I’ll bet he’s got a hairy butt.
Any relation to queer San Francisco mayor Newsom?
And Henry K! He manages to show up everywhere simultaneously. Yesterday he was in Pekin, now he’s sidling up to adorable hunkabilly doofus.
Kewl.
Dave J.: DC seems like a really easy place to be attractive in.
I’d tottaly hit that.
Sorry Mr. Newell, but red heads aren’t my thing. But I dont think the dirty dirty sodomite buttsecks is your thing, so there we go.
Mocking Henry Kissinger is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Easy,tunamelt?
If he had gone north instead of west, that dead Georgian Big Foot would have a lock on second place.
gavin is sorta hot in a pudgy way. is he straight/gay/trans?
Wee Mousie: Is/was the Georgian Big Foot in media? Because you’re right, he coulda been a contender.
HomoPolitico: Shh. Gingers are the best.
AHAHAHAHAH!! You people like teh ugliez!
Did you know that until “Dr. Strangelove” came out that Henry Kissinger spoke with a southern drawl? No shit.
This whole thing is disturbing. Mostly because it dredges up my long repressed, unrequited, and totally inexplicable man-crush on Henry Kissinger; I think it’s the horned-rimmed glassed.
CollegeStudent: From the Monty Python: “Henry Kissinger, I’m missing ya…you’ve got nicer legs than Hitler, and bigger tits than Cher.”
Yikes.
This is refreshingly “old” Wonkette–talking about things only a few hundred people residing in DC would know/care about.
The Incomparable Tiny Valdez: That’s our goal: old & of very limited appeal.
Wait goddammit that’s not our goal, that’s the McCain campaign’s goal!
True story.
About ten years ago, there was some kinda confab in Toronto featuring a variety of world leaders of which I was completely oblivious. My brother and I were getting pissed in a hotel bar across from my office. As we staggered toward the exit, Alberto Fujimori was being escorted across the hotel lobby and I ran toward him screaming that he was a murderer. My brother got me in a chokehold and dragged me away. I didn’t fight that much because I was fully loaded and realized it probably wasn’t the coolest thing to do. The attendant RCMP certainly didn’t think it was cool.
A day or two later, same hotel, same bar, same drunken stupor, same brother, only this time it was Henry the K. who was being escorted through the lobby as we were leaving. I made the same mad dash toward the douchebag, screaming about him being a war criminal with untold blood on his hands… blah blah blah. Again, freaked out the RCMP cordon around said douchebag. This time, baby brother did a flying tackle and took me down from behind, hard enough to smack my head on the marble floor and draw blood. I still have the forehead scar from the stitches.
But this Gavin dude just holds a fuckin’ sign behind Henry’s back saying he’s “hot???”
I’d call him a pussy if it didn’t insult pussies everywhere. Fuckin’ amateur!
That is all.
[PS - Thanx baby bro'.]
The obvious, sycophantic, answer to the question posed here is: you are, Jim.
Whiskeybaby: Finally. Now I will ban everyone who commented before you.
doonesbury always refers to him as “unindicted war criminal henry kissinger.” y’all could be at least as hip as the comics if you were to follow suit henceforward.
Canuckledragger: What is your marital status?
Canuckledragger: Good thang you didn’t run into MRS KissingiIla the K, who does Henry’s fighting for him, as someone noted a few threads back.
http://wonkette.com/401865/one-more-drunken-bush-at-olympics-photo#comments
And good for the Peruvians, they have their mass murderer where he belongs, whereas, yes slangwhanger-in-chief: our Speedo-salivating unindicted war criminal-cadaver continues to pass “Go” and collect $200.
Jim Newell: Actually some Wonketteers sent in a nomination for you but received this message:
“Because a certain medicine man from Texas has issued a fatwa calling on all loyal minions to do something unpleasant to Mr. Newell, we are unable to accept a nomination for him at this time.”
Sara doesn’t live in DC, right? Or else this would be a travesty.
(Ha, ha, I can’t believe nobody did this yet!)
Such loyalty to friends is unprofessional.
Jim Newell: You’re gonna ban your fucking boss? Damn Ken, the kids are getting a bit rowdy.
shortsshortsshorts: I hope we get print preview before the insurrection.
Come to think of it, Howard Zinn would be a great veep choice: he can play the better side of the “age card”: wisdom, experience, good pronunciation of global names and places.
Did y’all get your message earlier today from Barry saying “in the next few hours.” What a tease! The “few hours” have gone by, and still nothing has happened.
Nothing says instant excitement like “Local media insider blog.” THAT IS A SCENE I TOTALLY WANT TO BE A PART OF.
Beauty is in the eye of the voteholder.
omfg what is that 2nd picture of patrick. jesus bro!
slangwhanger-in-chief: No shit. And two pix of Henry the K in one week? Either he’s hiding in plain sight, or the santy claus beard and weird herbalist mindset hasn’t kicked in yet.
I know he’s old, but they still go after 90 year old Nazi concentration camp guards (and rightly so). So what’s the hold up here?