Wonkette
This week, Condoleezza Rice, Llewellyn King, James Carville, Martha Raddatz, Karl Rove, and Ben Bernanke were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. Voyeuristic fun, as always, is after the jump.
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- Saw Condi last night at 600 Restaurant at the Watergate around 7:15. In aprivate room waiting for her VIP (that’s what her security guys called him) Red jacket, black pants, blinds closed. Outside her date showed up with lots and lots of firepower. He was wearing a newsboy cap, and was stature-ly and age challenged. If I’m waiting around for a dude in a newsboy cap, it better be Brad Pitt. Girl, you can do better than this guy!
- A famous for DC type: My friend and I saw Llewellyn King having lunch at Bistro Bis today (11/29) around 1. Couldn’t tell if he was eating the sweetbreads or not though. We think it was a party of four (or possibly three), but we were so dazzled by his 20-watt celebrity that we didn’t notice anyone else.
- Saw ABC news correspondent Martha Raddatz today (Wednesday) around noon @ the corner of 17th & K. She was wear a short skirt and some fierce knee-high black boots. Apparently, she’s fond of her legs, thank you very much, because she brushed off the Results Gym recruiter who was trying to give her a free 2-week membership at their new downtown gym.
- I spotted Karl Rove, returning from a Thanksgiving in Texas (?) to BWI late Sunday night. Steerage on a Southwest 737 ain’t Air Force One, but I guess he’s back to flying coach with the rest of us. Although he did have a driver with an almost comical “K. Rove” sign on a clipboard waiting for him and his wife. He was also wearing a weird hat (perhaps in the hopes it would conceal his true identity) and carrying an iPhone.
- Spotted Ben Bernake [sic], the lord and savior of our mighty economy, at the Soviet Safeway on 14th and D SE. Couldn’t believe my eyes at first, but then I saw a guy in a fishing vest casually strolling behind him, who happened to have a huge wire jammed into his skull. This grand strategerizer was seriously considering his paper towel options.
- I saw the Ragin’ Cajun himself, James Carville, at Morton’s Steakhouse in Crystal City last week! He was with two late 20s / early 30s male associates. Neither of them were cute. But, I’m sure they were the best looking gay staffers he could pull in considering his looks! Hahaha j/k
Hey, speaking of Carville, he was seen eating in New York, too, with that wife of his: “Julian Schnabel, whose “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is getting rave reviews, dining with his two sons and Montauk neighbor Dick Cavett at Elaine’s amid the likes of James Carville, Mary Matalin and Lee Iacocca.” The man eats all over the coast, it appears.
Comments
Re Bernanke: I'm an economist, and that bit about the paper towels sounds just right. We're cheap b**tards, and are always comparison shopping.
14th SE store is the "no-so-Safe-way." More applicable when Kentucky Courts was a drug den, but Gridskipper says crank is coming back, so we'll soon see...
The Soviet Safeway is in Dupont/Adams Morgan.
"I'm here to pick up a certain ... Karl R. ... no, that's too obvious, let's make it K. Rove."
oh shit! an i phone! i'm going out and buying one right fucking now! if karl's using it, it must be top notch you know! everybody wants to be a fat, nasty, ugly, piece of goddamn conniving shit... but nobody does it better than karl. so see, to all you aspiring fat, nasty, ugly, pieces of goddamn conniving shit... there is only one thing you can wish for in your stocking... an iphone!
mental note: remember to pick up numerous iphones for all the fat, nasty, ugly, pieces of goddamn conniving shit at work to ass lick my way into the fat, nasty, ugly, pieces of goddamn conniving shit hierarchy.
p.s. fat, nasty, ugly, piece of goddamn conniving shit! nobody strings together an insult better than a toothless, mulleted, ugly, piece of goddamn poverty stricken white trash shit. nobody!
@nicolsonde:
The supermarket at 14th and D SE is the "Sot's Safeway" -- the only Safeway in DC that sells booze.
The Un-Safe-Way is 1601 Maryland Ave NE but only because people expire waiting on the endless checkout lines. Good thing there are plenty of Gallaudet students there to talk with.
I saw James Carville on my way to a Chipotle once (Georgetown). He hopped out of his car in the middle of traffic (light was green or just turned yellow then red) walked calmly to Dean and DeLuca while various Georgetown drivers were shooting icy glares at him. His assistant, equipped with proper Bluetooth technology, followed sluggishly after, while a woman drove the getaway car.
Classy.
Special "Time Machine Edition" of Carville minutiae:
On my way to work in 2004, I stopped off to pick up some lunch victuals in the small neighborhood SafeWay grocery on the N.E. corner of Gibbon and S. Royal in Alexandria, VA., around 7 a.m., and suffered a glancing collision with Mr. Carville in one of the narrow aisles. It was a sort of two aggro males vying for the same space kind of thing. He was very nicely dressed and I was very shabbily dressed (but arguably stylishly punk). (hopefully).
Though we both offered immediate apologies, he had kind of a nasty
sneer that inspired me to consider beating the shit out of him for a moment.
my mum saw carville in the metro of all places. she asked 'hey, you're james carville, aren't you?' 'yes ma'am i sure am.' 'so you ride the metro, huh?' 'well, yeah! don't you?' and that's where it ended; unless there was some altercation she didn't want to bother me with. it's a shame i missed that great moment in southern transplant awkwardness.
@MikeL: The Salsa Safeway by me on Columbia Road also sells booze. If by booze you mean wine. In fact, they all sell wine in the District, as far as I know. The MD ones don't.
...and beer, too.
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