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• Reliable Source: Kerry flack David Wade on Kerry’s hotel request list: “Dick Cheney drinks Perrier and refuses to watch anything but Fox News. John Kerry hates Evian, eats meatloaf, and snacks on chocolate chip cookies. If these documents had been leaked during the campaign we’d have won in a landslide.”. . . Antonin Scalia makes “dismissive hand-flick-off-the-chin” gesture at a reporter. . . Patti LaBelle breaks down in D.C. . . Tom DeLay is banned from carrying a gun. [WP]
• Under the Dome: Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) got to yell “Start Your Engines” at NASCAR race. . . 72-year old Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) goes jogging at 5:30 in the morning. [The Hill]
• Cindy Adams: McCain has secured “commitments from governors, Senate colleagues, Bush moneymen who opposed him in 2000.” [NYP]

• Reliable Source: Laura Bush on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s plantation remarks: “I think it’s ridiculous, it’s a ridiculous comment. That’s what I think.” [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: The National Enquirer stands by its story that Sen. Ted Kennedy has a 21-year-old “secret love child”. . . George Tenet, dropped from Crown, gets picked up by Harper-Collins. [NYDN]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: David Wade, Sen. John Kerry’s spokesman, issues feisty defense to upcoming GQ article that says Kerry “blew his best chance and that he’s ‘delusional.’” Wade: “I won’t lose sleep over the inside-the-beltway musings of a reporter too young to shave and the Chardonnay-drinking pals he met on the cocktail party circuit.” The reporter, though, is older than Wade. [NYDN]

Rush Limbaugh is making a fuss over a Hotline report that John Kerry tried to fire up his troops at a campaign reunion Christmas party by promising them an impeachment trial in their stocking: “If we take back the House, there’s a solid case to bring articles of impeachment against this president.” Spokeskid David Wade insists that Kerry was “joking,” which surely must be the case as they held the festivities at a place called “Finn McCool’s.” I guess Drinky McLoser’s was booked. MORE »

• Washington Whispers: Trent Lott found his refrigerator three blocks from his house and inside were two sentimental bottles of champagne. . . D.C. television viewers are sick of Barack Obama. . . George H.W. Bush’s presidential library plans to add mock press briefing room. . . Robert Bork jokes, “How do you pronounce Souter in Spanish? Gonzales.”. . . News-addicted actor Joe Pantoliano likes “the girls” on MSNBC, especially Natalie Morales. . . [USN&WR]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Brian Lamb marries someone named Victoria. Spokeswoman: “They were married in a small, private ceremony in the Washington area and Brian was in the office all week”. . . Hillary supporters hope “Inside the Bubble,” a new documentary about the Kerry-Edwards campaign, will end his chances in ‘08. Kerry flack David Wade: “The 20 poor souls subjected to this movie will be reaching for caffeine and begging for old Lamar Alexander tapes on C-SPAN2. Michael Moore has nothing to fear. I think the working title was ‘The Snore Room.’” [NYDN]

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