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President George W. Bush continued to waste his last year in office Saturday, as he hosted a reception for Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen at his Crawford ranch. As they were eating lunch and discussing the… tense?… relations between Denmark and the United States, some batshit redneck lady was threatening to shoot Danish journalists for trespassing across the street. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was not harmed in the incident. MORE »

Ed Henry was just hanging out by the White House, as is his custom, when he noticed “a group of Secret Service agents” hassling a black man. Naturally, Ed “didn’t think too much of it.” That happens all the time! But it turned out to be a famous black man. Dave Chappelle, popular comedian! MORE »

The guy on the left is like 45 seconds away from a glassing. (Photo courtesy Liz Gorman)

Last night found Wonkette dressed to kill at the Hilton Washington Hotel for the 23rd-annual National Press Foundation awards dinner, where we mingled with the ink-stained wretches (and their TV peers, who looked a bit more comfortable in formal wear) and pretended to be real-life journalists. For a recap of the night’s big name guests, speeches, and awardees, you’ll probably want to go here or here. For a bunch of pictures of journalists looking awkward, you’ve come to the right place! We snuck in Wonkette photographer Liz Gorman (without telling our host or getting her a ticket, natch) to capture Washington’s best, brightest, and most adept at scoring free dinners in their unnatural habitat. Full gallery and heavily embellished recollections after the jump!

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• Names & Faces: Novak on Carville: “I would hope he was just trying to be funny and I took it the wrong way.” [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: More Novak on Carville: “I thought that was an unacceptable questioning of my integrity. I overreacted.” [NYDN]
• Inside Politics: Bush reportedly curious about FX’s “Over There.”. . . McGreevey negotiating with Regan Books for a mid-six figure deal for his memoir. [WT]

Screenshot of the Douchebag Diva doing his thing.

Clips, again, is here. Storm begins with the dropping of the barnyard epithet at minute 3:07.

UPDATE: Media Matters also has the clip.

UPDATE: Moved the rough transcript after the jump. Off topic but we can’t resist wondering about this comment from Novak:

a lot of my trouble in the world is they’ve doctored my makeup and the colorrized me in a lot of newspapers on my picture. i sympathize with her.

Bob Novak’s image problems come from people Photoshopping him? Really? Not from the whole “ratting out my sources and shilling for the administration” thing? Really?

UPDATE: Does this mean that MSNBC will give Novak his own show?

UPDATE: Yet another place to see the video.

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Bob Novak apparently just walked off the CNN stage, yelling “This is bullshit!” MORE »