Wonkette

This week, Michael Steele, Adam Kokesh, Clint Borgen, John Edwards, Donald Rumsfeld, Gabrielle Carteris, Patrick Fitzgerald, and Fred Thompson were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. Voyeuristic fun, as always, is after the jump.

MORE »

Donald Rumsfeld has some bathroom issues that Robert Novak can smell clear across town, Ed Harris and John Voight kick themselves for taking advice from frat boys, and Chris Matthews makes sure his tips are properly frosted. All this, plus Ted Koppel without the helmet and why you should begin fearing Michelle Malkin’s kids now.

MORE »

* Heard on the Hill: Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) said “fuck” on the radio last month… Stephanie Tubbs Jones held a “manicures and muffins” party for donors. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: A retired White House pastry chef wrote a memoir! Did you know: the Secret Service used to delease hundreds of trout into the river at Camp David just to keep Jimmy Carter from killing himself. Nancy Reagan was an incredible bitch. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Justin Timberlake: too boring to party in DC… Politicians be throwing football parties. [Examiner]
* Washington Whispers: Colbert guests get better schwag than O’Reilley guests… Scooter Libby’s and Karl Rove’s publicists just merged to form a one-stop PR house for incompetent criminals… Hillary Clinton is funny. [USN&WR]
* Shenanigans: Michael Steele drives around in a Lexus with a “Steele for Senate” sticker. [Politico]

The tipsters have gotten themselves on the “good” list and uncle Wonk’d has loads of stocking stuffers for an early Christmas. These presents might not be as good as the ones Laura Bush was seen buying, but you get what you pay for. Unwrap a jaywalking John Bolton, an over-caffeinated Katherine Harris, an anatomically correct Anderson Cooper, and an occasionally anonymous Dan Bartlett that comes with elephant sidekick, under the tree.

MORE »

What we learned from the Post about Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele and his campaign for the Senate: MORE »

“It’s all fun. I’m not Mike Tyson,” he said, referring to the fierce boxer whose career was upended by a prison term. “I’m not 20 years old. I’m not going to smash anybody. I’m not going to talk about smashing anybody’s brains. You’re not going to see that guy no more.”

At the press conference, Tyson posed for photos with fans, signed autographs and campaigned for Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Michael Steele.
Tyson, wearing a white and blue Steele for U.S. Senate T-shirt, said he used to believe black Republicans were “sellouts.” But Tyson said he changed his mind after researching the Maryland lieutenant governor.

“We have to open our eyes more,” Tyson said, as he pointed to his T-shirt.

MORE »

“About Me: I’m hip hoppin my way to the United States Senate!” MORE »

• Heard on the Hill: The ballad of Dennis Hastert and crazy evangelist con artist K.A. Paul… Maryland Senate candidate Michael Steele spends an awful lotta time with the lobbyists at Quinn Gillespie and Associates. Try “two days a week, dialing for dollars” sez one, Steele denies it… DC Magazine runs picture of Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA) and her boyfriend, Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla). Captions it Bono “and guest.” [Roll Call]
• Reliable Source: Hillary Clinton’s mom has moved in with her… Mary Matalin compares her husband James Carville to Kim Jong-il. [WP]
• Yeas and Nays: Republicans hold fundraisers on golf courses surrounded by rich people… George Allen takes the money donated by Mark Foley, gives it to anti-porn group headed by Donna Rice. [Examiner]
• Rush and Molloy: Gore Vidal (god bless him) says Eleanor Roosevelt had “a Sapphic passion” for Amelia Earhart. Earhart was kinda creeped out. [NYDN]

Black Democratic leaders in Maryland are OUTRAGED over a new radio ad by a black Republican group backing black Republican Michael S. Steele’s senate campaign. They’re so outraged that Steele himself has become outraged, even though he didn’t have any problems with the ad yesterday. Before the outrage.

Why so angry? Because the ad says Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. And that Democrats fought every piece of civil rights legislation for a solid century … because what else can you expect from the Ku Klux Klan?

You know, the truth … the kind of thing that confuses the masses! Hear the ad, after the jump.

MORE »

A brief primer for those of you kind enough to email us tips. We love and desperately need you, so don’t take this the wrong way, but… the Maryland Senate race is boring. Comparatively, we mean. Ok. A Ben Cardin (Cardin’s… not the black guy, right?) had a staffer who wrote an anonymous blog that said questionable things about Oreo cookies, black people, and grope-y old Jews. And, you know, congrats to Wizbang, you cracked this one wide open (though we’re pretty sure we got the same email you guys did on September 14), you deserve all the credit… MORE »