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Wonkette’s own Liz Glover took her video camera and Polaroid to an April 1 party for “Our America,” a thing to help the low-income youth. As you can imagine, the powerful D.C. media wanted nothing to do with this (poor black kids are such downers), but John Kerry was there! MORE »

This week, Carl Levin, Elizabeth Kucinich, Ted Koppel, Russ Feingold, George Tenet, Sam Brownback, and Dennis Kucinich 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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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.

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Last night, Team Wonkette rubbed elbows with the D.C. media elite, at the third annual presentation of the Michael Kelly Award:

The $25,000 award is given annually to a journalist whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly’s own career: the fearless pursuit and expression of truth. Kelly, who was the editor of two Atlantic Media publications, The Atlantic Monthly and National Journal, was killed while covering the war in Iraq in 2003.

It was a delightful evening, definitely one of the better parties that we’ve crashed attended lately. As media junkies, our heads were left spinning from all the star-spotting: Peggy Noonan! Adam Nagourney! Howard Fineman! Gwen Ifill! Matt Cooper! (But where was FROOMKIN???)

After the jump, additional commentary on the evening — plus fabulous photos, by Liz Gorman. Enjoy!

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Last week, we admitted that we were desperate for sightings. You responded with desperate sightings: Andrew Sullivan, Matt Cooper, Ted Koppel… they’re all here, Washington’s most recognizable non-famous people. We applaud, we thank, we’ll buy the next round. Please keep sending your sightings of D.C. “celebrities” to . All Gang of 500 members eligible. Sightings after the jump.

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• Fox’s DC holiday party theme: Holiday Dock Party Aboard the Titanic. “One wag suggested the Fox folks may be planning to invite the CNN Washington bureau, then abandon ship before the Titanic sets sail.” [BCBeat]
• Ted Koppel reveals low standards at going away party: “It’s a good urine, but not a great urine.” [B&C]
• The TIME Person of Year curse. [Media Mob]
• Karl Rove and public broadcasting head discussed creating “conservative” show for PBS. Because the White House lacks an effective media operation of its own. [Bloomberg]
• An uncomfortable laugh in the WaPo newsroom. [WP]

• Reliable Source: People magazine puts Patrick Fitzgerald under “Smart Guys” in their “Sexiest Man” issue. . . Ted Koppel can do strong impressions of Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. [WP]
• Under the Dome: Dean Barkley, who was tapped to serve out Paul Wellstone’s term, now manages Kinky Friedman’s campaign for governor of Texas. . . Eight people show up for Rep. David Hobson’s (R-Ohio) pheasant-hunting fundraiser. . . The Kennedys, Kerry, Hillary, and Scarborough honor Robert F. Kennedy on his 80th birthday. . . Spokesmen for DeLay and Hillary are awarded “Flak Jacket” honors. [The Hill]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Rove’s attorney may have purchased an “I Love Karl Rove” shirt. [NYDN]

• Bush will nominate conservative appeals court Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court; his resume is similar to John Roberts‘ and he has upheld restrictions on abortion. [WP, AP, Reuters]
• Filibuster fight may loom. Harry Reid: “If he wants to divert attention from all of his many problems, he can send us somebody that is going to create a lot of problems.” Arlen Specter: “There could be a real tough battle here and a real tough fight, depending on whom the president puts up.” [WP, NYT, WSJ, LAT]
• 55% in Gallup Poll believe the Bush presidency is a failure; Bush starts a busy week of his comeback strategy with Supreme Court nomination. Nicolle Wallace: “We’ll be going around the [media] filter to communicate directly with the American people about the things they care about.” [USAT]
• Reid calls for Rove’s resignation and an apology from Bush; Rove, meanwhile, “remains in significant [legal] danger.” [WP, NYT, WT]
• Bush pays tribute to Rosa Parks at Capitol Hill ceremony. Condoleezza Rice in Montgomery: “I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state.” [NYT]
• Scooter Libby “has no sense of entitlement, no sense that he’s been victimized. Just an attitude of ‘circumstances have to be dealt with,’” says Mary Matalin; friends plan on establishing legal fund as his defense expands. [WP, NYT, WSJ]

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• Page Six: Ted Koppel may ink multi-million dollar deal with HBO when he leaves “Nightline”. . . Rush Limbaugh defines himself as an ubersexual. [NYP, NYP]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Chuck Todd apologizes to Richard Bradley after The Hotline repeatedly referenced him as “Ex-Dick Blow.”. . . Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey will visit the Clinton Library for publicity. [NYDN]
• Inside Politics: Spike Lee says the government may have destroyed the levee in New Orleans to “displace al the black people.”. . . Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton use U2 concerts to raise money; the band complains. [WT]

We’re taking a break. Someone keep an eye on whatever bone-headed thing Bush does. MORE »

Our second to last Wonk’d of the slow season. Please keep collecting the lamest excuses for “famous” that you can — and remember, we’re including famous-for-DC outside of DC — and send them to . In this issue, an actually rather impressive-for-August number of sightings of famous-for-DC, including lots of generals (Clark, Meyers, McCaffrey), George Will hyping and diving, Tucker Carlson at McDonald’s, Leahy, Dukakis, Coulter, Baldridge, Koppel, Chertoff, Woodruff, Kerry, McClellan, Pennington, Clinton, Obama, King, Sharpton, Gannon, Hunt.

They’re all after the jump.

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