This week,
Tommy Thompson, Tim Russert, Dennis Kucinich, George Stephanopoulus, Anthony Kennedy, Jeff Daniels, Ariana Huffington, 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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Tommy Thompson, G Concourse
O’Hare Airport Thursday night.
HUGE lapel flag. Saw him first in men’s room, where many people were chatting him up (perhaps waiting to see if he had a wide stance?) Saw him again in concourse, where he totally left his bag unattended. Didn’t he just endorse the 9/11 candidate? Why does he hate America?
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Tim Russert was at 2 Amy’s on Friday night enjoying some pizza. (Bill Cosby was not with him.)
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Dennis Kucinich, in Rayburn, wearing a brown crushed-velvet jacket. It was scary, because legislators are supposed to be too old to like irony.
*I saw
George Snufalafagus (I don’t know how his name is spelled - He’s the little Greek boy with the big hair who’s on the TV) cruising the Georgetown Canals on Sunday [10/14]. He looked very sad and lonely and kept fiddling with his cell phone. A missed rendezvous? He finally gave up and walked back to M Street — probably to the bathroom at the Four Seasons for some hot toe-tapping action. Yes, he is as tiny as he looks and my god his head/hair is massive.
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Justice Kennedy dining at Charlie Palmer with four or five suits. He seemed quite affable, and was escorted into the building by a rather hot official-looking man, presumably a bodyguard?
*I saw
Jeff Daniels this morning (10/18) leaving the Palomar Hotel. There was also some kind of Audi convention going on so there were a lot of folks milling about. Nobody seemed to give him a second glance though.
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Ariana Huffington on the red line this morning. She did not speak, but was flipping through the first pages of the Washington Post. I don’t want to sound like R. Kelly, but if I was a younger lad, I may want to get in on the ground floor with Ariana’s daughter if she ages as well as mom.
*I stood in line yesterday (Monday, November 8) behind fed chairman
ben bernanke at the (un) Safeway on the Hill. his fishing vest clad secret service goon gave him away but otherwise he looked like a typical middle age, potbellied, balding Jewish dad. Was not particularly patient with the sales clerk (who was surprisingly polite) and nearly walked off without signing his credit card receipt. most notable purchase…an enormous bag of dog food.
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A week ago today, we bitterly presented the World's Worst Wonk'd. The "D.C. celebrity sightings" consisted of George Will buying another fucking book at Borders, and a fireman who had once been on local teevee. We demanded that you people get it together, and you got it together! Huzzah for Wonkette Operatives! This week, Fred Thompson, Robert Mueller, Tom Ridge, Juan Williams, Marion Barry, Ben Bernanke, Ken Mehlman, Robert Novak, Dana Milbank, Mark Warner, and David Frum were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. The most voyeuristic fun ever in Wonkette's Five Long Years of History, after the jump.
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This week, George Will is sure going to be bummed when Borders shuts down for good, and one of you recognized a fireman or something. You people are not really being very good spies and operatives, are you? We realize nobody cares about anything but Barack Obama these days and all the famous-for-D.C. people are either recuperating at home or out on somebody's campaign trail, but Jesus Christ, how about a few sightings?
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How the hell is Mike Huckabee doing these days? Well, he’s thirsty, and he’s still running for President of Jesus, and to finance both of these things he delivered a paid speech in the Cayman Islands — where the Fat Cats hide their money — this weekend. Wonkette operative “Mikey G.” happened to spot Huckabee at Miami Airport on Sunday, presumably when our heroic candidate was returning from his Island holiday. Huckabee, of course, was very alone, and no one knew who he was.
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