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Famous 5: Rick Klein
Meet Rick Klein. He Tweets from the hospital room when his child is born and covers politics and hosts Top Line for ABC News. In addition to that, Mr. Klein was recently promoted to Senior Washington News Editor for ABC “World News.” Rick was kind enough to spend a few …
Who Doesn’t Love a Good List? [Part 2]
Chris Paulitz continues his quest and gets support from Late Night Shots … Chris Paulitz today releases my more serious “Top 5 Famous DC Who The Hell Writes that Stuff Guesses”: 1. Longworth Cafeteria’s “Little” Doris 2. Jimmy the Elevator Guy 3. Officer Garland “Jaywalking” Thompson 4. Sam the Taylor …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
Ron Artest and the Lakers are World Champions, Dale Peterson is the new Sarah Palin, the East Coast-West Coast rapper wars in the 90s have finally trickled down into the 2010 AL AG Commish race, Media > Congress, out of work Louis Vuittons protested, USA SOCCER WAS ROBBED, top DC …
Famously Quoteworthy: Open Hand Diplomacy
He’s got a good point … Thaddeus McCotter U.S. Soccer team got robbed out of winning goal by the referee! “Open hand diplomacy” clearly not working in World Cup.
Reporters vs. Congress #Softball
It was a humid Wednesday evening in Glover Park as Members of Congress battled the press corps in an ultimate, winner-take-all, softball showdown. The House Leadership, led by Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Whip Cantor, joined Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to root for the Congressional team. John King, …
Department of Corrections
We bet a little yelling yesterday led to this nugget in Playbook today. CORRECTION: We ran an item yesterday about convos between the White House and the Senate about July’s schedule. The item was poorly worded, and was interpreted as suggesting the administration had given the Senate a deadline or …
Fashion Police: Ad Shows Unemployed With Designer Handbag
Now, we aren’t ad geniuses or anything, but this part of the new American Crossroads ad caught our eye. Apparently, there are a lot of unemployed people in Nevada. And they seem to all be white…and carrying designer handbags. Call us crazy, but that bag that lady is holding looks …
Sweet Home Rayburn
Could this be the greatest reception in the history of Congress?
Who Doesn’t Love a Good List?
Veteran Hill flak Chris “Curious George” Paulitz is on a mission: to find out who the crazy kids behind FamousDC are (h/t Man in the Yellow Hat). He launched his campaign today via Facebook, with some really interesting guesses. First, Chris, we’re flattered you care enough to know more about …
Who is Richard Urban?
We have no idea who Richard Urban is, but because he uses strange condom clip art and emails us all the time, we’ve decided to link to his website. [Richard Urban for DC City Council]
Dear Friends
Dear Friends, Last week FamousDC became famous. Like Drudge famous. Like now Nancy O’Dell is following us on Twitter famous. Like maybe if we weren’t anonymous, we would make one of those fancy Capitol File lists famous. As our readers know, this change in status came about after we posted …
What the Hell is Going on Down In South Carolina?
Apparently you don’t need money, a website or name recognition to win a Senate primary in South Carolina. [sh*t is easy] Meet Alvin Greene, the Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina. Alvin won on Tuesday, but has no idea how. Nor does anyone else… Greene, an unemployed 32-year-old who …
Closing Bell: The Right Idea
TRI Ep. 37: Elections, Laffer Curve & MTV from The Winston Group on Vimeo.
Not the Onion: Goat spears Rep. Weiner, draws blood
During a press conference This video doesn’t show the accident, but is still worth watching your Congress at work.
Mike Allen Rides Hover Board to Cantor Interview
…and then used this to record the conversation. Spotted on Eric Cantor’s blog.