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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 …
WITNESS! Beer Pong Story Makes It To Lebron Land
So, some folks have been giving us a little heat for posting our beer pong story. But that is all about to change, sports fans. Yesterday morning, Cleveland morning news anchors chatted about the Vietor and Favreau excursion, gave us our props, and discussed how fun it must be being …
Too Much Famous
Boy, that escalated quickly… I mean, that really got out of hand fast. Washington Post: Hey isn’t that…: Desirée Rogers, Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau, Ty Burrell Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau shirtless at Old Glory on Sunday. The White House spokesman and the chief speechwriter appeared to be playing beer …
Barack Obama’s White House DJ
Sure, others may spin at Privilege in Ibiza, but who else can say they’ve been all DJ quick hands at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? DJ Truman in the House, er, the White House!
Obama’s Dog Is Worth More Than Our Car
It’s good to be Bo. Bo is the Sixteen Hundred Dollar Dog, according to Barack Obama’s newly released financial disclosure form for 2009. In the White House’s reckoning, that’s the market value of the dog the Obama family received as a gift from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and his …
Famous 5: John Stanton
Meet John Stanton: Congressional reporting, fireworks eating, all-American bad ass. Mr. Stanton took a break between covering the SCOTUS madness for Roll Call and brutal Gaelic football practices to answer a few questions for a FamousDC Famous 5 interview. 1. You’ve been on the hill for several years and we …
White House Uses Wikipedia for Research
Who needs a research department when you have Wikipedia? President Obama presented a revised version of history at the correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night when he unveiled issues of POLITICO from previous centuries. And while POLITICO certainly didn’t exist during the Civil War or the fight for America’s independence, the …
Obama Crushes Leno
It wasn’t even close. Once again, the standup routines of Barack Obama and then Jay Leno at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night demonstrated that the most dangerous job in comedy is following the president of the United States—especially when the latter has better writers. [trounces] And who exactly …
Obama Grills [INSERT BANKING JOKE HERE]
Reuters Oddly Enough: Bring your banker, we’re grilling out!
Pride of the Yankees
CNN’s Ed Henry snapped this photo today when the defending champs met with President Barack Obama and the First Family at the White House. h/t Kevin Madden
The Timing of Political Points
We hear … A NY based news source is preparing a FOIA request of the entire SEC related to potential SEC – White House – DNC collusion. Stay tuned. RELATED: Full time line
The Timing of Political Points
Tuesday, April 20 Things are heating up. Daily Finance: Goldman Sachs Earnings Double to $3.5 Billion as Firm Faces SEC Suit Embattled Goldman Sachs (GS) said Tuesday that thanks to its trading and investing prowess, its first-quarter profit doubled to $3.5 billion, easily beating analysts’ expectations. Matt Drudge is still …
The Timing of Political Points
We can’t get enough of this story so we are going to post an update each morning of the latest developments. We will continue to update the full time line. Monday, April 19 Don’t call it a comeback. Politico: Spitzer: Goldman suit no coincidence “This was not a coincidence,” asserted …
The Timing of Political Points
Wow, things really escalated quickly. Friday, April 16 The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors. [kick off] POLITICO’s Marty Kady questions the timing of the SEC’s charges [Twitter] Convenient timing: Huge SEC charges against Goldman land week before …