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MoDo's Georgetown bash: "The fanciest treats she had were pigs in a blanket..."

Wed, 01/21/2009 - 1:21pm — vastleft

A get-rich-quick idea: set up a stand selling "Eat the Rich" t-shirts, then get everyone you can to read this post.

Once you become rich, they'll have to eat you, too, but at least you'll understand.

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I just don't follow the "Bring a beard to a State Dinner" bit.

By TonyRz on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:02pm

FTA:

Best line of the evening I heard besides Maureen Dowd's tales of JFK was said to David Geffen and boyfriend Jeremy by someone who I won't name.

This person said to them, "When you guys come to a State Dinner, you don't have to come as a couple. Both of you come and you each bring a date," nodding Maureen Dowd's way.

This is going to be a much more gay friendly White House. Take that Rick Warren.

I don't get it.

Is the author of the piece making a funny about the new administration's "friendliness"?

Has David Geffen been in the closet since dating Cher years ago?

Is the (unnamed) person being quoted just being extremely dry and I don't get it?

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You're right, it makes no sense

By vastleft on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:08pm

But that's the way you need to look at the world to think that hangin' with Maureen and Andy is downright upright -- everything's a great big Antoinette larf.

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makes no sense at all

By DCblogger on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 4:35pm

and does not sound very gay friendly

speaking of pigs-in-blankets, did Hamsher have one? I would like to see a photo of that.

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WTF was Jane Hamsher doing there?

By Randall Kohn on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:36pm

Just wonderin'...

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JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
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Jane went to lots of parties, and why not?

By TonyRz on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 5:18pm

Haven't been able to read FDL much since they went over to the Hope Side many moons ago, but still on the front page is a posting by JH about lobbyists including this aside about the parties she personally went to:

Media Matters, the DNC, Declare Yourself, FDL/Netroots Nation, the Illinois Home State Ball, the Huffington Post Ball and the Google Ball among others

And I have to say, why the hell not? Whatever I think of what FDL's comments section (and certain front-pagers) these days, I don't think she's going to start kissing Harry Reid's ass in print because Maureen Dowd gave her some cocktail weenies. And didn't she have a day job in Hollywood a lifetime ago? Maybe she just showed up at places and said "I'm with Geffen!". :)

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I lost the FDL habit a long time ago

By vastleft on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 5:34pm

They certainly were champs about Scooter Libby and other issues, but this kind of stuff makes me not miss the place.

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Yeah, I agree FDL failed the kool-aid test long ago.

By TonyRz on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 5:48pm

The comments section there is downright toxic, and as with Atrios/Eschaton, lead the admins in going insane. And it's still nutty today: check out the followups to the FDL posting entitled "Worst. Inauguration. Ever." about some poor schmuck stuck behind a locked gate with a purple ticket and hundreds of his closest friends through the Tuesday ceremony.

I still like tbogg, though, and Jane writes an occasional killer piece on House and Senate tomfoolery. Just a matter of wearing more filters, I guess....

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why not indeed

By DCblogger on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 6:12pm

I actually think it is a good thing when the netroots people get invited to these things. Of course there is always the possibility that they will get coopted, but I really don't have a problem with it.

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Cocktail wienies!

By lambert on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:39pm

In little blankets!!!

I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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More wretched excess from MoDo

By lambert on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:46pm

Via Suzie.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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MoDo: "I just wanted to celebrate myself"

By Davidson on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 6:25pm

She drank champagne and ate croissants at the Lincoln Memorial to celebrate how non-racist she is (Check out the clip; the last 30 seconds or so). She was that girl in high school that sat in the corner and ate her hair wasn't she?

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And the "O"rgy stars in earnest

By Damon on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 10:18pm

I want to be mad, but I can't stop from laughing. They aren't pretending to be Versailles, they are Versailles on the Potomac. Given this new infusion of Hope, I'm expecting to see Washington literally lifting into the clouds any day, now. And, by God, if His (Obama's) will be done, it will do just that.

More seriously, it's becoming more apparent than ever that America has an attention span even shorter than Dubya's, and Dubya's attention span was equal to that of a fruit fly.

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But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...

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