It was "hobnobber heaven" in Washington after the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night, reported the Washington Post gossips Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger. The Obamas were present, but had no receiving line this year (due to Salahi-gate, we're told). But Daily Show host Jon Stewart and his teary wife met the Obamas backstage:
They told us the Obamas slipped backstage during intermission to greet the performers; Tracey got teary when it was her time to shake the president's hand.
"It was quite a moment," she said.
"If he hadn't stepped on her foot, she wouldn't have cried," joked her husband. "That's what happens to the little people."
Brian Williams and Katie Couric also came down for the shindig, and one ABC reporter dated an Obama administration official:
Hey, Peter Orszag, your date is hot! The lady on the OMB director's arm turned out to be ABC business reporter Bianna Golodryga.
Also in Style, Post TV writer Lisa de Moraes jabbed ABC for what she labeled a reality show titled "Sanctimoniously Dumping Adam Lambert." But sanctimonious? That might be Lisa metaphorically comparing Adam Lambert to Jesus:
In the course of that interview, Babs suggested that the second Station of the Cross should be that Lambert perform on her talk show "The View" to demonstrate he can behave -- except, of course, it's taped. But "The View" will do a big number Thursday. Clever Babs.
With the Post cutting off its bureaus outside Washington, de Moraes may soon have to find another location to unload crazy math like this, claiming that Lambert's performance was both (a) harmless since it aired at 10:55 pm and (b) entirely responsible for the show's higher ratings before that:
Let's review the numbers, shall we?
A. Lambert's performance attracts an additional 2 million viewers to ABC's broadcast last month of the American Music Awards.
B. ABC receives 1,500 complaints about Lambert's AMA show.
All caught up?
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Sanctimonious, indeed.
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 09:35 ET by motherbeltBunch of prigs who want to deny "performers" the "right" to shove their faces into a guy's crotch on national television!
Why is that that liberals like to compare their disgusting examples of depravity to Jesus? This seems to be the only way they can tolerate Christianity at all.
Gag me with a small eating utensil.
crazy leftarded ho had a
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:36 ET by notonmywatchcrazy leftarded ho had a religious experience.
similar to these women:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/hitler%20woman%20cry/havokie/WW2/heil...
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I empathize with Tracey
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 09:36 ET by BKeyserI empathize with Tracey Stewart- he makes me want to cry as well.
Another interesting tidbit about Peter Orszag- his wig was purchased from the same store that sold Joe Dirt's mullett.
He makes me want to cry too,
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 11:11 ET by ForeverOnTheRightHe makes me want to cry too, for this country and the world. Then I get pissed off and I'd either punch him out, yell at him or turn my back on him. (The latter two would be most likely, I am not the violent type.)
1 Picture Can Tell A 1000 Stories
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 17:13 ET by stratmanThis picture of Orszag and Golodryga at the Kennedy Center event makes me think of three things initially:
Parties, awards dinners,
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:21 ET by bse5150Parties, awards dinners, fashion, honors, power, prestige - the Obamas and the Mainstream Media every night!
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is broke, unemployed, or on the battlefield.
And prepare yourself for
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:25 ET by motherbeltAnd prepare yourself for more slobbering when he takes off for Oslo this week to get his Peace Prize. They should be able to get a good 4 or 5 days gushing out of that.
Beer
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:23 ET by legacyrepublicanThe only thing that would have made it better for Stewart's wife would be if they could sit down and have a beer together.
Then after a few too many beers, she could have asked him, "Do I look like Mrs. Obama?"
The media in bed with the
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:28 ET by Mitchell BlattThe media in bed with the administration. So true.
no line
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:32 ET by selmoreLet em eat cake.
Tearing up
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 10:37 ET by SemusI think I'm going to be sick, these supposed adults fawn over this couple - with questionable loyalties by the way - like children, how desperate the they must be for hero's. Then again maybe I'm wrong I just don't seem to get - what is so obvious to Hollywood and the news presenters - that we're missing our chance to grovel at the foot of God.
Meanwhile the Obama's in all their majesty are laughing all the way to the comunity organizing meeting.
wookiee whee!
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 11:05 ET by jon_torlinDid the Wookiee growl at them?
-Jon
That should be 2 m's in
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 17:05 ET by SemusThat should be 2 m's in community, I meant to change that.
I also shed Tears when I see Obama
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 11:23 ET by donsalimanYes, every time I see or hear his name, I cry because I see how he is destroying America
Teleology
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 13:11 ET by slickwillie2001I know most of you folks don't understand the nation's infatuation with this fool, either do I. It may be that there are folks whose brains simply work differently than ours. An excellent article that may help explain it:
Government by Wishful Thinking: http://hotair.com