The entitled masses
With 6 million people in the Washington area — and 5 million who consider themselves important — you can count on some good stories when they screw up.
Take Kitty Kelley: The dirt-dishing author got caught on camera sneaking into the yard of her Georgetown neighbor Candyce Martin’s and uprooting some plants, the latest chapter in a long-running feud.
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Or Sen. Larry Craig: After he was famously arrested in a men’s room, he told NBC’s Matt Lauer that he was Internet illiterate, even though we brought to your attention the fact that he’s a member of the Internet Caucus, won an award for promoting Internet safety earlier this year and referred to “Googling” this summer in an op-ed.
And only a few scant weeks before he was busted in a sting for trying to arrange a tryst with a 13-year-old boy, we noticed that Senate staffer James Michael McHaney got a warning from one of his friends on his Facebook page: “Watch out for Larry Craig!”
Leon Fuerth, Vice President Al Gore’s former chief of staff, got himself locked up when he was caught driving an unregistered car around Logan Circle the day after Thanksgiving.
The White House hired Marriott’s Jenny Botero to be its director of housekeeping, but not before she ripped fliers out of the hand of an 8-year-old deaf girl and tore them up during a protest at the Crystal Gateway Marriott.
Actress Cameron Diaz, in town for the Kennedy Center Honors, refused to pose for a picture with Rep. Ed Markey and his wife, former Assistant Surgeon General Susan Blumenthal. We even heard that they asked nicely.
Unveiling her photography exhibit at the Corcoran, Annie Liebovitz disclosed that when she shot Bill Clinton early in his presidency, he refused to be photographed with a cigar.
D.C. Council Member Marion Barry was bounced from Conservation International’s D.C. Environmental Gala at Union Station, which featured Harrison Ford. The former mayor claimed he was going to another event, but the doormen weren’t buying it.
Former Clinton aide Sandy Berger had some car trouble at an Upper Northwest office building. Unfortunately for the former national security adviser, the first offer he got for a jump-start was from a van belonging to conservative talk station WMAL — and the van had Rush Limbaugh’s face emblazoned on the side. Guess you take your help where you can get it. …
Amber Lee Ettinger, who gained online fame as the “Obama Girl” and came to town for Arianna Huffington’s Georgetown house party, must have been desperate to return to New York City: We learned that she paid $750 for a car service back to New York when she missed the last train out.
One celeb, however, disclosed that she wouldn’t be behaving badly anytime soon: ex-spy Valerie Plame said no way would she ever pose in Playboy.
And after dangling $1 million for anyone with information about congressional misbehavior, we’re still waiting
for the goods from Larry Flynt.
