About last night…
Hefner’s only sort of hot for Hillary
We all know that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner likes women…but who does he like for president?
We caught up with Hugh’s daughter, Christie, at Sunday night’s Friends of New Orleans event, held in Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium, and decided to ask her. (Christie currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Playboy magazine).
“Oh, Dad’s definitely going for Obama,” Hefner told Yeas & Nays. “He just instantly felt that Obama ‘got it’ and that he had the goods to get this country doing the kind of things it needs to be doing.” But lest you think that Hugh’s not supporting women (ahem, Hillary, ahem), Christie made sure to add, “But he really likes Hillary, too! She’s just not the change agent we need right now.”
Checkbook journalism
A sign that it’s still business as usual in Washington (er, Denver): On Sunday night, the lines were long to get into the Blue Dog Democrats’ big bash with entertainment by K.T. Tunstall. At one point, a middle-aged man in a suit skirted the line and strolled up to the ladies manning the door. “You’ll have to step back,” one of the doorkeepers told him. “But I have a check!” came his response. “Oh, right this way, sir,” she said, as she turned that frown around. “I’ll take you right back.”
They won more gold medals, too
Much was made of the Democrats’ insistence on obtaining party favors, decorations and other convention accoutrements from U.S.-based, union manufacturers. Looks like the dream didn’t become reality. On Sunday night, when partygoers left the Friends of New Orleans party, many carried traditional Mardi Gras beads. Wrapped around those beads was a paper ring that read: “Made in China.”
Ted’s tired
Just because CNN founder Ted Turner is a big Democratic supporter doesn’t mean he’s happy to be here in Denver. Why? Too much socializing. We overheard Turner chatting on his cell phone Monday and had to chuckle at this sarcastic line: “Yeah, I did three cocktail parties yesterday afternoon, and you know how I love those things…”
He left his heart with Barack Obama
That was famed crooner Tony Bennett holding court at Denver’s The Palm restaurant Sunday night. Bennett was there with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt.
So I assume you’re backing Obama, Mr. Bennett? “Oh, you bet. He’s my guy.” To which Gephardt added: “You won’t find many Republicans in these parts!”
The Secret Service snubs Rather
At 76 years old, former CBS anchor Dan Rather isn’t as quick and nimble as he once was. So it was, then, that in the middle of a hot day on Sunday, sources of ours overheard one of the tired reporter’s young aides ask a Secret Service agent outside the Pepsi Center if “they wouldn’t mind giving Mr. Rather a ride” across town in their air-conditioned SUV. But the agent wasn’t having any of it, pointing to his badge and dismissing the assistant with a curt, “I’m Service.”
