Gossip Roundup: Highbrow Hussy Brigade
•Reliable Source: Obama, member of the "non-millionaires caucus," likely to get hefty advance for new book(s). . . After photographers atGlamourawards askHelen Thomasto move to the left, she replies, "I'm already on the left. I'm a liberal, a glamorous liberal!" [ WP ]
•Inside the Beltway: Tearful farewell edition of "Booknotes" on Dec. 5th to feature "Why Read?" byMark Edmundson. [ WT ]
•Under the Dome: WillKerryencounterZell Milleron his return? [ The Hill ]
•Page Six: Millersays "you can see horns just sprouting up through [Maureen Dowd's] Technicolor hair": "The more Maureen Loud gets on 'Meet the Press' and writes those columns, the redder these states get. I mean, they don't want some highbrow hussy from New York City explaining to them that they're id iots and telling them that they're stupid."Dowdresponds, "I'm a highbrow hussy from Washington. Senator, pistols or swords?" [ NYP ]
•Cindy Adams: NewObamabook titled, "What I Believe". . .Jennings: "I'm on theArafatwatch. The minute something happens with him, I'm on the next plane." [ NYP ]
•Rush & Molloy: Hutchisonon attack for '08: "[T]he problem forHillarywill be not that she is a woman, but that she is a Northeastern liberal." [ NYDN ]