Gossip Roundup: More Helmets Edition
•Washington Whispers: Democrats to launch online reality show, "Republican Survivor," starringBush, DeLay, Coulter.GOP flak: "Cartoons don't win elections". . .BrazileworriedClintonstook black vote for granted whenMcAuliffewas named chair. . . Top officials to detail techniques used at Gitmo. . .BrockwritesRumsfeldto removeLimbaugh. . . RevampedKerrysite will let supporters phone bank from home. . . G-8 leaders can bring their wives for the first time in five years. . .Kerryrequested diverse security detail. . . In meetings,Bush'snew advisor on homeland security has authority overAshcroft,who fired her from Justice. [ USN&WR ]
•Names & Faces: Baby Jessicagraduates high school. . . Colorado chef gets to serve Peking duck toBush. . .Bonoaddresses EU. [ WP ]
•Under the Dome: Lotton Iraqi prison scandal: "Interrogation is not a Sunday-school meeting.". . .Trippi: "I believe we're going to take back the Senate and the House. I think we're going to take all three. People know there's something really wrong. . . IfBushwins [in 2004] by three points, we're all going to think he stole it.". . .BreauxlendsKerryfootball helmets, but adds: "The incumbent needs more helmets than the challenger in this case.". . .MadonnajoinsDorganforKerryfundraiser.
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•Heard on the Hill: Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.)campaigns forRep. Jim Moran (D-Va.),thus allowing his father to stay out of the dirty primary. . . New anti-Naderblog launches. . .Helen Thomas, Begala, Clarence Page, Bill Press, Margaret Carlson, Clift, Pinkertoncelebrate paperback release ofDavid Corn's Bushexpose. SaysPinkerton,"In the spirit ofVoltaire,Im not defending the book; Im defending his right to publish it. As much as Id like to meetPaul Newman,I dont want to be on the board ofThe Nation." [ Roll Call ]
•Inside the Beltway: Cheri JacobuscallsKerry"The Benchwarmer from Massachusetts". . . Journalists in the '60s were also liberal-minded. [ WT ]
•Liz Smith: Gingrichco-writes novel onGrant.[ NYP ]
•Cindy Adams: Jann Wenneron upcomingKerryconcert: "We discussed this six years ago butAl [Gore]ran. . . I told him: 'It's time to have a snowboarder in the White House.'" [ NYP ]
•Rush & Molloy: Bush 41: "I have total disdain for[Michael] Moore. . . I don't appreciate it. I don't like it." [ NYDN ]
•Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: PBS played with the idea of aLynne Cheneyhistory show, according toAuletta.On addingTucker'snew show,Moyerssays, "This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that [the Corporation for Public Broadcasting] has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons." [ NYDN ]