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Miss California on Cable News: Fox & Friends Gives Carrie Prejean Her Chance
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2009 Comment (913)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
Miss California and Miss USA runner-up, Carrie Prejean, tossed around in the battle over gay marriage, will be a one-day guest host for Fox News Channel's popular morning show Fox & Friends, Whispers learns. She will host the 6 a.m.-to-7 a.m. slot on May 27, filling in for Gretchen Carlson—the 1989 Miss America—who will be off that day.
The decision to make her a one-day cohost was finalized yesterday—the same day Prejean and Miss USA owner Donald Trump appeared on Fox & Friends.
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4 Dark-Horse Republicans in 2012: Pawlenty, Sanford, Huntsman, and Cantor
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2009 Comment (19)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
You already know the names of the Republican stars expected to run for the 2012 presidential nomination: Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Sarah Palin. But with the party divided over the direction it wants to go and a slew of others eager to get in the presidential race, we've come up with a list of dark horses who could pull off an upset just the way 50-to-1 long-shot Mine That Bird did at this year's Kentucky Derby. We know that many Republican leaders are looking to the GOP bench for a candidate, so Whispers over the past month polled some of them for their top 2012 presidential dark-horse picks.
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Celebrity Chefs to Obama's White House?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2009 Comment (7)By Nikki Schwab, Washington Whispers
There's talk that the White House kitchen will be hosting celebrity guest chefs to cook for the first family. One is Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn, whose Capitol Hill Good Stuff Eatery serves an Obama Burger. "I think we're going to do something together," he says. Mendelsohn already knows the First Kitchen, having cooked turkey burgers for the Easter Egg Roll.
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United States Going Away From Gun Control
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2009 Comment (39)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
Maybe it's the 9/11 hangover or those anti-Obama bumper stickers sold at gun shops, but the country is edging away from gun control. "Attitudes toward gun control have become more conservative, people not wanting gun control," says Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll. The number of people who say they want "more strict" gun control measures is dropping, he says. "So the NRA actually is in a pretty good position now, public-opinion-wise."
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Private Practice's Tim Daly Hits Sarah Palin
Tweet Share on Facebook May 13, 2009 Comment (55)By Nikki Schwab, Washington Whispers
The who-in-Hollywood-hates-her list grows. The latest diss on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin comes from Private Practice's Tim Daly, copresident of the Creative Coalition. In Washington to cheer women in government, he says, "Oh, boy, I'm going to try and be as gracious as Mr. Obama has been about her." His attempt: "I'm sure she's an interesting person, but I would rather hope that, whether our politicians are women or men, they would come in a more articulate and better-informed package than Sarah Palin."
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Justice Stephen Breyer Champions Art, Restaurants, Advice
Tweet Share on Facebook May 12, 2009 CommentBy Nikki Schwab, Washington Whispers
Sure, he's known for being serious to the point of boring, but when you get Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer talking about public art and architecture, he gets downright giddy. "One of the great things about public architecture is that Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a law—don't tell anybody this, they might try and take it away—that said one half of 1 percent of every public building's construction budget will be spent on art," Breyer told a National Gallery of Art audience today. "So we have to do that."
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Conservative Catholics Target Obama Aide
Tweet Share on Facebook May 12, 2009 Comment (18)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
He's already under fire for planning to speak at the University of Notre Dame, and now President Obama is about to find himself facing calls to fire a faith-based adviser who slammed Pope Benedict XVI for "hurting people in the name of Jesus." Whispers hears that several conservative Roman Catholics will hold a conference call to press for the ouster of Harry Knox, a leader with the Human Rights Campaign, from the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
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Howard Dean Inks Contract With CNBC
Tweet Share on Facebook May 12, 2009 Comment (6)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
If you think you've seen more of Howard Dean recently than when he was Democratic National Committee chairman, well, you have. A healthcare consultant, Dean has inked a contract with CNBC, putting him on shows like Squawk Box. And now he's circled back to his Vermont-based Democracy for America program, which is building a grass-roots healthcare team to help Dean via a new site, StandWithDrDean.com.
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Gossip Girl's Matthew Settle Meets Real Rich Guy
Tweet Share on Facebook May 11, 2009 CommentBy Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
The popular Gossip Girl show portrays actors who play America's elite and rich, but this weekend it was the really rich who wowed one of the show's actors. Matthew Settle, who plays Rufus Humphrey, experienced a bit of life imitating art at the Niche Media/Capitol File magazine after party at the Corcoran Gallery of Art following the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The show's hipster but unrich dad found himself sitting next to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud in the Qatar Airways VIP lounge. He is the chairman of Kingdom Holding Co. Need we say more? Settle was overheard saying that he didn't expect to be in the company of princes; he also didn't expect that "I'd be talking to the 22nd-richest man in the world. Oddly, the recession didn't even come up."
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White House Correspondents' Dinner in Photos
Tweet Share on Facebook May 11, 2009 Comment (3)By Nikki Schwab, Washington Whispers
Called the "nerd prom" by some, the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner brings the brightest stars of politics, media, and Hollywood together for one evening. Whispers was on hand, and here is a collection of our best shots.
