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Palin and Rep. Frank Entertain at Gridiron's First Tweet-able DinnerTimes are a-changin' for the Gridiron Club. For the first time in its 124-year history, the Gridiron lifted its "off the record" rule at a dinner and allowed tweeting, CNN reported first (and tweeted). USA Today's Susan Page, CNN's John King, Time's Karen Tumulty, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times and Politics Daily's Lynn Sweet and one of the Gridiron's newest members Slate and CBS' (and avid Tweeter) John Dickerson-- just some of the journos at last night's dinner whose Tweets we were following. Sarah Palin- who was in town for a book signing- and Rep. Barney Frank were the winter dinner's Republican and Democratic speakers, respectively. Palin, who attended with husband Todd, poked fun at herself: @mitchellreports: Surrounded by newsmen and women -Palin joked she likes being in dc - can see the russian embassy from her hotel room And some Frank highlights: @susanpage: At #gridiron, Barney frank proposes reality tv show for palin-McCain: "John & Sarah minus 8." says his show would be "king of queens." And the closer... @johnkingcnn: Governor Palin joins Gridiron Chorus for dinner final song, a twist on 12 Days of Christmas. The Gridiron dinners are closed to the media- and club leaders say last night's tweeting was just an experiment for now. EARLIER on FBDC... Tonight: Journos' Gridiron Dinner with Palin and Rep. Frank RELATED... AP: Palin pokes fun at herself at journalists' dinner CNN Celebrates the Holidays at Nats StadiumCNN hit the batting cages at Nationals Stadium last week for the bureau holiday party. Ed Henry got shots of John King and Briana Keilar in action and shared them on Twitter. We hear there was even karaoke involved... and that Wolf Blitzer and Donna Brazile make quite the duet. More pics via @edhenrycnn after the jump... "SNL" Spoofs the Salahis"Saturday Night Live" opened with a Salahi spoof last night (and the DC Twitterverse went wild)... CNN's Wolf Blitzer also got the "SNL" treatment last night, reporting on Tiger Woods. Richard Wolffe Working on Second Obama BookVia WaPo's Reliable Source: After a brief stint in lobbying/PR, Richard Wolffe is back in journalism. Sunday Show Preview• NBC's Meet the Press: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), NYT's Thomas Friedman and WaPo's Bob Woodward • CBS' Face the Nation: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates • ABC's This Week: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and a roundtable with CFR President Richard Haass, ABC's and columnist George Will, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel and WSJ's Peggy Noonan • Fox News Sunday: U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. David Petraeus, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and a panel with Fox News analysts Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, NPR's Mara Liasson, former White House press secretary Dana Perino and NPR's Juan Williams • CNN's State of the Union: National security advisor Ret. Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and CNN's Mary Matalin and James Carville • CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: CBS' Chip Reid, FrumForum.com's David Frum, TNR's Michelle Cottle, Lisa Bloom, Us Weekly's Bradley Jacobs and New York Magazine's Will Leitch • CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, NYT's Tom Friedman and former IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei • NBC's The Chris Matthews Show: BBC's Katty Kay, New York Magazine's John Heilemann, CNN's Gloria Borger and Time's Michael Duffy • Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: ABC's Martha Raddatz, Time's Michael Duffy, NJ's James Kitfield and LAT's Doyle McManus • Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Bloomberg's Janine Zacharia, Margaret Carlson and Kate O'Beirne • Washington Watch with Roland Martin: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), and U.S. Army (Retired) Major General John Hawkins, American Urban Radio Networks April Ryan, Republican commentator Ron Christie, Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, Politico's Nia-Malika Henderson and News One/Interactive One's Smokey Fontaine • CNN's Amanpour: Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tonight: Journos' Gridiron Dinner with Palin and Rep. FrankTo preview tonight's winter Gridiron dinner, here's FBDC's post from earlier this week: The Gridiron Club's winter dinner is this Saturday and while the President isn't expected to attend, some big name guests will be there. Schieffer Shares Fave Kennedy Center StoriesFresh off an appearance on CBS' "Washington Unplugged," Politico's Patrick Gavin and Anne Schroeder Mullins turned the cameras on webcast anchor Bob Schieffer to talk about his favorite Kennedy Center Honors memories. He's been to nearly every one! The Kennedy Center Honors is tomorrow evening. Tammy Haddad Hosts Toast to Dan PfeifferFrom today's Playbook by Mike Allen: "Tammy Haddad saluted Dan Pfeiffer, the new White House communications director, with a flash-mob buffet supper of salmon and bow-tie pasta with capers and olives. (Ask David Greenberg how many powdered-sugar brownies he hoarded downstairs.) Tammy's toast to Dan included love for his bride, Sarah Feinberg. Tammy surprised Al Hunt, aglow from interviewing Secretary Geithner, with a birthday cupcake from Marvelous Market (chocolate/chocolate, with two candles and a candy cane). The candles almost melted down when Howard Fineman interrupted with a toast to Tammy." Hey Isn't That... Movie Extra? Or Bloomberg Reporter?An anonymous tipster points out that that's Bloomberg reporter John Salant as an extra in the 1980s movie "Absence of Malice." On Facebook Salant calls this his "favorite scene." The movie was shot in the Miami Herald newsroom when he was a reporter there. Amanpour Gets "World Exclusive" with KarzaiIn a "world exclusive," CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviews Afghan President Hamid Karzai for her new Sunday show. This is the Afghan President's first interview since President Obama announced his new strategy in Afghanistan this week. "Amanpour" airs Sundays at 2pmET on CNN. Suspicious Package at the German Embassy Tonight
A Suspicious Package will be admitted to the Embassy of Germany tonight. Tim Burger, Tom Toles, Josh Meyer, Bryan Greene and Christina Sevilla will be playing at the Embassy's gala celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. They go on at 9pm and say it "would be fun to see folks there to hoist a Berliner Weisse." To Crash or Not to Crash? The Media-Types' Complete Holiday Party GuideWe'll just provide the dets of this holiday season's media-type parties, most of which are invite-only, and let you decide for yourself whether or not to pull a Salahi... Saturday, December 5th We'll continue to update this list. Follow FBDC's coverage here on the blog and on Twitter. |
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