Andrea Mitchell of NBC offered this topper: "I was interviewing an Iraqi diplomat yesterday and he had a Monica Lewinsky joke." There was, to be sure, talk of Monica Lewinsky, but to make any waves with this crowd, your jokes had better be fresh off the presses. "Alma," the retired general shouted to his wife, "the neighborhood's shot! The sign goes up tomorrow: For Sale." Then King let on that he is moving to McLean, where Powell lives. "Jesse Jackson's going to come after you for that," he said. "It's a black guy sitting at a desk," King quipped. Yeah, what school? King replied before returning to his exploration of Powell's latest venture - no joke - a Colin Powell GI Joe doll, coming soon to a toy store near you. Presidential lawyer Bob Bennett docked at the CNN trough, pronounced his client to be "feeling good, riding high, concentrating on world affairs," and tried to horn in on the King-Powell lovefest. Clinton defenders and detractors from all corners dotted the room. Scandal or not, the White House staff came out to play - Rahm Emanuel, Gene Sperling, even Sidney Blumenthal, who as of press time, remarkably enough, had not filed libel suits against any of his dinner hosts. No matter: Washington's political and broadcast establishments don't need the marquee names to stage their endless parade of annual bashes. Of course no one has yet identified an invitation he would turn down. He had injured his foot, it was announced.Īh, but Lamar Alexander accepted CNN's invitation. No Hollywood stars at this event: "They don't come unless you can guarantee the president will be here," Ortiz said.Įven the top-billed journalistic guest, Walter Cronkite, was a no-show. So the vice president wasn't there, "which was a big surprise," said CBS Washington bureau chief Al Ortiz, " 'cause he is running." Ah, but there wasn't a donation to be had in this room. So the president wasn't there, gone off instead to Africa, where he can look out over cheering masses and see not a single beret. "We're the Sunshine Boys," Powell and King sang together, arm in arm, joshing and jabbering in faux-Yiddish at CNN's party before last night's Radio & Television Correspondents Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton. Scandal, what scandal? Who needs a scandal when you have Colin Powell and Larry King, a coupla Jewish kids from the city?
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