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WHC Insider/Third Way/Huffington Post Inaugural Reception Gallery

January 22, 2013 By WHC Insider

WHC Insider/Third Way/Huffington Post

Why yes, we did co-host an event at the Old Ebbitt Grill yesterday where Huffington Post‘s HuffPostLive and Third Way.

Whether HuffPost was interviewing Miss America Mallory Hagen or the official swearing-in liveblog. Among the invited crowd included Beltway mainstays like Delaware Governor Jack Markell, former Rep. Ellen Tauscher and former MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman. There was also Uber founder Travis Kalanick and “White Collar” actor Matt Bomer. Variety came by to profile how Hollywood and the Beltway have more in common than they’d think:

“Some veteran Washington figures who have been pushing for compromise — even as the town descended into even greater gridlock — saw Obama’s inaugural address as infused with the message that even if post-partisanship fell short, in many ways change didn’t.

‘He knows he can’t force the Republicans to do things, but he is going to try and he is going to use the power of this office, which is considerable, to move them in that direction,’ said Matt Bennett, VP of public affairs and co-founder of Third Way, a centrist Democratic org. ‘But mentioning Stonewall, and mentioning gay equality that explicitly twice in an inaugural address, marks a sea change in American politics where these things went from being the fringes to literally in the center of what an inaugurated president was talking about in his address.”

You can see more of our best and brightest in the slideshow below:

Filed Under: DC, Inauguration, The White House, Washington Events Tagged With: Dan Glickman, Ellen Tauscher, Jack Markell, Lynda Carter, Mallory Hagen, Matt Bennett, Matt Bomer, Melissa Fitzgerald, Paula Abdul, Rachel Sklar, Richard Wolffe, Sandra Fluke, Stephanie Miller, Steve Hochberg

More Stars to the WH Correspondents’ Dinner

April 13, 2012 By WHC Insider

The names keep coming!  CBS is bringing Homeland’s Claire Danes, Christine Baranski from “The Good Wife” and Daniel Dae Kim from “Hawaii Five-O”.  Also on CBS’ list is hero Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger.

The Huffington Post’s list includes Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke; and Hollywood stars Dakota Fanning, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller, Anna Paquin, and Stephen Moyer, in addition to  “Glee” star Darren Criss, and Nasim Pedrad from “Saturday Night Live”.

NBC has Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix and The Atlantic/National Journal has actress Rosario Dawson, chef Jose Andres, and “Sex and the City” writer Darren Star.

And The Washington Times wins in the 4-legged category with Uggie, the dog from “The Artist”

Filed Under: 2012 WHCD Tagged With: Allyson Felix, Anna Paquin, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, Christine Baranski, Claire Danes, Dakota Fanning, Daniel Dae Kim, Daniel Day-Lewis, Darren Criss, Darren Star, Jose Andres, Nasim Pedrad, Rebecca Miller, Rosario Dawson, Sandra Fluke, Stephen Moyer, Uggie, White House Correspondents Dinner

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Exploring “behind the scenes” of the most powerful city in the world — Washington, D.C. — and those who cover it.

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