O Nerdprom! My Nerdprom! Highlights From WHCD 2010

Okay Ed Henry, here’s the thing: If you’re going to send out the very first tweet on behalf of the First Lady…

…you might want to PUNCTUATE! Come ON! She’s the FIRST LADY! What kind of 5-year old grammar is this? I get that iPhones are challenging, but this is how it should read: “From FLOTUS: “Here at dinner. This is officially my first tweet. I am looking forward to some good laughs from the POTUS and Jay.” Get thee to Strunk & White, immediately. (Image courtesy of CNN; tweet courtesy of Ed Henry’s Twitter; snark courtesy of my outrage that you didn’t properly punctuate the First Lady. I mean, DUDE.)

Through the magic of C-SPAN, it was almost like I was there. Hee hee, Eric Massa tickle joke. I think the funniest part of all was how the Prez would start to crack up before he was quite finished his delivery.

A Rose by any other name would still smell as Meach: Okay no, that doesn’t work. But here I am with Charlie Rose and Jon Meacham. Actually, that sort of works because Jon Meacham was one of the guest-hosts who stepped in for Charlie Rose when he underwent surgery a few years back. And yes, I know. More sunscreen.

M-i-c-k-e-y S-e-n-a-t! Mickey Kaus! Mickey Kaus! For California Senator he’ll try (try! try! try!). (If you didn’t get that, see here. And here. And yes, I know how to spell “Senate.”)

Obama-chronicling By The People documentarian Amy Rice and New Yorker political writer (and Obama book-writer) Ryan Lizza flank highly-decorated military historian Robert Mackey (not to be confused with Bob Mackie, who would probably find something fabulous to do with that jacket).

California Senatorial hopeful Mickey Kaus with CNN analyst Amy Holmes and RNC chairman Michael Steele. Holmes was rocking some verrry cool shoes, maybe the coolest shoes in the place; Steele was chipper and friendly, just like last year, after being roasted by Obama in his speech, just like last year. Holmes and Steele piled off into a cab, giggling, and who knows where the night took them. (Umm…to a specifically-themed bar, perhaps? Don’t blame me, blame Google.)

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