First Snapshots from the First Obama WH Correspondents' Dinner (Photos)

Tonight was the first White House Correspondents' Association Dinner to take place during the new Obama Administration. As with all WHCADs, the mix of Beltway media personalities and Hollywood types was jarring but fun. Here are some snapshots. Your own hostess with the mostest, Arianna Huffington, was there, and makes an appearance in my photos...

Lots of SUVs and limos and stuff...

You can barely see it, but the Code Pink ladies were protesting the whole thing...

The view up Connecticut Avenue from Florida Avenue, while having some eggrolls before the shenanigans began...

Alaska's "First Dude," Todd Palin....

Warren Buffett...

Another deadender, not sure why they all showed up... Don Rumsfeld...

Stevie Wonder...

Chris Matthews...

The tourists and stuff watching the red carpet show...

Felicity Huffman...

My friend Sarah with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, a real gentleman...

Amy Poehler, whose husband Will Arnett had just walked by with Jason Bateman, but my camera's too slow...

Christian Slater, very short...

I and David Shuster of MSNBC...

Keith Olbermann...

David Gregory, so very tall...

Kyle MacLachlan...

I and Arianna...

David Brock, Rick(y) Schroeder (!!!)...

David Corn, Richard Belzer, Sarah Chamberlain...

Glenn Close...

Colin Powell...

David Axelrod...

I and fellow Scorpio Whoopi Goldberg...

Your boyfriend, Michael Steele...

Comments

[noralou]

Last night Keith Olberman actually defended (?) Rush Limbaugh over Wanda Sykes' jokes. I call BS on Keith (whom I normally like). There is a Jewish tradition called gallows humor. You joke about terrible things because it is like spitting in the face of your enemy.
Rush Limbaugh has attacked children and people with deadly diseases -- let him take his lumps...

[dannyS]

I can't believe Whoopi wore the same glasses as Richard Belzer

[rsprags]

Thank you for showing us the street scene and the behind the scenes!

[Carrie Regan]

Thanks for letting us enjoy the night virtually! You look tasty, btw!

[Mauimom]

a) was Keith Olbermann's "significant other" there?

b) was Rachel Maddow? [I didn't see her name on MSNBC's guest list, despite the many dead-enders on said list.]

[factory43]

If only we saw Jon Hamm.. it looks like the real after party happened at the French Embassy.. :(

What a great night!

And Dynamonum - loose the sour grapes. Its just a party! And its for a good cause.

[Dynamohum]

What a disgusting display of celebrity!! I, for one, am fed up with the whole premise that there are 2 parties in this country. NOT. One look at these narcissistic displays of psyches and egos is enough insight for me. The RULING class people, take a good look. No distinction between ANY of them. They are all playing this game at OUR expense!

[Nancy Donnelly]

i cannot believe I missed this! Scotty, you are truly the Ultimate Washington Insider. I'm goin next year - if only to get kissed by Jonathan Rhys Myers. And you look awesome!