"Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo." NY Times reviews Kushner's White House memoir

[Gyrofrog]

@frauenfelder

On that Sunday, we were having lunch at Bono’s house in the town of Eze on the French Riviera, when Rupert [Murdoch] stepped out to take a call

@gracchus

magine being the type of person who’d willingly hang out with this empty-eyed nepotism charity case

Reminds me:

Hitler's mouthpiece got booted from American restaurants, too

What I can’t figure out is why/how Charlie Chaplin would be so chummy with Hearst, that there’s footage of them playing tennis at (IIRC) San Simeon. Maybe it was more to do with Chaplin and Marion Davies both working in Hollywood, and hanging out w/ Hearst was collateral damage.