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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get what 17:36 is saying.  Washington DC and the "celebrity" and the media circus (the sort of stuff written about by Mark Lebovitch in "This Town")--outside of the beltway no one cares.  Most people don't read politico.  Hell, inside of the beltway, fewer people care than you would think.  I've lived in a variety of other parts of the country, and Washington DC famous is just what PP describes. Most journalists, politicans, and pundits who people care about in DC are not actually famous.  Since the vast majority of the country cannot name all nine supreme court justices, I think that tells you something about whether, say, the HUD secretary, is truly famous (yes, I know, Julian Castro is a rising star in the democratic party, but I doubt my in laws could tell you who he is).  I doubt there are even major security concerns for most "DC celebrities."  I imagine that PP is right in saying that the sort of admissions bump these children get is wildly overestimated by people in DC and especially on this board.

Other than the president, the vice president, supreme court justices, the speaker of the house/house minority/majority leader/senate minority/majority leader government figures are by and large not famous.  I guess maybe among college educated people who tune into the news we can add Secretary of State, UN Ambassador, and Attorney General to that list.  As far as pundits go, aside from those who host big talk shows, those people aren't really famous either.[/quote]

All true, but I'd still put more value on some cabinet undersecretary than on a has-been athlete and cereal pitchmen from decades ago who shamelessly uses his Kardashian connection and stage-managed tranny spectacle to try again to become famous for being famous.   :lol: [/quote]

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