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Olivia Nuzzi, right, with Sally Quinn, at a premiere in DC in 2023. , Olivia Nuzzi airs her grievances with DC. The things she loathes about the city include the weather , the vibe , the size , the sheer volume of other political reporters , and the need to repeatedly endure the “buzzless start to a dinner party or a book event or a strange gala at the residence of the ambassador to I-never-know-what.
” To Nuzzi, DC is a “place where you cannot live, really,” where stepping outside for some air means encountering John Kerry or Newt Gingrich and realizing that “those two are not even close to the worst people whose lives are devoted in one way or another to ensuring that they never have to leave Washington,” the kinds of people that “can always get a table from Franco at Cafe Milano”—an establishment that she alleges, without evidence, is staffed by spies. In particular, Nuzzi deplores the “standard greeting” at Washington events: “nice to see you” , a way to ensure that you’re not caught rudely introducing yourself to someone you’ve already met. She calls this a “coward’s salutation, an attempt to avoid embarrassment, deny fallibility, present oneself as connected and knowledgeable.” And while Nuzzi admits that she herself now uses “nice to see you,” too, she “cannot say it without wishing to be struck down in that moment by a merciful God.” Later, she adds that her acceptance of this phrase is one example of how she became “willing to accept ugliness for utility, which is one definition of Washington.” With the exception of Sally Quinn—whom Nuzzi seems to adore and describes as “still beautiful and hot, palpably and electrically sexual in her eighties, which I love”—Nuzzi finds the city’s social life dreadful. She quotes a friend disparaging the “hideousness of the Washington perma-class,” and describes events full of “the Regulars, the people who will never leave Washington” all of whom are in “some sort of debt, social or otherwise, to a very wealthy person.” At one party for a Democratic megadonor, Nuzzi says, she had an exchange with a cabinet secretary and his wife in which the wife said, sweetly, that the secret to a good marriage is finding time every day to connect. Later, while alone with Nuzzi, the secretary apparently clarified that the secret to marriage is that everyone cheats. To Nuzzi, DC is the kind of place that turns ambition into monstrosity, though she’s at least alert enough to implicate herself. But honestly, there are moments where Nuzzi makes DC sound pretty fun. She describes, for example, a dinner party at the home of “the executive” whose actress girlfriend “waltzed along the terrace holding a cicada in one hand and a vape in the other” as a Secret Service officer lurked outside the front door, protecting President Obama’s nearby home. Later at that party, Nuzzi claims, she was in the kitchen when Maureen Dowd grabbed her face and said, “Olivia, the secret to life is to be rapeable. You are rapeable.” She also describes the actress girlfriend advising her not to smoke the filter of a cigarette, and “the executive” draping an arm around her and saying, “You’re fun. Do you like to have fun?”did describe a fairly glam existence, with Nuzzi living in “a tiny house in the heart of Malibu where lizards crawl into her kitchen” and tooling around the canyons in a white Mustang convertible, “like a Lana Del Rey song come to life.” But despite her disdain, I suspect that she’d rather still be here—in a scrum of reporters in the Rose Garden or texting with the president’s squabbling aides. In, Nuzzi writes of being in California and watching, from afar, as odd and consequential events unfolded back east. In one such moment, she felt “a pang of regret that I could not go out there to report.”is the best film about Washington ever made, then declared that “If I was elected president in a write-in campaign I would not return to Washington.”Sally Quinn on Sex, Dinner Parties, Bezos, and the Post White House Scrambles Amid War Crime Accusations, DOJ May Prosecute Comey Again, and Janeese Lewis George Officially Kicks Off Her Mayoral CampaignFree DC and CapitalBop Team for a Music ZineAdministration Launches New Doomed Investigation as Comey and James Prosecutions Collapse, Gold-Painted “Oval Office” Sign Disappears From White House Exterior, and DOGE May or May Not Still Exist
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