Anthony Hayden-Guest stepped in to call Dechert a “miserable blob.” Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Meanwhile, Kennedy, a prospective president of the United States, watched calmly. “I was just thinking,” he told us, and says he is the one who asked the question about the environment.ĭechert continued to scream wildly about the climate change “scam” while Haden-Guest peppered him with verbal volleys from across the table, calling him variously “f–king insane” and “insignificant.”

Former gossip columnist Doug Dechert became enraged about climate change, calling it a “hoax.” WireImage He suddenly opened his eyes and denounced his longtime pal Dechert, calling him a “miserable blob.” Meanwhile, octogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who appeared to have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner, was roused by the abrupt rumpus. Getty Images for SiriusXMĪnd it seems that the mere inquiry was enough to set off apparently drunk gossip columnist-turned-flack Doug Dechert, the host of the event, who became enraged and screamed at the top of his lungs: “The climate hoax!” erupted in a fighting match between two guests over climate change. The gaseous exchange - to which Page Six bore reluctant witness - began after a guest asked Kennedy, founder of the ecological organization Waterkeeper Alliance, about the environment. The White House hopeful attended the affair at Tony’s on the Upper East Side, no doubt hoping to impress on the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate his worthiness to sit at the very same Oval Office desk once occupied by his late uncle.īut a shouting match over climate change broke out between two boisterous old men, sending the evening down an extremely unfortunate path. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign descended into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting Tuesday night. Page Six regrets to report that a press dinner to boost Robert F. Taylor Swift’s ex Conor Kennedy fighting in war for UkraineĬheryl Hines responds to husband RFK Jr.’s Holocaust, vax mandate comparison has solo sushi dinner and gets Alicia Silverstone’s voteīrooke Shields: I refused to sleep with ‘less than chivalrous’ JFK Jr. I claim them all,' said the Savage at last. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent the right to have syphilis and cancer, the right to have too little to eat the right to be lousy the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow the right to catch typhoid the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. 'We prefer to do things comfortably.'īut I don't want comfort.

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“Isn't there something in living dangerously?'

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