Politico’s Mike Allen was spotted with C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman — and Mike didn’t have his trusty blackberry in hand.

FamousDC was able to secure the only known photograph of The Playbook sans blackberry taken since January 23, 2007.

When asked about the beltway brain trust meeting, both parties provided the following statement to FamousDC:

We were scheming about how to plant a blind item about Brian Lamb in "Shenanigans."