Or is this just a typical Morning Joe roasting? FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein: Where’s Luke Russert? ‘Maybe he’s, um, Busy!’ RELATED: Chuck Rangel Thinks Asking Relevant  Questions About His Shady Behavior is Dumb

Luke Russert recently asked Rep. Charlie Rangel a question about taxes on his properties in the Dominican Republic. Chuck refused to answer and even took the time to tell Russert his question was dumb. “…you’re just trying to make copy”. When Russert responded “NBC,” Rangel quipped “you’re young, I guess …

CNN: Sherrod offered new job, but says she is not so sure Asked Thursday if she would consider a defamation lawsuit against Breitbart, Sherrod said, “I really think I should. You know, I don’t know a lot about the legal profession, but that’s one person I’d like to get back …

Did a staff member of the Media Research Center offer $100 for someone to punch Congressman Alan Grayson? Did the Congressman Tweet that he would “punch back?” Did the Congressman then take to his Diary on Daily Kos to explain his threat? Yes, all of the above are true. No, …

Campaign season is heating up …

Wale: Dmv quaken…but never shaken

August is so close we can smell it. Happy Monday. Let’s rock this week.

The ad wizards at Old Spice have launched a brilliant new media campaign that combines twitter, YouTube, and…abs. The deodorized are invited to submit questions to the Old Spice Man, who will answer them in short–and brilliant–YouTube videos. Example: In this clip, the Toweled One responds to some guy named George, who apparently used to work in …

Mad Men (yes, the TV show on AMC) has taken to Facebook to lobby against AT&T. Let’s review: a TV show is lobbying on a social network to keep a television channel on AT&T. And we still don’t have hoverboards. Mad Men AT&T customers: AT&T is threatening to drop AMC, …

Name Calling 101: Fenty ally compares embattled D.C. Mayor to Jesus It’s probably a bad move to compare your preferred candidate in a mayoral race to Jesus – especially when city streets seem to have more potholes than the Old City has stones. Strong work, CNN.

POLITICO: Abused staffers net nearly $1M a year

In what’s likely the best dolphin show since Ron Bonjean’s days on the mic at the Milwaukee Aquarium, a group of dolphins in Japan have choreographed and performed a true-to-life reenactment of Michael Steele’s Chairmanship of the RNC. Personages: Dolphin # 1 (AKA, the Jumper): Michael Steele Dolphin #2: Haley Barbour Dolphin #3: John Boehner Dolphin …

C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman takes his morning coffee Famous. We hope Mr. Extreme continues to keep his coffee classy. We’re sure that he has no idea what we had to go through to get our gift over to C-SPAN world headquarters.

Maybe we’re all drawn to DC (and politics) because you never know what tomorrow will bring. And we all get to work and play right in the middle of it. May 18, 2009: July 11, 2010: White House: Republicans Could Win Control of House WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans could win …

Eliza Krigman Tech Daily Dose:  Microsoft’s Ballmer: We’re ‘Cirrus’ About Cloud Computing’s Potential Can we use a Tech Daily Dose headline to pivot to a Big Pun video? Yes We Can!