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The Only News Worth Reporting Today
Sure, we could talk about this: Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.” [TMI] Naked or not, …
Famously Quoteworthy: Tell Us How You Really Feel
Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY), in a radio interview, on the White House chief of staff: “Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn… He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.” Snap. …
Chuck Todd Blasts Drudge Report [Mediaite]
Chuck Todd: “There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.”
Adrian Fenty’s Friends
Nikita Stewart and Paul Schwartzman probably aren’t getting out of parking tickets any time soon. WaPo: Friends share in D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s good fortune
Jay-Z in the White House Situation Room
The Weekly Standard: Rapper Jay-Z in the Situation Room MJ at summer jam, Obama on the text. Y’all should be afraid of what I’m gonna do next.
We Loved Him in “Money Train”
Wesley Snipes has aged. h/t next round PS: Lovin’ the bow tie, Wes.
WaPo Columnists Steel Cage Match
We can’t quit Rahm either. Howard Kurtz: Dueling Post columns on Rahm Emanuel
They Don’t Have the White House, Senate or House, But They Do Have Twitter
According to the Christian Science Monitor: Republicans Rule Twitter Not to worry though, Democrats came in second. But more GOP than Democratic lawmakers use Twitter to communicate with constituents and the news media, according to a new Congressional Research Service study. Get your hands on the hot little report here.
Famously Quoteworthy: DCCC Tees Off on Rep. Sessions [Insert Tiger Woods Quote]
From a DCCC press release: [the golf gloves are off] “Pete Sessions talking about ethics in Congress is like Tiger Woods talking about fidelity,” said Jesse Ferguson, Southern Regional Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The only reason we saw this is because we have a Google alert …
Not Your Normal Hockey Game [Lawmakers vs. Lobbyists]
The upcoming “Congressional Hockey Challenge” isn’t so abnormal that they’re letting Sen. Robert Byrd skate, but a few other lawmakers have decided to risk their pretty faces. On March 9, 2010, ice hockey-playing Members of Congress, and similarly-talented Senate and House staff, will challenge some of K Street’s finest in …
Jim Bunning [Deadspin]
Deadspin’s Tommy Craggs: Marvin Miller Remembers The Pre-Crazy Jim Bunning, Labor Revolutionary
David Broder vs. Dana Milbank & Jason Horowitz
With friends like these … WaPo’s David S. Broder: The fable of Emanuel the Great RELATED: Inside the Mind and Inbox of Rahm Emanuel
Closing Bell #2: Integrity [Massa & Spitzer]
h/t 1 -Ben Smith h/t 2 -Jim Geraghty h/t 3 – Rick Wilson