Wiener spearing happened yesterday, Strasburg took over the city, another Gore split, we had a few visitors this week, we love all our tipsters, Mike Allen rolls old school, we just hired Alvin Greene to run our website – he doesn’t know that yet, Nancy O’Dell is now following us …

…and then used this to record the conversation. Spotted on Eric Cantor’s blog.

Dueling Web Videos DNC RNC h/t Mike Allen’s Playbook RELATED: Full time line

What an exciting week! The SEC doubled down against Goldman, Patrick O’Connor welcomed Sam O’Connor to the world, Shira Toeplitz and Kim Hart are joining POLITICO, God’s quarterback is heading to Denver, Ali McSherry has visited 40+ restaurants this year, GOP.gov went platinum, Marco Rubio was endorsed by a broom, …

NY Times Magazine:  Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To Political insiderdom — or the illusion thereof — has moved from Georgetown salons or cordoned-off security zones to a mass e-mail list administrated by a never-married 45-year-old grind known as Mikey. Congratulations to Mr. Allen and the …

FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein:  Sullivan Takes Swipe at Politico’s Allen

How do you start your morning? Here are a few of our faves with today’s highlights: Chris Cillizza’s Morning Fix Polling shows Democrats losing health care PR fight Democrats are losing the public relations fight over the health care overhaul Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook TIME Person of the Year 2009 …

This was recently posted on a GWU job listserv. We’re trying to figure out which media-savvy sports superstar is looking for a clipping service. Job: Media Monitoring Specialist … A high profile communications specialist is seeking a reliable, self-starter to work from home in a part time media monitoring position …

Yesterday Matt Dornic and friends revealed the candidates for the FishbowlDC Class of 2009 Summer Superlative Contest We’re still waiting to see who pays us off endorse any candidates, but stay tuned. As Washingtonians, our vote doesn’t count in Congress, so we might as well take advantage of the opportunity …

From Saturday’s Playbook : JMART, CAB THIEF — Politico’s Daniel Libit reports: “So I ordered a cab to take me from office to airport. When I get outside, I see it’s about to pull away with another person, so I tap on the glass. And who is the taxi bandit? …

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 …

Ramesh Ponnuru was almost named to the Macon, Georgia City Council, Alex Ovechkin continued his campaign for DC Sports Savior, Obama supporter Colin Powell offered advice to the GOP via Chris Strohm, Mike Madden complained he’s never been called for DC jury duty, Kara Rowland invited Members of Congress to …

It looks like Mike Allen is taking advice from The Godfather . Responding to criticism from Obama-supporters (Andrew Sullivan) of his exclusive article outlining POTUS’ decision to release top secret CIA memos, Mike took the high road. He writes : "there’s a certain World Wrestling Entertainment element to these blog slams: It’s …

Mike Madden told everyone he drove a Plymouth Voyager minivan in high school, Christina Bellatoni scooped Mike Allen on Robert Gibbs birthday, Andrew Noyes and Mark Cuban wondered if Tweets are copyrighted, we totally fell for GMail auto-pilot, O.A.R. announced they’ll spend Friday, August 7th at Merriweather, Brian Devine still …

The entire FamousDC Twitter Bracket can be viewed by clicking here. Today’s match ups are below.  Remember, the competition for the NW brackets begins now and ends tomorrow at 4pm . Good luck! @almacy vs. @acarvin @briandevine vs. @robertbluey @katieharbath vs. @humanfolly @matthewgagnon vs. @dcconcierge @ontheredline vs. @newmediajim @lizglover vs. …