Reasons 1-66 involved cursing, but reason #67 is just as fantastic. Drudge spots a great detail that says a bit about the administration’s reverence for the Gray Lady: Rahm Emanuel has a New York Times vending machine in his crawl space. As Tim Carney noted via POLTICO, the vending machine …

A POLITICO & FamousDC cheers Photo by Meredith Shiner Where will the next Famous Mug shot show up?

Dear campaign press flacks, The last minute Hail Mary you planned to pop on POLITICO to swing the election your way will have to wait a little while. Their email machine is down. Sincerely, FamousDC POLITICO: Trying to reach folks at POLITICO? Our email is down, so be patient. We’ll …

POLITICO: Karl Rove’s Karl Rove Forti, who last year told National Journal “I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight,” declined to comment for this story. And, unlike many political figures who turn down interviews, he also largely resisted the temptation to try to shape reporters’ narrative behind …

USA Today: Obama: 24/7 media makes it hard to focus ‘on the long term’ “I’ve been surprised by how the news cycle here in Washington is focused on what happens this minute, as opposed to what needs to happen over the course of months, years,” Obama told the crowd at …

Here’s the short story: Politico’s Ben Smith recently stated that the Daily Caller was “struggling” to find its place. Tucker Carlson, editor at the Daily Caller, got upset and emailed Ben: “The Daily Caller is ‘struggling’? What a ludicrous hack job, and stupid. F*ck you.” Carlson later clarified: “I meant …

According to the latest social media study, [#23,432] it seems that Republicans are more Twitter “genius” than Democrats. …the study found Republicans have “struck back,” with GOP senators averaging more than 5.5 IQ points higher than their Democratic counterparts. [holy crap] The top genius? @SenJohnMcCain John McCain may be in …

Meredith Shiner: Today is the day the @politico gods are coming down and granting me a new BlackBerry. I have been waiting for this day forever.

Have the Rex Ryan pep talks on Hard Knocks fired up the Politico folks? Playbook put on its big boy pants and spent the weekend jacking people up. On Sunday Playbook ran an advertisement (with no sponsor attribution to parent company Albritton) to pop Comcast and NBC: ** ADVERTISEMENT: A …

JoMa loves the designer fast food. DCist’s Aaron Morrissey: D.C. Chick-fil-A Reportedly in the Works The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Chick-fil-A has plans to open an urban “in-line” store in Washington, part of a strategy to grab a bigger slice of the urban fast-food market. As part of the strategy, …

POLITICO’s Gloria Park: Next D.C. Career: Blogger Relations Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger and author, credited staff at The Heritage Foundation, minority staff at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and House Homeland Security Committee and staff in the offices of Rep. John Boehner and Sen. …

Roll Call has the former Hill & Politico reporter – and current Bloomberg News reporter – front and center on RollCall.com

Patrick Gavin is not scared.  He will do whatever he needs to do in order to keep his audience entertained – including crawling on the floor of the Longworth House office building. PS: He might look nice, but Sherrif Reichert still scares the sh*t out of us.

There’s an Office of Compliance [OOC] on Capitol Hill which specializes in cash payouts for sexually harassed or poorly treated Congressional employees.  [no, really] In the meantime, the process of settling workplace complaints remains secretive and byzantine, allowing members of Congress to quietly agree to cash payouts to settle cases …

WaPo, Bloomberg get more intimate