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Who loves Hillary! Everyone, of course, and that’s why she held a pretty hilarious & tragic “blog chat” on her Internet today with supporters. Many of these supporters are basically illiterate, which is the “hilarious” part, and yet Hillary answered their questions in ominous ways, which is the “tragic” part. MORE »

They did that while fisking him. Then they blogrolled him onto his stomach, and pinged him so hard, he couldn’t walk right for a week… MORE »

(Wow, this “blogging” thing has really jumped the shark — just as the expession “jumped the shark” has jumped the shark. As has the gimmick of excessive meta-ness. Forget Rumsfeld, we’re going to submit our resignations now…) MORE »

* Ain’t no party like a massive media conglomerate party! [Fishbowl DC] MORE »

* Hmm, interesting. Here are two more tips: craft your subject heading carefully, since we don’t have time to open and read every email; and linkwhore sparingly, so you don’t develop a reputation for being “the blogger who cried ‘great post.’” And if your email to us vanishes into the ether, it’s because your name isn’t Glenn Reynolds, Arianna Huffington, or Andrew Sullivan it got caught in our spam filter. [Bad Example] MORE »

• Today The Week announced the slate of nominees for their third annual Opinion Awards. Let’s have an eating contest between Arianna Huffington and Michelle Malkin for Blogger of the Year. [FishBowlDC]

• Franklin Foer’s pet peeves: outsiders ranking on D.C., and projectile panties. [DCist]
• Kelly Ann Collins, formerly of Washington Socialites, has returned to the blogosphere (again). [Ask KAC via Big Head Rob]

Earlier this afternoon, we passed along a report from the NYT’s Newark 06 blog, suggesting that Newark mayoral aspirant Cory Booker didn’t exactly “blog” at the Huffington Post. The Times gave this report: MORE »

We previously linked to the NYT’s new blog about Newark politics, Newark 06. We actually have a soft spot for the city, since one of us used to work there and went to law school with mayoral candidate Cory Booker. MORE »

The word “blog” is sketchy enough as it is. Does it really need to be placed inside scare-quotes? MORE »

Yesterday’s NYT Magazine contained an interesting interview with Markos Moulitsas Z

* Over in the Netherlands, someone thought it would be a good idea to have a soccer game pitting the gays against the Muslims. [The Fagat Guide] MORE »

Last night, the Wonkettes left their respective apartments and headed out into the real world, to attend an exciting event at the National Press Club. The event, “An Army of Davids or the Triumph of Goliath?”, was pitched as “a no-holds-barred debate” between these three giants: Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit himself, and author of the just-published An Army of Davids; Joe Trippi, former campaign manager for Howard Dean, and author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; and Barry C. Lynn, senior fellow at the New American Foundation, and author of End of the Line. (They are pictured above, from left to right: Lynn, Trippi, Reynolds, and moderator Nick Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Reason.)

After the jump, our comprehensive coverage — plus more fantastic photos, taken by Wonkette shutterbug Liz Gorman, Intrepid Girl Reporter. Enjoy!

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We like the crew over at FishBowlDC and admire their work, which we link to frequently. But given our weakness for irony, as well as our obsession with all things media, we’d be falling down on the job if we didn’t pass along this reader email.

This may take a little concentration — so put down that plastic salad fork and focus. First, read this FishBowl DC item:

Washingtonian’s Kim Eisler is not at all happy with Howard Kurtz. Personally, we’re just amused that at the end of a column spent documenting some other reporter’s conflicts-of-interest, Kurtz profiles a correspondent on the network where Kurtz himself moonlights. Irony alert!

Second, read this “meta-irony alert!” from a Wonkette reader:

Stay with me here as I go all David Foster Wallace on your ass — Um…. the writer of said FishBowl item, Garrett Graff, is the editor at large of the Washingtonian. So — let’s say that Graff highlights how a colleague is not at all happy with Howie Kurtz (whom Graff blowjobish-ly profiled for, uh, the Washingtonian, and what a PLEASELIKEME hummer it was!).

And we are personally amused that Garrett Graff — at the end of his item on how a colleague is upset at a subject of a previous Graff profile AND how said subject has a conflict of interest by dint of his moonlighting job… neglects to so much as intimate that, in the very act of blogging about a guy who’s mad at another guy, who also has a conflict of interest… Garrett soi meme is moonlighting and creating an even more bizarre conflict of interest by reporting about a colleague and refusing to mention it.

Whoa! Didja get all that? If so, then here’s one more thing to note for the record. At the very end of his column, Kurtz at least discloses his potential conflict: “Howard Kurtz hosts CNN’s weekly media program, Reliable Sources.” As noted by our source, Graff does not.

Our musings on this tempest in a teapot — or bubbling in a fishbowl — continue after the jump.

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