We are just going to second TVNewer’s call for screengrabs (or clips, better yet!) of this (quoting Brian Williams): MORE »

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Chris Matthews, yesterday, to Hillary Clinton spokesperson Glover Park Group Consultant (same diff –ed) Howard Wolfson: MORE »

Ladies and Gentlemen, the letter to Kim Eisler from Chris Matthews, in all its glory. But you’re hereby warned: Chris Matthews’ friends are going to laugh at you.

(transcription available after the jump)

Earlier: Chris Matthews’ Friends Are So Not Going To Sit With You At Lunch Anymore

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We get letters: MORE »

You know, we haven’t come out strongly one way or the other on this whole UAE ports controversy (”Zzzzzzzzzzzz”), but if this is true, then, uh, we have to say we’re starting to come around to Dubai Ports World. MORE »

James Wolcott, yesterday:

The most ludicrous thing [Brit] Hume said was that though this new information made Whittington’s condition more serious, it didn’t alter ‘the underlying facts of the case.’ It seems to me that if Whittington suffers permanent injury or dies from the accidental shooting, that would create an overlying fact that renders the ‘underlying facts’ irrelevant.

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* America’s finest journalists hard at work: “I mean, Wolf Blitzer on “THE SITUATION ROOM” gets a gazillion screens, and I get one crummy screen.” [FishbowlDC]
* This just in: Sartre to blame for Europe’s declining birth rate, Kierkegaard presumably at fault for this whole cartoon riot thing. [MediaMatters]
* “They’re going to have to pry my monkey from my cold, dead hand.” [BusinessWeek, Via]
* From the foreign policy desk comes a video that could mean bad news for Chinese-American relations, already strained due to Iran’s… fuck it, it’s just a funny movie. [Sundance]
* If anyone could help us figure out the “George Washington engaged in electronic wiretapping” defense, we’d greatly appreciate it. We’re a little stumped. [WaPo (scroll down)]

More fun with The Note! Today’s their wacky quiz, in which all the answers, hilariously, are Zero! After a couple pointed barbs at cable television: MORE »

• Reliable Source: Alito’s senior thesis found at Princeton. . . Wolf Blitzer has lost 15 pounds in two months. (From standing on camera all day, we presume). . . Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) introduces bill to investigate murder of Tupac Shakur. [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller was reportedly convinced about WMDs after several private meetings with Paul Wolfowitz. . . PETA flack: “When we first heard that Dick Cheney was hunting pheasants, we thought that it might be a misspelling of ‘peasants.’ His hunt for Osama failed, so he’s now reduced to hunting small birds.” [NYDN]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Negative review of Maureen Dowd’s latest book is set to run in the New York Times on Sunday. Writes Kathryn Harrison, “Maureen Dowd comes across as someone who wants to be liked.” [NYDN]
• Cindy Adams: Oliver Stone is moving “gingerly” ahead on his 9/11 film. [NYP]
• Page Six: “Which strapping son of a cable TV talk show host has been selling marijuana on the side? The pot-puffing party boy, who’s supposedly pursuing an acting career, was overheard offering to sell two young lovelies weed at a recent fashion party.” [NYP]
• Fox 411: Warren Beatty is not interested in running for the governorship of California. [Fox News]