Did you attend the funny comedy event on Friday at the National Press Club, at which many Washington news media elitists performed “stand-up comedy,” for charity? As part of this embarrassing spectacle, the participating DC journalists were forced to answer a question submitted by your Wonkette. And the answers were fairly entertaining, except for the reply from the middle-aged white fellow who was supposed to be in prison with Judith Miller. MORE »

HERE’S A FUN PRESS CORPS GAME CALLED “STEAL POLITICO’S SEAT!” We rather like the anecdotes in this FiveThirtyEight post about how oppressed bloggers are always trying to steal Politico’s seat at White House press briefings, only to be caught minutes later by confused Politico reporters. This could be a fun daily game! So we ask that reporters take turns stealing Politico’s seat — one day Sam Stein does it, the next day David Corn, etc. — and e-mail us the name of Politico reporter who awkwardly kicked you out, and what it was like. [FiveThirtyEight]

• Heard on the Hill: HoH finds three monkeys Indian people who support George Allen… A stunt plane flown by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) “spun out of control” last week… Denny Hastert gave out the wrong number for his live nude Page abuse-reporting hotline. [Roll Call]
• Reliable Source: Last Saturday: two big gay parties. No one wanted to talk about Mark Foley for some reason… Lloyd Grove’s next job will be “something media-ish.” [WP]
• Yeas and Nays: Nathan’s owner Carol Joynt gets Michael Isikoff and David Corn drunk, goads them into talking trash about Bob Woodward. [Examiner]

• Animatronic anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff (hybrid models with auto-shutdown and cruise control) will continue to host ABC’s “World News Tonight,” winning out over standard transimission hostbot Charlie Gibson, who still runs on diesel. [ABC]
• Hacktasatic Jon Friedman calls “The Week” journalism’s “first blogazine.” No, wait — it’s a magalog! A Zlog? What does that make “The Best Week Ever”? A blogedy? And the “Nightly News” — that’s a blogcastnewslog. CNN’s Blog Report is a bloport. And Times Select still sucks. [CBS Marketwatch]
• Anchlogger Brian Williams is a “dog person.” HOW CAN HE BE A BLOGGER THEN? [WaPo]
• FishbowlDC on the quitting/re-hiring of Postie Gabe Escobar: “Escobar is one of the Post’s only Hispanic editors (the only other one we can think of is Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, Assistant Managing Editor/Sports.” National Book Award Finalist American Chica author and editor of Washington Post Book World Maria Arana, on the other hand, is just a girl who likes to read. [Fishbowl DC]
• Howie Kurtz on why the MSM blogs (Mblogsmers): “Actually, we’re just trying to look cool.” [WashingtonPost.com]
• David Corn hearts Viveca Novak, can’t guard her husband. Perhaps her conversation with Rove’s lawyer sparked a revelation: “maybe my client did not tell me everything.” [DavidCorn.com]

So apparently some rightwing bloggers (and David Corn) got together to decided to make coin, change the world, and generate a shitload of publicity. They’ve been at it for five days in and it’s clear they have some idea of how to do one of those things: Make a massive error in naming your company. Formerly known as “Pajama Media,” they took the name “Open Source Media” and promptly fell victim to anyone who could Google the, uhm, first Open Source Media. Then there’s how they’re not exactly “open source.” The blogging world has been watching this train wreck very closely. MORE »