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* Heard on the Hill: Chaos at the Capitol as a crazy woman tries to take a cop’s gun and a bunch of suspicious packages are found…. Steve Cohen is totally screwing Cybill Shepard… “Wryly acknowledging his reputation as a playboy, former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) assured Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) that he has no designs on O’Malley’s teenage daughter.” Ok, WTF everyone… Barbara Boxer: Short! She needs to stand on a box to reach the mic! [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Celebrities, DC people attend another gala… Woman who wrote book about cancer to respectfully cash in on current popularity of the disease. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Those suspicious packages showed up as a bunch of congresspeople were trying to pray or something. [Examiner]
* Under the Dome: Phil Hare fell asleep during a congressional hearing and C-Span filmed the whole thing… Now we’re on to the “first 100 days” of the Dem congress… The Gridiron dinner won’t have the President and it’s being held somewhere new and no one will go. [The Hill]
* Shenanigans: You excited for the Media Research Center’s annual “Media DisHonor Awards”? No? Why do you hate America? [Politico]

Last Thursday night, while one-half of Wonkette was appearing on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the other half was listening to Olbermann get mocked, at the gala dinner of the Media Research Center.

How’s that for objectivity? Wonkette: Fair and Balanced!

In case you’re not familiar with it, the MRC is a conservative watchdog organization deoted to “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.” In a nutshell, think of it as a Media Matters for right-wingers — and with cleaner bathrooms.

Cal Thomas likes his liberal journalists shaken, not stirred.

The highlight of the dinner was the presentation of the “DisHonor Awards,” bestowed upon “the most outrageously biased liberal reporters of 2005.” The awards were followed by a special tribute to the American military.

After the jump, a more detailed account of the evening’s festivities.

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* Watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight — which will be featuring one of your Wonketteers as a guest. It’s on MSNBC at 8 PM EST and again at midnight. MORE »

The good people are Media Matter for America: hard at work fighting conservative bias, still pissing off the janitorial staff: MORE »

• Reliable Source: John Snow brings entourage of reporters, aides, and security to go holiday shopping. . . D.C. Style magazine believes sex sells. . . Bob Novak, Dan Snyder, Bernard Shaw spotted at Redskins-Cowboys game. [WP]
• Inside Politics: Media Research Center names CBS as the most liberal network in ‘05. [WT] MORE »