Wonkette

• Reliable Source: Rachel Dratch preparing to play Miers on “Saturday Night Life”. . . Jason Binn criticized for putting minor contributors on masthead of Capitol File magazine. . . Mick Jagger tells MCI Center audience: “[Miers] looked high. She looked low. In the morning, she looked in the mirror and said, ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest judge of all?’” [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: Fox News flack doesn’t know if anchor and Condi-fan Lauren Green is gay. [NYDN]
• Inside the Beltway: Hillary, Landrieu, Hughes to roast Barbara Walters tonight. [WT]
• Liz Smith: Michael Wolff speculates about Cheney in ‘08. [NYP]

• Everyone loves a Jew with a big. . . nose. [Gawker]
• The press in Crawford are way into Atkins: “a lot of them are sitting around there, eating barbecue three times a day, feeling a little resentful that the president has dragged them down there.” [CNN]
• And while they eat barbecue, the President plays Marco Polo with Lance: “Trent Duffy confirms that the president, Armstrong and the group did indeed swim in the pool after the bike ride.” [Blogs for Bush]
• The only line you need to know from Wired’s Jon Stewart interview: “I’m surprised people don’t have cables coming out of their asses.” [Lost Remote]
• If you haven’t yet read Murray Waas bitch-slapping Michael Wolff, you really should: “When you say the media didn’t report this, let’s look at the track record of Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair is coming into this ballgame pretty late, aren’t they? I mean, how long has this story been around, and when did Vanity Fair come to it?” [Media Channel]

We were so distracted by Michael Wolff’s use of the word “fucking” to describe the Plame/CIA leak investigation story that we forgot to try to figure out what he meant by it being a “fucking big story.” Like, has he seen the size of Cheney’s schlong? Anyway, we asked Fred Becker to explain.

Dear Wonkenutter,
 
I heard that at one of those fancy media lunches yesterday, Michael Wolff was heard to declare that the Valerie Plame outing was “one of the biggest stories of our age.” This is undoubtedly true. I say this because I presume by “our” he means the men’s room sect of idea-free media writers consumed by mogul envy. And by “age” he means the timelines of planet Zog.

Here on earth we’ve had a couple of wars in our age. An election was contested here and the Supreme Court had to decide the outcome. A President was impeached. Oh, and they flew some planes into buildings very near where Mr. Wolff spends frantic time stitching new gallant robes of flowing pedantry.

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