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Having lured away the Post’s John Harris and Jim VandeHei (as well as Capital File’s Anne Schroeder and everyone who has ever written for The Hill), Allbritton’s new media Hill newspaper-plus-website (brilliant! Web 2.0!) has now kind of stolen Mike Allen from Time. MORE »

TIME magazine invited some people over to talk about but not actually pick “Person of the Year” or something, and Liz Smith picked up some hot, disgusting gossip at the party. MORE »

Future Foley news analysis headlines: MORE »

• The Osama and Kola story comes to the big screen - think “Pretty Woman meets Midnight Express.” [TPMmuckraker]

• Limbaugh guest host believes racial slurs good enough for Stanley Kubrick are good enough for him. [Media Matters]
• They get moral points for trying, but now Time Inc. is giving up and going back to the grey haired fans that adore them. [Romenesko]
• Tom Cruise knows the Germans are suckers for some totalitarianism and he wants in. [The Swamp]
• You thought S.R. Sidarth uses his free time to help orphans and shut-ins? Nope, he spends “at least a few hours a week jacking off to Internet porn,” just like you . [Riehl World View]
• If New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Suozzi had any chance of winning, he wouldn’t be wasting time with any of our punch-drunk family members. [Gawker]
• New “Google Soapbox” debuts, has conservative slant. [MoJo]
• Federal Air Marshal Service drops dress code, fearing it endangered marshals cover — it’s not the clothes guys, it’s the mustaches. [Captain's Quarters]

From the weekend inbox, two emails from Time PR, sent within an hour of each other. It was, apparently, a very momentous and unexpected hour in Baghdad. MORE »

Given the amount of e-mail we get asking when Ana Marie Cox will “come back to save Wonkette,” we’ve gathered that feelings about this blog’s founding editor run strong. Many of the comments about her new job at Time.com were positive. Several were not. In the spirit of rewarding bad behavior, here’s the best of those. MORE »

Congratulations from the entire Wonkette guest-blogging community to Ana Marie Cox, this blog’s founder and the new Washington editor of Time.com. You heard it here last:

NEW YORK-Ana Marie Cox has been named Washington Editor of TIME.com, it was announced today by Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME. Her appointment is effective July 31, 2006. MORE »

What we learned from Time Magazine’s list of the best and worst senators: MORE »

We weren’t going to bother today, but their tireless insistence that people really oughtta care about whatever the hell Bush is going on about this week is kinda cute. MORE »

Check out the headline and lede of this article by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post (who was arrested earlier this morning by Wonkette’s Capitol Fashion Police; but we sent him a Valentine’s Day card to make up for it): MORE »

The Bush-Abramoff Picture has finally dropped, and it’s terribly exciting for all you fans of slow-breaking hard-to-understand political firestorms of controversy! MORE »

Apparently having a flashback to his days at TIME, Slate’s John Dickerson did some reporting today and discovered the Republican National Committee’s very own war on Christmas. In their new web-only ad attempting to terrify people about the Democrats’ seditious anti-military criticisms of Bush, the RNC illustrated the problem of undermining the troops with a picture of a soldier stoically watching the Dems bad-mouth him and his cause. There’s the usual misleading, out-of-context tilt, but Dickerson also caught a factual error sure to enrage Bill O’Reilly: They airbrushed Christmas. In the original file photo (right), our fighting man isn’t being disillusioned by John Kerry, he’s having the cockles of his heart warmed by Dr. Suess’s timeless tale of holiday spirit, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Shame on you RNC!

Well, it could be worse. They could have just kept the photo untouched and compared Democrats to the Grinch. What with the Nazis already taken. MORE »

• Second Time magazine reporter is called to testify in leak investigation. [NYT, WSJ]
• Time table for withdrawal from Iraq seems dependent on next month’s Iraqi election and next year’s midterm election. Former administration aide: “We’ve moved from ‘if’ to ‘how fast.’” [NYT]
• Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO) are injured when their vehicle overturns in Iraq. [NYT]
• Advocacy groups target swing senators in fight over Alito’s confirmation. [WP]
• Alito has convinced most senators to support him — “an unusual political feat.” [USAT]
• The Washington Post’s special relationship with Bob Woodward “has sparked some resentment among the staff,” writes Howard Kurtz; criticism of star journalist is spreading. [WP]
• Bush visits Arizona today for speech on illegal immigration that is designed to reassure his conservative base. [WT, WSJ]

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