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Quotes of the Day Beauty and the Guido: "Colorado's rocked so far! At the Steamboat Institute now and hung out with @michellemalkin yesterday." -- Washington's version of "The Situation" Jason Mattera, Editor of Human Events, in a Friday tweet with the accompanying photograph. We prefer Mattera's usual wife beater tank to this shapeless snow-patterned purplish T. It looks like he found the elusive Michael Stars - Grimace collection. They tried it once in the mid-90's but never spoke of it again. Media elitism "I go to Whole Foods, other people go to Walmart. There's a difference." -- The Daily Caller media writer Matt Lewis on media elitism and what it means on CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday in response to Texas GOP Gov. and presidential hopeful Rick Perry getting "pounded by the press." Lewis remarked that this cultural bias is even more prevalent than a liberal bias. Later he opined that President Obama going to "hoity-toity" Martha's Vineyard doesn't make for good optics. Astute observation "CONNOISSEURS of Sunday-morning TV noticed that 'This Week' today revived the more urgent, David Brinkley-era opening music." -- Politico's Mike Allen in a weekend Playbook observation. What is not journalism "How sad that campaign 'journalism' has now devolved into, Is so-and-so going to run?? #thatsnotjournalism" -- Media Matters' Eric Boehlert in a weekend tweet. And this... "This is par for the course for Politico. I brought this up on another story and they said they had it first but were just waiting to 'report out the details.' Politico, waiting to break news?" -- Anonymous Tipster in response to our story, "Politico Behaves Unprofessionally." Hairless in D.C. "There's a laser hair removal Groupon for the Washington area twice a week, at least. At this rate, #DC should be hairless by 2013." WaPo Express News Editor Sara Schwartz in a weekend tweet. Future weatherman "It's raining it's ass off in suburban MD/DC... yeesh!" -- Washington Business Journal designer Tim Wong in a Sunday tweet. En route to Mongolia "You'll next hear from us from Ulan Bator, something pooler never thought he'd have the chance to say just a few weeks ago." -- LAT's Mike Memoli in a Sunday night VPOTUS Pool Report from China. Ulan Bator is the capital of Mongolia. Journo Love "Whole lotta Twitter love for @SavannahGuthrie's first time filling in on @MeetThePress today." -- NYT Brian Stelter in a Sunday tweet. Where does Bret Baier shop? A follower asks FNC's Bret Baier: "Where do you purchase majority of your shirts/ties from? Good looking combos." Baier replied, "Most are Brooks Brothers." Arianna tweaks Weiner "And on the pretty geeky side of the news ledger, it was announced that 'retweet' and 'sexting' have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. No word on whether @RepWeiner feels validated." -- HuffPost/AOL Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington in her "Sunday Roundup." Seeing the glass half full... "So the only good thing about waiting 20 minutes for a train is that I finally got to read about Kim kardashian's over the top wedding." -- Netcentric editor and writer Elizabeth Brotherton in a weekend tweet. She was formerly an HOH writer for Roll Call. The media critic "Peggy Noonan's wrong that Obama doesn't have a solid base of people who 'love' him. Cheap shot w no data to back up" -- NBC's Domenico Montanaro in a Sunday tweet on WSJ Columnist Peggy Noonan, who appeared on NBC's "MTP" on Sunday.

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