Morning Chatter

Sounding off

“White House mouth-piece Carney is perpetually late, in utter contempt of press corps. Does he think pissing us off helps Obama?” — Washington Editor, Barron’s, James McTague referring to White House Press Sec. Jay Carney.

Eavesdrop Cafe

“Dear dude that’s grunting in the gallery. Stop. Seriously. It’s creepy as hell.” — Roll Call‘s John Stanton.

The new Ben Smith tweets stuff like this: “So people apparently thought Lil Kim died.” See here. He also wrote to WaPo‘s Exec.