<b>Morning Chatter</b>

Quotes of the Day LOCKED OUT: WaPo's Dana Milbank: Mayhem at #dnc2012. Hundreds of delegates, journalists locked out of arena. Penis sighting "So yeah. Definitely just walked in on some dude in the bathroom with his pants around his ankles staring in the mirror #dnc2012" -- BuzzFeed Washington Bureau Chief John Stanton. WTF Mars Mention of the Evening: "I always figured if Bill Clinton landed on Mars, he would know how to do it. He would know how to reproduce. He would know everything. He'd just instinctively know how to talk to people...the martians." -- MSNBC's Chris Matthews at 12:53 a.m. opining on Clinton's vast reproduction knowledge that extends beyond our solar system. Please, someone put Matthews to bed (no pun intended). Bill Clinton Speech Fallout "A significant part of this is off prompter. He is using it as notes." -- TIME's Michael Scherer. "The prompter has stopped rolling as Clinton goes off book." -- BuzzFeed's Zeke Miller. "Take away the TelePrompTer, bite his ankle, throw a rat down his trousers, it only raises his game." -- Editor of The New Republic Franklin Foer. "Bill Clinton is totally ghost ridin’ the script right now." -- Jamelle Bouie, writer for The American Prospect and fellow at the Nation Institute. "The constant camera flashes in here are going to send Bubba into a seizure #dnc2012" -- Stanton. "Bubba's hands are shaking." -- HuffPost's Jen Bendery. "I think Bill Clinton is the gun you bring to a knife fight." -- Metro Weekly Co-publisher Sean Bugg. "Bill Clinton looks great. @peta may be right about the benefits of a vegan diet." -- HuffPost Deputy Editor Erin Ruberry. "Man, Clinton is happier than a pig in Arkansas you know what." -- James Oliphant, Deputy Editor, National Journal magazine. "Clinton is the master. He makes a speech to an enormous crowd feel like a personal talk." -- LAT's David Horsey. "I really don't understand reporters who think this is too long for a politician to be trying to talk to voters about policy." -- WaPo's Ezra Klein. "This speech was killing it at 15 mins. Now, it's bordering on a hostage situation." -- Co-host of MSNBC's The Cycle S.E. Cupp. "This is moving from 'greatest speech ever' to gong territory pretty fast." -- BuzzFeed Political Editor Ben Smith. "They're going to need a crowbar to pry Bill away from that podium." -- NYT Op-ed Columnist Charles Blow. "There's no way Rahm Emanuel actually thought 'a broken clock is right twice a day' was that funny." -- National Review's Jonah Goldberg. "This is like watching a good lawyer defending a guilty man." -- Former Clinton pollster Dick Morris. "Poor fact checkers, now they gotta spend the night studying 52 years of employment data" -- Craig Crawford. "Same R bloggers who were touting Clinton as the 'good' Dem for weeks suddenly talking about sex scandal and perjury again." -- WaPo's Greg Sargent. The Name Dropper "Caroline Kennedy just walked into our booth. Interview w @DavidMuir #abcworldnews" -- ABC News' Rick Klein. Dirty jokester "PLEASE tell me that Sandra Fluke isn't wearing a blue Gap dress tonight." -- NRA News' Cameron Gray in a tweet on the night former Prez Bill Clinton is to speak. INTO THE POOL: "Oops! A wet former treasury secretary Bob Rubin after falling into a pool at a fancy cocktail party in Charlotte." -- Politico's Lois Romano with accompanying photograph. Peter Ogburn contributed to this report. Above black and white photograph by Roll Call's Meredith Shiner.

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