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Quotes of the Day Cupp performs verbal abortion on Olbermann "Keith Olbermann is a huge dick." -- GBTV's S.E. Cupp on "Real News." She added, "You once suggested that my parents never should've had me. I am very sorry that your television career has just been aborted." Reader calls Fishbowl Peter a 'moron' "Or maybe we could just call you a Selective Moron. Assuming, of course, that you aren't one all the time. I guess we'll have to give you the benefit of the doubt on that. I'm not particularly interested in the Congressman's sex life (or lack thereof), but the fact that he believes in abstinence prior to marriage but hasn't necessarily lived up to his own ideals doesn't make him a hypocrite. This is the lame charge that people use to attack those who profess virtue. If you're not sinless you're not allowed to ever make a moral statement?" -- evstok. We think it's rather harsh of you to refer to FBDC's Peter Ogburn as a "moron." He has feelings, you know, and knowledge. "Considering I grew up going to a SOUTHERN BAPTIST church 4 times a week, I think I can speak with SOME authority," he wrote me early this morning. "We were SUPER religious.. While we weren't exactly snake handlers, we knew where to get them on short notice." Lizzie has kisses for Alec Baldwin "Dear @alecbaldwin, The Daily News is not owned by Newscorp. Kisses." -- CNN's Lizzie O'Leary. This was in response to Alec tweeting this: "Is there a Murdoch alive who can get that rotten old man out of there and get rid of that GOP cabin boy, Roger Ailes?" And this: "Can anyone save NewsCorp?" Whoa! "My 3 yo decided to cannonball into the lake today at his grandparents. No, he doesn't know how to swim. His mom had to dive in." -- RedState.com Editor and CNN Contributor Erick Erickson. Journos spotted at Bruce Springsteen concert Sunday night: Twitter's Adam Sharp tells us, "Spotted from my vantage point on the floor for tonight's Springsteen show at the Verizon Center: Chuck Todd, Luke Russert, American Bridge's Bradley Beychock, WaPo's Chris Cillizza, C-SPAN's soon-to-be new co-CEO Rob Kennedy, and I am 99% sure NYT's David Brooks." Others: MSNBC and Mother Jones' David Corn, Poliitco's Patrick Gavin, WaPo's Joe Heim, Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth, CNN's Dana Bash, Noteworthy: In a late Monday night tweetathon, Zeke Miller of BuzzFeed tweets out scoops of Politico Mike Allen's new eBook, prior to midnight release. "I got it at 11:25pm when it went live on the iBooks store," Miller said in a late night email to FBDC. "I'm still waiting for my Kindle copy to come through. Still only about half-way though." Miller follows on the heels of Alex Pappas from The Daily Caller, who previously obtained a copy of the book. His story published on Monday morning at 11:36 a.m. Fun fact: For less than a year in 2009, The Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle, who's hanging out in Sanford, Fla. this week working on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman story as we speak, interned at the Sanford Herald. His internship lasted less than a year. UPDATE: Since Boyle wouldn't answer our simple questions such as if the internship has helped him with Trayvon story coverage and other simplicities, we weren't able to bring that to you. He was, however, able to tweet that he's no longer in Sanford. Would have been much simpler had he had the nerve (if that's what it takes these days) to answer a few questions just as he expects from the lawmakers he interviews. A special Happy Birthday to... Barbara Powers Allen (Allen's mom). Allen gave his mother her own line today in Playbook. No "Birthweek" though.

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