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FishbowlDC Fan Club Board President: WaPo's Gene Weingarten. Vice President of Useless Affairs: Wonkette's Rebecca "Facts Never Get in the Way of My Stories" Scheinkopf Resident know-it-all: Commentary's John Podhoretz (a.k.a. Podwhore) Dreams about FishbowlDC: Washingtonian's Ben Freed Biggest Fan Ever: Slate's Dave Weigel Sunset photo expert: Fox News' Ed Henry Words of #ThisTown Wisdom "It's the one thing you can't do in Washington – don't screw up and tell the truth." -- CNN Contributor Kevin Madden on "Out Front" Wednesday night. Politico Playbook Publish Time: 6:03 a.m. Important Q to Ponder "Jon Stewart vs CNN. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Know more by following 'Know More' with @dylanmatt." -- WaPo Executive Editor and expert internal memo writer Kevin Merida. Anonymous email to FBDC: "I imagine, even tho it doesn't launch for a few days, that you could write the John Harris "internal" memo to staff now on the Politico magazine, tho don't know how you can top the last few. All of Washington is in awe of Politico self-congratulatory messages." WTF? "Senate just passed a bill to 'improve provisions relating to the sanctuary system for surplus chimpanzees.'" -- Politico's Manu Raju. The Boy Scout "Was going to Vine Roger Daltrey rehearsing 'Stand by Me' in Stat Hall but was informed no audio/visual per management." -- NBC's Luke Russert. Perennial words of wisdom "A lot of reporters using a lot of time today criticizing other reporters, time that could be spent, well, you know, reporting..." -- Politico's Patrick Gavin. Journo is anti-Flan "Free dessert idea: If you like your flan, you can keep it." -- Politico's Blake Hounshell. Convo Between Two Media Types This morning's conversation is between RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer and BuzzFeed Political Editor McKay Coppins. Sean Spicer: "Hey @BuzzFeedPol how u haven't written abt these videos youtube.com/playlist?list=… @BuzzFeedBen @mckaycoppins @BuzzFeedAndrew" McKay Coppins: "@seanspicer weird forum for this Sean. I think you have my email." Summer Superlatives: BEST BANGS And the winner is... Breitbart News' and Townhall's Lisa DePasquale. The choices included U.S. News' Nikki Schwab, HuffPost‘s Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim (who got a huge plug from his boss Arianna Huffington), NBC’s Russert, and first lady Michelle Obama. DePasquale won with 30.89 percent of the votes. Grim came in a close second with 27.34 percent. Russert's side-swept bangs, however lovely they are, didn't fare so well -- he got just 19 votes. MOST DESPISED FLACK IN WASHINGTON And the winner is... Breitbart News' Matthew Boyle with 40.48 percent of the vote. In second place at 19.64 percent is NRSC Communications Director Brad Dayspring. Other options included: Clintonland's Philippe Reines, White House Press Sec. Jay Carney. FUNNIEST JOURNO IN WASHINGTON And the winner is... Reason.com Editor Nick Gillespie with 313 votes. Runner up is The Daily Caller's Will Rahn who got 176 votes. Other options included: BuzzFeed's John Stanton, Yahoo! News' Olivier Knox, NJ's Elahe Izadi and The Sunday Times' Toby Harnden.

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