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Salon’s Mike Madden is the latest perpetrator in a crime wave known as The Missed White House Pool Duty. The offense has occured three times in the past two months, with excuses varying from ‘Oops, I no longer work at the paper’ (a darn good excuse), to ‘I got there on time, but everyone was already gone’.

Madden’s excuse is pretty weak — the dog ate my Pool Report schedule (well, pretty much). Madden missed the Pool Duty boat today because of an “alarm mishap” — Madden’s way of saying ‘mistakes were made’.

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