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QUOTES of the DAY -- Holiday Weekend Edition CNN Senior Political Editor Mark Preston: "Just watched 13 and counting fishing boats leave #Hatteras aboard ferry from #Ocracoke." Liquid weekend "Margarita. Sun. Water. Stir. Serve."-- LAT and Chicago Tribune writer James Oliphant in a weekend tweet. The judge has spoken: Nir Rosen "How sad to call yourself a journalist and cover a royal wedding." -- Lefty journo Nir Rosen in a weekend tweet. This stellar critique coming from a man who, back in February, promised to get off Twitter after he made admittedly tasteless remarks about CBS's Lara Logan being sexually assaulted in Egypt. Among other things he wrote, "It would have been funny if it happened to Anderson [Cooper] too." How soon Rosen forgets saying, "I feel like shrinking now." What's he have against royal wedding coverage? Ezra marvels at Britney's career trajectory "Sort of amazed that Britney Spears is still around and making hits. Has anyone done a great 'Britney Spears: Survivor' profile?" -- WaPo's liberal blogger Ezra Klein in a weekend tweet. He then links to an article by the esteemed TV host Carson Daly, who cries about how sad he is that Britney is "crawling back into the womb" of the record industry. Daly's show, "Last Call," airs at 1:35 a.m. ET. First Ez expresses that he loves "Ice Loves Coco," now this. Whatever metamorphosis is happening, we're just relieved Klein has expanded his reading repertoire from CJR. Journo has Metro rage "Hate the DC Metro and I hate it so much I want to strangle it with my bare hands and destroy its evilness. #metrorage #primalscream." -- Roll Call's HOH writer Neda Semnani in a weekend tweet. It was a long and stormy morning... "#Boom, thought it was an earthquake in DC ... Turned on TV .... Not yet? Just thunder/lightning ... Ok. Back to bed." -- Human Events' Tony Lee in a weekend tweet. "Was sleeping soundly until this Wrath of God weather came along & woke me. Yes, I think we need the rain, but at 5:45am on Sunday?!?" -- C-SPAN's Jeremy Art in a weekend tweet. "Either they're rehearsing the Fourth of July show on the Mall right now, or our independence is nearly over. #Invasion #Explosives" -- WCP's Mike Madden in a weekend tweet. Reporter has new pet peeve "New airline annoyance: people who play computer solitaire with you over your shoulder." -- WaPo's Karen Tumulty in a weekend tweet. Reporter declares nation sexy "Happy Birthday America. You are still very sexy for a 235 year old." -- TWT's Eli Lake in a 4th of July tweet. Sweating with Roland "The thing I hate about the end of the Essence Music Fest is packing wet linen. I partied/sweated hard! #emf2011" -- Washington Watch Host Roland Martin in a weekend tweet. Inskeep gets down with Prince "Riding taxi through dark while radio plays 'Kiss' by Prince makes you feel you're in a movie w/soundtrack." -- NPR's Steve Inskeep in a Tuesday morning tweet. Rough weekend "Long weekend+3 power outages=kids bouncing off walls." -- NBC's Chuck Todd in a weekend tweet. The Observer "After watching the "Page One" doc, here's what I noticed: David Carr - a NY Times reporter - wore a Washington City Paper hat. #wemajor" -- WCP Music Critic Marcus Moore in a weekend tweet. The Critic "You know it's a bad day for news when half of @mikeallen's Playbook is Jon Huntsman news." -- Mediaite's Frances Martel in a weekend tweet. Strange coincidence? "Well, that was a first. Woman behind the desk at my gym: ''Pethokoukis?' Is that an Indian name?' Namaste!" -- Reuters' Politics and Policy writer Jim Pethokoukis in a weekend tweet. He goes on to say, "Also weird: yesterday I went to an Indian restaurant for the first time in my life." Pethokoukis is Greek.

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