Mike Allen's Playbook Gets Punk'd
It happens to the best of journalists. Someone sends a tip that doesn’t turn out to be above board. In other words, a prankster with no real agenda in mind sees if he or she can fool the writer.
Such was the case in Politico‘s Mike Allen’s Playbook this weekend, when a prankster (who eventually copped to the crime) wrote Allen saying it was White House Deputy Press Secretary’s Josh Earnest’s birthday and that he had celebrated with cake, clapping and song at Carmine’s.
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