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Quotes of the Day Cell Phone Abuse! "Alarm... Set! (Yeah yeah, fixing my shattered phone tomorrow. Oh Apple store... I am coming for u!)" -- CNN Correspondent Brooke Baldwin. Josh Marshall dings Politifact "Awesome: Politifact manages to 'fact-check' a claim which is totally unsubstantianted [sic] and still look like idiots." -- TPM's Josh Marshall. Read the Politifact story here. You can't take WaPo's White House scribe anywhere "Your pooler also notes that David Nakamura, all around good guy and great co-pooler, accidentally spilled his Cobb salad on the plane's brand new carpet. and promptly cleaned up the mess thoroughly." -- TWT's David Boyer in a Monday Pool Report. AF1 was en route to JFK where they were catching helos to Stamford, Conn. for two fundraisers. WaPo's David Nakamura needn't worry. The oil should blend in seamlessly. Blogger lashes out about masturbatory tweet Last week DCStakeOut blogger and Institute of Public Accuracy's Sam Husseini wrote a tongue-in-cheek tweet upon the death of Gore Vidal. Like Vidal, Husseini wrote that he, too, had a lot of sex. “Like Gore Vidal, I had 1000 sexual encounters by the time I was 25. Of course, I was the only one in the room for most.” We ran it in Morning Chatter with the headline, "Blogger (jokingly) boasts of sexual prowess?" And guess who flipped out yesterday on Twitter? "How is that boasting of sexual prowess?" he asked on Twitter. He said somehow we didn't get that he meant that he'd been, ahem, polishing the family jewels, not sleeping with 1000 people. Thanks for that Husseini! We're such idiots and wouldn't have possibly gotten that without your help. When we joked that we needed to add an update and pronto, he snapped, "@FishbowlDC You do that. Learn to read while you're at it. You're literally the only person who didn't get that." Some might remember Husseini. He was suspended from the National Press Club in November of 2011 after he questioned Saudi Arabian Prince Turki al-Faisal in a way head honchos found "unseemly" and then became outraged when NPC officials somehow didn't want him acting like an asshole brave journo toward their guests. He was eventually taken off suspension but not without club officials thinking him a nuisance. This was the second time he'd been suspended. Journo alerts the masses on addiction story "Doing a deep dive into the scientific literature on addiction. So fascinating. Also, feel free to holler if this is your field. #longwrites" -- The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal. Headline from the AP in London: "Man Sets Fire to Home by Microwaving Socks, Undies." Read the story here.

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