<b>Morning Chatter</b>

Quotes of the Day CNN Producer for Piers Morgan Tonight Brad Parks: "Passing time between live shots at the CNN Grill photo booth." Mrs. Ralph Reed to Convention Security: Lighten up! "When I lived in Iran growing up & we were under martial law...security was not as bad as it is at the @GOPconvention!!! Geez...lighten up!!" -- Jo Anne Reed, wife of Ralph Reed. Taxicab Confessions: Tampa "My cabbie in Tampa is singing along to 'Do That To Me One More Time' while we sit in traffic. Kinda awkward." -- The Hill's Howeesha Kurtz, a.k.a. Judy Kurtz. Uh oh. Is HuffPost's Arthur Delaney okay? "I'm drunk and lonely." -- HuffPost's Arthur Delaney. Labor journo for InTheseTimes.com Mike Elk replied, "Call me maybe?" HuffPost's Amanda Terkel apparently borrowed stole Delaney's gadget and tweeted the following: "At a wings place in a Ramada, next to a strip club. Take that, fancy parties." Journo gives lip to TODAY Show "Shut up Today Show." -- The Hill's Alexandra Jaffe to the TODAY Show. On Monday, TODAY ran a segment on mirror fasts. This means, as they explain it, "foregoing looking at yourself in the mirror for a week, a month, even a year." Reporter Starstruck by NBC's David Gregory "Just walked by @davidgregory. #StarStruck Saw that dude on TV yesterday morning.#GOP2012" -- D.C. Correspondent for MedPageToday.com David Pittman, who clearly needs to have his head examined. Psst....Pittman, Gregory is not a celebrity. MedPage Today provides medical news for clinician. Is there a clinician in the house? Questions to Ponder: "When ratings show people tuning out of politics at record levels, why do cable channels think 24-7 convention coverage is a good idea?" -- Salon's David Sirota. And from Columbia J School's Emily Bell: "Given there are a lot of journalists covering the #RNC who is actually producing interesting coverage? (serious question)" Convo Between Actor Rob Lowe and CNN's Piers Morgan Lowe: "What does it mean, if anything, that the Fox News crawl is so much slower than CNN?" Morgan: "Means we're quicker, smarter." Ouch! "Hey @JoeNBC: Any time you want to man up and take control of your own show would be nice. #Coward" -- Breitbart.com editor John Nolte, showing that it's not just the MSM that gets whacked by the conservative media outlet. HuffPost Howard Fineman's admission: "I rarely if ever get in shouting matches on TV but did on @hardball_chris just now with former GOP chm Steele about the Romney welfare ad." How to Win Friends and Influence People at the RNC: "Convention Coverage Rule #2115: Condescend to other reporters by not admitting to having read 'their take' from last night." -- Politico's Patrick Gavin. How to irk Politico's Ben White: "Whiny Tweets complaining about too many journalists covering too little news in Tampa are not wrong, they are just boring." He later added, "How do Floridians and other swing-staters tolerate all these political ads? I'd throw my TV out the window." Boybander Revelations..."Thing I learned today: Reince Priebus reads the sarcastic things you write about him." -- Slate's Dave Weigel. And from TPM's Brian Beutler: "I wish politicians really would speak in dog whistles so I'd be incapable of hearing their garbage." Public Admiration Society: "Great line from @RonBrownstein: 'Very patriotic convention -- the floor is red, the seats are blue, and the delegates are white.'" -- The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza quoting National Journal's Ron Brownstein.

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