<b>Morning Chatter</b>

Quotes of the Day BIRTHDAY WISHES: "Happy Birthday to the love of my life." -- Chef Geoff Tracy, a.k.a. Mr. Norah O'Donnell, husband of the CBS morning show anchor. Tracy included the above photograph, that we can assume is youthful Norah. TV reporter fails to get beach condo because of dog "Bought furniture for new beach condo. Then board rejects me cuz of dog. Now delivery guy wants to know where to take it... depressing." -- ABC7's Stephen Tschida. Breitbart V. BuzzFeed: "journalisty" warfare "Over 5 mos I have never seen @BuzzFeedBen do a single journalisty thing to dig for more answers on Libya. Only block. Amazing achievement." -- Breitbart.com Editor John Nolte, who always has a harsh thing or two to say about BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith. Journo spills coffee on Bill Press' carpet "Always fun to chat with Bill Press on his @bpshow. WWR apologizes for spilling his coffee on the carpet." -- Paul Brandus, an independent White House reporter who writes West Wing Reports. More Beyoncé fallout "Rep Greg Walden told me yesterday he asked Beyonce why she took out her earpiece. "It was all static," she told him. True story." -- Gerrit Lansing, Digital Director at the NRCC, former flack to Reps. Peter Roskam and Paul Ryan. "Good news - if the voice continues to malfunction, Beyonce's offered to lip-sync for me tonight. #CNN" -- CNN's Piers Morgan. "I just don't know what's real anymore. #beyoncegate" -- Washington Examiner gossip scribe Nicki Schwab. Editor sees brighter side of frigid temps "In this weather I could win Olympic gold in speed-walking." -- Katie Kovach, Copy and Production Editor for CQ Roll Call. But more importantly, she writes, "Figures that right when I get home a neighbor starts playing a musical instrument and two dogs howl along." Blogger out of sorts "JESUS. Someone bring me a latte. I was NOT prepared for all this today." -- Washingtonian's Javonni Brustow, who is editor of TheDCPundit.com and a blogger for PopGlitz. Miguel Bloombito likes Justice Scalia's hat... Brrr: "Hace mucho coldo weathero en el outsidero. Necesito el mitteños y longo underpantalones y un Scalia sombrero." -- Miguel Bloombito, the Spanglish-speaking Twitter alias to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloombito was referring to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, pictured above. "Tom Coburn's beard is back, America. We're back to greatness land." -- National Journal "The Hotline's Chris Peleo-Lazar. Picture by Jesse Rodriguez, producer for MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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