Morning Chatter

Quotes of the Day PEPPER PARTY? "I could eat grilled peppers all day #offeralsoappliestovarietiesthathavebeenroastedblisteredstuffedsauteedorpickled #andanythingwoodgrilled" -- Roll Call HOH writer Warren Rojas. Artwork credit: Austin Price. A day in the life of a Senate reporter "A senator said this to me today: 'I think you’re working on a nothingburger story about conflict.'" -- National Journal's Amy Harder. Fournier dumps his diet "I'm in the grocery store Whole lot of carbs here June Two-Nine I dump diet" -- National Journal's Ron Fournier, who felt called to write a bizarre poem at the market last night. Not to be beaten by WaPo's Weingarten, who looked at toilet paper and thought... "Why are there pix of babies on packages of toilet paper? Babies are the only people who don't use toilet paper." -- WaPo's Gene Weingarten, in between calls to proctologists. He must've missed the ones with rabbits and dogs. The Observer "Wolf Blitzer is so nice. He just explained [to]] the CNN reporter on the ground in Istanbul how to tighten the straps on the gas mask." -- Anup Kaphle. Bureau Chief controls his inner villain "How I haven't throat punched somebody yet today is just absolutely beyond me." -- BuzzFeed's John Stanton. Politico Playbook Publish Time: 7:49 a.m. Journo marvels at promptness of Facebook ad stalking "Well, it took Facebook exactly 1 minute after I googled for rental cars to display rental car ads everywhere. FB beginning to resemble the shopkeeper who sees you look at something, won't stop asking you if you want it and drives you out of the store." -- Tecnology reporter Ry Rivard, who writes for Inside Higher Ed. Two-in-one special at the salon "Hair salon has no A/C today. Ugh. Free Hot yoga with haircut. Lol" -- Rebecca Bredholt, Vocus Marketing Consultant and Managing Editor. Anonymous Tipster to FishbowlDC: "If you think that's bad you should hear the kind of actual horseshit Wonkette tries to sell partners and advertisers in private." This was in reaction to this story published Tuesday. He said what? Evening Oopsy: "Yes I did just end @nbcnightlynews saying it was Monday night! Either I'm wrong or everyone has a 6 work week now." -- NBC anchor Lester Holt. Reporter reaches ma'am stage "A young boy in Dirksen today says to me 'have a good day, ma'am.' I've officially entered-ma'am territory. #ladytweets" -- National Journal's Elahe Izadi. The Instigator "BuzzFeed founder uses Boston bombing as reason why they are doing new international coverage but they were looking for Editor before bombing." -- FNC media critic Richard Grenell, who topped our "10 Journos Not to Fight on Twitter" list published Tuesday. Real story promo from The Daily Beast: "Pippa Middleton grabs new boyfriend's butt as they made out in their sports clothes." Eddie Scarry contributed to this report.

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