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DOG DAYS OF AUGUST: "Perfect way to end a long day." -- Erin Ruberry, HuffPostBlog Managing Editor and Contributor Editor to HuffPostDC. Confessional. "The guy next to me is reading a romance novel on his iPad. I can't stop snooping and reading. #help" -- Politico's Madeline Marshall. Quote Taken Completely Out of Context "This is normally the point in the cycle where someone pens a disingenuous defense of that Daily Beast prison rape story." -- Politico's Blake Hounshell. "The first time I saw that scene I almost peed myself." -- Conservative author and radio host Jason Mattera (we don't even want to know). The Astute Observer "What seems most strange to me about Hannah Anderson is she doesn't seem upset about her mother and brother being murdered." -- TWT's Emily Miller. Travel Bitches "Waited for 10 taxis at DCA until one came by that accepted credit cards. Was this too much to ask?" -- AP's Jack Gillum. Did someone say fish? "I can drink beer like a fish. In an aquarium of beer." -- Stefan Becket, who handles Social Media at New York magazine. President Obama phones the tough lady "President today called Antoinette Tuff, the woman who was hero of Atlanta shooting, and praised her for courage #fnpolitics" -- Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry. Important Q to Ask Ourselves: "Is Speaker Newt Gingrich @Newt_Gingrich going to get eaten alive at CNN?" -- Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. Politico Playbook Publish Time: 7:59 a.m. The Daily Caller's hilarious dog story "Hilarious bit of trolling from the Daily Caller: 'The Obamas do not have any white dogs.'" -- HuffPost's Elise Foley. The story's headline: "The Obamas got a new puppy, everyone!" The final two lines of the story..."With the addition of Sunny, the Obamas now have two black Portuguese water dogs. The Obamas do not have any white dogs."

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