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Journo nearly hits another's car "In other news, Walter Mossberg almost hit my car today. The 'TECH WSJ' plates tipped me off. Also the beard. Watch your lanes, Walt!" -- MetroWeekly's Sean Bugg. When asked for comment, Bugg remarked to FBDC that the incident occurred while he was just getting onto the E Street Expressway coming into the city. "He got a little tight on me at the merge, then made a right hand pass on a bus that I passed on the left and we both moved back to the middle lane at the same time," he explained. "While annoyed, I mostly just thought it was funny that I ID'd him through the plate on his Lexus. Nice Lexus, too. Unlike the government shutdown story, there may be two sides to this one. If you ask him he might say, 'What? That asshole in the Camaro with the BIG BUGG plates?'" We asked Mossberg for his side of the story. He wrote by email, "I can't recall any near miss in traffic today. But that merge is a tricky one, where one often feels as if cars are too close." Left Vs. Right Warfare WaPo's Ezra Klein: "Pro tip: The side that wants to shut down the government is the side demanding concessions before they consent to reopening the government." Townhall's Derek Hunter reworked Klein's tweet, writing, "Pro tip: Don't take political advice from someone who hasn't finished puberty & has no real world work experience." Poor Weigel gets "very sad" about those pesky JournoList mentions "Man alive, no one in media hates the right like @daveweigel. Never seen anything like him. Seething hatred." -- Breitbart.com's John Nolte regarding Slate's Dave Weigel. Townhall's Hunter piled on, writing, "Wishes it would set itself on fire," a reference to something Weigel said on the secret liberal listserv, JournoList, founded by his Boy Bander pal Ezra. Weigel spoke of wanting Matt Drudge to light himself on fire. His exact words? ”This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.” Earlier in the afternoon on Wednesday... Weigel had tweeted, "It's adorable, and very convincing, when conservatives claim you HATE VETERANS if you think Bachmann showing up for photos is gauche." Weigel replied to Nolte and Hunter, saying, "It makes me very sad when people bring up JournoList and I have to remember I have a better, more lucrative job now." Nolte argued: "I didn't say anything about journalist. Just going off your behavior at your better, more lucrative job." Editor's note: See the original breaking post on JournoList here. The story was broken by FishbowlDC, but Weigel likes to continuously claim that it was broken by Jonathan Strong who, at the time, worked for The Daily Caller. He now works for National Review. Our hearts really go out to Weigel. Why can't the past just be the past? In other Morning Chatter news... The shutdown aftermath... "If only all these nincompoops in Washington could stop behaving like children and listen to the wise words of Britney Spears." -- The Atlantic's Molly Ball. Wow. What?! "For $20, a friend of mine on the Hill will point out the spot Rahm Emanuel & Eric Massa squared off, dick to dick in the Congressional gym." -- John Powers, online contributor for ClotureClub.com. Broken promises "Dammit, about to break my promise to stay off Twitter. OK, just one thing." -- Bloomberg BNA's Alex Parker.

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