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QUOTES of the DAY Charlie and the Goddess: From @CharlieSheen's Twitter account, which now boasts 775,225 followers. Charlie Sheen Fever Many reporters in and around Washington were glued to their TV sets as we watched yet another round of Sheen's "Sober Valley Village" on ABC's 20/20 last night. This only left reporters ravenous for more, which we got this morning on NBC's Today Show. "I guess I shouldn't be laughing my ass off, but I can't help it -- watching 20/20." -- Albuquerque Journal Washington Bureau Chief Michael Coleman in a Tuesday night tweet. "Ok, ok I swear this is the last Charlie Sheen tweet of the week for me. This is hilarious. Live the Sheen Dream." -- NBC4 reporter Craig Melvin in a Tuesday night tweet. "Hey @charliesheen, feel free to BCC me on reporter inquiry emails." -- Politico's Patrick Gavin in a double-edged tweet Tuesday night regarding both Sheen and the debacle between Rep. Darrell Issa's now fired flack Kurt Bardella and Politico and Bardella's leaking emails to NYT's Mark Leibovich for a book he's writing on D.C. culture. "Charlie Sheen has ruined Twitter." -- D.C. Attorney Kevin Reiss in a Tuesday night tweet. Forget it. No one's flipping the channel "About to make an inaugural appearance on @gretawire shortly after 10:30. Tune in if you can." -- The Hill's Mike O'Brien pleading for people to watch him on TV Tuesday night right smack in the middle of the Sheen interview. Please. In what may be our favorite tweet of Tuesday night...@FakeSantorum scolds former Salon Editor and now Editor-at-Large Joan Walsh for RT Sheen tweets: "@joanwalsh Is it even NECESSARY to RT Charlie Sheen tweets? Most of us are following at this point anyway." Waking up to Charlie, who has one speed: Go! "Charlie Sheen said he would do no more interviews after yesterday. Now he's back on the Today show. That lasted long." -- The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz in a Wednesday morning tweet. "Charlie Sheen is up! Keep in mind it is 4:30am in Los Angeles." -- WaPo's Jonathan Capehart in a Wednesday morning tweet. "Dear @abc, @cnn, @abc, @nbc, @fox: Just. Say. No. No more Sheen, please." -- National Review Online's Greg Pollowitz in a Wednesday morning tweet. Journo virtual love "@mitchellreports I wanted to congratulate you personally but got intimidated by adoring mob surrounding you -- see you soon." -- ABC News's Jake Tapper in a Tuesday night tweet complimenting NBC's Andrea Mitchell on winning an award at the National Press Foundation dinner that night. To which she replied, "@jaketapper big virtual hug and many thanks." (A big virtual hug? Is Washington getting weird or what?) Tapper also gives love out to CNN's Dana Bash: "Congrats to @DanaBashCNN on her #NPF Dirksen award and even more so for her pending baby!!!" (WSJ's Brody Mullins, CNN's Bash and NBC's Mitchell all won Dirksen awards at the National Press Foundation dinner.) Scribe suggests Bardella for Newt "Newt needs to settle on just ONE megalomaniacal spokesman to overhype his candidacy to the press. Maybe Kurt Bardella?" -- The Atlantic's Josh Green in a Tuesday night tweet. NJ's "The Hotline" praises NYT for anti-Politico story "For many reasons, @jeffzeleny and @shearm win the night." -- NJ "The Hotline's" Executive Editor Reid Wilson in a Tuesday night tweet.

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