Incest Desk: Jon Ward's Bro Gets Playbook Love

We can completely understand the Joan VandeHei domination of Playbook last week when Politico‘s Mike Allen blew up the birthday of the mother of his boss and longtime friend Jim VandeHei. Mike and Jim are like peas and carrots at this point. And Joan is like a lovely sweet potato. Five relentless birthday mentions later, and she’s a star.

But HuffPost‘s Jon Ward’s BROTHER in Australia gets a birthday mention? Now we know that Jon Ward has long captured the imagination of Allen — he recently called him “one of Washington’s smartest young thinkers” and hell, it was revealed in an

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