The Ticker: Marlantes, Russert, Smith…

By Brian 

> “Rising star” Liz Marlantes has been named congressional correspondent for ABC News, replacing Linda Douglass, FishBowlDC notes.

> WP: “Lawyers for NBC News reporter Tim Russert suspected in the spring of 2004 that his testimony could snare Vice President Cheney’s top aide, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, in a lie and Russert resisted testifying at the time about private conversations with Libby…”

> Harry Smith is “like a regular person…”

> Per BCBeat, Comedy Central is touting the fact that Stephen Colbert‘s “truthiness” was named “word of the year” by the American Dialect Society…

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