Hating on Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza’s recent failed attempts at making humorous online videos for washingtonpost.com has been a popular pastime of late, but comedian Andy Cobb has served up the best rebuke to date (via AMERICABlog). Brutal, and unlike the Milbank/Cillizza efforts, actually funny….
“OMG Sen. Roland Burris! Ehh, do we really want this guy coming to bat for us? Maybe!” That was DCist Sommer’s response to seeing Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) take up the cause of District voting rights on Wednesday. It’s weird to have a guy no one likes taking up your cause. And man, do people really not like him. In his Washington Sketch column, Dana Milbank paints a scene that might have been lifted…
Saveur delves into the topic of what the presidential candidates and other D.C. figures eat for breakfast. The majority of the interviewees listed the expected – oatmeal, cereal, toast, eggs, or coffee. For instance, Mayor Adrian Fenty eats a typical runner’s breakfast – oatmeal, bananas, and tea with honey. Also notable from the list: Barack Obama eats four to six eggs every morning (that’s a lot of eggs!); House Speaker Nancy Pelosi eats chocolate ice…
>> A turkey was spotted in the drive-through of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Hagerstown this morning. [NBC4] >> Dana Milbank interviews a turkey. Or, he is the turkey? [WaPo] >> Three people, including two firefighters, were injured today when an ambulance collided with an SUV in Mount Pleasant. [WJLA] >> A fire at the at Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro station earlier is causing delays on the Orange line in both directions. [WTOP] >> Anyone driving…
Maryland Lt. Governor and candidate for the U.S. Senate Michael Steele must be red in the face these days — after calling an association with the Republican Party and President George W. Bush “a scarlet letter” in an anonymous interview with the Post’s Dana Milbank, Steele is now trying to limit the damage of his surprisingly honest comments. “I’m not trying to dis the president,” he was quoted as saying by the Washington Times….
