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From TMZ:

TMZ just spoke with Robert Novak, and one thing is clear: National Public Radio can be hazardous to pedestrians, especially the one he mowed down in D.C. this morning.

Novak tells us he was listening to "Morning Edition" on NPR in his Corvette when suddenly, "Some guy came up and hit my car with his fist. I figured I had done something that had created road rage, but I didn't know what it was. Then a bicyclist blocked the road in front of me. I asked what the problem was. He said, 'You can't just hit people and run away!'"

For this week's caption contest, we have this picture of Condoleezza Rice dining with some of her foreign counterparts.

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That's the number of press credential requests received by Team Obama to cover Obama's Berlin speech Thursday.

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Maybe the funniest / most tragic storyline since "Cheney shoots friend in face."

Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning.

A Politico reporter saw Novak in the front of a police car with a citation in his hand; a WJLA-TV crew and reporter saw Novak as well. The pedestrian was hospitalized but there were no details about the person's condition. Novak was later released and drove away from the scene.

"I didn't know I hit him," Novak told Politico. Novak said he was a block away from 18th and K St. NW, where the accident happened, when a bicyclist stopped him and said, "You hit someone." He said he was cited for failing to yield the right of way.

We have a hard time believing this, but for what it's worth...

We hear THAT Luke Russert made such a good impression on TV viewers after his father Tim's funeral, insiders say NBC is recruiting him for its team covering the presidential election.

Say hello to Stateline.org Executive Editor Gene Gibbons.

What word do you routinely misspell? It's embarrassing how often I misspell embarrass.

What's the name of your cell phone ring? Ding-a-ling, I guess. Whatever the default setting is.

What time did you get up this morning? 5:30 AM. I'm an early riser.

When did you last cry and why? Tears of joy when the Bosox won the 2004 World Series.

How many emails do you receive a day, roughly? 200+

What's your favorite letter? "L" -- first letter of my wife's first name.

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The Observer has a piece about David Gregory's troubles with "Race for the White House."

From the moment the show kicked off on March 17, things looked grim. The format was essentially a high-tech version of, say, The McLaughlin Group, with various journalists sitting around debating topics of Mr. Gregory's choosing. There was one innovation: Instead of sitting around a table, the heads of the various guests appeared in boxes. An unfavorable review of the show in The New Republic promptly described the look as "intergalactic Nancy Grace." The show was minimally staffed. In the absence of an experienced, aggressive booker, the decision was made to cull each evening's guests from the long roster of NBC and MSNBC political contributors. As a result, on each day's show, Mr. Gregory spends much of the hour debriefing fellow reporters and pundits such as Michael Smerconish, Eugene Robinson, Harold Ford Jr., Tony Blankley, John Harwood, Michelle Bernard and on and on. Halfway through his stint at the 6 p.m. hour on MSNBC, Mr. Gregory's numbers are solid but not remarkable. For the second quarter of 2008 (from late March to late June), Race for the White House averaged roughly 526,000 total viewers and 161,000 in the 25-54 demographic--roughly twice the audience that Tucker Carlson averaged during the second quarter of 2007. ... And numbers for Race for the White House have been relatively flat from month to month, suggesting that Mr. Gregory has already attracted the audience that will recognize and follow his name. Now it's a question of what his show can do. And while his colleagues at MSNBC have been stirring up controversy and grabbing attention from viewers inside the Beltway at every turn, Mr. Gregory has yet to make much noise.

We've discussed our thoughts on that before -- "He's the Pete Sampras of television...good at everything but you just can't bring yourself to truly adore the guy (Go Agassi!)" -- and the problem with "Race for the White House" (and perhaps Gregory generally) is that it represents yet one more "face" of David Gregory. On "Race," Gregory is rather hyper and awkwardly happy, which juxtaposes oddly with "This is serious David Gregory, reporting from the White House," and therefore doesn't help create a Tim Russert-like "Just a regular Joe" aura for Gregory.

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