Matt Yglesias

Blogger Battles the Ghost of Andrew Breitbart - Posted March 7, 2012
If you follow Slate's Matt Yglesias on Twitter, you have seen his relentless tweets about his new book, "The Rent is Too Damn High." It's an e-book available online. As soon as it hit Amazon yesterday, Ygl... [FishbowlDC]

Weekly Standard's Labash Pricks Slate's Yglesias - Posted March 2, 2012
In what is likely the most poetic reaction to Slate's Matt Yglesias's distasteful comments on ... [FishbowlDC]

Morning Chatter - Posted March 2, 2012
Quotes of the Day "I just said something nasty to someone on Twitter. I should not have done it and I apologize." -- Peter Roff, U.S. News & World Report Contributing Editor. What else could he say? "Condolences to Andrew Breitbart's friends and family today. He was a force of nature and... [FishbowlDC]

Morning Chatter - Posted January 11, 2012
Quotes of the Day Big Ball of WHAT? FNC's Greta Van Susteren remarked: "We spotted one of our colleagues crossing the street in Manchester but what really caught our attenti... [FishbowlDC]

Slate Hires Liberal Boybander Blogger - Posted November 10, 2011
Think Progress' Matt Yglesias has accepted a job at Slate. Just moments ago he wrote on Twitter, "Non-ironically-breaking: I'm leaving @ThinkProgress for an exciting new job at @Slate." He wrote about his departure in a post on Think Progress calling it an "Important Programming Announcement." ... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted November 10, 2011
Quotes of the Day CNBC's Eamon Javers gets swallowed by Kermit the Frog background:"Rehearsing for tonight's #cnbcdebate in front of the biggest dang green screen I've ever seen." Editor g... [PRNewser]

Fish Food - Posted September 28, 2011
(A Sprinkling of Things We Think You Ought to Know...) Roll Call HOH's New Offspring Feature - In a new occasional series, HOH will introduce readers to the offspring of lawmakers. This means grandkids, nieces, nephews, spouses of pols who grew up on the Hill and now work ... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted September 23, 2011
Quotes of the Day -- the Google/Fox News GOP Debate Version Journo experiences random act of kindness "Mom with crying baby on plane just passed out earplugs to all sitting near them. Nice." -- Yahoo! News' Chris Moody en route to Orlando. ... [FishbowlDC]

Boybander Trashes Jesus - Posted September 16, 2011
Liberal Blogger Matt Yglesias, who is moving offices this afternoon, has thrown out a Bible. "Just threw out a Bible. #sinning," he wrote on Twitter. Yglesias will be contributing regularly to The Atlantic's new Atlan... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted August 12, 2011
Quotes of the Day Reporter eavesdrops at airport "Guys next to me at Detroit Airport already talking about fried butter on a stick. Something about honey batter? #IowaStateFair" -- Roll Call's ... [FishbowlDC]

It's Nasty Thursday - Posted August 11, 2011
If you want a taste of the online nail spitting that happens online between left and right media outlets, this morning's cat fight between Think Progress' liberal blogger Matt Yglesias and ... [PRNewser]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted August 2, 2011
Quotes of the Day Shared Haircuts: Is WaPo's Ezra Klein, with his hip and fresh new buzz cut, trying to be MSNBC's Martin Bashir? The Daily Caller's TV writer ... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted July 28, 2011
Quotes of the Day A good omen or bad? "A brown marmorated stink bug landed on my shirt during today's Metro ride. Pretty sure that symbolizes something; just not sure what.?" -- WaPo's ... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted July 19, 2011
QUOTES of the DAY Carlson still disgusted by Vick "Are you fucking kidding? Nauseat... [FishbowlDC]

Self-Promotion Washington Style Part II - Posted June 27, 2011
Here's another stab at self-promotion. Not quite as impressive as fellow Juiceboxer Matt Yglesias from earlier today, but Wired.com's Spencer Ackerman gets at least a D+ for effort for running a picture of himself eating soybea... [FishbowlDC]

Self-Promotion Washington Style - Posted June 27, 2011
Lefty blogger and resident Juicebox Mafioso Matt Yglesias tweeted out a picture of -- who else? -- himself from the recent Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis, contributing to the unfortunate, pervasive idea that Washington journalists are concerned with little more than themselves and their own fame. He writes, "Me, looking grump at... [FishbowlDC]

The Nerdy Shore: Casting Call - Posted June 1, 2011
The debut cast of The Nerdy Shore: From L to R: Beutler, Weigel, Klein, and Yglesias. Slate's Dave Weigel kept his hands off Weinergate this weekend. Instead, ... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted May 9, 2011
QUOTES of the DAY "This thunderstorm smells so good from the steps of the National Gallery. Rain on stone." -- The Atlantic's Senior Editor Alexis Madrigal in a weekend tweet with this accompanying photog... [FishbowlDC]

Is Matt Yglesias Running for Something? - Posted May 4, 2011
Juicebox Mafia member and liberal blogger Matt Yglesias, who works at the Center for American Progress, has created a specific short bit.ly URL system ... using his name. His is ygl.as. We're pretty sure the only o... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted April 14, 2011
QUOTES of the DAY The price of attending a Washington gala: You must pet weird animals and pose for pictures. Robert Redford and Gloria Reuben pet a wallaby held by National Wildlife Federation Naturalist Dave Mizejewski, wh... [FishbowlDC]

Andrew Sullivan Makes Debut at Daily Beast - Posted April 4, 2011
Today is Andrew Sullivan's first day hosting his blog at the Daily Beast and, so far, his posts are just what you'd expect at The Atlantic. The guy is ... [FishbowlDC]

Washington Journos React With Disgust to NYT Style Piece - Posted March 28, 2011
NYT's Style section has dipped to a new low in Washington. This is the deafening refrain that we've been hearing all day long today after Sunday's story on the "Juicebox M... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted March 1, 2011
QUOTES of the DAY Dear Readers: We're still digging our way out from the weekend and the Oscars, so bear with us. Happy Birthday to Human Events Senior Editor Emily Miller, whos... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers - Posted February 9, 2011
QUOTES of the DAY Scribe's granny is risk taker "My grandmother has signed the zipline waiver for her cruise next week. Can't wait for the video." -- Politico Pro Web Producer ... [FishbowlDC]

Good Morning FishbowlDC - Posted December 2, 2010
QUOTES of the DAY Boy Band Special "No, Jack Kingston, the last two minutes of the basketball is the boring hack-a-Shaq part where my wife says, 'WHEN IS THIS GAME GONNA END?'" -- HuffPost's ... [FishbowlDC]

Whose Shoes: Revealed - Posted April 6, 2010
In a short time span we've gotten a variety of guesses and then Ashley Prime Gula of Quinn Gillespie & Associates just rolled in with the right answer. Guesses were mostly female. They included Roll Call's Emily Heil (apologies, Emily, I know you'd never wear any sock-shoe combination like this), NJ's Erin... [FishbowlDC]

Calderone Fever - Posted March 31, 2010
Soon to be ex-Politico Michael Calderone is getting much press attention these days. (Not that he didn't get attention before, but maybe one should leave one's publication more often?) Today the NYT covers the new adventure for Calderone and others moving to Yaho... [FishbowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 12.29.08 - Posted December 29, 2008
Good morning, Washington. What DC museum is featured above? Think you know? Email us with your best guess. AND: Join us after the jump to find out if you guessed our last contest correctly. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning... [FishbowlDC]

Ta-Nehisi Coates Joins TheAtlantic.com - Posted August 5, 2008
TheAtlantic.com has announced that Ta-Nehisi Coates, 32, will be joining the website's blogging masthead. Coates has previously held posit... [FishbowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 11.15.07 - Posted November 15, 2007
Good morning Washington. Most of you don't count religious services as a regular activity. An ABC release announces, "On Tuesday, November 20, ABC News' Charles Gibson will conduct an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with President George Bush... [FishbowlDC]

Blogger Wars Continued! - Posted May 24, 2007
Marty Peretz snaps back at Matt Yglesias! (earlier) ... [FishbowlDC]