Media Magic

"You are a pathetic journalist and I will never work with you again. I am letting all my PR colleagues know that you are shady and not to be trusted. I hope it was worth severing this relationship."

That's part of an email received by Wash Times gossip gal Stephanie Green from Perez Hilton's camp after she broke a story about the self-appointed Queen of all Media's new book, "Perez Hilton's True Bloggywood Stories - The Glamorous Life of Beating, Cheating, and Overdosing."

According to Green, Hilton's rep from EMC Bowery offered her an exclusive interview with Perez last week and she gladly accepted. Green spoke to the flack about the book's contents and to hash out details for the interview. Shortly after, she received a single line email informing her that Perez was going to pass on the TWT piece.

Green proceeded to publish a story with the information she had originally received, only to meet with threats and a demand to remove the story from the TWT website.

Wonder how long until Green's pic ends up on PerezHilton.com?

Politico's Patrick Gavin hits the boxing ring for a friendly match with Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) who says that he is beating down "because Patrick is a symbol of the arrogant, left-wing media." Good times.

When it comes to Halloween, I like to do it right or not at all (see Bjork of 2006). But this year, I'm stumped. With the haunted holiday only days away, I reached out to some Washington journos for ideas and inspiration.

So, what are your fav. journos wearing this Halloween? Here's what they told us:

Fox News' Major Garrett: "I must negotiate this with my children who have veto power over costume choices that may cast them in a negative light as I accompany them...I'm still getting flak for going as Gilligan three years ago."

TPM & The Atlantic's Matt Cooper: "No plans at the moment. Last year I was a chef. I'll work on it."

Cap File EIC Sarah Schaffer: "I'm going to a party with my husband so we decided to do costumes that would work well as a pair. He's very tall and lanky so he's going as Cher. I'll be Sonny."

WaPo's Jonathan Capehart: "I lack imagination so if I go as anything it will be as James Bond. That way all I have to wear is my tuxedo."

ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "Elliott and Harper [daughters] are pushing for me to be a pizza deliveryman!"

US News' Paul Bedard: "All day in Real Tree camo, face painted, armed with a fully-loaded muzzleloader. And not just to scare little kids. It's opening day of the Virginia black powder deer season. Be scared, very scared of the woods that night."

Cap File's Christie Findlay: "The Devil...and yes, I'll be wearing Prada."

Washington Business Journal Editor Doug Fruehling: "I'll be going as the money I could have saved with Geico."

Politico's Jonathan Martin: "Whatever VandeHarris tell me to be."

Examiner's Julie Mason: "I am dressing as Medusa, which feels redundant -- but I like the snakies!!"

If you have considered asking Santa Claus for George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth, this might be your lucky Christmas. For a mere $200K, you can purchase a dream dinner party with Steph, Wentworth and 13 other celebs from Neiman Marcus' holiday catalog. The money for the pricey party will benefit Washington-based First Book, a charity that distributes books to low-income children.

Find out what other celebs a cool $200K gets you at Reliable Source.

Even before Michaele Salahi had Bravo following her every move, the Real Housewives hopeful knew how to work a camera. Check out her wedding video, complete with some sweet, sweet tunes that a friend of Fishbowl found for us... ohhh, oh, ohhh, oh!

Sway to the smooth beats and enjoy:

A wedding filled with love & passion with an exciting 1,836 Guests at the Historic St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington DC followed by the spectacular reception/wedding celebration at Oasis Winery ...

If there was any doubt that Michaele Salahi & Mary Barth are part of the Real Housewives phenom, there shouldn't be now. The two will be co-hosting a birthday bash with Omarosa for TV fashion guru/host Paul Wharton tonight. Notice the "notice" at the bottom of the invite:

The event will be filmed for national television broadcast.

Wharton hung with Salahi at the Fall Polo Classic last month when FishbowlDC first spotted her avec camera crew. Seems like PW may have a role in this reality gig too.

Amy A and Roxy R at Reliable Source have more on the current cast here.

Baha!

I'm actually speechless. Rep. Barney Frank called in to speak with Bravo's Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens: Live." The two discussed Bristol Palin's "baby daddy," the death of Ted Kennedy and then played a round of "House or 'The Real Housewives'" trivia...

The below video caused my snark-o-meter to explode so I'll leave the comments to you.

You've likely seen the stories flying around today about ABC's Jake Tapper and his emails to Governor Mark Sanford's communications director, Joel Sawyer the day before the Governor announced his affair. They were published by The State newspaper in South Carolina.

Here are the cliffs notes:

One email had a subject line: "NBC spot was slimy." The body stated "For the record, I think the TODAY show spot was pretty insulting..."

In another email he forwarded a tweet from MTP's David Gregory:

U should be concerned when "your wife" says that she doesn't know where you are but isn't concerned

That's it. But that forwarded tweet and one line email has triggered a frenzy of blog posts. Here are just a few:

HuffPo twisted Tapper's email subject line (NBC spot was slimy) into a more scandalous headline: "Jake Tapper Called NBC "Slimy" In E-Mail To Mark Sanford's Office"

Our sister, TVNewser: What's Jake Got Against NBC News

Media Matters: ABC's Jake Tapper was "carrying some water when he emailed Mark Sanford's office and complained about NBC's "slimy coverage"

Politico's Michael Calderone was the only blogger that I found to offer anything more than my cliffs notes:

And Tapper responded in an email to POLITICO:

"Busted. In retrospect, the story I was referring to wasn't slimy enough -- at that moment the only ones who knew of the governor's affair were Sanford, his wife, his mistress, and the State newspaper. But I shouldn't have said that, and I'll try to leave the media criticism to others from now on."

And at the end of the day, I ask "so what?"

A reporter buttered up a source by bashing a competitive network...

ABC's WH correspondent has (shhh) opinions and analyzes his competitor's coverage...

Jake Tapper is an expert copy and paster...

And Jake, "for the record" I guarantee anyone reading this post has said or done a lot more for a lot less. I give it a "meh" on a scale of "meh" to "mer."

Check, check...is this thing on? If not, it should be because some of FishbowlDC's fav. journos are reminding us why we love DC media so much with an unofficial "roast" of South Carolina's jet setting governor, Mark Sanford.

The unofficial open mic night included one of the funniest quotes we've heard come out of cable news:

"In defense of Sanford's aides, 'I'm getting some Argentinean tail' sounds a lot like 'I'm on the Appalachian Trail'..."

We're not certain who is responsible for this most excellent statement but whoever you are, you've just earned our admiration and your spot in FishbowlDC history as the second recipient of the "Jared Allen Award for Under-Appreciated Journalists."

And the winner for "Best Adaptation of Facebook Photos" is....J.P. Freire from the Washington Examiner:

One time, Mark Sanford and I were planning a hiking trip in the Appalachian Mountains. But Mark at the last minute called me up and said, "Hey! Let's go to Argentina!" and I was like, "Well, sure!" So off we went. This is the Buenos Aires airport. The landing was a little bumpy.

We went and checked the Obelisk of Argentina. Mark was like, "This is so exotic!!!" And then he snickered and nudged me a little. Haha! I didn't really get his joke, but I was just happy to be there. This guy's totally going to be president in 2012.

Mark told me about Avenida Florida, where all these great leather jacket shops are. "You can get great leather products here, JP!" he said. I got this cool biker jacket. Mark got something, but I don't know what it was. He just told me it was a surprise.

Mark (or, as I called him, M-rod) and I were supposed to meet at this tango restaurant, but he never showed up. But what a show that was!!! I couldn't track the guy down, but I had a really good steak. Since I had my own ticket, and I was tired, I went home. I sure hope he found his way back!

J.P., fine work. We salute you.

And last but certainly not least, we present the award for "Best Original Soundtrack to a Political Scandal" to....NBC's Chuck Todd for his Facebook status update to the tune of Evita's "Don't Cry for Me Argentina":

Don't cry for him, Carolina. The truth is he never left you. All through his wild days. His mad existence. He kept his promise. Don't keep your distance...

So in closing, we raise a glass to Todd, Freire and whoever it was that said "Argentinean tail." Cheers and well done!