Taking Out The Trash

What we almost missed today...

• Above, reporters, including MSNBC's Brian Mooar, were not welcome with open arms at the Values Voters Summit today.

• Ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting next week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will sit down with PBS' Margaret Warner for an interview to air on Monday's "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." And Bill Clinton will be Larry King's guest for the full hour on CNN Monday.

• US News & World Report's Washington Whispers columnist Nikki Schwab made her TV debut today.

A few things we thought you should know...

• Bloomberg's Tom Keene will interview former President Clinton about the Clinton Global Initiative and the economy on Bloomberg radio at 6:35pmET today.

• At the end of a hard-hitting interview, CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Afghan President Hamid Karzai shared a lighter moment. Blitzer wished the President good luck in Afghanistan and he responded, "It will be all right. And thanks for the help from the United States, and thank you, Mr. Blitzer, for your always good interviews."

• Melissa Walker's first NPR story on fashion books will air tonight on "All Things Considered."

• Politics and Prose celebrates a 25th anniversary this Sunday.

• And Sunday show ratings for last week via TVNewser: all shows had week-to-week gains, "MTP" stayed in 1st, "This Week" took second in total viewers, but "Face the Nation" took second in the demo.

What we almost missed today...

• NBC's David Gregory informed us on Twitter today: "I'm moderating a debate between VA gov candidates Deeds & McDonnell tomorrow on NewsChannel 8 @ 11AM and also on http://www.news8.net/"

• Politico's Click spotted ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos having lunch today at The Palm. We hear Sawyer was in town to talk to the DC correspondents about her new "World News" anchor gig.

• Speaking of ABC correspondents... Jake Tapper on "GMA" this morning said that the President may run the risk overexposure and that when "asked for a comment from ABC News about this story, the White House said they would be happy to deny all of ABC News' interview requests for the president, for the rest of the year. They were joking... I think."

• Christopher Hitchens used to babysit Olivia Wilde.

What we almost missed today...

• Definitely worth a look... Roll Call listed its Fabulous 50 and the 50 Richest Members of Congress today.

• NYT issued this correction: "An article on Aug. 30 about Josh Harris, whose company Pseudo Programs was a pioneer in Webcasting, referred incompletely to David Bohrman, a former chief executive of the company. He is a senior vice president and the Washington bureau chief for CNN; he is not just a producer."

• Hurry! Today's your last chance to check out Stephen Colbert's portrait at the National Museum of American History.

What we almost missed today...

• Politico's Patrick Gavin and Amie Parnes caught up with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, TWT's Christina Bellantoni, the Examiner's Julie Mason and CBS duo Mark Knoller and Bill Plante for advice on how the First Family should unwind in Martha's Vineyard this week.

• David Gergen is also working on a book about the Obama administration, the Observer reports.

• Sirius XM radio host Pete Dominick is a longtime comedian- his show airs on POTUS from 3-6pm Monday thru Friday. And he also serves as the warm-up act for "The Colbert Report" audience. Dominick interviewed Stephen Colbert this week- tune in here.

What we almost missed today...

• Above, meet Tom DeLay's "Dancing With The Stars" partner. Who's the bigger star?

What we almost missed today...

• Wolf Blitzer, George Stephanopoulos, Cokie Roberts, Candy Crowley, Sam Donaldson and Connie Chung are among celebrity experts on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire's" new "Ask the Expert" lifeline. Tune in tonight to catch Gwen Ifill. (h/t TVNewser)

• Oprah has issued her first ever "Power List" in this month's O Magazine, 20 "remarkable visionaries who are flexing their muscles in business and finance, politics and justice, science and the arts." And DC's well repped-- Donna Brazile, DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee and FDIC Chair Sheila Bair all make the list. (h/t Politico)

• Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony hosted a dinner in Sonia Sotomayor's honor at their Long Island home last night, according to a gossip blog.

• So you think you can dance, Tom Delay? Actually, yes he can, according to someone who knows- Emily Miller on Politics Daily.

• How's Fox News during the Obama administration? Pretty darn good, AP reports.

• WaPo's Howard Kurtz disagrees with Dan Rather; says a presidential commission is not needed to save newspapers in today's Media Notes column.

• Patrick Gavin somehow got the Examiner's Julie Mason, Bill Press, American Urban Radio's April Ryan and others to sing the President Happy Birthday. Though we're sure the Politico reporter didn't have to twist CBS' Bob Schieffer's arm- after all, he is a professional.

What we almost missed today...

• Welcome back from vacation, David Shuster! Check out some technical difficulties during New York Magazine's Jennifer Senior's hit on MSNBC earlier today above-- but that wasn't all that Shuster had to deal with. After the jump, another MSNBC clip. (h/t HuffPost)

• Paul Krugman came to the defense of Michelle Malkin today. Surprised? He anticipated that-- first words of Krugman's post are "No, really."

• Salon's Glenn Greenwald raises some red flags about Richard Wolffe guest-hosting on MSNBC in a piece about the supposed GE-News Corp. truce. Wolffe left Newsweek earlier this year to join Public Strategies, Inc. Greenwald says, "Having Richard Wolffe host an MSNBC program -- or serving as an almost daily "political analyst" -- is exactly tantamount to MSNBC's just turning over an hour every night to a corporate lobbyist. "

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