This just in from the Department of Bragiculture…

Breitbart News‘ Matthew Boyle is either looking for someone to Scotch tape a “kick me” sign on his back or else he’s the smartest, most forward thinking reporter in the history of Washington journalism. Both options are possible (but highly unlikely).

In tweets late Monday night, Boyle scolded the Washington Press Corps for being so slow on the whole down with Attorney General Eric Holder brigade. Granted, Holder’s in hot water over DOJ cracking into AP phone records. But in short: Boyle says he told you so.

Exhibit A

From September last year, here’s my investigation showing Media Matters colluding with Eric Holder to smear critics dailycaller.com/2012/09/18/ema…

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) May 14, 2013

Exhibit B

Welcome to the party, Associated Press. I’m glad you’ve learned how bad an Attorney General Eric Holder really is. #WillHolderResign? — Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) May 14, 2013

Exhibit C

What’s amazing to me is how it took so long for everyone else to see what I plainly saw and reported out for two years? #EricHolder — Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) May 14, 2013

We reached out to Boyle to find out if he feels vindicated by the latest news out of DOJ. Read more

No offense, but shouldn’t we actually see tangible results of this “creative genius” before RedState‘s Contributing Editor Ben Howe declares your own creative genius? Ben, please report back to us when you’ve found a cure for cancer.

I’ve got my middle of the night creative genius thing going on in my head right now. I wonder how many great ideas I forget when I sleep.

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) April 30, 2013

The Heritage Foundation and the Franklin Center awarded the 2nd annual Breitbart Award to blogger Michelle Malkin at a ceremony in Orland Thursday night. It probably helped that Malkin was also the keynote speaker at the event. It’s an award given to a journalist who best represents the ideals of the late Andrew Breitbart.

While I’m SURE it’s prestigious award and not to take anything away from Ms. Malkin’s accolade, it does seems there are a hell of a lot of awards out there these days. And it gives me an idea.  Read more

If nothing else, Politico, along with its Executive Editor Jim VandeHei and Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen, come off completely self-aware in the latest installment of their “Behind the Curtain” series. That is, VandeHei and Allen know they’re in no small way a part of D.C.’s often narcissistic, cynical culture.

In the piece, Allen refers to himself as one of Washington’s “top journalists” and he and VandeHei speculate that Allen is the focus of “at least a chapter” in NYT Chief National Correspondent Mark Leibovich‘s forthcoming book This Town.

“We won’t love the book, either,” Allen and VandeHei write. “It is clear that POLITICO and [Allen's] Playbook are portrayed as enablers of the culture Leibovich lampoons.”

Aside from Politico‘s “Behind the Curtain” the story being largely about… Read more

There are celebrities. And then there are celebrities for D.C. When you think of Real Housewives of D.C.‘s Paul Wharton, whose show, Paul Wharton Style, starts back up again in May, you think amazing blow dried hair, diva, drama, and well, D.C. celebrity. You don’t exactly think Justin Timberlake and Robert Redford.

But Drink DC, a site devoted to  imbibing in D.C., names a bunch of D.C. bars where you can glimpse so-called celebrities. All of the aforementioned “stars” make their lineup. Wharton is known to hang out at Napoleon in Adams Morgan and sip champagne.

See the feature here.

CBS News’ Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes is linking up with actor Tony Danza for the National Make a Difference Day Awards luncheon set to take place in Washington at the end of April. Cordes will emcee the event; Danza will be the keynote speaker.

Make A Difference Day is sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc.’s USA WEEKEND Magazine in partnership with Points of Light and Newman’s Own.

Of all the crazy denials that rolled in over Twitter this weekend, this one takes the cake — or the fruit — depending how you want to look at it. But in retrospect, maybe when “fastcatmiles” (a.k.a. Connor Thompson of the U.K.) asked CNN’s Piers Morgan the following question he should have left well enough alone.

@piersmorgan why u not reply to me pears?

— Connor Thompson (@fastcatmiles) March 25, 2013

To which “Pears” actually replied: “Because I’m not a fruit.”

But that’s not the worst of it. Read more

It’s a done deal. The Daily Caller‘s resident couple, reporters Jeff Poor and Caroline May are getting married. Poor proposed to May last night and she accepted. Prior to last night’s engagement, he flew to Nashville to seek her father’s blessing. Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson sent a late-night note to staff with the happy news. If not invited, he plans to crash the wedding.

Congratulations to the couple!

But one question…will she keep her current byline or will there be two Poors?

See the internal memo… Read more

C-SPAN has landed in the comics. This time, Doonesbury. And it’s not the first time. The non-profit network is no stranger to editorial cartoons and shows up in them every so often. Check out the one from 1986 when CSPAN2 began after the jump…

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Sitting in the media center on the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference was the relatively discreet Paul Mulshine of the New Jersey Star-Ledger.

Conservative comedian Steven Crowder had just taken the stage to introduce the next speaker. “Are you ready?!” Crowder yelled into the microphone three times as a way to warm up the crowd. That’s when Mulshine turned around in his seat and said, “I hate that. I’ve been to a lot of CPACs. That is the worst fucking thing when they do that.”

Mulshine isn’t keen on crowd warming or the people who do it. “I want to strangle them,” he continued. “I’ve been to 10 of these things. Certain lines you hear over and over. And that is the fucking worst.”

Asked about himself, Mulshine told us… Read more