Brag Book

Understandably, conservatives are coming out in droves to condemn Hustler magazine for publishing an altered, explicit photograph of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp. “What would S.E. Cupp look like with a [d**k] in her mouth?” the headline over the photograph reads.

Author Michelle Malkin is here to let us know in a tweet today that she’s been there, done that.

 

If I had a $ for every misogynist photoshop I’ve had to fight to get off Flickr over the yrs, I’d be Obama Bundler Rich. #istandwithsecupp

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 23, 2012

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We’re not sure this warrants a newly conceived feature, but we’re covering our bases just in case the need arises. D.C. writer and former Yahoo! News editor Chris Lehmann has made no secret of his marital status in recent months. While some things are better suited for, say, the HuffPost Divorce section, Lehmann, formerly married to The Guardian‘s Ana Marie Cox who fled D.C. and him last summer, has seen fit to post his thoughts about it on Twitter, including an announcement that he’s already newly engaged. Now we’re not ones to, ahem, judge or scold, but really Lehmann? Are you entirely guiltless here?

In his latest d!@k move, he posted this:

Legally divorced and IT FEELS SO GOOD. Suck it, nomtweets, if you’ll pardon the expression

— Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris) May 16, 2012

 

C-SPAN’s Communications Director Howard Mortman remarks on Google’s self-driving car making an appearance on Capitol Hill this morning: “The Google-self driving car gets a taste of life in the red-hot DC media fishbowl on Cap Hill.”

The Google self-driving car is parked right outside 400 N. Cap. St., which houses C-SPAN and Fox News. The picture below is from a half hour ago.

 

In his appearance on “The View” today President Obama was asked by co-host Whoopi Goldberg whether he could “feel the bumps” while riding on Air Force One. Obama said yes, but explained that most people feel exceptionally safe when riding in it.

This was the perfect opportunity for Politico‘s Jennifer Epstein to chime in and remind everyone that she knows exactly what Obama means.

 

Totally true: I don’t worry about crashing while on AF1 but sometimes get nervous on other planes

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 15, 2012

A story published by the Seattle Times about Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) this week is making the rounds among Washington reporters and operatives for a spectacular variety of reasons.

For one thing, a headline with the words “With Dicks in” is always a crowd-pleaser however awkward it may be. For another, author Kyung M. Song left what appear to be incomplete sentences with lines slashed through them smack in the middle of her story. The most recent version has been corrected, but here we show you what it looked like with them contained in the text of the story.

Read the most updated version of the story here.

As some loyal readers know, FBDC’s Peter Ogburn has been full-on obsessed with doggedly covering Paul Wharton Style each week, intently watching the show with the veracity of a toddler with a new SpongeBob video or a hungry lion with a new piece of meat.

“I just made a giant pink martini to watch @PaulWharton Style. I’m 30 seconds in and I can tell this will be great,” Ogburn gushed on Twitter as he settled in to watch Sunday’s show. Wharton, a future AA member who makes a hobby out of drinking, took a liking to this, replying, “Peter- What’s in your cocktail recipe? I wanna put the recipe up on paulwhartonstyle.com! The Big Pink Peter !”

Just what is in that disconcertingly-named Big Pink Peter? Peter writes, “Paul Wharton, recipe for Big Pink Peter. I like mine EXTRA stiff: 3 oz gin 1 oz vodka 1/2 oz of Lillet Blanc 1/2 oz fresh raspberry puree.”

Stay tuned…we hear Wharton has scheduled drinks with Peter tomorrow night. We can’t even imagine what that means.

In the self-promotional culture that now dominates modern journalism, some try to make an event, story or quote all about them. Some journalists are even subtle about it. But Washingtonian Editor Garrett Graff does it with an unparallelled expertise. Congratulations to Graff (or something like that). He’s referring to an award won by New York Magazine.

RT @mlcalderone: New York wins single-topic award for 9/11 Encyclopedia issue. #ellies // congratulations NY! proud to have contributed.

— Garrett Graff (@vermontgmg) May 4, 2012

This week the BBC introduced its ex-pat resource blog, “Mind The Gap”, in partnership with Virgin Atlantic to help answer Anglo emigrants’ most pressing questions. From answering how to find a quality apartment to understanding American football, “Mind the Gap” will steer ex-pats in the right direction with what BBC America promises to be trademark wit and vast experience in acclimating to the land of Kardashians and shouty cable news anchors.

The site, which will be updated twice weekly, will also teach Brits things about language and cultural differences. For example, “spunk” in England doesn’t mean guts, but rather sperm or semen. “In England it’s a very rude word that you’d never say out in public,” says BBC’s Temi Hollist, who has been working on development of the site.

We spoke with Hollist by phone yesterday and fittingly she has just moved to New York from London Sunday. She sees it as a “destination portal” and something the British will come to see as “trustworthy” and “authoritative.” They are trying to make the blog contributors as diverse as possible — after all, those Brits move everywhere, including Washington.

One thing Hollist has noticed in the U.S. is how direct Americans are. “The Brits have that passive aggressive nature,” she says. “I’d say they don’t say what’s necessarily on their mind whereas an American will tell you. I’ve learned to not take it as rude. I find them to be quite comical and entertaining.”

Among the things they will be addressing include visa issues, finding accommodations and, of course, those language differences.  “Even yesterday I was saying to my colleagues I need to go to the loo,” says Hollist. “They were saying, ‘the loo?’” Apartment versus flat is also an issue. “If you used apartment in England they’d think it was a very nice flat, a really really big flat.” And fag is not a homosexual, it’s a cigarette. Says Hollist, “Can you pass me a fag please?” She chuckles. “I don’t smoke anyway. There are so many things that are lost in London.”

Earlier in the week we reported that The Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson has been bopping around town on his wife’s Vespa. We later heard from Daily Caller Publisher Neil Patel: “Here it is. It’s a little more feminine than the one you posted. Also, just so you know that we have a well-balanced office, this is my Ford F250 pickup truck.  I can fit Tucker’s Scooter in the back.”

 

From the Dept. of Bragiculture…Today’s Washington bragging comes from NationalReviewOnline‘s Jonah Goldberg. This isn’t typical of him, which is why it jumped out at us. Goldberg, who often tweets about his mundane and annoying experiences on airplanes, recently came out with THE TYRANNY OF CLICHÉS: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. The book, which hit bookshelves on May 1, picks apart what he considers to be the shallow reasoning and distortions behind the Left’s most popular clichés. His point: most liberals aren’t thinking at all.

In the wee hours of the morning Jonah must have been pretty pumped to receive this. So much so, the whole world had to know. Now that‘s brain candy.

#TOC @JonahNRO i started your new book. Fantastic! You research and pen the sorts of things that roll around my head. Brain candy.

— dzdent (@dzdent) May 3, 2012