QUOTES of the DAY

Name-calling

“Neil Cavuto = Eddie Munster.” — HuffPost‘s Arthur Delaney in a Thursday tweet.

Conflicted journo

“Schumer just called me “the man-eating manu shark.” Not sure if that’s a compliment.” — Politico‘s Manu Raju on Thursday on Twitter.

Reporter lodges complaint

“Can we please all agree to stop using the terms “double down” and “doubling down” in political stories and headlines? #overused” –WaPo‘s Ben Pershing in a Thursday tweet.

Conspiracy theorist

“Beginning to think Facebook outage timing is strategic – every article about it mentions movie release. Coincidence?” –FishbowlDC’s Matt Dornic on Thursday on Twitter.

Quote(s) of the Day

Politico scribe declares himself taller than Kagan

The following is a Facebook post and reaction between Politico‘s Manu Raju and John Bresnahan.

Manu Raju towers over Elena Kagan

John Bresnahan: No no, mugsy and spud could dunk on manu. we don’t want to go there. we have identified four people that Manu is taller than – Kagan, Mikulski, Boxer, and Reed – let’s just leave it there.

Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee; the senators include Sen. Barbara Mikulski(D-Md.) (who has compared herself with a Lilliputian from Gulliver’s Travels), Barbara Boxer(D-Calif.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.).

Politico reporters came together Saturday night at Local 16 to say goodbye to colleague Daniel Libit. A wonderful sendoff, we’re sure.

But a note to Politico partygoers: Politico reporter Manu Raju is not Italian. In the list the tipster sent to Fishbowl, Manu’s surname (as shown below) renamed him after a Spaghetti sauce. Perhaps it was the liquor talking – the time was 3:07 a.m. when the note was sent. Or maybe Raju has a nickname in the works.

Regardless, those in attendance, said an e-mail, included: “Tim Alberta, Josh Kraushaar, Tim Grieve, Andy Barr, Erica Lovely, Meagan Bond, Sydelle Moore, Michael Calderone, Paige Connor, Kendra Marr, Meredith Shriner, Glenn Thrush, Martin Kady, Andie Collier, Matt Wuerker, Manu Ragu [STET], Ken Vogel, Kim Kingsley, Jmart.”

Best wishes to Libit in the Windy City, wherever he lands. (At last mention, he said his resume was under review at a number of Starbucks).

> Update: A crime has been committed against FishbowlDC — most likely a reporting while intoxicated (RWI) crime. To be sure, this is a lesson to me not to trust some a–hole writing us at 3 a.m. inventing some party in his or her head. Actual partygoers (with their correct spellings) include: Tim Grieve, Manu Raju, Josh Kraushaar, Andie Coller, Erika Lovley, Tim Alberta, Kendra Marr, Sydelle Moore, Meagan Bond and Andy Barr. Memo to VandeHarris: This is your “Winning the Dawn?” A thank you to Libit for setting the record straight. Libit, by the way, found this whole thing “HILLLLLARIOUS.”

What we almost missed today…

ABC is stealing WaPo’s Chris Cillizza‘s flavor. Webnewser reports ABC is expanding its digital only content with the launch of The Fix. Only problem is The Fix is already taken by avid Twitter-er Cillizza (almost 10,000 followers total).

In yesterday’s Playbook, Mike Allen predicted this USA Today cover story on religion in America would be a “sure slot on network news.” And he was right- last night ABC, CBS and NBC each ran a piece.

Tipsters bring to our attention today other great talents of IWP lineage: AP’s Anne Flaherty, Pamela Hess and Richard Lardner, Politico’s Manu Raju and Jennifer DiMascio, Boston Globe’s Bryan Bender, Wash Times Eli Lake, and Roll Call CongressNow’s George Cahlink . In the words of one tipster, “the list goes on and on.”

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Manu Raju becomes the fourth reporter from The Hill to join the Politico (others: Josephine Hearn, Patrick O’Connor, Andy Barr). Raju will cover the Senate.

Newsday’s Craig Gordon becomes the Politico’s editor of White House coverage. (Newsday’s Nia Malika-Henderson recently joined the Politico and she’ll likely focus on Michelle Obama for the paper.)

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Where will you be watching tonight’s election results? We’ve asked all sorts of journos for their evening plans and they include an Atlanta hotel room, the Phoenix Biltmore, and Champs Sports Bar in Cincinnati.

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From their internal email:

I am very pleased to be able to tell you of several changes at The Hill. Daphne Retter, who for the past five years has been a staff reporter at Congressional Quarterly, will join our newsroom as the writer/editor of the Under The Dome gossip column. Daphne has most recently been a Senate reporter but has also been an increasingly frequent contributor to CQ’s Pulse of Congress column, where her contacts, wit and eye for off-beat stories have shone. She will start at The Hill on May 29. On the same day, we will be joined by Manu Raju, who is also currently at Congressional Quarterly, where he covers the energy beat. He will become The Hill’s second full-time Senate reporter. The third change you need to know about is that Jennifer Yingling is taking on the role of Special Projects Director in addition to her duties as Deputy Managing Editor. This means she will take a leading role in preparations for next year’s nominating conventions and other non-routine but vital work, just as she has taken a leading role in the development of our new websites.