Gossip Roundup: Chris Matthews’s Valentine

• Reliable Source: Laura and Barbara Bush travel to Rome to visit with the Pope and Silvio Berlusconi before attending the Olympics; Jenna is staying home to teach… Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich booed at basketball game… Reese Witherspoon stops by Burger King near the White House. [WP]
• Under the Dome: Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) is popular among “jocks-turned-GOP pols”… Tony Blair blames troubles on “The West Wing.” [The Hill]
• Inside the Beltway: King Abdullah II “likes to walk around” the Georgetown Safeway. [WT]
• Rush & Molloy: McCain flack complains director of “Why We Fight” documentary “intentionally twisted” the senator’s quotes about Cheney… McCain and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) lunch and laugh with Richard Gere. [NYDN]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Bill Weld lunches with John Ashcroft… Nora Ephron: “[Chris Matthews] is a perfect example - although obviously exaggerated - of what happens to men in the presence of Senator McCain. They lose their minds. They suck up. They turn absolutely giddy. They ask questions they don’t care about the answers to. It’s Valentine’s Day.” [NYDN]

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