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It’s time for our weekly feature about funny Washington Post reporters who also photograph well. (This is the first and last installment.) Meet Anne “E.” Kornblut, WaPo national politics ace reporter. On that washingtonpost.com chat thing yesterday, she admitted to writing some kind of hilarious fake Bush acceptance speech poem, typed “LOL” in response to a Jesse Helms joke, and said this about Hillary maybe trying to still get the nomination: “She really does seem to have moved on in my view. Her supporters are another matter.” [Washington Post/Fishbowl DC]

How much will Marcus Brauchli get to leave the Washington Post in a year or two? Nobody knows, yet! But Brauchli is the new WaPo editor and is expected to make dramatic changes, such as “Maybe the paper should not lose so much money” and “Free stickers in every copy!” Welcome to town, Marcus! Nobody else much likes Washington, either, so don’t feel weird about how D.C. is like some fourth-world slum city run by rats, Russian bodyguards and the Park Service Police. [NYT/Fishbowl DC]

Here’s Washington Post “local color” writer Dana Milbank drinking somewhere and talking about Wonkette, for some reason, and how he doesn’t read it. And then he gets spooked, because what if Wonkette is actually there, videotaping him, in the form of Our Liz Glover? [Liz Glover]

Republican Senator and failed presidential candidate Sam Brownback, on a conference call today: “John McCain’s a maverick. He’s fought for a bipartisan fashion … I think that the biggest thing I’ve seen from Barack Obama is a willingness, aggressiveness, to talk bipartisan and yet to vote the hard left — most liberal member of the United States Senate.” A known liberal!

Hey Sam Brownback, remember that time you and Barack Obama wrote a Bipartisan op-ed for the Washington Post in 2005, about some of that Bipartisan stuff you two co-sponsored? [CQ]

Here’s a curious pairing of headlines from the Washington Post website. John McCain, as he has been and will continue doing for the next eight years, called Obama a softie who ignorantly treats our enemies like actual human beings. Obama thinks *talking* to dangerous regimes, in some form, will achieve anything? Like a truce or something? Go back to Harvard, Columbia elitist! Talking with the enemy will only result in twenty more 9/11s and universal cancer. [Washington Post]

Here is yesterday’s freebie Washington Post Express, available for the taking at any flame-engulfed Metro station near you. Do you believe that Phil Mickelson could simultaneously stand in front of and behind Tiger Woods? Well, now you see how the whole Bilderberg 9/11 Bohemian Grove thing works. Thanks to Wonkette operative “Scott” for the tip. [Photoshop Disasters, Washington Post Express (PDF)]

CAMPAIGN REPORTING DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: “I have come to loathe the campaign … I loathe the incessant blogging and commenting and talking and yapping and hype … This is an ugly porridge that has been placed before us, turned rancid since the cold, pristine days of Iowa only five months ago.” [Washington Post]

We like to celebrate our commenters on those occasions when they write something so trenchant that it’s elevated to the purple plains of the Main Stream Media. Such was the case yesterday with Starred Commenter(TM) SayItWithWookies. On the post that yours truly titled “President Bush Gives Up Golf For Iraq,” S.I.W.W. — as (s)he is known in the Starred Commenter Lounge — commented “Has he thought about giving up Iraq for golf?”, making us feel stupid for not thinking of that (BANNED?). The comment was so good that it made the Washington Post newspaper. Congratulations! But what have you done for us lately? [Washington Post]

Remember when the New York Times lost to the Washington Post by a million points in the Pulitzers today? Well here’s your damn link if you forgot. Anyway, a Wonkette spell-check operative noticed this funny typo on the front page on the Times‘ Washington edition this morning. That’s like converting to Judaism on Christmas morning and getting no presents, except Santa Claus is handing out Pulitzers this time.

Hooray, Washington’s newspaper beat New York’s newspaper in Pulitzers by four. The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes today, tying one shy of the record set by the New York Times in 2002 (but they had 9/11 in their backyard, so they just had to show up). The dumb Times only won two this year, neither of which went to “lightning rod conservative” columnist Bill Kristol. The Post scored the Public Service prize for its Walter Reed investigative series, which was pretty good. Congratulations, Washington Post newspaper! [Editor & Publisher]