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David Carr’s Very Good Advice to Journalists

“Regardless of the cacophony around you, and the mayhem, and the data stream, you have to remember to engage the piece of work you’re on fully, and remember that language is the biggest tool at your disposal. Why get in the business of telling stories unless you’re going to do a good job at it?” - New York Times journalist David Carr, in interview at Talking Points Memo

VP Biden Is “Absolutely Comfortable With” Marriage Equality

metroweekly:

“It is as if the administration wants to be on record not opposing marriage equality — while at the same time not actually supporting it, either.”

- Metro Weekly senior political editor Chris Geidner, looking at the White House and Obama campaign’s response to Vice President Biden’s comments supporting marriage equality today on Meet the Press, “Through the Obama Administration’s Marriage Equality Looking-Glass”

Yes, POTUS Knows “Texts From Hillary”

From today’s Rolling Stone cover interview with President Obama:

[Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton joked about the popularity of the fake Tumblr site Texts From Hillary Clinton, and Obama began to air-thumb an imaginary text. “See, I’m hip,” he said with a laugh.

Congrats, Adam and Stacy. Arguably the two most powerful people in the world are joking, in a complimentary way, about your Tumblr.