Step 1: To any newsroom naysayers, say “Screw ‘em” (via Big Head Rob, of course); sit idly by, watching Mediabistro pick up the news.

Step 2: Make a dashing appearance on CNBC’s Donny Deutsch show; talk about not getting molested when you were a Congressional page.

Step 3: Revisit Big Head Rob, and do something that other bigtime District gossips say they would never do: give props to someone else’s gossip column. (You can start paying attention now Patrick Gavin and Jeff Dufour). Yes, U.S. News’ Paul Bedard says he’s a big fan of the Examiner’s Yeas and Nays, calling it “must reading.”

“I regularly steal their quotes for my Out Loud section — with attribution, of course — and think that they are often at least a day ahead on gossipy stuff than their competition,” he told us last night. “And these guys work. I’ve run into them at boring political breakfasts and at nighttime events.”

But, like us, Bedard thinks that the picture of the dudes that accompanies each column is a tad overdone. “Please ditch the six inch photo,” he quips. “Or at least change the wardrobe once in a while…”