And it’s not pretty. City Paper staffer Jason Cherkis ended up labeling Jason Linkins, the writer of a DCist item about the death of footballer Sean Taylor as clichéd, and later called one of the commenters on his post a “pussy” for not using his last name in a comment. Regarding Linkins, this is one time we have to side with Cherkis. However, we don’t know at this point whether the commenter in question really is a “pussy.”

UPDATE: Linkins, a political writer for Huffington Post, adds fuel to the fire in this post.

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In celebration of the launch of Arianna Huffington and Barry Diller’s 23/6 news/snark blog today, we already copied one of their items. And now it’s time for us to copy Gawker’s gossip about the new site: “Also we hope the 23/6 kids don’t hate working for 23/6 as much as we hear pretty much everyone currently can’t stand working at HuffPo.” Wait, we’re not copying, since we’ve heard that, too. In fact, we think Jason Linkins might have mentioned that to someone we know!

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Jason Linkins has recently gone from being an unpaid HuffPo freelancer to a paid political blogger for the site. Arianna Huffington must not have a very good background check in place because the blogger, who goes by the DCeiver name online, tends to libel his colleagues. Here’s just a sampling of proof from his personal blog: Read more…

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Jason Linkins, aka the DCeiver blogger who has been on vacation for a few weeks, has informed the world that he recently left his old job to start a new one. Also, his laptop is broken. But he doesn’t just say his laptop is broken. He writes a few paragraphs about it (who ever said DC bloggers aren’t full of themselves?). Then, he writes about someone he apparently doesn’t like: Read more…

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The writer some of you know as the DCeiver (aka Jason Linkins) explains that he’s developed crushes on a few of his acquaintances, including Ryan Avent, Amy Argetsinger and Rachel Sklar. (The latter two “make for a thinking, drinking pair of media titans I refer to simply as SKLARGETSINGER,” he says).

But there’s a lot more psycho-babble going on behind Linkins’ fantasy-filled eyes than he lets on. For one, Avent used to be his editor when they both worked at DCist. For two, Argetsinger recently wrote up an item that was flattering to Linkins. And for three, Sklar is now one of his bosses/pals over at The Huffington Post.

So, all you have to do to get some of that now famous Linkins love: Get him to work for you, or write something gushy about him, and he’s bound to find you fabulous. After penning this drivel, we can’t wait to receive a pretty bouquet from Linkins — hopefully later today!

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Jason Linkins spent a chunk of yesterday IMing with Ana Marie Cox about Dick Cheney, he excitedly reports today. Sheesh. It must be August.

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The DCeiver got a mention in the WaPo’s Reliable Source column this weekend for his coverage of the annual Hill newspaper’s ”50 Most Beautiful” contest. With Huffington Post media gazing already under Jason Linkin’s glittery belt, could fashion writing be too far off for this awe-inspiring jack of all trades? We think not. Maybe he’ll even soon want to start a gossip blog of his own to compete with Wonkette!

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We dunno if it’s the heat, or what, but Liz Gorman, Wonkette’s official photographer, got really mad at us yesterday when we asked you whether she looks like Avril Lavigne.

“That’s obviously an awful picture of me,” she wrote in. “And since you are on the Internet Rob, I’m sure you could take two seconds to find a better one. Google it, bitches. But speaking of snarky, how am I? Because I take pictures?”

This wasn’t the first time we’ve heard from Ms. Liz about her looks. Read more…

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