Examiner’s Yeas and Nays column has gone on hiatus for two weeks:

Yeas & Nays will be off for the next two weeks, returning on Aug. 27 with more people, power and politics from inside the Beltway. Thanks for reading during our first year, and enjoy the rest of your summer!

Expect more blogging at FishbowlDC from Patrick Gavin who takes credit for half of the Examiner’s column each day along with his partner in crime Jeff Dufour.

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Somebody’s been sending out e-mails using the name of Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby, and she appears none-too-happy about that, having accused Big Head DC this morning of doing the deed. Sorry, Laurel, the only thing we’d ever want to steal from you is your lucky 23 million dollar boa. But, if we did steal your name, our first mission would definitely be to e-mail Patrick Gavin and tell him to dig up some better media gossip, or else he’s replaced. And then we’d fire him anyway.

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Last week CNN ran an article on alleged “DC Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, managing to spell her name wrong and quoting the Politico’s Anne Schroeder as “one of the first Washington journalists to seize on the scandal potential of Palfrey’s case.”

Well!

Many political insiders, including Palfrey herself, were like, “WHAT???” This is the girl whose weakly-branded “not sayin’, I’m just sayin’” coverage indicated early on that the “DC Madam” case was not about sex. (Yeah, double-check with Sen. Vitter on that one.)

“Anne Schroeder is a gossip columnist, pure and simple,” Palfrey told Big Head DC. “My attorney, Mr. Sibley and I spent almost an hour with Ms. Schroeder and a colleague on May 24th – similar to what I did with you – trying to detail/explain my situation. The fruit of Mr. Sibley’s and my efforts, if I am not mistaken was a one/two line gossip blurb, in her column the next day.”

Then we asked whether the Politico has covered her case well. Read more…

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DCRTV editor Dave Hughes today can’t help but share his true feelings about media socialite Patrick Gavin, calling him “somewhat dippy.” This, despite a regular morning link from the behemoth FishbowlDC to our favorite little media gossip engine that could. Oh well. Who can be civil when you’ve got Gavin gabbin’ about you behind your back?

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As Big Head DC reported a long time ago, Laurel Touby has been shopping her Mediabistro empire around to the highest bidder. And, today, she’s found the proper suitor — to the tune of $23 million smackers! It’s a price much higher than most media insiders we’ve spoken to ever thought Touby could broker.

What this will mean for the operations of FishbowlDC, we don’t know yet. We do know that FishbowlDC’s editor Patrick Gavin has long been looking to leave his position to focus on a book about 9/11.

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