Remember how we told you last week that the FishbowlDC item about a big shake-up at The Hill newspaper was a bunch of bologna? And then commenters started writing in saying that that our item just couldn’t possibly be true — that if FishbowlDC editor Patrick Gavin wrote it, it must be solid? Well, Patrick clarifies today:

Lesson here: trust us, kids. Also! FishbowlDC is totally great at reporting the “mundane.”

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That breathless post today from FishbowlDC editor Patrick Gavin, stating that “The Hill’s Editor in Chief, Hugo Gurdon, has called a rare all-staff meeting for tomorrow, saying that there’s ‘lots to discuss’”? Full of hot air. Gurdon tells Big Head DC that “it’s just a regular editorial staff meeting of the sort we try to have about once a month.” But you gotta wonder: who is that Hill newsroom source who always feeds Gavin the false leads? And what is his or her intention?

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Yesterday The Hill newspaper stated that Sen. Hillary Clinton was not at a meeting that she did, in fact, attend. Embarrassing video evidence ultimately proved the paper wrong, and its editors were forced to offer a retraction today.

“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) attended and asked questions Wednesday at an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project,” according to the paper. “Using an out-of-date release, The Hill incorrectly reported that Clinton missed the hearing. Comments attributed to Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), from the same release, were similarly dated and incorrect. We regret the errors.”

The Hill came under fire earlier this year for employing Jackie Kucinich, who is the daughter of Dennis Kucinich. It was also recently revealed in the reports of Dennis seeing a UFO that Shirley MacLaine is her godmother. Some politicians believe her reporting should come with a disclaimer.

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My favorite Washington scandal mongers just had to talk to that pretty dilly, Betsy Rothstein, about Joe Biden’s Barack-i-tude:

“How is what Biden said not a lot worse than what [Sen.] Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said a few years ago?” asks Gannon, former White House reporter. ”The liberal outrage machine is curiously quiet.”

“By ‘clean’ he meant ‘untainted by scandal, unlike Hillary,’” observed, Jess, a free woman in Arkansas. ”And by ‘articulate’ he meant ‘communicates clearly, unlike myself.’”

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I don’t care what some Minnesota politics journal says. The Hill newspaper’s venerable newsman can’t hold water compared to Wonkette’s Alex Pareene. Even Al Franken can’t compare to Alex Pareene. I love Alex Pareene.

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