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Who’s the hottest of them all? Yes, kids, you heard us right! It’s summertime in Washington, so it must be time to vote for hot journalists!!! Hot journalists!!!!!!!!!! Time to get voting!!!! (Via comments, tips and airplane smoke messages!) Now!!!! We’re simply breathless from all of this hot, hot excitement!!!!

Memory lane:

2007 male & female winners!

2006 male & female winners!

Keith Olbermann is working overtime to have people believe that WaPo’s Dana Milbank, a longtime contributor to his MSNBC program, was forced off the network as a result of pressure from Olbermann over a piece Milbank wrote last week satirizing Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential presumptions.

Not so, says Milbank. “I started contract talks with CNN on July 7,” Milbank told Big Head DC this afternoon. “It has nothing to do with last week’s column. I like Keith, and I’m sorry he’s angry about my departure.”

Milbank began appearing on CNN last night on Campbell Brown’s program — the network’s competitor to Olbermann.

“Keith, working ever harder to court his liberal fan base, obviously wants people to believe he was directly involved in Dana’s exit,” a cable TV honcho not affiliated with CNN or MSNBC told BHDC. “The truth is simply that Dana got a much better offer. And Olbermann decided to spin it his way.”

1) Hey BHDC, maybe you can do a new post about the threats and harassment that Free Republic and many other Web sites are getting over Larry Sinclair’s story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055994/posts

2) How Gawker Media screens its interns.

3) Any news on Leola McConnell? I hope she is alive and doing well. I believe her and find her “stories” to be credible. What is the latest on her? Where can I get a copy of her books if she had time to write them?

4) John Cusack to appear in Hustler: “Actor and producer John Cusack finally unleashes his outrage at the Bush Administration and their disastrous failures: ‘The right-wing uses the aesthetics of authoritarianism. American patriotism is the cover for what they do.” In the context of his most recent movie, War, Inc., a dark comedy that skewers the Iraq War and American capitalism and greed, Cusack discusses with Hustler the goals, motivations and stresses of writing and producing such a film. The controversial War, Inc. was an international success starring Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Joan Cusack, Hilary Duff and Cusack himself. War, Inc. will be available on DVD October 14 at retailers nationwide.” Related: recent interview.

5) Seriously. You had DCist and Wonkette on the ropes and now you’re doing weekly posts about Larry fucking Sinclair? Are you going to relaunch the blog, or is it going to stay like this?

Reporter says Edwards “looked like a deer caught in headlights.” She’s rumored to have been his mistress — and recently had a baby. Her former name is Lisa Druck.

Earlier: The Rielle Strange Confrontation — And Her Odd Denials

And: Edwards Hedges On Importance of Fidelity Question

A WaPo publicist gives us a heads up that news on the disappearance of one of D.C.’s most famous interns is forthcoming:

The murder of Chandra Levy is one of Washington’s most famous unsolved crimes. Many people, including police and prosecutors, initially suspected that a congressman might be involved in her disappearance. For years, it has been a cold case. Now a year-long Washington Post investigation reveals new information showing that critical leads were ignored, allowing a killer to get away with murder. The investigation, based on dozens of interviews with top police officials and other key figures, and thousands of pages of documents, will unfold in a 12-chapter serial plus an epilogue in print and online beginning Sunday, July 13th.

You better believe Gary Condit is closely watching this development.

From his bio:

Richard R. Wier, Jr. P.A. is a preeminent litigation law firm handling serious personal injury and wrongful death matters. The firm also handles criminal matters in state and federal courts in Delaware and elsewhere. The firm represents employers and employees in all facets of business and employment law matters.

Richard R. Wier, Jr. Esquire, a former Delaware Attorney General, is a nationally recognized and honored attorney with over thirty years of trial and counseling experience.

As a result of a lawsuit he brought as Attorney General on behalf of the crippled children and elderly of Delaware over Five Hundred Million Dollars ($500,000,000) has been received by Delaware since 1980.

The firm has the highest rating - AV - in the national legal directory Martindale-Hubbel. This is a peer review rating with “A” denoting “outstanding in practice” and “V” denoting “highest ethical standards”. The Wier Law Firm is honored to also be listed among the nation’s top law firms in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

Mr. Wier is rated by his peers as one of the Top Lawyers in Delaware and as One of The Best Lawyers in America.

From Montgomery Blair Sibley:

“Larry is fine. He is being arraigned this morning. Time will tell if the press conference was worth it.”