Kurtz:

My favorite paragraph in Elisabeth Bumiller's swan song for her White House assignment:

"Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, got so mad about an article that he told me he was putting my e-mail address in his spam filter."

Shoot, it's a good thing that Karl didn't pass any notes about Elisabeth during social studies. That would have just been mean.

Speaking of spineless reporters, I wonder if Kurtz will be reading and commenting on Boehlert's book. Scratch that - I wonder how Kurtz will justify not commenting on Boehlert's book.