Quiz time. A local news reporter is given a call-in number by city staff for a press briefing. He calls in. What he hears, though, is the staff of an elected official discussing internal business. Nothing salacious (or even particularly interesting) but not the call he was expecting. What should he do? Should he announce himself? Discreetly disconnect? Listen in?

The heavy political issue of New Jersey governor Chris Christie‘s weight just can’t seem to quarantine itself outside of the political sphere– not that it is ever Christie’s doing that this is so. This time, it’s Chris Matthews who has some qualms about Christie’s presidential prospects because you can’t “cut the budget [without] starting with supper.”

Last night, an excited Bill O’Reilly did some daydreaming aloud on The Factor about “tying up” Fox News’ White House correspondent Major Garrett up and rotating use of his front-row White House Press Corps seat with Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. With some in the media squirming in their seats about the possibility of a Beck/Hannity shouting match in the briefing room, O’Reilly’s executive producer felt the need to speak out today to clarify.

The Washington Post’s David Weigel has issued an apology after e-mails he wrote on the liberal journalist listserv Journolist were leaked to FishbowlDC gossip blogger Betsy Rothstein.

The US Border Patrol has come under fire for shooting and killing a Mexican teen, but not for trying to cross the border– 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez was throwing rocks at the agents, a practice that has become a real threat for agents walking the border. On last night’s show, Bill O’Reilly and his guest, Sara Carter of the Washington Examiner, debated the diplomatic consequences of the incident and greater tensions along the border.

The saucy gossip girls at the Washington Examiner’s Yeas and Nays column did a little Grindr experiment and found the Pentagon and the White House were full of guys looking to “meet” other guys. Grindr, for the uninitiated, is a GPS-based application for the iPhone and Blackberry that allows gay guys to find other gay guys in the local area just by starting up the app and letting the GPS narrow down the possibilities.

MSNBC’s David Shuster may still be off the air for NBC, but that doesn’t mean he’s just sitting around D.C. with nothing to do.

He’s playing softball, and not only playing softball, he’s continuing his long history of successful and productive play in the co-ed rec media league. He’s also emailing the Washington Examiner for getting so many things wrong in their report about his softball playing.

A YouTube message from President Obama specifically encouraging minorities and women to vote this November made some waves as Republicans accused the Democrats of discrimination. Perhaps the harshest critics of the video, the April 27 Washington Examiner headline declared “Obama Disses White Guys.” Dylan Ratigan brought on the paper’s editor Mark Tapscott to defend the headline yesterday.

Here in Washington, we don’t get the daily glory of the New York Post to keep us on our hyperbolic, pun-driven toes when it comes to headlines. However, we do have one source of joy, and it comes courtesy of one of the free dailies that you’ll see commuters reading on weekday mornings: The Washington Examiner.

When Jack Donaghy looked at Liz Lemon as she rambled on Thursday night on 30 Rock and quipped, “This is like watching Hemingway write—Mark Hemingway,” was Jack referring to C-list conservative pundit Mark Hemingway at the Washington Examiner (and formerly at National Review Online)?