C-SPAN’s media relations manager Jennifer Moire will be leaving at the end of the month to pursue other endeavors around DC.  That means that one of Extreme Mortman’s favorite networks (the others being HBO 4 and Encore 6) is hiring! If you’re a PR person and love C-SPAN like I do, then drop a note to Jennifer (jmoire@c-span.org) or to the familiar face of C-SPAN, Susan Swain (sswain@c-span.org).  Or apply at c-span.org.

A few notes: Not sure if it will give you a boost, but if you’re skilled at highlighting the morning paper in yellow marker, you might want to mention that.  Also, if you’ve already e-mailed C-SPAN once this month, you know the policy: 30 days between e-mails.  Finally, if you get the job, make sure you tell them you saw it advertised here and you’ll be eligible for 10% off your next cable bill.

The Washington Post puts in an admirable attempt at creative writing flair this morning in the unlikeliest of places: the Business section. Check out Frank Ahrens’ Milbank-esque-like wordplay in this International House of Pancakes story:

Despite the rougher times, IHOP Corp. has watched its revenue crepe upward …

Crepe upward? Surely Ahrens had to get that gem past his editors. The only question: did he do it syrup-tiously?

Must explain why he hasn’t announced for President yet.

The joy boys at the Los Angeles Times’ political blog Top of The Ticket are giddily following every Al Gore missed announcement event.

Here’s their latest:

Al Gore, the former vice president and losing Democratic presidential nominee, is in Los Angeles this weekend for the wedding of his youngest daughter, Sarah.

The bride, who is 28, married Bill Lee, identified by a family spokeswoman as a 36-year-old Los Angeles businessman. Sarah is a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. The ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

As he did at last weekend’s Live Earth concert in New Jersey, Gore made no announcement during the wedding about any plans for a presidential campaign.

It’s kinda like the opposite of that old “Saturday Night Live” gag: Francisco Franco is still dead.  Despite his death, doctors say his health has taken a turn for the worse.

Need more eveidence on how blogs are influencing and changing traditional media?

Look no further than this item in today’s Washington Post:

In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com

Sit back and watch the references to blogs and new media accumulate:

The Washington Post Co. today is launching LoudounExtra.com, an aggressive online push into hyperlocal journalism, combining traditional reporters and photographers with bloggers, videographers and extensive databases on schools, businesses and churches …

The effort highlights a problem of major newspapers in the Internet age: the need to balance national reporting with service to Web-savvy local readers …

Washingtonpost.com publisher Caroline Little said LoudounExtra.com takes a different approach to hyperlocal news. “I think that blogging is great, but blogging alone is not a be-all and end-all to drive traffic,” Little said. “Useful information and database information are very important.” …

The information will be searchable and deliverable on a number of platforms, meaning users will be able to download the site’s restaurant guide onto their iPods and use their cellphones to find restaurants open late at night.

Yes, this is not your father’s Washington Post anymore.

Great anecdote from Lady Bird Johnson’s memorial service in today’s Post:

Harry Middleton, the retired director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, told of a breakfast meeting at New York’s Plaza Hotel when he and Johnson were seated near the Village People, who were dressed in full costume.

One of the band members came over and expressed his admiration of Johnson, then asked if she would have her picture taken with her. She graciously agreed, Middleton recalled, although she didn’t know who the people were. Told later that they were a singing group, Johnson smiled and said, “Well, I wonder if we just made the cover of their next album.”

Alas, looks like they went with cowboy, instead.

Today’s New York Times reports on a 1974 election strategy memo Karl Rove wrote as an eager College Republican:

Mr. Rove offered suggestions, from having college Republican clubs show “nonpolitical films for fund-raising (e.g. John Wayne flicks, ‘Reefer Madness’)”

Reefer Madness? Get outta town!

During the ’80s, yours truly was active in the College Republicans.  We showed films, too, for fundraising.   “Red Dawn,” over and over again.

And to think we wondered why no one showed up.  Like Karl Rove, we should’ve been stirring the pot, as it were.

We note in the post below that it’s George McGovern’s 85th birthday.  In the interest of equal time coverage of the 1972 presidential election, we should also note (courtesy an alert and loyal Extreme Mortman reader) the realtor’s private link to the sale of Richard Nixon’s house when he was VP.  Click here.

Got $4.5 million?  Maybe Haldeman does.  But it would be wrong.

Looking for a fun romp through political history this weekend?

Then take this out for a spin: McGovern72.org.  It’s the site celebrating George McGovern’s 85th birthday.  Featuring this adorable collection of political giants:

“Warren Beatty, Frank Mankiewicz, David Broder, Rep. Jim McGovern, Sen. Gary Hart, Speaker Nancy Pelosi invite you to participate in a weekend of celebration honoring the legacy of George McGovern on the occasion of his 85th birthday.”

Legacy indeed. Daily Kos celebrates McGovern by concluding he’s “still alive and kicking.”

Hey, after losing 49 states, including home state South Dakota, still being alive and kicking has gotta count for something, right?

White House press secretary Tony Snow at today’s news briefing:

… what the President said is, at the beginning of the war he asked for the best advice of his commanders and he said, what do you think you need? And he continued to ask — he said it many times; this is not — you can go back and Google it, but it’s, in fact, been a common statement the President has made repeatedly about his earlier consultations.

Brett Lieberman’s great Pennsyltucky Politics blog poses this age-old query:

Gov. Ed Rendell described Matt Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation as an imbecile and likened liberal activist Eric Epstein to Hannibal Lecter or Jeffrey Dahmer.  This raises the question, which is worse — being called an idiot or crazy?
Cast your vote in Pennsyltucky Politics’ first-ever online poll.

Of course, you’ll want to enjoy the online poll with fava beans and nice chianti.  Consider it a personal fava to me.  As Darth Vader said …. Luke, I am your fava.