Now, the next installment in Extreme Mortman’s regular feature: A peek inside the blog-reading habits of our nation’s top reporters and media celebrities. Jeffrey Birnbaum has been around Washington for a long time. He came to DC in 1982 with the Wall Street Journal and spent the next 13 years there. He covered Congress, the White House and, of course, politics. He then worked for Time Magazine as a senior correspondent and then walked down the hall a couple years later to head Fortune Magazine’s Washington bureau, which he did for seven years. He now writes a column called K Street Confidential, as well as feature stories, most of them on A1, for the Washington Post. He is also a familiar face on Fox News Channel, where he’s been one of Brit Hume’s All Stars since 1998. In addition, he’s written or co-written four books on Washington, appears on PBS’s Washington Week and is a commentator for public radio’s Marketplace. Please give a warm Extreme Mortman welcome to Jeffrey Birnbaum. Here are the blogs Jeffrey Birnbaum tells Extreme Mortman he reads:

I can’t get through the day without sampling Web sites of all sorts, almost all of which tell me things about Washington. I try to read the The Hotline every day and also NBC’s “First Read”, ABC’s “The Note,” and, of course, Chris Cillizza’s “The Fix” on Washingtonpost.com. Chris is terrific. I’m also a fan of realclearpolitics.com, which gives me great links to stories and a, well, clear view of where the polls stand. The Cook Political Report and Stu Rothenberg’s Rothenberg Political Report are must reads, especially as Election Day approaches.

I try to keep up with the left and the right. I look at Dailykos, MyDD, Instapundit, and townhall.com, among others. I also admit checking in on drudgereport.com. I read many media Web sites during the day ranging from Foxnews.com to the New York Times to washingtonpost.com. For my money-in-politics obsession I read politicalmoneyline.com, opensecrets.org, and sunlightfoundation.com. To see how badly the traditional media is faring, I occasionally look in on Romenesko at poynter.org–when I get up the strength.