SCENE:\u00a0 11AM in the editorial board room of Minnesota-based politics blog MNPublius<\/em>.<\/p>\n ZACK: (sitting in an overstuffed leather chair, sipping from a snifter of brandy as SEAN walks into the conference room<\/em>).\u00a0 Hey, Sean.\u00a0 How’s it going?<\/p>\n SEAN: (pouring a scotch as he takes a seat by the highly-polished oak table<\/em>) – Hey, Zack.\u00a0 Just looking at the resumes from all of Dusty Trice’s minions.\u00a0 Now that he’s closed shop, they’re all looking for work.<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 (takes a sip, as SEAN feeds a ream of\u00a0 resumes into a nearby paper shredder<\/em>).\u00a0 Where’s Matt?\u00a0<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 He’s texted me.\u00a0 He’s just coming in from the parking ramp.\u00a0 He had to get the Prius fixed.<\/p>\n SEAN: Ah.\u00a0<\/p>\n (JEFF <\/em>enters the room, takes seat)<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 So what’s new, gentlemen?<\/p>\n SEAN:\u00a0 Well, I spent Friday trading emails with Paul Harris of the London Observer.\u00a0 He’s doing a piece on female conservatives, and he heard we were the <\/em>authorities on Michele Bachmann.<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 And he didn’t go to Dump Bachmann<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n SEAN:\u00a0 He’s a Brit journalist, but he’s not insane.<\/p>\n ZACK: Excellent!\u00a0 So did you send the new glossy talking point sheet?<\/p>\n SEAN: Yep, the one that calls ’em all crazy and dangrous.\u00a0 Or dangerous and crazy.\u00a0 I forget.\u00a0 Anyway,\u00a0 I had to break open a new box of them, but yes.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0<\/p>\n MATT: (enters room, yelling over shoulder as he takes a seat<\/em>) And Consuela?\u00a0 Have all my calls and texts held.\u00a0 And get me a double-skim goat chai, stat!<\/p>\n CONSUELA (from\u00a0anteroom<\/em>) Si, senor<\/em> Matt!<\/p>\n MATT:\u00a0 Hey, guys.<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 Hey, Matt.\u00a0 And did you send the ugliest picture of Bachmann you could find?<\/p>\n SEAN:\u00a0 Oh, yeah.\u00a0 I had to dig deep, but I finally found one that almost was too bad to be an Avidor photoshop.\u00a0<\/p>\n JEFF (sotto voce to MATT<\/em>): “Avidor?”<\/p>\n MATT: Ken Weiner.<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 And you gave him a phone interview?<\/p>\n SEAN:\u00a0 Er, huh?\u00a0<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 A phone interview.\u00a0 We always do phone inter…<\/p>\n SEAN: Right.\u00a0 The phone interview, I know.\u00a0 I thought Jeff was doing the interview?<\/p>\n JEFF:\u00a0 Um, no – I thought Matt was doing it.<\/p>\n MATT:\u00a0 Um, no, I was busy doing oppo research on “Ben” and “Mall Diva”.\u00a0 Er, hang on – Zack, I thought you handled all foreign media…<\/p>\n ZACK:\u00a0 Oh, crap.\u00a0 That means…<\/p>\n CONSUELA:\u00a0 (Enters room, carrying bundle of newspapers<\/em>) I brought the newspapers, sirs.\u00a0 (places them on table, backs from room<\/em>).<\/p>\n