The White House doesn’t label who asks the questions in the transcripts, but I think this was the follow up between Scott McClellan and David Gregory today (I heard the final part of it on Rush) after Gregory’s freak-out yesterday (empahsis near the end is mine):
Q Does the President have a view about how the Vice President has conducted himself?
MR. McCLELLAN: Again, that’s what I — I indicated to you yesterday what our views were.
Q No, I don’t recall you sharing the President’s view.
MR. McCLELLAN: Yes, but can I finish responding? I’m glad to answer your questions.
Q You didn’t answer that question. It was very respectful —
MR. McCLELLAN: I was very respectful and responsive to you all —
Q The Vice President basically decided on his own to not disclose this, which is at odds with how you do business and how the President does business, right?
MR. McCLELLAN: I don’t want to make this about anything other than what it is. It is what it is, David. I was very respectful and responsive to your questions yesterday. I provided you the information I knew based on the facts that were available, and we’ve been through this pretty thoroughly.
Q You don’t have an answer to this question. All right, one final question.
MR. McCLELLAN: Wait, wait, I’m just not going to go back through it again. I’d appreciate it if you’d let me respond fully before you jump in.
Q All right, but — well, hold on one second. I’ve got one final question.
MR. McCLELLAN: Other people in this room have questions, and we’ve got an event coming up.
Q I understand that, but I’m not getting answers here, Scott, and I’m trying to be forthright with you, but don’t tell me that you’re giving us complete answers when you’re not actually answering the question, because everybody knows what is an answer and what is not an answer.
MR. McCLELLAN: David, now you want to make this about you, and it’s not about you, it’s about what happened. And that’s what I’m trying to —
Q I’m sorry that you feel that way, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.
MR. McCLELLAN: And I’m trying to provide answers to the questions.
Q I have one final question, since that one wasn’t answered. Is it appropriate for the Vice President to have waited 14 hours after the incident before he spoke with local law enforcement officials? And do you think that an average citizen would have been accorded that same amount of time before having to answer questions about a shooting incident?
MR. McCLELLAN: That was what was arranged with the local law enforcement authorities. You ought to ask them that question.
Suzanne, go ahead.
I heard a rumor that during this press briefing, Scott McClellan already knew about the heart attack and didn’t tell Gregory. Uh-oh!
Shouldn’t our President get someone in this position that can “Bitch Slap” little David Gregory? I mean REALLY, poor little Scott IS A BITCH so he obviously isn’t up to the job! How about Condi or someone else that has a pair?
Can you imagine if Davie Boy had tried to ask Jack Bauer questions like that?
DG: Jack, why do you refuse to answer my question????
JB:…….BLAM!
Ok, Suzanne, you had a question?
David Gregory needs to be peppered with Rumsfeld-style media bitch-slaps to his face; McClellan’s boss Dan Bartlett needs to do it if McClellan wont…
ooooo he knew about the heart attack and didn’t tell Gregory! Someone is gonna get at the next press briefing!
Scott just needs to smack him when he starts up again.
Heh heh heh…I wonder if Red Ted’s going to be stupid enough to get involved in this…”And you waited how long to place a call…?”
Jeez, David Gregory is a larval-stage Dan Rather…
The new urban tattooing craze, shotgun pocksmanship.
This is nothing new for little Davie…I frequently run in to him at a Bar-B-Que place on Wisconsin Ave in Glover Park (DC). He must live nearby since it is a neighborhood place called Rocklands…(he might live in Georgetown)…
Whenever I see him there he is profiling as the little (six-three) prick that he is…arrogant to a level that even Mo Dowd has yet to reach…
He is like “I’m cool, and on TV”…the fun part is that no on pays any attention…
This is nothing new for little Davie…I frequently run in to him at a Bar-B-Que place on Wisconsin Ave in Glover Park (DC). He must live nearby since it is a neighborhood place called Rocklands…(he might live in Georgetown)…
Whenever I see him there he is profiling as the little (six-three) prick that he is…arrogant to a level that even Mo Dowd has yet to reach…
He is like “I’m cool, and on TV”…the fun part is that no on pays any attention…
The moonbats over at the other places (you know the ones) are already hollering for Cheney’s impeachment. Right. Like that’s gonna happen.
I need a bumper sticker: Cheney’s gun is safer than Kennedy’s car.
Karl Rove proves once again he’s an evil genius.
He probably sat around thinking, “The Dems are too quiet, if this keeps up Bush’s numbers might go lower. How can we get them riled up? I know, Dick will shoot somebody and then we won’t tell them for a day! Those nitwits will go absolutely berserk.”
That press conference was hysterical. The funny part? I bet the ‘reporter’s’ friends are all telling them to keep attacking while the 80% of Americans who don’t reflexively hate Bush are just pointing and laughing.
Somewhere Karl Rove laughs.
How is the 14 hour delay any worse than Ted Kennedy not reporting a car crash in a river for…what was it? 28 hours????
All Scott has to do is yell “Chappaquidick!” every time those reporters get fractious.
“I need a bumper sticker: Cheney’s gun is safer than Kennedy’s car.”
ROFLMAO
Deborah over at Matermusings suggests that Nanny Joe from Super Nanny needs to be on speed dial for the White House Press Corps. I sound suggestion, ya think?
(We’ve secretly replaced the entire White House press corps with a group of whiny, colicky infants. Let’s see if anyone notices.)