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January 27, 2005

Contempt Can Run Both Ways


Wlady Pleszczynski noticed that yesterday's press conference offered up something not normally on the menu: contempt that ran both ways. What's up, he says, is that the President doesn't fear the Washington Press Corp -- at all.

. . . Bush called on several reporters whose questions could only have come from by the White House communications office. Most famously, Jeff Gannon of the openly Republican Talon News mocked recent comments by Democrats Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton before asking Bush how was he "going to work with [such] people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?" Did Ronald Reagan ever enjoy such a friendly query?

Rush played Gannon's question yesterday, but he cheered it as evidence that a slice of the Washington media were finally asking fairer questions. That's of course true enough, and it's great that Gannon was called on, but his presence is less a sign that the old guard has changed than that it is making itself less relevant.

Read the rest of Wlady's post -- and smile.

Update: Blogger Lane Core, Jr., sends word that he blogged on Bush and the press last April. This isn't the first time that the President has let the White House press corps know how he feels.

Winfield Myers | Jan. 27, 2005 | 10:23 AM