“The Administration’s response: the reporter, Carla Marinucci, was “removed as a [press] pool reporter..”
Can you just IMAGINE the amount of faked outrage and screams of “FASCISM!” if Bush had done something like this??
It was bad enough when Tony Snow “frozeout” Helen Thomas, if you recall.
It's worse than that. From the article:
What's worse: more than a few journalists familiar with this story are aware of some implied threats from the White House of additional and wider punishment if Carla's spanking became public.