Posted on 02/14/2006 6:14:52 AM PST by danbo
The most heated public moment occurred during McClellan's off-camera "gaggle" with White House reporters yesterday morning. It featured NBC's David Gregory, one of McClellan's most persistent inquisitors over the last year, who raised his voice while asking a question about the incident.
"Hold on," McClellan interrupted, pointing out that "the cameras aren't on right now. You can do this later."
"Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras," Gregory replied. "Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question."
"You don't have to yell," McClellan said.
"I will yell," said Gregory, jabbing his finger in McClellan's direction. "If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong."
"Calm down, Dave. Calm down," said McClellan evenly.
The two men spoke privately after the gaggle, Gregory said later. No apologies were exchanged.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
David Gregory is a pilonidal cyst.
You are 100% correct. Your name isn't Dave is it?
MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry?
Q Was it the Vice President's gun?
MR. McCLELLAN: You ought to talk to the Vice President's Office and check that fact.
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Q When did the President know that the Vice President was the shooter? What time?
MR. McCLELLAN: Again, there was additional information coming in that night. And the details continued to come in throughout the morning, into the Sunday morning time period.
Q The Vice President did not call the President to tell him he was the shooter?
MR. McCLELLAN: Suzanne, go ahead.
Q Katherine Armstrong talked to CNN Sunday evening. She said that she thought this was going to become a story, so she was going to go to the local press. She also told CNN that she did not believe the Vice President's Office was aware that she was going to go to the local press. How do you square that with your account that they were coordinating their --
MR. McCLELLAN: The Vice President spoke with her directly and they agreed that she would make it public.
Q So you're saying that she is lying, that her statement is not correct?
MR. McCLELLAN: No. You ought to check with her.
Q Well, we did check with her. So you're saying that's not correct?
MR. McCLELLAN: The Vice President spoke directly with Mrs. Armstrong and they agreed that she would make the information public.
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Q So when did the President definitively know that the Vice President had shot somebody?
MR. McCLELLAN: He was learning additional details into that evening on Saturday --
Q It wasn't a detail that it was the Vice President that pulled the trigger? When did that detail --
MR. McCLELLAN: We didn't know the full details, but I think he was informed because Karl -- I think his Deputy Chief of Staff had spoken with Mrs. Armstrong and provided him additional update that evening. So there were more circumstances --
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Q Has the Vice President always had a hunting license whenever he's gone hunting? There was an item in one of the wire stories this morning that he had a license prior to November, but other stories say he goes every year to Texas --
MR. McCLELLAN: Check with his office. I don't have those facts.
Q Do you know whether he's taken a hunting safety course?
MR. McCLELLAN: My understanding is that he had the hunting license for this hunting trip.
...(brief discussion of actual issues, Brazil, Israel, Killer Cartoons, United Nations)
Q What does the President make of Putin's invitation to Hamas?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think the State Department addressed our view last week, and they said that Russia had provided assurances that they would reiterate what the Quartet statement says. The Quartet statement makes it very clear that Hamas needs to renounce violence, needs to disarm, and it needs to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist.
Q Can I go back to the topic du jour, if I may. How long did it take until everyone involved was sure that Mr. Whittington was in the proper medical care that he needed? Did it take 12 to 14 hours?
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know all the specific facts. Mrs. Armstrong and/or the Vice President's Office may be able to provide you additional information. And, no, he was taken to a hospital that evening in Texas.
some of these people, when I run into them in real life some day, are gonna go down in one punch.
Gregory is on my list.
For example, what do you suppose Mark Levin would say to Dee Dee Myers if we were say...in 1999...and speaking about Al Gore..and Myers had said that to him?
All this hot air and no big stories yet about the members of the Saddam regime stating the WMDs went to Syria. The crickets are really getting a workout!
Why yes. Yes I do. I posted this as a counterpoint to all the noise about Republicans and firearms.
At least Cheney dove into the water to save his victim.
David Gregory has replaced Terry Moran as 'the human I most hate.'
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So true!
Rap music awaits!
;-)
LOL.
This the e-mail I sent him.
My Dear David,
I thought you were absolutely fabulous at your last press conference. Just keep after those mean, insensitive Republicans.
By the way, absolutely love your hair. What hair salon do you use? Maybe we could meet there sometime?
Lance
NYC, NY
bump
Acknowledged same at post #38, thanks for the reminder that the second thing to go is the memory...and I don't remember what the first thing was...:-)
Have a great Valentine's day!!!
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