The Whole Delivery

You mean to tell me that Dana Milbank won't be calling Hillary a you know what anymore more? We are in an experimental age of journalism in which many of the old ways of doing business are rapidly being transformed. I have always believed that experimentation -- and the willingness to fail -- sit at the center of any creative endeavor, and have done my best to bring that mentality to the Fix each and every day. What did I learn from doing Mouthpiece? That I am not funny on camera (this will not be a revelation to many of you), that name-calling is never the stuff of good comedy, and that the sort of straight, inside dope reporting I pride myself on made for a somewhat discordant marriage with the sort of satire Mouthpiece aimed to create. And, as Mrs. Fix -- my guidepost in all things -- rightly pointed out: I am better writing about the news than being in the news. Lessons learned. Sigh, just sigh. At least Milbank can get back to calling Nico Pitney a you know what .

The bruhaha and anger directed to Nico Pitney and Obama after calling on the Huffington Post journalist in yesterday's press conference made one person remind me, and hopefully you out there, of this one name: Jeff Gannon In my post yesterday that was cross-posted at TPMCafe, NobleCommentDecider said that name and described to you who don't know that name or remember it, who he was Doesn't everyone miss Jeff Gannon, the gay stud patsy masquerading as a reporter that GW Bush and Rove planted in press conferences with a White House pass, to ask questions about why Democrats were unpatriotic? Outstanding point, isn't it? And here's footage of Mr. Gannon Bill Maher's great episode on Gannon Olbermann's report I wonder where was the outrage and questioning from CBS' Mark Knoller, Hakcio's Calderon , and now Washington Post's Dana Milbank and the AP ( Via Marcy ) The media sure does embarrass itself thanks to their amnesia problem.

After Obama called on Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post today in the press conference, the elite media have been going bonkers over that (and will continue to). Hackio's doing their best to help fuel their anger In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran. “Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we've been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?” Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.” Then Calderone writes this CBS Radio's Mark Knoller, a veteran White House correspondent, said over Twitter it was "very unusual that Obama called on Huffington Post seco...