Any Da Vinci Code fans out there? Well, meet "The Teacher", Tony Snow. Thus he proclaimed himself
in this exchange with the irrepressible Helen Thomas:
MR. SNOW: I understand. I do understand. But what I'm saying here is, what the public -- I'll tell you what, you ask the American public, do you want -- do you think you have a right to know the specific means and methods by which --
Q That's not --
MR. SNOW: Helen, will you stop heckling and let me conduct a press conference.
Q -- argument.
MR. SNOW: Well, no, I'm making an argument, and you're pestering the teacher.
Meanwhile, Congressman King of NY spouted a hellish rant against the New York Times on the same topic, calling for the indictment of its publishers for their outing of the Bushies on financial spying.
The Bushian message to the press remains clear: journalists, if you dare do your jobs the way the Constitution of the United States of America asked you to do them, you will be punished, browbeaten, threatened, and incriminated. God bless America.
--Brian D., Daily Revolution weblog