FishPoolDC: Our Insider's Notes from Today's Press Briefing

Back from the Principal’s Office: Chronic tardiness might get you in trouble at school, but here it’s the classroom of reporters that’s fed up with the lecturer’s lateness. After a delayed two-minute warning to accommodate reporters returning from a stakeout of the bankers meeting with the president this afternoon, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took to the podium at 2:08, about 20 minutes after the last countdown. ABC’s Jake Tapper, who had taken charge with two visits to the Lower Press office to complain during the long wait, pointed to a pattern in this behavior and noted that it “irritated everybody.”