Perino's Humor: More "Dry And Wry"

Over at the Examiner, Jeff Dufour and I crunched the numbers and determined that reporters in the White House are back to Scott McClellan-like levels of laughter under Dana Perino (this, after Tony Snow made instances of laughter amongst the press corps increase by 330%, compared to McClellan).

Of course, there’s more to the story:

    Perino may be receiving less laughter from the press corps for a number of reasons. First, attention has turned away from the presidency during Bush’s final months in office and many of the briefing room’s regular characters are out on the campaign trail.

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