Daily Caller Razzes Senate Flack
If you’re a Capitol Hill press secretary you may want to think long and hard before calling up The Daily Caller and giving them headline advice.
The headline in question: “McCain fingers Schumer as media whore for ‘grandstanding’ on Ariz. immigration law.”
Brian Fallon, spokesman to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a well-known press whore who practically invented the phrase press whore, called up and asked, “Is whore really a word that The Daily Caller uses in a headline on its website?” Fallon had zero problem with their use of “fingers” as a verb.
So The Daily Caller did what many modern news organizations would do and turned Fallon into a puppet.
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