McClellan's Foil Fails Again

You can tell that Scott McClellan has had about as much of this vice president shooting questioning as he can take. Today was another heated briefing, with a reporting snapping, “It’s our briefing, we get to ask the questions” as McClellan continued to try to lead the subject to “more important topics.”

In today’s briefing, McClellan reached quickly for the Goyal Foil to end the line of attack, and then even cut Goyal off to get to the question quicker:

Q: And could you provide cost estimates when the President [sic] takes these hunting trips — like what it costs the taxpayers

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