“Last night saw two competing A-List media parties in Washington — Roll Call’s 50th anniversary soiree and the Atlantic’s Mike Kelly Awards dinner — and veteran reporters at both scenes were complaining about Neil Cavuto’s ‘shameful’ interview of President Bush on Wednesday,” TVNewser’s cousin FishBowlDC reports. “For a press corps that often gets attacked for being ‘too soft’ on the President, Cavuto’s softball interview struck a nerve with many other White House correspondents who saw it as a wasted opportunity to actually contribute something to the national discourse — especially in a week that saw so much news of import.”
> Update: 3:14pm: “Neil Cavuto seems to have conducted this interview with knee-pads on,” Andrew Sullivan blogs.
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