But beyond that, I think this is one of those defining moments when a member of the old media set ( Milbank ) can't seem to wrap his head around the notion that Pitney has more journalistic moxie than he does.
Going back to many of the questions that were asked during that presser, Pitney's question was head and shoulders above everyone else there. And the meme that he was "planted" and that somehow Obama knew what question was coming is nothing more than a ham-fisted diversion from the very real fact that bloggers are replacing establishment media as a credible source of information.
Apparently, after Pitney and Milbank's back and forth, Dana had something to say to Nico:
The only thing that surprised me was when Dana turned to me after our initial sparring and called me a “dick” in a whispered tone (the specific phrase was, I believe, “You’re such a dick”). Howie Kurtz wrote on Twitter that he didn’t hear it, which is understandable — he was doing the lead-in for the next part of the segment on the ABC White House special. But it happened (I urge Howie to watch the video of the panel during the ABC intro) and it was frankly pretty odd.
So, he's a "dick" for giving Milbank a sound spanking on national television? He's a "dick" for doing a job that Milbank seems to lack the will or even the ability to do?
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