Mother Dickhead - Day Four

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This one's a bit shorter, as it was just a quick pow-wow with the press aboard Air Force One.

But one reporter tried the old bait-n-switch:

Q Did the President get his news yesterday about Justice Rehnquist's health from media reports?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, Andy Card and I did, and Andy Card and I informed the President in the Oval Office yesterday, shortly after the news reports came out. I think that that was the case previously, when the Chief Justice went into the hospital, we didn't have any advance notification either.

Q So why is it acceptable for him to base his information about the Chief Justice's health on news reports, but not about an investigation within the West Wing? What's the distinction there?

MR. McCLELLAN: Oh, I think there's a lot of distinctions there. This is relating to an ongoing criminal investigation. There are clear distinctions in that. That's a nice try to get us to discuss an ongoing investigation, but I think we need to let that investigation continue.

I'm expecting some juicy tidbits from Scott "Go Ahead, Goyal" McClellan's briefing today, as there are new reports. Rove spoke with Robert "Douchebag" Novak about Valerie Plame/Wilson, as Novak was preparing the article that outed the CIA operative.