skippy the bush kangaroo: it's official: michelle malkin and ann coulter are nutty!

Thursday, July 30, 2009

it's official: michelle malkin and ann coulter are nutty!

lynn sweet, the white house reporter who asked obama the now infamous question about the prof. gates arrest, takes issue w/malkin & coulter's insistence that she was a "white house plant":

ann, michelle, can we get a beer on this? i'll pay. i'll take an amstel light. what are your brews? because gals, you need to look elsewhere for a new conspiracy. coulter said on fox news that obama "had that question planted." she added, "i do have proof." on nbc's "today show" on wednesday morning, host matt lauer, asked malkin, "do you think this was a planned question?" replied malkin, "absolutely do."

you are both wrong. the obama white house did not have a clue what i would be asking. (and why again would they want to plant a question that would take him off his health-care message, a question that was likely to get him in hot water, and did?)…

got a call from the white house about 6:30 p.m. july 22 confirming that indeed i was going to attend the 8 p.m. press conference. i was told i "may" get a question. that was it. end of conversation.

before leaving for costa rica for a family wedding on friday, i wrote a column about how and why i asked the question because i received many queries from readers and viewers. i wrote what i thought were simple, declarative sentences: "no one asked me -- directly or indirectly -- about what i may be asking. no one from the white house tried to plant any question."

the idea that the obama media machine would try to plant that question -- or any question-- with me is nutty. if they had, my story would have been about their effort to plant a question. and again, why would they have even tried to orchestrate such an off-message query? by the time coulter and malkin spoke with such certainty, i had already said that obama did not have a clue about what i would be asking.

did you get that? "nutty." it's good to have our own opinions reaffired in the press.

posted by skippy at 3:51 PM |