Gaggle

The alcohol question is rising in the press. More and more allegations, insinuations, and questions all over the place often framed in the passive, "What do you say to people who believe that...." That's such a wussy way to ask a question. "It's not me saying this, of course, but...."

At the doctor's press conference in Corpus today, once again the question about alcohol in Whittington's system was met with "no comment."

And the alcohol question finally hit Scott McClellan at the gaggle today. But the killer question was this:

Q One other quick one. Vice President Cheney talked yesterday about the trauma of seeing his friend fall to the ground when he shot him, and I was wondering whether this has caused Mr. Cheney to reflect on the kind of trauma that's experienced daily by the men and women in the military who have to shoot people?

MR. McCLELLAN: Again, here's another example of where I think this town sometimes gets into taking an incident like this and trying to draw broader conclusions or over interpret or overanalyze things and get into all sorts of other issues. .....

But I think that it's just absurd to try to get into looking at it in the way that you just suggested.

Yes, it's totally absurd, because......?