WOW. I can’t remember a President delivering a public dressing-down to a reporter like this one delivered to David Gregory of NBC. First Rumsfeld, now Bush: it must seem unfair. The rule is supposed to be that reporters ask dumb and slanted questions, and politicians don’t call them on it.

How are you going to be a media bigfoot if people actually start mocking you when you deserve it? But, you know, the press has been acting like the press in a Saturday Night Live skit for years. They shouldn’t be surprised that Bush is picking up on his role. And this indicates that the White House isn’t scared of the press, because it thinks Americans don’t respect the David Gregorys of the world — which should scare the press most of all