Fresh from their latest gig at the White House Press Briefing hosted by Scott McClellan, it’s the new comedy troupe “Not The Stenographers!”

Actually, I saw them described as “stenos” on another website the other day in connection with the “Irish journalist asks Bush harrrrrd questions” story.

From reading between the lines, and totally in my humble and uninformed opinion, it seems like some of the people asking tough questions know perfectly well that the answers won’t be all that newsworthy. Either that, or their editors will veto them rather than make the White House press secretary look like a helplessly flailing ventriloquist’s dummy.

You will see the obligatory “…when terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001” fallback trotted out when once again the Mouth of Bushon is put on the spot about Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Yeah, those two issues that have been shown to have no substantive or factual connection.