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HuffPo writer confronts WaPo critic: 'That's pathetic'
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HuffPo writer confronts WaPo critic: 'That's pathetic' Huffington Post reporter Nico Pitney blasted the Washington Post's Dana Milbank today for suggesting Pitney's question to President Obama at last week's press conference was planted. Milbank responded that Pitney was "in collusion" with the Obama White House. First, some background. When President Obama called on Pitney last week, establishment journalists wondered whether the question was staged. Obama seemed to know that Pitney was going to ask a question directly from an Iranian. In a column published just after press conference , Milbank suggested the questioned was planted, and called the stunt "prepackaged ...
Hullabaloo — Pitney vs Milbank by digby Just to put this into perspective, think about this. Nico Pitney has spent the last two weeks tirelessly developing sources from inside Iran, aggregating every relevant story available on the internet through every available form of the new communication technology and synthesizing one of the most most difficult and important foreign policy stories of the decade. Dana Milbank has spent the same period bitching about the "low press" getting to ask questions at a press conference and filming snotty little gossip items for his little insider video embarrassment called ...
Nico and Dana
Eschaton —
...over email, Nico says Milbank whispered "You're suck a dick" into his ear after the segment.
Pitney versus Milbank
Balloon Juice —
Via Atrios, here’s Pitney smacking down Milbank:
Milbank tries to ask Pitney a question about Bush calling on a Fox reporter, but asks it in an inaccurate way. So, let’s pose Milbank’s question as he should have asked it: If there was a Fox reporter who was in contact with ...
Nico Pitney Slaps Dana Milbank Around
Firedoglake —
Based on his outrage when Nico reminds him he praised the "Mission Accomplish" moment, I think Dana might wanna Google his own columns.
For Bush — who also gave a national address from the carrier and spent the night aboard — it was a bold bid to surround himself with ...
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank calls Nico Pitney a ‘dick’ after heated debate on CNN.
Think Progress —
Last week, the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney (who is also a former member of ThinkProgress) found himself in the center of controversy after President Obama called on him at a press conference. One of the harshest pieces came from the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, who called Pitney a “planted questioner.” Today the two faced off on Howie Kurtz’s “Reliable Sources” segment on CNN. Pitney called some of Milbank’s past reporting “pathetic,” and Milbank claimed that Nico had “worked in collusion with an administration.” Watch it: ...
Milbank, Pitney spar over HuffPo-Obama exchange
Michael Calderone's Blog —
On CNN’s “Reliable Sources” today, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank and Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney squared off over the latter’s controversial question to President Obama at Tuesdays’ press conference.
During their debate, Pitney described Milbank’s reporting as “pathetic” for once asking Obama how he looked in a bathing suit, while the Post’s “Washington Sketch” columnist continued to take issue with recent coordination between HuffPo and the White House.
Because the White House reached out to Pitney the night before about possibly asking a question submitted ...
The coda
Political Animal —
THE CODA.... It's been a few days, and the political world has largely moved on, but the Huffington Post 's Nico Pitney asking President Obama a question submitted by an Iranian continues to wrinkle some feathers. The Washington Post 's Dana Milbank has played a leading role in criticizing Nico -- Milbank's column on the subject included a series of errors ...
The Nico Pitney/Dana Milbank confrontation on "Reliable Sources" — about that seeming planted question.
Althouse —
Pitney comments: "The only thing that surprised me was when Dana turned to me after our initial sparring and called me a 'dick' in a whispered tone (the specific phrase was, I believe, 'You're such a dick')." ...
Milbank and HuffPoster Heatedly Debate Press Conference Plants
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
As NewsBusters' Tim Graham reported, the Obama administration planted Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney to ask a question at Tuesday's press conference. The following day, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank also took the White House to task for this shameful episode. On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," Milbank and Pitney had a rather heated debate about what transpired (video embedded below the fold with transcript): HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: A presidential news conference usually proceeds from the AP reporter, to the network correspondents, to the major ...
Pitney vs Millbank
Matthew Yglesias —
I actually ran into Nico Pitney, destroyer of journalism, last night at a party. Neither of us seem to be on the Georgetown cocktail party circuit, but we’re both on the Green Line accessible beer ‘n Beam circuit. To me, it just brought home the extent to which this controversy is driven by status anxiety. It’s a convention that White House Correspondent for an Important Media Outlet is a highly prestigious and incredibly important job. The idea that a more interesting question might come from a young guy who writes for some website and has been aggregating news out of Iran would upend the whole thing: ...
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
SteveAudio —
The Elite Villager Media was never more apparent than on CNN's Reliable Sources with Über-villager Howie Kurtz, when HuffPost's Nico Pitney challenged Dana Milbank's credibility. Here is Nico in his own words: This morning, Dana Milbank, Amanda Carpenter, and I appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz. It was a spirited affair and folks can draw their own conclusions. Here's the video: The only thing that surprised me was when Dana turned to me after our initial sparring and called me a "dick" in a whispered tone (the specific phrase was, I believe, ...
Washington Post's Dana Milbank called Huffington's Nico Pitney a "dick"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Dana Milbank has presented himself as the defender of the Washington press corps. Last week, he wrote a bizarre column attacking Nico Pitney for asking a question at the Obama press conference. It really was a pathetic and ridiculous screed. Today, Milbank and Nico Pitney were on CNN's Reliable Sources. I only caught the tail end of the segment. But, I did get to watch the video. Nico holds Milbank accountable for some of his buffoonish coverage in the past. That didn't go over well. Nico tells us that when the camera was off, Milbank called him "a dick": The only thing that surprised me was when Dana turned to me after our initial sparring and ...
Gang War: The Stenographers vs. the Aggregators
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
Matthew Yglesias on the hissy-fit the policy substance-free "opinions on shape of earth differ" journamalists of the Stenographer faction are pulling. It seems it was unfair for Barack Hussein Obama at his press conference to have asked an Aggregator, Nico Pitney (who has been doing a wonderful job on covering Iran via new and social media), to give him a question from Iran: ...
Dana Milbank is a dick
Brilliant at Breakfast —
I sure hope that Keith Olbermann stops having this, well, dickweed on his show. Because guys like Nico Pitney, who has been in Iran reporting live while Dana Milbank has been nibbling cocktail weenies with MoDo at Washington cocktail parties, are mopping the floor ...
It's Really Dana Milbank Who is a D*ck
Booman Tribune —
There was a brief period of time, probably in 2004, when I thought Dana Milbank was doing a decent job of showing a sane level of skepticism about the Bush administration's pronouncements and behavior. He wasn't striking for his wit or his moral outrage. He just stood out as someone who was occasionally willing to call bullshit in a town where that seemed never to happen. His schtick appeared to be irreverence of a kind slightly more substantive than that provided by Lady Dowd. But something changed. If I had to guess, what changed is that Milbank started getting invites to be on the cable news. And that made him somebody. He joined the Big Boys like Howard Fineman and Ron ...
Morning No: No Envy
Open Left - Front Page —
- As @KagroX twittered, "I can't believe we spent the whole day calling Dana @Milbank the #dickwhisperer. And that nothing stops us from doing it all day tomorrow." (Backstory.)
- The people of Iran are still shouting from their rooftops and demonstrating in the streets. The demonstrators are, practically by definition, way braver than me.
- Obama talks about the climate change bill, (aka, Waxman-Markey, ACES) via @kate_sheppard. As @david_h_roberts pointed out, Obama said of House Republicans that, "They are fighting not even the last war, they're fighting three wars ago." ...
Washington Post Reporter Resorts To Name-Calling With HuffPo's Nico Pitney
The Latest on Air America —
Washington Post Reporter Resorts To Name-Calling With HuffPo's Nico Pitney
The Washington Post?s Dana Milbank calls Nico Pitney a ?dick? after heated debate on CNN.
The Hollywood Liberal —
The Washington Post?s Dana Milbank calls Nico Pitney a ?dick? after heated debate on CNN. Last week, the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney (who is also a former member of ThinkProgress) found himself in the center of controversy after President Obama called on him at a press conference. One of the harshest pieces came from the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, who called Pitney a “planted questioner.” Today the two faced off […] Last week, the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney (who is also a former member of ThinkProgress ) found himself in the center of controversy after President Obama called on him at a press conference. One of the harshest pieces came from the ...
Dana Milbank’s Very Small Folder
Firedoglake —
It was a very thin folder Dana Milbank held in his hand--his shield against the DFH blogger who got to ask a question. "A full list of documentation of me holding the Bush White House to account," he explained it as, in addition to a copy of an email Nico Pitney wrote the night before Obama asked him a question at a ...
The Princess and The Pea
Daily Kos —
“You’re such a dick.” That’s what White House reporter Dana Milbank reportedly whispered to Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney after their recent brutal exchange on Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources. Nico Pitney has been one of the premier sources of breaking news and analysis on the Iranian election, and the White House invited him to the briefing room to ask a question last week. Which he did. And it was a damn good one. But no sooner had the question escaped from Pitney's lips than the D.C. pundits erupted into unbridled fury over the White House's extension of an invitation to Nico Pitney. ...
Dana Milbank's employer, the Washington Post, planned "Salons" (at $25,000 a pop) offering access to high-level officials
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
The Washington Post has completely jumped the shark and lost any shred of credibility. The Post planned to sell access. DC access. Inside access. Remember how sanctimonious Dana Milbank was last week when Nico Pitney asked a question at the Obama press conference? Remember how Milbank disparaged the idea that any administration would work in synch with the media? On CNN's Reliable Sources, Milbank said, "What I have never done in my life, Howie, is worked in collusion with an administration..." Hmmm. But, this was the latest from Milbank's Washington Post, as reported by Politico this morning: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered ...
