(h/t Michelle Malkin)

Apparently Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post felt that his whiney liberalism was being eclipsed by the likes of David Gregory and Helen Thomas, so he took it up a notch today and set the bar for future whiney liberal "journalists" a bit higher.

Via The Hotline:

Q It's come to my attention that there's been requests -- this is a serious question -- to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied. My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?

MR. McCLELLAN: Never heard of any such thing. My TVs are on four different channels at all times.

Q Because you have four different TVs. But every time I've ever been --

MR. McCLELLAN: Every TV in the White House also has channels every -- has a split screen, where they can --

Q Well, they always seem to be tuned to Fox, and there's been requests, and these are paid for by taxpayer dollars. And my understanding is that you guys have to watch Fox on Air Force One. Is that true?

MR. McCLELLAN: First time I've ever heard of it. First time you've brought it to my attention, meaning the first time the press corps has brought it to my attention. In fact, I've watched other channels on here.

Q There's one --

MR. McCLELLAN: Hang on, Jim, come on. I've watched other channels on here, so I don't know where yuo're hearing that. But it's the first time anyone in the press has raised that question with me.

Q You've watched other channels other than Fox?

MR. McCLELLAN: On here, yes, sure.

Q I've never seen -- they're always turned to Fox, which a lot of people consider a Republican-leaning network.

Q Scott, is it one -- on the airplane, is it one for all? I mean, if it's tuned for Fox here, is it Fox everywhere?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think that certain areas may be interconnected, but I'll have to double-check which.

Q Is yours off, wherever you are?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, the conference room, or the senior staff office, the staff office, they're different TVs, and you can switch to different channels. I'm not sure if some of these in the back are connected to some of the others that are watching right here, right now. It doesn't look like it to me. I've never known anyone that's raised a complaint about a request from back here to watch a different channel.

Q I'm officially raising it and officially complaining about it.

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I'm going to go see if we can change the channel for you. Have you called up?

Q I was the Fox victim, and I was told -- the quote was, "No," when I asked for CNN.

MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know who you talked to, so -- it didn't come to my attention. You don't know who you talked to either?

Q Well, the magic people at the other end off the phone.

MR. McCLELLAN: The magic people at the other end of the phone. Well, I'll see if this cabin is --

Q I was told, "We don't watch CNN here, you can only watch Fox."

MR. McCLELLAN: As I said, it's hard to respond to something when I don't know who it is you talked to.

Q I used the phone back here.

MR. McCLELLAN: I find this all quite amusing, to tell you the truth. I mean, there are a lot of people on this plane that do watch that channel.

Q I've never been told, no. They're such nice guys up there.

MR. McCLELLAN: First time you brought it to my attention. I'll go see what we can do on it

Expose the Left adds the following to the transcript from the White House version, but for some reason I don't see it at The Hotline.

MR. McCLELLAN: We just called up. They’re going to be changing it, at your all’s request, to the channel that you requested, which is CNN —from the press corps.

Q Thanks, Scott.

I think my reaction to this can be summed up by borrowing a line from the Joe Dirt character "Robbie", played by Kid Rock (specifically the portion in bold, but I felt the full quote was more enjoyable):

That's right, Dirt, nobody wants you in this town. Nobody wants you around, period! Look at him, fellas. You crying, boy? You crying, boy?! Maybe we'll go back down to McDonald's and get you a whamburger and French cries! How about a Whineken!? You little sissy boy!..... Def Leppard sucks!

I think we can safely assume this was just an attempt to get a little attention in the midst of Tony Snow leaving Fox News to join the White House staff. I hope Tony is ready to deal with the vultures, as depicted in the photoshop I created the other day.

On a quick side note - what is this dork whining about, seriously? You're not at home fighting with your wife for the remote dude. This ain't YOUR house or YOUR plane, you're there to do a job, and it's not the duty of the White House (to my understanding) to supply you with TV that agrees with your agendas.

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