By: E&P STaff Sometimes the badgering gets pretty brutal at the daily White House briefings. Possibly reporters quietly apologize to Press Secretary Scott McClellan (though we doubt it). It's rare, however, when the apology is quite public.
It happened today after CBS newsman John Roberts asked McClellan if today's appointment of a new nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court amounted to little more than "sloppy seconds, or what?" Among other things this has a rather unfortunate sexual connotation.
The reference quickly turned up on Drudge and elsewhere, and soon the new CBS "blog," The Public Eye, carried a full report and this apology:
?At the morning White House gaggle, I used an unfortunate choice of words in a question to Scott McClellan. Please be assured that there was no perjorative intent to my question. I was merely attempting to reconcile past statements about Harriet Miers with the President's new nominee for the Supreme Court.
"The early morning White House gaggle is an informal, free-wheeling and often irreverent forum, which is not broadcast and generally not publicly available.
"Obviously, my tone this morning was a little too casual.
"As we all experience from time to time, it was one of those 'oops' moments which we wish we could rewind and re-record.
"I apologize to anyone who took offense to my poor choice of words. I can assure you I meant none."
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