Here’s the transcript of today’s mind-blowing press conference. The doctor’s warned me about that forehead-banging and screaming thing, so I can’t analyze it in detail.

If you want to get an excellent reading on the state of the Republic, go and read it. I’ll wait.

[Reach me that bucket, wouldja hon?]

Here’s what caught my eye:

Maybe we can hope that thepress has, finally, graduated as The Class Of 2007:

Q No, you’re trying to take the logical and change it around and make — you’re insulting our intelligence.

MR. BLOW: No, I don’t think so. What I’ve tried to do is to insert a little nuance into a conversation that continues to try to create broad generalizations that can be used, frankly, to twist the case out of context.

Isn’t Pony good? Seriously, we’ve had a Department of How Stupid Do They Think We Are in The Mighty Corrente Building for quite some time, and any one of our uniformed, courteous citizen representatives will be happy to point it out the odd member of our famously free press who happens to wander in or, if necessary, present them with a complimentary rotogravured floor plan with exciting coupon offers on the back.

Anyhow, this interchange is my favorite, of the many, many candidates:

Q Tony, I want to go back to the issue of an apology, and I want to stay issue-focused and not blaming. Are there — is the American people owed some kind of apology from someone in this administration for the leaking of a CIA person’s name, personnel’s name?

MR. SNOW: Yes, it’s improper to be leaking those names.

Q You say it’s improper, so you’re saying someone in this administration owes the American public an apology?

MR. SNOW: I’ll apologize. All done.

What a shithead, or, in the original German, scheißkopf.

Tireless in working evil, that’s these people. It’s awful just to hear their voices, let alone try to listen to them, or understand them. Because if you do that, you risk getting sucked in…