Did Dana Milbank Call Nico Pitney a D!ck? Howard Kurtz Looks at the Tape

(7/5/09) Howard Kurtz examines the tape to see what Dana Milbank muttered to Nico Pitney during an interlude between segments on Reliable Sources.

On a more important note, Kurtz concludes that Nico Pitney "asked the President a perfectly legitimate question, but he's sort of splitting hairs, he did orchestrate things with the White House and should just own up to it. Dana Milbank was a little harsh in his criticism, since Pitney's question was no softball, but Pitney's suggestion that my Washington Post colleague rolled over for President Bush is just wrong."

Video: CNN's "Reliable Sources" w/ Howard Kurtz

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[kennkweder]

Its pretty obvious the President did not know what question Nico was going to ask, even if the President knew he was going to call on Nico. From what I understand, the Huffington Post does not have a regular seat at the press corp, so Nico's creative use of the internet field research was a likely factor in the invitation to sit for a question.