White House Spokesbot Tangos with Press

Josh Marshall has posted one of those telling examples of a press conference where reporters actually try to ask salient questions, only to watch Scott McClellan dance back and forth on one foot or another, tango around Helen Thomas, and generally try not to answer anything definitively on Iraq, Osama and al Qaeda, Geneva Conventions, the outing of Valerie Plame, and that our tax-paid NSA lawyers were used to dig up dirt on Richard Clarke to deflect his criticism of Bush and the WH war machine.

If you like fancy dance steps, it's a lot of fun. If you're looking for honesty and accountability from elected officials, it just makes you ill.