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Did Obama Diss Fox's Major Garrett at His News Conference?

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By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

He got called on at Tuesday's prime-time press conference, so President Obama probably doesn't hate Fox News Channel's Major Garrett. But the president does have a major—lowercase—tic when it comes to Garrett's name. When reading from a cheat sheet Tuesday, he called out "Major Garrett," but that was shortened to Garrett when Obama looked at the newsman for a follow-up. Then yesterday, Obama referred to the reporter in a face-to-face event as "Garrett." After Major told him his first name, the prez said choosing Garrett was "a sign of affection." And Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs tells Garrett he was a first with a presidential nickname. Says Major: "I told Gibbs I would take 'Garrett' happily because [White House Chief of Staff] Rahm Emanuel probably has a less friendly one for me."

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hotel tunesien buchen of 1:02AM April 21, 2010

The White House announcement of a nuclear treaty negotiated with Russia had a clear Garrett Diss. The negotiated Agreement cuts stocks of nuclear missiles by one-third with plenty of trust but verify ( Reagan term ) and restarts ( Bush jab ) US-Russia relationship to better cooperate in avoiding nukes getting into hands of terrorists, Iran and controlling North Korea. Brilliant politics for this reason

Hillary and Gates were up at the podium answering questions for at least 20 minutes. When Major Garrett (or whatever his name is) from FOX asked his question, Hillary called upon her Undersecretary to answer the question. She had just come back from Russia and was standing up front to the side but you could tell that she was prepared, no matter what the question (it had nothing to do with having just been in Russia and was of a general nature that should have been answered by Hillary) no matter what the question the plan was to hand off the FOX question to the Undersecretary. He looked like a fool who was essentially blocked access to the press conference.

Brilliant!

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