Watching Scotty Blow

Chuuby-faced liar Scott McClellan doesn't like it when the press questions his boss. According to this report at Washingtonian magazine's online site, Scotty almost blew his stack when Helen Thomas asked whether Bush was performing mandatory community service in his TANG days:

Thomas had gotten a tip that Bush might have been absent from duty in Alabama because he was performing court-ordered community service in Texas in 1972. She asked McClellan if that was accurate.

According to reporters in the press room, McClellan got red-faced and became so angry, it looked to some as if he were ready to pounce. He characterized the question as coming from "gutter politics."

Thomas, who has covered every president since Dwight Eisenhower and now writes a column for Hearst, was not fazed. "I think they are getting pretty nervous about this," she said Friday afternoon. "I've learned over the years that when you put out records, it often leads to more questions."

Give'm hell, Helen.