He apologized to NBC’s David Gregory.
Make no mistake about it. You don’t often see White House press spokemen apologize. This will earn him some extra points with the White House press corps, although it won’t stop them from asking tough questions of him and clashing with him in the future.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.