Whack-a-Mole

Jeff Gannon/James Guckert has decided the heady excitement of asking questions at White House press gaggles isn't worth the mean things that Democratic political bloggers are saying about him. So the position of "fake reporter who gets Scott McClellan out of embarassing holes by pitching softballs" is open.

Then again, maybe it isn't. Atrios points us to evidence in Wednesday's White House press gagle, ferretted out by Holden, posting at First Draft, that quite possibly another mole has turned up in the White House press corps. One of Holden's commenters pointed out, You have to wonder how many of these ringers they have stored in the basement.

Skippy's pal Cookie Jill points us to American Idle, who in turn warns us that it could be easy indeed to find replacements as the moles successively get whacked: