Aside from the 'Where will we attack today' questions that reporters ask of our military commanders, this has to be the stupidest press question I've ever heard. Yesterday on the radio, I heard a reporter ask Secretary Rumsfeld about discrepencies in reporting on the war effort. The reporter told Rumsfeld that the reports that Gen. Franks was giving conflicted with the reports the New York Times was giving. Rummy humorously responded that he was much more likely to believe General Franks report than the New York Times.

If I were in his shoes, I don't think my response would have been that civil.