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...Muslims were shot dead by a posse of gunmen while praying at the al-Furqan mosque in Narathiwat province. Official speculation first centered on Muslim radicals turning against their own. Later, though, police issued an arrest warrant for a Buddhist militiaman from the neighboring village, where a rubber tapper had been killed the day before...
...follow-ups, repeatedly insisting that the President respond to their queries. Two veterans of the briefing room, Politico's Mike Allen and Hearst's Helen Thomas, shouted questions to the President out of order, which he did not answer (and did not appear to appreciate). And ABC News' Jake Tapper compared the President to the Star Trek character Spock...
...question about his smoking habit with a discussion of its policy implications. "I think it's fair, Margaret, to just say that you just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being relevant to my new law," Obama chided. The President accused Tapper of playing "ombudsman" for pointing out that the President had declined to answer the third question of another reporter, USA Today's David Jackson, about health care. (Read "Obama's Three-Part Case on Iran...
...tone of the exchanges never became hostile, but it did have a sporting feeling to it, as if the press had suddenly found itself on a basketball court, exchanging teasing taunts with the President. "You're pitching. I'm catching," Obama said to Tapper after he compared Obama's thinking to that of a Vulcan. "The reference to Spock - is that a crack on my ears?" Tapper assured him it was not. When Bloomberg's Hans Nichols asked the President to predict the peak of the unemployment rate, the President smiled again, as if he was dodging a bad pass...
...Weber, a former ballet dancer and a professional tapper since 1986, remarked in an interview that Oppenheimer was a “great student...