Remember ‘Baghdad Bob,’ the Iraqi Press Minister charged with insisting to the global media that the walls of Saddam Hussein’s golden palace weren’t crumbling around him even as a U.S.-led military coalition was pounding the country? Yeah, we all do; a bomb could have gone off in the middle of that man’s press conference, and he would have claimed it was just some local goats who were especially flatulent.
Although Baghdad Bob is long gone, RNC Chair Reince Priebus seems to be channeling some of his more creative approaches to press questions.