A White House Report, Courtesy of ‘Bills and Brews’
October 23, 2014 — originally published in The New York Times
A rather irreverent White House pool report just arrived in our inbox, written by Matt Laslo, a freelance reporter who covers Congress and founded “Bills and Brews,” which is a website that promises “a chance to get to know lawmakers, their regions and craft breweries.”
We thought it odd when one report’s subject line was “Rockefeller ya’all!”, but his fifth report really caught our attention.
POTUS left the Rockefeller’s fundraising round table at 5:45. Sen. Rockefeller and a lady wearing a massive string of pearls (believed to be the senator’s wife) saw POTUS off at the door.
POTUS does not seem to have changed outfits while inside. And no bulging envelopes of cash could be spotted from the pool.
No response from DNC to the question I asked that’s on everyone’s mind: “Any word on how many times he said ‘Mitch McConnell’ in there?”
We also have no word on whether POTUS drank any craft beer in there, though West Virginia has some good local brews.
Now that the pool knows what real money looks like (from the outside at least), we’re going back to the cramped press room at the White House to question why we ever became journalists and not, well, Rockefellers.
Motorcade rolling at 5:46.
Mr. Laslo’s reports were part of in-town pool duty, which is on a strict rotation. He is listed as being on the board of the Regional Reporters Association and has contributed to National Public Radio and several national publications.
The original New York Times write-up can be found here.