Great snark and snide by Dana Perino today:

Q What does the President think of Karl Rove being a columnist?

MS. PERINO: Well, I think that he misses his friend Karl and wishes him the best.

Q A journalist, I mean.

MS. PERINO: What do you think of that? That would be a more interesting –

Q I think it’s terrible. (Laughter.)

Q Don’t hold back. (Laughter.)

MS. PERINO: Right. It would be shocking to know a journalist that had an opinion that they would express.

Bulls-eye!  We like that response.  Plenty of facts to back up the zinger — particularly given the following exchange earlier in the gaggle (we’ve bolded the exculpatory evidence).

MS. PERINO: I think that Americans have seen what our troops have been able to do this year, in trying — is starting to turn things around in Iraq. We’ve got a long way to go, but they have started to make some significant gains, and to pull the rug out from under them now seems to be — seems irresponsible.

Q To keep killing you mean.

MS. PERINO: Helen, every — the security situation in Baghdad is vastly improved, because of what our troops have been able to do, working alongside of the Iraqis. I can’t imagine that they would not want to fund these troops before they go home for Christmas.

(Fishbowl has the Rove exchange, too.)