It turns out that your Jake Tappers and Chuck Todds are in the minority when it comes to White House correspondents. Upwards of 98 percent of the people attending the White House’s daily press briefings are nutballs who don’t even write for news organizations and love to steal Politico’s chair. These insane people just like to hang out there, because it feels like “family” or “home” to them, spending hours in this cramped, low-ceilinged little bunker with Helen Thomas. MORE »

Last night the McCain folks were handing out press credentials with a ridiculous bereted Frenchman on them, we are not sure why, but that dude looks suspiciously like the mustachioed sophisticate who appeared in our own “The Foreigns” column, which ran back when there was still international news and our columnist was not a Jeopardy! celebrity.

Commenter “Underclassed” asks, “Are the McCain people Josh Fruhlinger fans? Or do they just know how to run a Google Image Search for ‘French Guy?’” The point is, both the McCain campaign and Wonkette find the same random photo of a Frenchman funny, the end. [Photo via Marc Ambinder]