During yesterday's White House press conference, spokeswoman Dana Perino kept with her pattern of impatience for triviality with the White House press corps. Some excerpts:

MS. PERINO: Helen, can you please let me finish?

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MS. PERINO: I know you don't come around very often, missed a few things.

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MS. PERINO: I'm going to move on.

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MS. PERINO: John, I don't know.

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MS. PERINO: No, I don't know her.

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MS. PERINO: Paula, we have gone through this so many times, I'm just -- I don't have anything to add to the public record.