21.   Instead, a government press center presents journalists with daily briefings that detail the successes of the Russian tactics.

22.   It is a vow they have repeated, including Tuesday at the daily Pentagon press briefing.

23.   Last month in The Hague, Netherlands, as he was delivering his daily briefing at the U.N. climate conference, a protester hit him with a cream pie.

24.   Likewise, White House press secretary Michael McCurry pretended to don a muzzle at his daily briefing and refused to comment.

25.   McCurry was equally dismissive at his daily White House briefing.

26.   Meanwhile, back at the press center, McCurry began his daily briefing with reporters hungry for news.

27.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has often viewed reporters as pests who could not be exterminated, nonetheless has honored the daily briefing.

28.   McCurry appeared at his daily briefing Wednesday armed for a question about comparisons to Watergate.

29.   On Thursday, Rumsfeld said the dynamics of daily briefings could result in a misplaced focus on issues he considered tangential.

30.   Reporters and war correspondents made the daily military briefings look foolish.