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Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall asks if it seemed odd that White House press secretary Scott McClellan got the heave-ho without a replacement ready to step in.

Not really. There are two likely reasons. First, you could just hang a pinata or a punching bag in the White House press room and get the same effect these days. Second, it creates a gap of indeterminate length where there's no one to talk to the press corps, and the Bush administration can't possibly view that as a bad thing. I'd expect Helen Thomas and what's-his-name from NBC to be twiddling their thumbs for a week or more, just out of White House spite.

Olbermann, reporting on the change last night, said that McClellan "would not be not answering the press' questions anymore," which was an obvious joke, but still gave me a chuckle. Haven't seen the Daily Show's treatment yet, if they even got to it last night.