'Their plan has holes': Somebody's missing from WH's 'doughnut damage control' with press corps

Doug P. | 1:34 PM on May 11, 2016

Another Obama administration 'apology tour'. https://t.co/K0qyzIxxhv

— Andrew Beatty (@AndrewBeatty) May 11, 2016

Obama aide Ben Rhodes ridiculed the press in a New York Times magazine profile in which he’s quoted as saying the White House used the media to peddle their lies about the Iran deal:

The aide, who is 38, dismissed the D.C. press corps as a group of puppets who lack the expertise necessary to cover major foreign policy debates.

“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” Rhodes told the magazine. “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo.”

He said the average reporter the White House talks to “is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”

That isn’t anything the White House thinks can’t be fixed with a box of doughnuts!

Doughnut damage control. WH Chief of Staff @Denis44 makes rare press room visit with doughnuts. @PressSec too.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 11, 2016

Josh Earnest declined to be photographed holding a box of doughnuts but here is evidence of Press Appreciation Day-> pic.twitter.com/1tHo6bQX1g

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 11, 2016

I can't afford to eat those anymore. My metabolism isn't what it was when I was 27 and clueless https://t.co/OK24fOs5UZ

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) May 11, 2016

Gee, why didn’t Earnest & McDonough bring somebody else with them?

"We appreciate what you do," McDonough told the press. "You should have brought Ben Rhodes," suggested a snarky, bearded reporter.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 11, 2016