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On Friday morning, President Obama delivered another press conference in the Brady Briefing Room to talk about the contentious negotiations over raising the debt limit. Presidential pressers in the briefing room offer a completely different dynamic from a more formal East Room press conference. They’re more crowded, with a looser, on-our-turf atmosphere. Here’s a glimpse of some of what you didn’t see on TV.

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While the BP oil spill garnered the most attention during President Obama‘s press conference today, a number of other pressing issues came up as well, namely, the passing of a controversial immigration law. When asked if he would support a boycott of Arizona, he indicated that, while he understood the frustration of the people of Arizona, he thought the law was the wrong approach, also adding, “I’m President of the United States, I don’t endorse boycotts.

There was a report in US News, yesterday, that has different corners of the blogosphere going at the White House Press Corps like ‘roid-raged 5th graders at a pinata. The criticism centers, not around the corps’ threat of a “more adversarial tone” with the Obama White House, but around the reasons for it: Print reporters [...]