Local news delivers again with this excruciatingly awkward confrontation between a hospital flack and a San Francisco ABC News reporter. In three minutes, PR guy Mark Salvin attempts to fend off reporter Dan Noyes' questions with repeated gentle touches

KGO-TV says "The hospital's director of community relations gave us some of the strangest treatment we've ever seen." But there's a reason they called Salvin "The Reporter Whisperer" at Flack Community College.
Look for Robert Gibbs to start patting Helen Thomas on the shoulder 28 times at the next White House presser when she asks about Afghanistan. (via HuffPo)