Remember Welcome Back, Mr. Kotter's Arnold Horshack, with his hand in the air hoping his teacher Mr. Kotter would look his way? That must be what the White House press corps is like these days now that their best friend Barack Obama isn't at the podium any more.

According to Grabien, the mainstream media is apoplectic that President Trump has not called on them for three press conferences in a row, preferring instead to call The Christian Broadcast Network and Townhall.com:

After Trump avoided calling on MSNBC during today's presser with Benjamin Netanyahu, MSNBC’s Peter Alexander complained that the conservative journalists he did call on didn’t ask “real questions” like he would have. 

“What was striking," Alexander said, was that "President Trump, again, called on a series of more conservative leaning news organizations which didn’t allow for any real questions, trying to zero in on this issue of Mike Flynn, the now former national security advisor."

Wonder what the definition of "real journalist" is to Alexander, who works for perhaps the most hyperbolically liberal channel on television. MSNBC, as you may remember, is the channel on which Rachel Maddow likened Trump's election to Hitler's rise and Chris Matthews described Trump's speech as "Hitlerian." 

ABC's Matthew Dowd accused Trump of "shutting down" the First Amendment, demonstrating a tremendous misunderstanding of what that amendment actually says. Hey Matthew, here's a reminder:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Note that the First Amendment says nothing about how news organizations can report on unsubstantiated rumors -- as ABC has unapologetically done to Trump -- without repercussion.  

In other words, the Constitution doesn't say reporters have a right to be called on by the President of the United States at a news conference. But maybe instead of whining and complaining to each other, they should look soberly at their institutions and ask whether they've acted responsibly as government watchdogs.

You don't have to be Arnold Horshack to know the answer to that question.