President Barack Obama added to his ongoing media connections today, meeting with a gathering of political pundits at the White House, this just after his Tuesday address to the nation and another such gathering since the BP gusher began weeks ago.

“Presumably, the Gulf crisis was a major topic of discussion, but little has leaked out so far about specifics of the hourlong lunch,” Yahoo's Michael Calderone writes. “Even though White House reporters noticed the group leaving -- and tweeted about it! -- attendees are sticking to the off-the-record ground rules and keeping quiet.

“It'd be interesting to know what Obama may have thought of Maddow's fake presidential address Wednesday night, in which the MSNBC host laid out what she thinks he should have said on Tuesday. But when reached by Yahoo! News, Maddow declined to comment."