Chris Wallace was as incredulous as you’ll be when you hear White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs try to spin Massachusetts’ election of Scott Brown.
Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present one minute and twenty-five seconds of lunacy.
Chris Wallace was as incredulous as you’ll be when you hear White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs try to spin Massachusetts’ election of Scott Brown.
Has there ever been a White House press secretary as smarmy as this guy?
The whole “jobs created or saved” storyline created by the White House was silly to begin with. But it becomes even funnier when Obama sends his advisors out to talk it up on the Sunday talk shows and they quote wildly different numbers.
The whole “jobs created or saved” storyline created by the White House was silly to begin with. But it becomes even funnier when Obama sends his advisors out to talk it up on the Sunday talk shows and they quote wildly different numbers.
Politico.com reports:
The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill.”
Valerie Jarrett had the most conservative count, saying “the Recovery Act saved thousands and thousands of jobs,” while David Axelrod gave the bill the most credit, saying it has “created more than – or saved more than 2 million jobs.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs came in between them, saying the plan had “saved or created 1.5 million jobs.”
We know three jobs that shouldn’t be saved and never should have been created.
Source: Politico.com
Robert Gibbs, the Smarmiest Press Secretary In History, scoffs at the president’s plunging poll numbers and warns reporters that an over-reliance on the daily polls is “unproductive.”
Robert Gibbs, the Smarmiest Press Secretary In History, scoffs at the president’s plunging poll numbers and warns reporters that an over-reliance on the daily polls is “unproductive.”
Absolutely correct. Those daily polls are just snapshots in time that prove nothing. What we should all be looking at are monthly numbers. They’re the ones that prove the real trends.
Uh-oh.
Rasmussen reports Obama’s ominous decline:
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
The president’s Approval Index ratings fell three points in December following two-point declines in both October and November.
We’re tempted to say the President is on a roller coaster ride, but roller coasters go up once in a while.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
This speech may truly have been unprecedented. Because it may be the first time one speech was able to piss off liberals who don’t want to fight the war and conservatives who actually want to win the war.
Way back on October 27, 2007 Candidate Obama told his supporters, “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.”
This week, December 1, 2009, he promised to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Of course, it’ll take nine months to get them there and he also promised to begin bringing them home as soon as they all arrive.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will undoubtedly tell us that President Obama’s actions are unprecedented, because that’s this administration’s favorite word.
But this speech may truly have been unprecedented. Because it may be the first time one speech was able to piss off liberals who don’t want to fight the war and conservatives who actually want to win the war.
And you can take that to the bank.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
Thursday a reporter had the temerity, the nerve, the gall, to repeatedly ask Robert Gibbs what White House party planner Desiree Rogers was doing during the state dinner. Was she working at the party or was she attending the party?
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is at his best (or worst) when being dismissive of anyone daring to criticize The Greatest President In History.
Thursday a reporter had the temerity, the nerve, the gall, to repeatedly ask Gibbs what White House party planner Desiree Rogers was doing during the state dinner. Was she working at the party or was she attending the party?
A clearly perturbed Gibbs finally said “Just take a deep breath” and compared her to his children. It was over the top even for Gibbs – so condescending that the rest of the assembled press corp to let loose with an audible “Ooooh.”
Gibbs then threatened to send her to bed without dinner and cut off her allowance.
Source: Hot Air
– Written by Patrick Michael
Global warming emails? What global warming emails? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is sticking with the scientists. Even if the scientists are lying sacks of excrement.
Global warming emails? What global warming emails? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is sticking with the scientists. Even if the scientists are lying sacks of excrement.
ABC’s Jake Tapper askes the White House’s Robert Gibbs about their calling Fox News “not a news organization.”
ABC’s Jake Tapper and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at this morning’s White House press conference:
Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –
(Crosstalk)
Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say –
Gibbs: ABC –
Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?
Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?
Gibbs: That’s our opinion.
If only Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly could be more like others on at those hours, like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews. Now those are news programs!
Source: Political Punch
Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Safe Schools Czar, heaped praise on Harry Hay, the founder of NAMBLA (the National Man/Boy Love Association). He also declined to report a statutory rape to authorities.
Slimier and slimier.
Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Safe Schools Czar, heaped praise on Harry Hay, the founder of NAMBLA (the National Man/Boy Love Association). He also declined to report a statutory rape to authorities.
Is poor judgment to blame? No. Temporary insanity? No. White house Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the latest White House scandal is the fault of…get ready…here it comes…Fox News.
“Its a shame,” Gibbs said with despair. “I hope people watch what they (FOX News) do.”
For once, Mr. Gibbs, we agree with you. It’ll be a pity if people don’t watch Fox News coverage of this story.
Source: Gateway Pundit
So which is it, gentlemen? Are the Nazi mobs working class and elderly or are they preppies wearing $2000 Brooks Brothers suits?
“My sense of the teabaggers is more complicated: they are primarily working-class, largely rural and elderly white people.”
– Joe Klein, Time Magazine
Source: Time.com
“…the Brooks Brothers Brigade in Florida in 2000, appear to have rented a similar bus and are appearing together at town hall meetings throughout the country.”
– Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com
So which is it, gentlemen? Are the Nazi mobs working class and elderly or are they preppies wearing $2000 Brooks Brothers suits?
It seemed for one brief moment on Sunday that White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was holding out the Olive Branch from President Obama when he said on CNN, “President Obama does not think opposition to him is racially motivated, a claim made in Maureen Dowd’s Sunday column.”
It seemed for one brief moment on Sunday that White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was holding out the Olive Branch from President Obama when he said on CNN, “President Obama does not think opposition to him is racially motivated, a claim made in Maureen Dowd’s Sunday column.”
If only Gibbs had stopped there. But CNN’s John King pushed for more and asked the press secretary about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
“After playing a tape of Obama saying death panels are “a lie, plain and simple,” King asked, “Does the president believe that Sarah Palin is a liar?”
“Despite many media outlets saying that what former Governor Palin was saying wasn’t true, she continued to say it,” Gibbs responded. “I’ll let Webster define what one calls her. I think in the absence of fact… sometimes what happens is we fill the void with stuff that quite frankly isn’t true.” He said Obama helped fill that void in his speech Wednesday night.
It’s unfortunate, but not unsurprising, that King never thought to ask, “Why was the health care bill modified to remove end of life counseling if it could not be misconstrued as death panels?”
Let us fill in the void that Gibb’s answer would create “Ummmmmmmmmm.”
Source: Politico.com
– Written by Patrick Michael
Numerous readers have written to tell that out of no where they have received emails from the White House or officials in the Obama administration. One person told us he received a threatening email from David Axelrod. Tell us your story.
Numerous readers have written to tell that out of no where they have received emails from the White House or officials in the Obama administration. One person told us he received a threatening email from David Axelrod. We are very interested in hearing your stories; please post them in the comments section. Tell us content, the sending domain/email, the signature, date, and if you are you on any White House mailing lists? We are not interested in forwarded emails.
Given the extreme arrogance of Robert Gibbs, as you can see in the video of his exchange with Fox News correspondent Major Garrett, we expect to get an email of our own. Maybe a phone call. Maybe a visit.
A reporter asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if President Obama will stand by his campaign pledge to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000.
Gibbs hemmed and hawed, stuttered and stammered and finally said, “the question is hypothetical.” When that didn’t placate the reporter, he went with “we are going to let the process work it’s way through.” Reporters actually laughed at him. Not with him, mind you, but at him.
Remember that scene at the end of The Graduate where Dustin Hoffman breaks up Katherine Ross’ wedding and the two of them are sitting in the back of the bus? Instead of looking joyful because he got the girl, a slight look of terror creeps across his face as he realizes he doesn’t really know her.
We picture that same look creeping across reporters’ faces at the White House on Monday after one of them asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if President Obama will stand by his campaign pledge to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000.
Gibbs hemmed and hawed, stuttered and stammered and finally said, “the question is hypothetical.” When that didn’t placate the reporter, he went with “we are going to let the process work it’s way through.”
Reporters actually laughed at him. Not with him, mind you, but at him.
“Oh, crap,” the press corps thought as that Dustin Hoffman look crept across their collective faces, “Maybe we shouldn’t have eloped with this Obama guy.”
H/T: BluegrassPundit.com
The same clever technique used by the White House to save or create 150,000 jobs will now be used to save or create $50 billion in prescription drug cost cuts. In other words, they’re creating it out of thin air.
The same clever technique used by the White House to save or create 150,000 jobs will now be used to save or create $50 billion in prescription drug cost cuts. In other words, they’re creating it out of thin air.
When asked, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs couldn’t explain $50 billion of the $80 billion in savings promised by the White House.
Gibbs said $30 billion will be saved via price reductions on brand-name prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries who find themselves into the so-called coverage “donut hole.”
But that remaining $50 billion? Well, that’s a bit murkier. He said it will come from “unspecified and unknown” changes to drug costs linked to Medicare and Medicaid.
“They’re still continuing to work through some of the details on that,” Gibbs said with a straight face. “Some portion of this is going to go to the pharmaceutical interest — industry, making good on the savings proposals that the president has outlined to make health care more efficient, which will impact the amount that the government pays.”
We are highly trained medical experts here at IHateTheMedia.com, so we consider it our patriotic duty to explain these things:
The remaining $50 billion will be saved via cost reductions on the snake oil this administration is selling.
Source: FoxNews.com
Joe Biden gushed about New York Governor David Patterson at a Democrat fundraiser on Tuesday.
“Your once and future governor of the state of New York has been extremely generous to Barack and me and has been a major part of us trying to put this economy back together.”
Everyone – and we mean everyone – interpreted the Veep’s words as a strong endorsement for the highly unpopular governor. However, Democrat New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is handily ahead of Patterson in all the polls.
When Biden realized he’d backed a loser, he un-gushed. Why, much to everyone’s surprise, Biden said his words were not an endorsement.
“It was a statement of friendship and admiration for the governor,” his spokesman insisted, “and was not intended as a political statement.”
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs wanted nothing to do with the controversy.
“I have not seen the remarks,” he ducked. “But let me go see if I can find that and see what the context is.”
The context is simple: Joe Biden makes Dan Quayle look like Albert Einstein.
Source: New York Post
Smarmy, condescending Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may want to reconsider his recent attacks on the British Press. Because these guys kick butt and take names. Especially if the name is Gibbs.
Just take a look at this scathing column by James Delinpole of the Telegraph UK:
Memo to Obama attack dog Robert Gibbs: stop pooping on our lawn
Memo to US Press secetary Robert Gibbs
1. Congratulations. Your presidential regime has managed to secure the most supine, slobbering, spineless, unquestioning media coverage since Enver Hoxha’s Albania. A report last month by the Center for Media and Public Affairs said Obama has received more coverage than his two predecessors combined. On ABC, CBS and NBC news the majority of evaluations – 58 per cent – have been favourable. (Compare GW Bush – 33 per cent; Bill Clinton 44 per cent – in first 50 days of office). More importantly, you have Pravda. Yes, no less than 73 per cent of all evaluative comments in your chief propaganda organ – aka The New York Times – have been favourable to Obama.
2. Sure your congenitally libtard Mainstream Media were probably biased that way anyway, but you have played your part. Your combative style – which led you to dismiss the entire British print media just now in one glib, sneering phrase – has earned you the nickname “The Enforcer.” You have a reputation for coming down hard on any media outlet which doesn’t follow your approved version of reality. “I work the referee a little bit,” as you once put it. (A reference, perhaps, to when you played goalkeeper for your college football team).
3. If you are going to make clever-sounding football references displaying your rich understanding of the British press, try to get your terminology right. We call it the “Champions League.” Not the “Champions League cup.”
4. That’s only the beginning of your problems, matey. Your treatment not just of the British media but of Britain generally smacks of a risible ineptitude. First, you let President Obama send back the Winston Churchill bust. Then, you insult our visiting prime minister with a dismally low-key reception (worthy of a minor African head of state, not your closest and most loyal ally) and shoddy gifts (those DVDs). Then you compound the insult by having one of your monkeys declare, Chicago-politics-style, “”There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.” OK so we know Obama’s not much interested in foreign affairs and has a special loathing for Britain because it roughed up his Kenyan granddad during the Mau Mau insurrection. But don’t you realise, that one of your jobs as his press secretary is to make out like he loves us so much even his underpants have a union flag on them?
5. Insulting the British print media. Big mistake. We know we’re not angels. We know we can go over the top sometimes. But unfortunately that’s a much bigger problem for you than it is for us. You see, while a lot of your mainstream media will hold fire on stories which they think may reflect poorly on your wondrous Obamamessiah – what his half-brother has been up to, say – we have fewer qualms about telling it like it is. So far, you’ve had a pretty easy ride. The Obama Kool Aid has proved almost as popular beverage in Britain as it is in the US. But just you wait till we start showing our teeth.
6. A lot of Americans know this. They appreciate our irreverence. They enjoy our frank criticisms of all the myriad areas where Obama is getting it so badly wrong – everything from his disastrous cap and trade measures, to his brutal treatment of Chrysler dealerships which didn’t support him, to his pork barrelling, to his failure to do anything that looks remotely like rescuing the US economy. That’s why they come to read us online: because they can and there’s nothing you can do to stop them.
7. We had a guy just like you over here once. Guy named Alastair Campbell. Did for our now heavily discredited prime minister Tony Blair what you do for Obama: a little light press bullying; professional turd polishing; that kind of thing. We hated Alastair Campbell, really loathed him. But he got away with bullying us because in those days we didn’t know any better. We were still going through this sort of dumb-cattle phase where we still had some vestigial respect for politicians and trust that they knew what they were doing.
8. But we don’t respect politicians any more. Not our politicians, and not yours either. Imagine how this new strain of irreverence bordering on utter contempt is going to affect our reporting of political affairs. Actually, you’ve no need to imagine. Just read some of our Telegraph blogs.
Our congratulations to Robert Gibbs, the first press secretary capable of pissing off the press of our closest ally.
Source: Telegraph UK
A reporter asks this simple question: “Can you tell us how much the President and First Lady’s ‘date night’ cost on Saturday night? And if not, why not?”
What follows is more than a minute of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stuttering, stammering, and changing the subject.
Behold a few rare moments of candor from ABC’s Jake Tapper and the Examiner’s Julie Mason. They explain that Robert Gibbs is known as “The Gibnotist” for his ability to bore the hell out of people who are paid to listen to him speak.
“People have actually fallen asleep in his briefings,” Tapper says.
This may explain the increasingly contentious relationship between Gibbs and the press: They’re not fighting with him. They’re fighting to stay awake.
Source: Breitbart.tv
Press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to tap dance around a question yesterday, but in a major surprise, the press didn’t let him get away with it.
AP reporter Jennifer Loven and ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed Gibbs to explain why President Obama bragged about saving $100 million in his proposed budget when he had downplayed $8 billion in earmark spending several weeks ago.
It wasn’t pretty. Gibbs eventually adopted the strategy of talking and talking and talking until everyone forgot what the question was.
Source: ABC News via RealClearPolitics.com
You’re the press secretary for the most powerful man on the planet. You’re in the middle of the greatest financial crisis in generations. Terrorists threaten the future of the world. Under the circumstances, people hang on your every word.
Unless you’re Robert Gibbs, the president’s press secretary. He smirks, he snarls, he smears, but even that isn’t enough to keep reporters from falling into deathlike trances during his daily press briefings.
One member of the White House press corps actually fell asleep yesterday. You can see her over the left shoulder of the reporter asking the question in this video.
It’s still a bit of a mystery who the heavy-lidded journalist may have been, but press corps observers say it appears to be Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Meckler, who is pregnant.
Our first inclination is to say, “Cut her some slack. She’s pregnant.” But upon further reflection, we’d like to amend that to, “Cut her some slack. She was listening to Robert Gibbs.”
Source: WJNO Radio and Gawker
Last week we witnessed the sad spectacle of the president’s press secretary attacking Rick Santelli, a reporter who made the mistake of disagreeing with part of the president’s “stimulus” plan.
“This is a copy of the President’s home affordability plan,” Gibbs drawled. “It’s available on the White House web site, and I would encourage him (to) download it. Hit print, and begin to read it.
Santelli responded in an interview with Larry Kudlow. And he responded with all the passion of his earlier comments.
“The 92% of the Americans that are paying their loan on time,” Santelli said, “do you think there’s no pain there? These people are probably cutting back, their 401(k)s are down. It’s tough. Just because they’re making their payment and they’re current, doesn’t mean they’re not cutting back as well.
“Do we want to teach our children that you can get out of a mistake and that there are do-overs?” he asked. “I just don’t think that’s American. And I read it and guess what? I still don’t like it.”
We don’t know what Robert Gibbs wants to teach his children. But we’d suggest he use part of his substantial salary to hire them a math tutor so they don’t end up as bad with numbers as their old man.
The Obama administration has been hiring journalists left and right. But Rick Santelli probably shouldn’t bother sending over his resume.
At a White House press conference today, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked for the president’s reaction to Santelli’s outburst on the floor of the Chicago commodities exchange yesterday. Two things stood out about his answer.
First he said everyone at the White House got a good laugh out of it.
Then he concluded his longer remarks by saying, “I’m sure Mr. Santelli doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
Every time Obama announces more of his “stimulus” program, the stock market plunges anew, announcing rather clearly that Wall Street thinks it’s Mr. Obama who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
UPDATE (4:15PM PST): Continue reading “Obama press secretary misses mood of country, disses Rick Santelli”
