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Wow, even Helen Thomas is turning against Gibbs and The One.
The (media) natives are getting restless…finally
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Kevin July 1st, 2009 – 3:33 pm
Wow, even Helen Thomas is turning against Gibbs and The One.
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I was also shocked.
GIBBS DONT KNOW WHAT HE IS EVEN DOING HE TRIED TO LAUGH THAT OFF BUT I THINK EVEN THE BEND OVER PRESS IS GETT SICK OF ALL THE STUPID ONES IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Doubleplus Good!
Helen must have forgot Bush is no longer in the White House.
TO ERIC THEY ALL JUST WISH BUSH WAS BACK AND ALL THE STUPID COWARDS THATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE WAS OUT SOME WHERE ELSE
I can’t believe Robert Gibbs would treat a little old lady like he did!
Of course, the more Gibbs uses that left-wing/liberal snotty/snarky “I’m smarter than you” attitude on the press…the more they’re going to go after him (and Barry).
Time to turn up the heat American Press.
Dis is how we roll in Chi.
Give Gibbs a break. He’s just doing his job.
His method may not be as smooth as it could be, but he does a great job as PS. Especially considering, he knows it’s all falling apart and he’s the one that has to run interference for the President.
Bear in mind, if Robert Gibbs quits (which he will sooner rather than later), that’s when you know the administration has reached the edge of “the cliff”, and things are about to take the BIG PLUNGE.
Was the “attack” pre-planned?
Gibbs is so arrogant and pretentious. He never answers questions; he evades and laughs them off as ridiculous.
WELL IT IS ABOUT TIME, AMERICA!
Gibbs Arrogant??? NAHH more like a dufus masquerading as a Donkey.. actually a wanna be Obama Oratorial Splendiferous INEPT…
Wonderful!
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The veil is slowing being lifted.
If anything ever happens to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, perhaps “Baghdad Bob” could fill in for him. No one could tell the difference.
Send in the Clowns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CAX3aJCoDg
The Fascist group is out of control. Since when did we put up with is crap.
Start a revolution
If the attack was not pre-planned, I must add: Bravo to Chip Reid and Helen Thomas!
Wow! Even the bootlicking media is questioning “The One”. Things are crumbling for the Narcissist in Chief sooner than we expected!
even the hag gets it@#$%^&*
Censorship is next. This Adminsitration will not stand for dissenting views or opinions. Where is the “change” the American people were promised?
It took Helen Thomas this long to realize every appearance by Obama, since the start of the campaign is a carefully staged and choreographed production? Come on Helen, wake up. I will give her credit for pressing the question though. Does anyone think for a minute Obama will take impromptu questions on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Honduras, Gitmo or try to explain the details of cap and trade and stimulus and bail outs and the steady decline of the economy after infusing billions into it? No, of course he’s not going to take impromptu questions because he doesn’t know how to answer them without a prepared response. Keep after it Helen.
He just answered everyone’s question when Gibbs said “I didn’t know you were going to ask a question”. What a fool and a sorry White House we have now!!
I just cannot wait until someone will ask Gibby to explain what exactly Obama means by TRANSPARENCY and ” Rule of LAW” since the Messiah seems to be Confused in their Meaning like Clinton was on ” IS”….That could be the Laugher of the Century!!!!
What would anyone expect from the Minister of Propaganda? Did you liberal idiots think there would be real change? Gibbs is a joke along with the rest of the liberal clowns. BUT, what would you have with McCain? About the same BS, different bovine.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Huckabee!
Yeah, and the Public Relations Society of America named him “PR practitioner of the year.”
Says a lot.
The arrogance of this administration and Gibbs is amazing. He doesn’t even see how pre-selecting questions is in anyway inappropriate, absolutely amazing. They truly believe we are to stupid to understand how what they are doing for us is for our own good, and we shouldn’t even question it. He is laughing at their inability to understand their reason for pre-selecting questions, and doesn’t even consider someones opposition to it. It’s not a GOP sore loser whine, or a Democratic whine you hear, it’s an American rumble, that is turning into a roar. Go to this site and enter your zip code, it will give you local people in your neighborhood that are just as upset about Obama as they were of Bush, that are doing things with your friends neighbors and local politicians to bring that change.
http://www.teapartyday.com/
Tony Snow is rolling in his grave.
Is Robert Gibbs one of the brothers that used sing with the Bee Gees?
I have never been a Helen Thomas fan….BUT…..You go girl! Gettum!
I think some in the press noticed how the ratings have been dropping.
and are looking to save THEIR jobs,
if only the sheep are watching,
TV only needs one reporter to tell them what the “Ministry of Truth” says.
Mr. Gibbs is going to need better survival skills than he exhibits currently. There is much rougher water ahead, and he’s not going to get away with his sarcastic and evasive answers forever.
As a canadian I am amazed that our media neighbors to the south allowed themselves to be used and controlled
by this new administration…. it has taken over 1 year for them to see through the smoke and mirrors.
It is starting now. We can only hope it is not too late when they finally do their jobs.
Did I just see the White House Press Corps actually doing their jobs!?!?!? HOLY &$#*!
Someone check the weather forcast in Hell! Is it snowing?
My mouth actually dropped when I heard Helen Thomas gives Gibbs a hard time and actually realize that so much of
Obama’s press is pre planned and being very tighly controlled.
Wake up people!!!!! They are stealing your country right out from under you!
It’s your country, they work for you!!!!
Wake the F up!
What a nonsensical propaganda speil- please.
If he’s “not afraid of the press”, it’s because he knows he owns them… and even treats them with arrogant contempt, ie- hectoring reporters to “not waste their question”, telling them when they’ve “got enough pictures”, and even to “get back on the bus” in Chicago- ouch.
But to imply he’s forthcoming with the media is pure fantasy- what about the latest presser, where he went down a list, calling on those who pre-submitted questions for his speechwriters to tackle with the appropriate spin, while Obama read the telepromter like an automaton?
How about how he hid Emanuel during the Blago blowup? Or how he never told us how Blago received his offers/non-offers… as heard on the tapes? Or said he never met with Blago to discuss the seat… when three news outlets and Larry Axelrod all said that he did Nov 5th-
How about his first week, when he got snotty with the press pool when they asked him a simple question… saying “I’m just here to say hi”- and putting his hand on the Politico journalist’s shoulder, scolding like he’s a teacher with a child?
Obama’s “friendliness” with the press is the same as his supposed “bipartisanship”– he’s have you over to dinner, and smile for a picture with you… as long as you go-along unquestioning with his misguided, far-left agenda… and don’t ask any uncomfortable questions… or call him on any of his numerous lies and historical revisionism.
I’m STUNNED absolutely STUNNED to see a CBS reporter actually ask a hard question to R.G. and then to have Helen Thomas join in! Now if these reporters will actually do the same thing to Obama is another matter. It would be interesting to see if they will jump off the script and ask Obama a question that was not on the teleprompter. Then, maybe I’ll believe that these guys aren’t just Obama sheep in reporter’s clothing.
The WH is doing their best to control their message – when Gibbs smuggly asks Chip Reid and Helen Thomas which question did they not like that was asked – he is running interference of the worst kind. The issue isn’t what questions were asked – the issue is what questions were not asked OR were given to them in hopes of being asked and then deemed “to tough to take” and not asked at all.
Just like listening to Congress and Obama discuss cap and trade-that thing was passed in the dead of night and with 300 pages added to it at the last minute that no one anywhere could’ve gotten through and made any sense of. If that thing is so good and necessary, it should be able to withstand the scrutiny of being set out in the light of day. Why was the EPA forced to hide or curtail evidence to the contrary of AGW? Conspircay theory??? I have no clue but this crap has got to stop.
Even an America-hating c-word like Helen Thomas can see that our Commie president is going too far.
I can’t bear to watch Gibbs. He’s a national disgrace. That boy doesn’t have a square to spare.
The whole campaign and Presidency have been “pre-packaged”. It’s a Presidency made by Hollywood! It’s just now that some members of the press are waking up from the coolaid drunk they have been on with Obama.The sooner more of America wakes to Obama’s actions, the better off all of us will be. He needs to lose the majority of Congress in 2010 and all of you moderates and right-leaning liberals need to vote out incumbent Dems to stop this community organizer from bankrupting America. Obama’s legacy will be: he was the worst Pres. in US history. Get out and vote against Dems!!!!!
It’s absolutely f’n disgusting what’s going on in this country, And I’m absolutely f’n disgusted with the americans that are blind to it.
It’s about time! My personal props to all reporters willing to stand up and take one for the team.
Please nobody tell Obama what comes after a ‘trillion’
Glad to see you guys finally realizing that Helen Thomas is one of the last of the “real” journalists. And for any of you conservatives who are feeling smug, I have two words: Jeff Gannon. Remember him? The gay prostitute posing as journalist who would lob cloying questions at Bush? I always found it interesting that the White House logs showed that he made hundreds of visits to the White House, but often there was no record of him checking out…hmmmmm.
Does anyone remember Bagdad Bob? Same job. Different dictator:
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
“I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad.”
“They’re not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any
place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion … they are
trying to sell to the others an illusion.”
“The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!”
“I now inform you that you are too far from reality”
The only thing missing at the townhall meetings are the “greek columns”. This is what the greek columns
should have warned us… we’re getting a “packaged” presidency, propaganda at a level that only Hitler, Stalin,
Mussolini, and a few other dictators have enjoyed. It all raises the important questions: “Why are they so
desparate to prop this man up?” “Why does this man so desperately need a Teleprompter?” “Where is the
transparancy we were promised?” “Can we believe anything we are seeing or hearing anymore?” “Isn’t this the
movie ‘Wag the Dog’ come to life?”
Why should we not be terribly afraid? Our government is supposed to represent us, but we have a government that
seems to be afraid of us, afraid of tough questions, afraid to speak openly without scripted teleprompters.
This is the first press conference I have watched involving Gibbs and I was livid at his arrogance and lack of ability to understand what the questioners were asking.
I knew it was going to get bad with Obama in the charge, but not this quickly.
It is almost like 1984.
Very sad day in America.
There goes Chip Reid’s seat.
I’ts about F—– time! People are finally catching on to what’s going on!!
Tony Snow would eat this guy’s lunch every day. In a game of intellect the game would be called off
Poor Gibbs, Obama’s acting gave it away.
He looks just like Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket..a slack jawed mouth breathing retard who laughs inappropriately and often and questions he doesn’t agree with in an attempt to obfuscate and demean the questioner. What a douchebag.
Yes, Yes, yes. Hopefully the media will begin to see what we hae been telling them for months. Obama is
a disaster as is Robert Gibbs. This wa a laughing scene.
Congratulations to Chip Reid and Helen Thomas. It is truly about time that the press treat this President and Press Secretary like all the others. This Administration forgot or never gave a damn to the fact that THEY WORK FOR US. Only the press and people with professional morals will ask the tough questions. The press has been full of robots and yes people for too long. To the press I say, take this example from Chip and Helen and run with it. Who knows more of us will buy your papers and turn our dials to your programs.
God Bless Tony Snow and Dana Perina. They were professionals. Robert Gibbs is a laughing stock.
More spin from the Obama-ites. I am soooo glad I never voted for this village idiot and his group of thugs. May you that did pay for his transgressions. I for one refuse to pay for his stupidity.
The problem here isn’t Robert Gibbs, it’s Barack Obama. Obama is doing such a lousy job vis-a-vis the media that Gibbs can’t even take the fall for it effectively. He’s trying to fall on the sword here but it’s obvious that this is Obama behind the scenes. Nobody is fooled in the press corps, or the public.
If you know the questions, then you can prepare your answers. It is a slippery slope arguement that if there are “dissenting” questions then it proves the questions aren’t controlled. Quite the oppisite if you know the tough questions are coming you can prepare slick answers. If you do not know what questions then you have to THINK of the answers , use your OWN opinions and REVEAL your ideology. Strange that only Chavez, Castro and Obama have complained about Honduras. When America wakes up to Obama ideology I hope it isn’t to late to save us.
Does Gibbs think this is all a joke? Do you notice how he laughs everything off? It’s like he’s chatting at a DC Social Party.
There’s nothing funny about what the Obama Admin is doing to our country.
I’m not a fan of the statist media but I applaud the CBS guy and Helen Thomas. Maybe the kool aid is wearing off.
Wow, could this mean that reporters are getting tired of hanging on to their ankles and are beginning to actually stand up and take look at what is going on?
Thank God, the media is beginning to do the job it should have been doing in the campaign last year. I think the media is seeing now that THE ONE is made of glass.
“Dis is how we roll in Chi.”
That is absolutely DEAD ON. Watch Ritchie Daley on the rare occasions he gets a grilling from the press- what you do is pretend you aren’t comprehending a really simple concept and keep answering a question that isn’t being asked. It also helps if your head turns bright red. But that is right out of the Daley school of media control.
I cant believe my ears!!!!! The press does have a pulse!! Even though it is weak right now, the peoples hopes are that you do your freakin job!!!! I can finally say that not all press reporters are totally in the bag. Thank you for sticking your neck out, dont pay attention to your fellow bag holders when the smoke clears you will be able to sleep at night. Trust me!!!
Man these comments are a panopoly of wingnut paranoia!
Wow…this guy Gibbs makes Scott McClellan look competent.
Doing his Job???
Dr. Jordan, you as a Dr. should know that he is responsible for every word and action he performs whether or not he was told to do it by his superior!!
He must be held accountable for his actions just as the Nazi’s were that participated in murder.I only hope that these reporters start asking more questions like this with Obama and hold his whole administration accountable. Hopefully they will not get paid off in order to shut up before that happens. The answers he gave alone are proof enough to any smart person that he knew exactly what they were accusing him of and that it was true but he was trying to plead ignorance to what was going on, just like a Clinton.The American patriots need to wise up, this is Communism being revealed.
Typical Gibbs, laughing off the question. He does indeed have an impossible job. To have Helen Thomas, the most liberal, and tenured reporter, call him out on the obvious pre-packaged questions is just too precious. God Bless that woman. She has been around far longer than anyone else, and knows from experience, that the Obama Admin is controlling any and all questions like no other Administration has in history. She even mocked the “transparency” concept that Obama keeps spewing from his lying mouth. The press will eventually get around to doing what it is supposed to do.
Maybe it’s little things like this that are scaring the he!! out of the left-leaning media:
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Adults 25-54 Audience Down Nearly 55% Since Q4 2008
WOW…DOWN 55%!!! MSNBC’s numbers continue to impress.
This was soooo easy and Gibbs bombed. The reason questions from e-mail and Twitter and such are reviewed is that, obviously, there are a lot of nutters who’d ask what Obeyme thinks of Raellian prophesy or what kind of slug he’d be if he was a slug. And he blew it! What a twit.
The media asked its tough question for the year. Hurray.. They have to make themselves look like good journalists once in awhile I guess. But that must have been so hard and exhausting to do. I wonder if they drew straws on who had to ask it? I hope they get some rest after that toughie.
It’s about time….the revolution is growing…come on all you patriots…joint it the revolution!
Gibbs is a rude, arrogant, disrespectful @ss!! I’m no fan of Helen Thomas but she was spot on in her accusations, and so was Chip Reid. Gibbs was ill prepared for their tough questioning instead of the usual worshipping he’s been accustomed to the past 6 months. I hope this is the beginning of something beautiful….the press ACTUALLY doing their job. WAKE UP LIBERALS! This is what we’ve been trying to tell you all along. BHO and his gang of thugs are out for one thing and one thing only….whats best for THEM and the H E L L with the rest of the us…..the nation!!
This marxist Whitehouse is all about control. Controlling the Media, Controlling reporters, and with what they are proposing, control of the masses…e
The media finally looks behind the Wizard’s curtain.
Finally, the press stops drooling over every word from this administration. The king’s new clothes revealed.
It’s already too late. Today’s “American” would rather sit on their a$$ and watch Idol or Survivor or Desperate Housewives than have to use their brain and question what is going on with this administration. This is the end result of the selfish ME-first 60’s generation upbringing. Thank God that generation wasn’t around during WWII or we’d all be speaking German and Japanese today. God help us all.
I think Helen must be off her meds, somebody pry that bottle out of her hands. Nice to see Golem turn on the Chosen and his Neophytes, if only for a moment.
Bottom line here is Gibbs is hiding the truth and not doing a very good job of it. The truth is BHO is not good at townhall meetings because it is in these meetings that his weaknesses, lying and triangulating the truth, are made manifest for all to see. Both BHO and Gibbs know this. So, now they must screen the questions, stilt the meeting, and fool the public into thinking BHO is a great leader without flaws. You see, the Chicago pole with experience only in community service is now being exposed for what he really is, a huckster with a smooth voice who tries to lure you into his tent with the intention of taking your money and pride. Gibbs and the other sycophants must at all times hide the real BHO from the public scrutiny and the press. If either the press or public reveal the true nature of the Charlie McCarthy, left-wing, socialist dummy the BHO’s turn at bat is over. I only hope that the mask comes off before things like cap and trade, health care reform, reparations, and the dismantling of the military become realities.
When is the “press” no longer the “press” and they lose their 1st Ammendent protection?
The worm is definitely turning for you Obama.
Truth is in the air!
i just don’t understand why they don’t just have TOTUS do these press conferences and town hall meetings, apparently “IT” is the only thing in D.C. that has any mental capacity and portray a personality… might make us laugh – “does anyone remember laughter?”
HOBO:
Durn tootin’. Tony Snow was the best Press Secretary the White House has EVER had, regardless of the administration. That man could handle anything and anyone… brilliant thinker, respectful, smart, knowledgeable, etc.
Gibbs is a Gibbon. Monkey. I can’t listen to the guy for more than 30 seconds without wanting to puke. Study body language and non-verbal communication. You learn that the first thing a person does when caught in a lie is try to laugh it off; then he blames others; then he feigns moral indignation….
We all knew that Obama’s charade would eventually fail and that he would stand before the world as the idiot he truly is. My only surprise is how quickly it is happening, and how quickly the press is turning on him. Remember, it took the Monica Lewinski scandal for the press to finally turn on Clinton. That was, what… six years into his presidency?
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You are a beautiful lady. God bless you.
I used to despise you, but I forgive and forget.
isabella July 1st, 2009 – 4:47 pm
God Bless Tony Snow and Dana Perina. They were professionals.
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Are you referring to the same Dana Perina who had never heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
How much longer is the press going to let this propanganda machine continue unabated? It seems at some point that the media will begin to chaff at the constraints on their own freedom of the press. It’s amazing to me that it has gone on to such an extreme for such an extended period of time …and our defenders of the press remain like silent lambs. Such a sad commentary …at least there was some kind of an outcry when Bush tried such tactics. So sad…
Ms.Thomas, please report to Camp 319, El Paso Tx.
For re-allocation of human personel. Guard 414, Obama Acorn Division
— White House Press Release, 7/1/2009, 5:06PM —
White House Revokes Press Passes Issued To Reporters Chip Reid And Helen Thomas
The Obama administration has determined that these reporters have significantly failed to reduce their carbon footprints. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs states that, “according to observers in the press parking area, both reporters were arriving in SUV’s and other types of gas guzzlers”. Gibbs continues “We expect all reporters that we honor with attendence at White House briefings to toe the line in reducing their carbon footprint. Unfortunately, a significant amount of carbon gas was expelled by both of these individuals today, and we just can’t put up with that.”
Asked by other reporters who would take their place at the head of the room, Gibbs replied “We will be replacing Chip and Helen with blowup dolls that have a tape recorder imbedded in each doll. The tape recorders will have pre-recorded questions that will be asked at the appropriate time by my pressing the Play button on a remote control.”
It’s sickening that the news media only gets skeptical because they’re jealous of some twit from the Huffington Post getting preferential treatment (personal invitation and planted question at ABC/Obama’s last news conference). Where were they when the unread stimulus package was rammed down the throats of the American People? Where were they when Obama took over the auto industry and started handing out ownership to his union supporters? Where were they when Obama took over banks and financial institutions and started hiring and firing employees in the private sector?
Nowhere to be found. European socialism being imlpemented in the U.S. at lightning speed is no reason to do their job as skeptical “journalists.” But boy, mess with their egos and there will be heck to pay, even from Helen Thomas!
Liberals. No principles.
Ummmmm, Socialist Helen Thomas turns up the heat………….
This is only the beginning of a Hugo Chavez like takover of America. The question is why a President has made such decisions to put America in such un-reversible debt, an “energy” bill that will destroy the energy sector, and a heath care plan that is totaly dependant on government? Because we will only allow a dictator, like happened in Germany, during total economic collapes. I now believe Obama eng game is the destruction of America’s economy, allowing him to seize power…total control!
Americans should make no mistake about this that EVERYTHING Comrade Obama does or says is very carefully scripted by his handlers and fellow travelers to follow the strategy originally described by Saul Alinsky a long time ago in his RULES FOR RADICALS. Now some members of the State media are evidently getting testy and even “uppity”. The Comrade does not like uppity folks at all, and they will, as some time find themselves excluded from the Whitehouse press corps or if allowed to stay as a sham will never be called on again. This is about accepting everything that THE ONE says at face value, without any discussion, and then reporting it as FACT. Obama believes that the Sheep should be obedient, silent and work hard to pay the taxes that he has in mind. If we are smart and want this Nation to survive, we will as a start take back the House in November 2010 and deny him OUR MONEY that he needs to drag this Nation into the tank of Socialism. Socialism is only for bottom feeders and I believe that NON Socialist Americans still have the numbers to defeat him and drive him and his fellow travelers from office!
How did Gibbs even get this gig in the first place? It’s almost as if it was “Take Your Special Needs Kid To Work Day” and when someone saw him walk past a podium, they said, “Hey, Corky, why don’t you come on up and give it a try?”
A white house reporter who is actually DOING HER JOB! Thank you Ms. Thomas!!
Ask Gibbs–Where is the BIRTH CERTIFICATE ???
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Gibbs look’in a bit peaked here……what a lying sack of dog crap!
Thanks libs for putting a bunch of jokers in office who have no clue about ANYTHING!!!!!!!