VIDEO Gibbs: Transparency, what a concept!
His boss promised it eight times: Healthcare “negotiations will be on C-Span”:
And now Gibbs has the press on his case, Funny: Press corps torments Gibbs again with questions about transparency
The only satisfactory answer — “my boss is a brazen liar who’ll promise dopey liberals anything to get elected” — isn’t available. So we end up with the political equivalent of a conversation from a dysfunctional marriage. Why do we have to talk past each other, baby?
Moe doesn’t see it as funny,
…it’s sad. The White House press pool is being given the mushroom treatment; and they know that they’re being given the mushroom treatment. But they don’t want to respond appropriately – which is to say, stop letting Robert Gibbs define what are or are not appropriate questions to ask. Until that happens – and the press corps internalizes the notion that Gibbs and the administration needs them a hell of a lot more than they need Gibbs and the administration – they’ll keep getting the mushroom treatment.
Amen to that!
Tags: Fausta's blog, Robert Gibbs
January 16th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Robert Gibbs, Mr. Uncongeniality. I have never seen a man so easily put into a snit as Mr. Gibbs.
January 16th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
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January 16th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Maybe they like the mushroom treatment.
January 17th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
> they’ll keep getting the mushroom treatment.
Yes, well, finally, they’re getting shat on, which is exactly the treatment they deserve after the last 9 years… innit?