• February 15, 2012

robert gibbs

WHY NOT TAKE ANOTHER SIX OR TWELVE WEEKS? Is anyone else starting to have night-terrors after reading this same wishy-washy opening sentence in at least thirty articles every week for the past year? “White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the president would make an announcement next week about the ‘way forward’ on health care, [...]

WILL THIS SANDWICH HAVE A PUBIC OPTION? Whoa hey, Robert Gibbs finally addressed the ninth life of the public option, and whether people should continue giving a shit about it in the face of a painfully indifferent White House! “We have seen obviously that though there are some that are supportive of this, there isn’t [...]

C’mon, everybody knows Barack Obama bought 14 million guns since taking office: Whitey is everywhere! And it gives Obama the heebie jeebies. [True/Slant: F. Paul Wilson] Michelle Malkin has clearly mistaken the preamble to the U.S. Constitution for one of John Yoo’s S&M legal briefs. A common mix-up; they read pretty much the same. [Michelle [...]

MORNING = WON: “Back in May, POLITICO analyzed the press briefings and found that the instances of laughter — as indicated by ‘(Laughter)’ being noted in the official transcript — occurred more than 10 times per day during press secretary Robert Gibbs’s briefings. But the laughter has been reduced by half in recent months: In [...]

Oh that Robert Gibbs and his Making Fun Of Trig, by writing notes on his hand during today’s White House Press Briefing. Our beloved press corps is simply not sure how to handle this. OUCH, man, OUCH. What did Trig ever do to Robert Gibbs, anyway? UPDATE: Oh jeebus, they WILL whine about this. AP [...]

This is what $100 trillion in party donations gets your company: an official White House product endorsement! (PEOPLE WHO USE BLACKBERRIES GO TO GITMO FROM NOW ON.) (EXCEPT OBAMA.) So for those of you who are into “new telephones” — the American economy’s last remaining growth sector. TELEPHONES. — there is a new porno deal [...]

Here’s how a recent conversation went between MSNBC’s Real-Merkin-looking secret communist dragon Ed Schultz and White House human Robert Gibbs… according to Ed Schultz, as he recalled it at a conference this weekend: SCHULTZ: You’re full of shit, Robert Gibbs! GIBBS: Hey fuck off, Ed Schultz! SCHULTZ: Whoa c’mon man, why you gotta curse… GIBBS: [...]

Oh man you guys Robert Gibbs called Pat Robertson’s remarks about Haiti/Satan “utterly stupid!” WHAT AN ASSHOLE ROBERT GIBBS IS! Apologize to Pat Robertson and Satan right now! [YouTube]

Robert Gibbs does not “foresee a scenario” in which the State of the Union would preempt the Lost final season premiere, the Internet lobby’s #1 concern, according to recent conflagration. Gibbs said this because an ABC reporter actually asked him about it during a White House press briefing. AND YOU KNOW WHAT, GOOD.

GAHHH, trying to find the funny news, but everything today is just about the American Empire transparently destroying itself. Which is funny! Humor has come full circle, maybe. Like what is this?: “‘The president is very confident that this government is taking the steps that are necessary to take — to take our fight to [...]

ROBERT GIBBS IS SO FUCKING MEAN: “‘If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,’ Gibbs told reporters in his morning gaggle. Gibbs said the swing in the poll could be duplicated by a ‘six-year-old with a crayon’ and said he doesn’t put a lot of stake in the [...]

Here is a clip from today’s White House press briefing, in which the hairiest man alive grills Robert Gibbs: what do you think your perception of the perception of the political perception of current political politics will be if political things happen for Democrats or Republicans in the political governors’ races in Virginia and New [...]

WASHINGTON POLITICS AND WASHINGTON JOURNALISM REACH A CRUCIAL DETENTE: “A very reliable source tells FishbowlDC that Fox News SVP Michael Clemente met with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs this morning and reached what some are calling a ‘truce.’” Nobel Peace Prizes, all. [Fishbowl DC]

Robert Gibbs, being more Nixonian than the square of Richard Nixon: “What Vice President Cheney calls ‘dithering,’ President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and the American public. I think we’ve all seen what happens when somebody doesn’t take that responsibility seriously.” SIR that is a former crypto-President of [...]

WHITE HOUSE HALF-ASSEDLY ENDORSES WHATEVER DEMOCRAT IS RUNNING AGAINST MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: Ha ha ha someone asked Robert Gibbs whether Barack Obama would endorse guaranteed Democratic loser “Bill Thompson” over Michael Bloomberg in the upcoming New York mayoral election, and Gibbs responded, “The president is the leader of the Democratic Party and as that would support [...]