Funny: Press corps torments Gibbs again with questions about transparency
posted at 6:50 pm on January 15, 2010 by Allahpundit
A palate cleanser courtesy of Media Blog. He’s right that they’ve been over this before and they’re right that he hasn’t given them a satisfactory explanation. With good reason. 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?
The one silver lining for Democrats in the very gray ObamaCare cloud? This seems like such a minor issue now relative to the rest of it. They’re gaming cost estimates, they’re bribing senators, they’re ignoring virtually every poll in the country showing massive disapproval. Why not extend the middle finger on transparency too? Are people going to go from enraged to really enraged or something?
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Gibbs has a really hard job that he’s really bad at. Not a good combo.
BadgerHawk on January 15, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Who would have EVAH thought that we’d have a press secretary who made Scott f-ing McClellan look good?
Sugar Land on January 15, 2010 at 6:54 PM
ultimate tool
cmsinaz on January 15, 2010 at 6:55 PM
Transparency? What Transparency?
Holger on January 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Hey Gibby, you lie!
Mangy Scot on January 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Incompetent seems to discribe everyone in the Odumbass administration. I despise everyone that voted for that tool (BO).
txag92 on January 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM
gosh, I wish he would….
cmsinaz on January 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM
C’mon WH press corps! Grow a pair and make this fool dance like he’s being tasered! Bonus points to whoever causes him to soil himself!
ya2daup on January 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM
The wages of deception.
HondaV65 on January 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Does anyone have a good link to a guide for filing FOIA requests?
Jason Coleman on January 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Seven Percent Solution on January 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Here’s hoping Gibbsy and Barry part on bad terms and Gibbsy then writes a scathing tell-all.
Christien on January 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Gibbs is a mirror,er,micro-phone of the Obama Administration!!
Stupid says,what stupid does!!
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Lolz
LibTired on January 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Here’s hoping Gibbsy and Barry part on bad terms and Gibbsy then writes a scathing tell-all.
Christien on January 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Christien: If HilRod was POTUSA,Gibbs would be on his
second or third tragic accident by now!:)
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Fibbs, well that’s what he does.
tarpon on January 15, 2010 at 7:01 PM
Baghdad Bob is stuck on stupid. He doesn’t have the integrity to be honest. So he puts that stupid expression on his face and tries to wing it. HE’S LOSING THEM.
GarandFan on January 15, 2010 at 7:01 PM
I wonder if the sleep talkin’ man heard Gibbs.
“Shhhhhhhhh. shhhhhhhhh. I’m telling you: your voice, my ears. A bad combination.”
upinak on January 15, 2010 at 7:02 PM
The first time I heard the doofus conduct a press briefing I thought of Baghdad Bob! Now – around my house, anyway – he’s affectionately known as “Beltway Bob”.
“There are NO American tanks in Baghdad!”
GoldenEagle4444 on January 15, 2010 at 7:02 PM
My feelings exactly. The press corp getting lazy, can’t think of anything else to fill the time? Don’t want to do the hard work digging out an original story?
Skandia Recluse on January 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Outrageously enraged outraged that’s raged with enrageously outrageously enragement of rage!
Seven Percent Solution on January 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM
How does that guy look himself in the mirror? The lies and deceit are palpable.
csdeven on January 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM
No doubt. Still, it’s amazing he’s not under the bus…yet.
Christien on January 15, 2010 at 7:04 PM
Pure comedy to see!
I’ll submit that the
Socialists, err, Democrats that are in charge are indeed being very tranparent..they are showing us how they want to govern and doing whatever they want in a very brazen, overt fashion. The fact that they aren’t trying to hide what they’re doing (e.g., their way of doing business; thier disdain for the average citizen; thier attempted subversion of the democratic process, etc) says volumes about who they are and what we can expect moving ahead….To coin a phrase for them: ‘we won.’
Dick Turpin on January 15, 2010 at 7:04 PM
The Hopey/Changey Transparency Pillars are there,
you just can’t see them,there invisible!!(sarc).
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Joe Lockhart was my favorite, hands down. Somebody once described him as looking like he was trying to crap a damp sponge.
S. Weasel on January 15, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Someone mentioned Ned Flanders today, on another thread. I instantly thought of Gibbs. I could just see this dork screaming like Ned, when the breakdown comes.
capejasmine on January 15, 2010 at 7:06 PM
What’s with Gibbs’ hyena laugh.
Enoxo on January 15, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Ah, good stuff. I’m going to use that line on my wife one of these days. She read that link so hopefully she’ll get the joke and not hit me.
BadgerHawk on January 15, 2010 at 7:07 PM
If they could get political pictures for what that guys says…. comedy gold!
upinak on January 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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No doubt. Still, it’s amazing he’s not under the bus…yet.
Christien on January 15, 2010 at 7:04 PM
Christien: No kidding eh,its only a matter of time,but,
on the otherhand,the way this Administration is
working,for them to have Gibbs the incompetent,
its a working like a charm,i kid tho,as it pro
jects to the world of the Liberal Clown Operation
that is coming out of DC!:)
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM
I don’t think it’s that minor to the youthful Obama voter, which is why it comes up over and over and over. His pledge was edgy, it was high-tech, it was freely given, it set him apart from all the other suits. If I were President, I’d live-blog my Admin, too. And so they tweeted for Obama like awakening grackles. Now it turns out Obama’s not only NOT a compulsive geek, he’s a dick about it.
Its gotta burn.
Chris_Balsz on January 15, 2010 at 7:10 PM
The truth shall set you free….
HornetSting on January 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Gibbs continues to be a studied non-communicator, which indeed is the essence of his job in this “transparent” administration. But the significant thing here is that we are witnessing the beginnings of a revolt in the WH press corp. It’s at the simmering stage, still with a courteous veneer, but it easily could get raw if Obama continues his opacity.
paul1149 on January 15, 2010 at 7:13 PM
Obama is a horrible man. I get that. And I hate that loser Gibbs too. But… like all press spokesmen, he can only say what he is allowed to say, which is NADA on topics that would make Obama look bad (which at this point is pretty much everything).
Prediction, and you heard it first here: Obama will bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities in September or early October of this year, thus generating a “rally around the flag” momentum boost for the November election.
Not that it will help, and not that he shouldn’t bomb the a$$holes to smithereens. We’re still going to pickup 35 to 40 seats in the house.
lionheart on January 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM
It is hard to have a fight hen you are in bed together
bill30097 on January 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Gibbs….. where is this hick from?
He’s so stupid. Must be some inbred redneck from WVA, right?
Cody1991 on January 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM
I haven’t type this in a while so now is as good a time as any. If GWB’s press stooge had one the same crap as tis stool it would be all over the alphabet news shows on a steady loop.
OK, I got that out for another couple of weeks.
thomasaur on January 15, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Gibbs is great. I love Gibbs. I never, ever, ever want Obama to have a competent press secretary.
I just want a WH press corps that will do its job and nail this guy to the wall.
Missy on January 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM
My money’s on that it’s his tell….. lying.
tru2tx on January 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM
And think about it.
Barry, the “Post Racial President” has this pathetic boot-licking, POS as his Press Sec.
Here’s a question for everyone: Name one consistent thought that defines this administration.
Just one.
Cody1991 on January 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM
“Are people going to go from enraged to really enraged or something?”
Outrageously enraged outraged that’s raged with enrageously outrageously enragement of rage!
———–
Seven Percent Solution on January 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Seven Percent Solution:*Sniff*,that was beautiful man,hehe:)
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM
They should ask Gibbs when Obama is going to have another Press Conference. We can’t get a straight answer out of you, we might as well ask him the questions. It will be the same BS answers, but at least they will come out of Obama’s mouth.
PappaMac on January 15, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Fibbs translation:
“You guys were dumb enough to buy it so STFU. we are in control now”
RobCon on January 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM
I would hate to have to defend the boob in the White House every day…
d1carter on January 15, 2010 at 7:27 PM
I have to agree with the post about how we now have a precise view of what the Democrat leadership is all about.
The one benefit of Obama’s ascension is that all the other marxists have come out of the closet, they feel free now to fly their true flags and do what they have wanted to do for so long.
I am afraid of where they are trying to take us, and whether sanity can be restored, but it will be what it will be. God knows what will happen, but He ain’t telling.
I just pray the First Amendment is enough, that we can leave the Second dormant vis a vis the DC crowd.
Harry Schell on January 15, 2010 at 7:28 PM
That is easy. Everyone knows that it is (chorus) ALL BUSH’S FAULT
IlikedAUH2O on January 15, 2010 at 7:29 PM
hold on hold on hold on hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola hola..hold on hold on hold on.
Now that’s fantastic
katy on January 15, 2010 at 7:29 PM
He sounds like Moe or Curly.
scalleywag on January 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM
The BackLash is building!
canopfor on January 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Nice giggle Fibbs. You sitting on a cucumber?
RobCon on January 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Coach Dennis Green, our nation turns it’s lonely eyes toward you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_N1OjGhIFc
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on January 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM
One of the requirements for getting the job of Press Secretary (other than the usual bribes) was studying 20 hours of tape of Baghdad Bob. Gibbs is Baghdad Bob reincarnated.
ranzofola on January 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM
OK. I’m just going to say it.
Gibbs is a Pu$$y, and he’s the front line for what’s-his-face.
/President Pu$$y! yep. Got ‘dat right.
Cody1991 on January 15, 2010 at 7:34 PM
I didn’t answer that question two weeks ago, so look back to what I said then.
Scrappy on January 15, 2010 at 7:35 PM
Here’s how you know life doesn’t care about fairness or equity; Tony Snow got cancer and this human tumor doesn’t even get a cold.
mr1216 on January 15, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Forget the transparency, with any lick the dude will be invisible by the end of January 2013.
BTW, I guess that we ain’t getting His college transcripts, test scores, examples of His legal writing or anything else like that, either.
IlikedAUH2O on January 15, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Gibbs knows he has taken a job with an organization that is the equivalence of the Chicago mob. He is fully aware, every waking moment, that he dare never utter one bit of truth, unless ordered to do so. If he goes the truth route he will not get fired: he will simply disappear.
Yoop on January 15, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Why a press secretary? Why doesn’t MSNBC have their hosts do this dirty work? They seem to like it.
They seem to like a lot of disgusting things..
IlikedAUH2O on January 15, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Who can estimate where The One’s approval numbers would be if we had an objective media? I keep wanting somebody to ask Rove that question.
IlikedAUH2O on January 15, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Gibbs, the almost human punching bag.
GnuBreed on January 15, 2010 at 7:47 PM
I agree. It’s pretty obvious by now what is going to happen (or not happen) for the next 3 years but the LSM is too lazy to do anything but sit in that room and play… news people. They should be out looking for the next Deep Throat or John Dean.
Mr_Magoo on January 15, 2010 at 7:55 PM
“You aint seen nothing yet!”
BHO.
Itchee Dryback on January 15, 2010 at 7:58 PM
When a grown man laughs like a little girl like Gibbsy here, even he knows he is full of crap.
JeffinOrlando on January 15, 2010 at 8:02 PM
I don’t think it will get much worse than this. These are the people responsible in many ways for putting this administration in the WH, they know they can badger a bit, but they’ve got to eat that crow sandwich they made. Not that I wouldn’t love to see them all turn on their master and massively revolt…!!!!
4shoes on January 15, 2010 at 8:02 PM
You know what’s even funnier than that clip? The London Telegraph rates Gibbs the 17th most influential liberal in America.
He lies regularly, thinks he is smarter than you, and never says what his real agenda is. That sounds about right for a liberal.
Mallard T. Drake on January 15, 2010 at 8:05 PM
HOW can this two-faced fool go to bed at night and realize he is a mouth-piece for a lying sack-0-shit like bama??? Truly worthless; as is his “leader.” Do something of value or die!!!
jgdp on January 15, 2010 at 8:07 PM
csdeven on January 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Check this out for palpaple deceit.
http://butterdezillion.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/red-flags-in-hawaii-2/
This ought to be criminal. Er… it is…
justincase on January 15, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Independents need confirmation and repetition. Dems are giving them plenty of it.
Starlink on January 15, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Maybe.
Let’s see if Scott “I’m here to slay the dragon known as Obamacare!” Brown wins in MA.
If he does, I think that the message will have been spelled out for Dems about as clearly as possible.
Vyce on January 15, 2010 at 8:15 PM
May we see YOUR birth certificate, Mr. Gibbs?
BHO Jonestown on January 15, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Gibbs former occupation.
- The Cat
MirCat on January 15, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Yes.
YehuditTX on January 15, 2010 at 8:24 PM
Gibbs can stick his read-outs up his a$$. What a disgrace…
Dopenstrange on January 15, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Is this a troll free site?
Where are the little, mewling buggers today?
Cody1991 on January 15, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Just as much of a juvenile brat as the rest of em …
My country has come to this? These are the best and brightest leading us?
Herc_Dude on January 15, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Hold da dadda hold da hold ho hoh hohhol da da ho ho ho hold hold hold ho hoh da da da on….
He should see someone about that stutter.
NeoKong on January 15, 2010 at 8:39 PM
That press conference is an embarrassment.
PhillyUnion on January 15, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Gibbs used to have the easiest job in the world, which was a good thing since he’s so incompetent. It’s still not that difficult. The press still have chubbies for Barry, but they now need to at least give the impression that they’re doing their jobs. But Gibbs needs to be doing something else. He just sucks at his job.
WarEagle01 on January 15, 2010 at 9:07 PM
He’s been taking speaking lessons from that great thespian Shia LeBouf.
About 1:30 in for the best Shia LeBeefing.
CPL 310 on January 15, 2010 at 9:09 PM
Hey, at least Obama is talking about transparency. That’s more than BushChimpyHilterHaliburton every did .fact /libtard/troll
aikidoka on January 15, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Now that the “JOURNALISTS” are getting a whiff of the stink of the bill and understand that they are the little people who will be effected (or is it affected?) by this bill they have a desire to do their jobs.
They still suck!
If it passes I hope every last one of you get diabetes and are forced to have your freaking feet cut off.
poppieseeds on January 15, 2010 at 9:22 PM
oh yeah -
Gibbs – you laugh like a girl.
poppieseeds on January 15, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Maybe we should take a lesson from the Iranian dissidents. They have courage and conviction.
ultracon on January 15, 2010 at 9:25 PM
I prefer Baghdad Bob to this guy.
Mojave Mark on January 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM
He’s available living in the UAE. January 12 – Furloughed Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf (M.S.S.) has a brand new “gig” (that’s entertainment industry lingo)- TV talking head for Abu Dhabi TV
Jeff2161 on January 15, 2010 at 9:42 PM
He may leave, but the book will never written. Rahmbo to Gibbs: “Nice family you got there. Be a shame if something happened to them. Ya’ know what I mean?”
mwdiver on January 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM
He just needs to remind the press that this is now a dictatorship.
jediwebdude on January 15, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Bobby Gibbs = Doughboy on a stick. I miss Tony.
nwpammy on January 15, 2010 at 10:35 PM
holdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholda
holdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholda
holdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholdaholda -
hold on, Gibbsy -
but, we haven’t even begun to plow this ground yet. You’ve spread a lot of fertilizer on the ground (if you get my drift), but plowing – not so much.
dissent555 on January 15, 2010 at 11:44 PM
What he really wants to say is:
“You Mensheviks are sooo naive! Did you really think the revolution was going to be some bourgeois exercise!”
AshleyTKing on January 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Maybe each individual promise of an act of transparency is a minor issue. But at root is the question of whether or not we can trust anything Obama says. Then it becomes very important because as trust dies it becomes progressively more difficult for each voter to pull the lever for Obama or any Dem.
snaggletoothie on January 16, 2010 at 12:53 AM
‘We’ve been through this, refer to my answer of two weeks ago.’ – Robert Gibbs.
Hey, jerkwad, if the question keeps coming up, that’s because the answer isn’t good enough. So much for accountability.
TinMan13 on January 16, 2010 at 1:27 AM
Why not? They think that Islamic terrorists will become less enraged and suicidal if only we would stop hunting them, bombing them, killing them, capturing them and putting them in Gitmo. Dems argue that these measures somehow create more and angrier terrorists even more determined than they were before to blow themselves up.
Dollayo on January 16, 2010 at 1:52 AM
Spare Gibby guys.
To try and defend a liar like Obama is a monumental task. And then this fellow is a little slow.
Mercy!
antisocial on January 16, 2010 at 1:54 AM
Galls me
Ignobal
BS Artist
Brash
So full of sh!t
Ugly on January 16, 2010 at 2:22 AM
Now there was a mensch!
daesleeper on January 16, 2010 at 2:50 AM
No matter what he says, he was awesome as Forrest Gump, earned him an Oscar.
dthorny on January 16, 2010 at 6:53 AM
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