I thought this administration was full of “grown ups”? Clearly this sort of childish nonsense doesn’t belong in the White House… Right?
Can’t wait to see this smug POS out on his ass in 2012.
Gibbs is without a doubt the most condescending prick I have ever seen behind a podium; he is, perhaps unwittingly, the pitch-perfect press secretary for this White House. The press hate him. Hopefully they’ll make the connection soon.
Gibbs does not have the temperament for his position, clearly it’s not an easy one. The spokesperson for the WH has to have ice running through their veins, and he doesn’t.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Gibbs does not have the temperament for his position, clearly it’s not an easy one. The spokesperson for the WH has to have ice running through their veins, and he doesn’t. [/quote]
It’s a terribly hard job. I guess I agree with you as long as you mean by “wrong temperament” = asshole. LOL.
I don’t know about the ice thing - Tony Snow didn’t seem to have ice running through his veins and he was pretty good.
I am guessing Maximus meant it in the sense of not losing one’s cool. Tony Snow didn’t get angry in press conferences.
Is this like when he started calling respected polling organization “kids with crayons” because obamas numbers were dropping? Yeah, real mature.
Or when a reporter provided the dollars-per-job figure for money spent from the stimulus, Gibbs contemptuously dismissed this as “calculator abuse.”
Bill worded it better than I did. He (as many other WH press secretaries) are almost always going to have to play the role of scapegoat, since no one will ever get a chance to grill a president to the extent that someone like Gibbs gets it. Obama got a taste of it with the Republicans and he backpedaled quickly. He got questioned flat out when Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz called him out about all the broken promises, and gave a beyond lame ass response. That youngster brought his sack to the table when he laid Obama out in the street like that. Misdirection doesn’t work when you use it too often.