Snippy Time with Robert Gibbs
Just finished watching the daily White House press briefing with Robert Gibbs. Alas, the media drool buckets aren’t as full as they once were.
Gibbs pouted that he was “all Russia’ed out” after fielding several questions on the subject.
He boasted that “a million doors were knocked on” by the Obama-bots attempting to manufacture grass-roots support for the Obama budget.
And, most notably, he managed to irk one of the Obamedia’s biggest cheerleaders, journalist April Ryan, who asked a few questions about America’s reliance on foreign governments buying up our debt and whether there would be any “news” coming out of tomorrow’s presidential press conference.
When Gibbs tried to snark his way out of one of her questions, Ryan retorted: “Stop being flip!”
When he chuckled through her follow ups, she complained: “I’m serious.”
Too bad they weren’t more serious before Obama took office.
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Heckuva job, Bobby!
I generally like Gibbs, but he does have a bad habit of being too glib. That is fine when you are a guest on Morning Joe. not so much in a White House press briefing.
Hmmm.. a press secretary tiring of answering questions from the press..
That’s about as comical as someone going into customer service who claims they’re ‘not a people person’….
Wait a minute…
Gibbs + glib = “Glibbs”. I think that is a nice nickname.
Could you please x-plain why you “generally” like Gibbs? I would love to know why.
Just keeping in line with the rest of the arrogance coming out of DC these days. We are now being ruled, after all. (Why didn’t they just get Scott McClellan?)
if bobby is this snippy during the honeymoon, wait until fall when people’s 401k plans are not showing that famed obama bounce.
There hasn’t been, nor will there be for a long time, a press secretary like Tony Snow, RIP.
Perhaps he needs a “self-aware” teleprompter….
Sorry, still enjoying the other thread.
Chap, the nickname “Glibbs” sings. Clever, indeed.
We have immature, juvenile thinking and acting in the WH, starting with the President and right on down to the press secretary. A bunch of junior high bozos. Giggling at the economy on 60 minutes, calling it “gallows humor” and causing the interviewer to ask Obama if he is “punch drunk”. Treating serious press questions with flippancy and disrespect. We are seeing what we all predicted we would see if Obama was elected. Now, maybe the media and the idiots who voted for him will see it also. I have a feeling Baghdad Bob Gibbs will be under the bus very soon…that is, if Obami is paying any attention to any of it. It is possible he is too busy campaigning and doing his activist thing to really care what is happening at the White House.
I liked Gibbs as Obama’s spokesperson during his campaign. I thought he managed to be incisive, forceful advocate, while maintaining a jovial attitude, which I can imagine would be difficult after almost 2 years on the trail.
I hae not seen any of his briefers.
Gibbs to press: You sold your souls and we’re not buying any more.
Alas, a quick googling shows I am not the first to coin the name.
Figured I’d get that out before anyone out there went Schlussel on me.
Well then, Chapoutier, why don’t you invite him to your next house party?
(But then in 6 months or so from today it may be just you and Gibbs taking dibbs on those ribs!)
Yeah, Team Obama isn’t too keen on this whole “actually have to do some work” thing.
I guess they had hoped he was going to start campaigning for his next job once he got into office. Ya know, just like he’s done once he got into every other job he’s every had.
I find it to be someone satisfying that the press is asking questions and not taking all of the Non-answers as answers. Gibbs must find this quite bothersome.
——–Team Obama ———
A nice brochure….. but not much of a product.
somewhat satisfying…
argh….
Gibbs is probably one of the worst in recent history.
So that’s what that guy was doing at the port-a-potty lot.
Not to hijack this thread, but does it rub anyone else the wrong way when Obama referred to his laughing about economic conditions on 60 minutes as gallows humor? My understanding of gallows humor is the guy about to be hanged making jokes (ala Steve McQueen as Tom Horn in the movie of the same name)not the hangman or an observer laughing at the victim.
Gibbs and BO doing the same stuff? “Punch Drunk”?
Maybe he’s being prophetic. Is it racist to say that?
Never liked Gibbs. He has that smug affect of a twit who’s secretly insecure about his manhood, or the size thereof, which I know doesn’t narrow the field much when referring to liberals. He probably got beaten up in high school quite a lot.
Gibbs is a snitty little wanna-be and cannot claim the same rarified airspace as our departed Tony Snow. Dana Perino was a class act as well. They should charge Gibbs extra carbon credits just for being a jerk.
If you’re the only one laughing, it wasn’t funny.
Well, that’s an interesting reason to approve of someone. I sure don’t see it. I don’t think he’s any good at all. He does a lousy job of answering questions and a lousy job of defending the One Idiot’s positions…
Different universes….
Time to reissue White House press passes.
I thought it was stupid to be laughing and not taking the subject seriously. And then to refer to it as “gallows humor” just solidifies the idea that this man can’t possibly inspire confidence. Any President with heart would be constantly reminding us that we’ve seen worse and will tackle this challenge and beat it. Period.
Not him though.
Could any of you guys in the military envision being led (or sent) into battle by Obama? I can’t imagine I’d feel prepared knowing that he was in charge.
The only people seemingly fired up by him are the people who are expecting hand-outs.
I’ve finally realized who Gibbs reminds me of: A chubby Howdy Doody, minus the charm, charisma, intelligence, grace and
personality.
This is irrelevant in this thread, but I just wanted to report that I have started reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time over the weekend. Its length is daunting, but it has held my interest from the first page. Made it through 5 chapters.
One of these days I will be up-to-speed on the John Galt thing.
Is there a requisite amount of time before we can say “I Told You So” without being countered by
“Give him a chance” or “But he’s clean and he talks really good”
Now is that the same “Million” that was used in ‘The Million Man March’?
Were these so-referenced doors, home doors? Apartment doors? Business doors? Barn doors? Doors to Obamas heart? Did anyone actually open these doors for the million to count?
And who was tracking all of these doors anyway? I want a recount.
You’re not wrong, and it bugs me too. True “gallows humor” is when humor is found in a situation by the people actually affected by it. Obama and his family are completely insulated from any economic downturns. For him to laugh at the economy isn’t gallow’s humor, it’s just a shallow jerk who’s in over his head laughing at the suffering of others.
Gibbs and bho better be careful, if they get the press against them they might not like it. A great number of American’s are fed up with what is going on in DC and we are doing our dead level best to stop it and be heard—tea parties.
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This reminds me…I have been wondering if the press will finally get some b*lls and ask Bambi some hard questions during Idol Interruptus tomorrow.
After February’s presser, Charlie Gibson said that Obama answered “each question almost as a teaching moment with long and expansive answers.” Hopefully, this time a Sam Donaldson or Dan Rather wanna-be will get down and dirty and interrupt him with hard questions and not let him get away with his double-speak. What happened to the days when the press were out to compete with each other by asking questions that were news breakers that would hold politicians accountable? When will more Jake Tappers, Chip Reids, etc. decide the integrity of their careers are more important than seeing that Obama succeeds as the other leg-tinglers want? I’m not holding my breath, but I hope we see the tide change tomorrow.
I think I saw one of their guys this weekend. I just thought he was doing some comparison shopping at Lowe’s.
Elitists are flip by nature. They believe all the “little” people should just shut up and do what they are told. Socialist liberal democrats being flip is their response in every situation and to every question.
I have to wonder if April Ryan is more, less, or just as serious and Joe Gaffe Biden.
Re: Thread detour
I wonder – if a conservative had made the ‘gallows humor’ comment – would they be branded as racists for conjuring up the image of lynching?
Just sayin….
You just know that Bobby Glibbs (kewl nickname by the way) just wants to thumb his nose at the press and say “We won! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! So STFU!
You think the President of the United States, whose political future rests on the performance of the economy over the next 3 1/2 years is “completely insulated”?
And in any case, he wasn’t laughing at the economy. He laughed after this comment:
It was referencing the effect on him of the unpopularity of some of the decisions he has had to make.
They could always try throwing shoes.
NJ-Aviator said: Could any of you guys in the military envision being led (or sent) into battle by Obama?
He would be one of those leaders that becomes fragable.And wouldn’t be missed.
Media is abandoning ship, slowly. Not to make waves.
Yep. Because no matter what he does, how the country ends up, he’ll still have:
a. tons of speaking engagements racking in millions of dollars a-la-Clinton
b. lots of book deals
c. TV appearances (paid)
He’ll be a bigger millionaire than he was at the beginning of his “presidency”/
Gee, you’re right. That is hilarious. I mean, like, Dane Cook hilarious. Obama’s smug, self-satisfied giggling was completely justified by that comic masterpiece.
It is just so tough being Obama’s press secretary dealing with all those pesky obnoxious reporters. On his last nerve I tell ya!
flyoverman–Get down John Connor!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, re-reading it myself at the moment when I have spare time. It’s particularly amusing how spot-on the double-think by some of the “socially enlightened” characters are in reference to modern analogy.
I just call Bobby… Gump. He’s just about as eloquent as good ol’ Forrest.
The Obama administration is like a box of chocolates. And they all taste like sh*t.
That really says it all. The MSM didn’t do their job and look what we’re stuck with: children running the country.
#36. Exactly.
That’s all wrong. If nothing else, the man has a very large ego and cares about his legacy. He has a desire for greatness, and that’s why he keeps comparing himself to “greats” of the past. Obama has a very strong interest in how this presidency turns out, and he knows he will be judged on how he deals with this crisis. Gallows humor is the appropriate term, because dude has a noose around his neck, his name, his legacy.
FWIW, I highly recommend it. I’ve read that Ayn Rand wrote the book to keep it from becoming prophetic — and that she may have failed.
Maybe the Obama administration doesn’t know (or care) how to be “People” people. And maybe Mr. Gibbs has no interest in hiding his disinterest (or ignorance).
Gibbs doesn’t seem to have the personality for this type of gig, and he’ll probably be out by 2010. The guy does have a sac, and will be a talking head on radio and the tube. After the way he called out Sean Hannity, to his face, for putting a noted anti-semite on his show just to bash Obama, Gibbs will never have to buy a drink again. It’s easily one of the top ten greatest things on youtube.
But you miss one detail there. What he defines as success. That would be to destroy the capitalist nature of this country and “spread the wealth around”. To bend his knee at the throne of dictators to show our willingness to like them and be liked. And to remove religion from every fabric of life in the US.
That is what he considers success.
Quite a bit different than most Americans might think.
Yes, I do.
Barak Obama never has to worry about money again. Ever. It is inconceivable that he will ever have to sweat out a paycheck or choose between paying the mortgage or paying the electric bill. The economic realites that the other 300 million of us deal with will never touch him again, whether or not he gets re-elected.
I understand your point on ideological grounds based on your politics. However, HIS gallows humor comes from HIS perspective, which is why I think JF and BAL have it wrong about HIS stake in this deal.
So only poor people have the right to care about and/or have a stake in the economy?
So what you seem to be saying is while he is being interviewed about some serious issues Americans are facing, he’s more concerned about how his legacy pans out?
If that’s true, then he has Narcissus beat by a mile. And it’s equally sickening as any other point made here.
How do you figure a little laugh means you are more concerned abotu one thing than another?
Whatever. Mountain, meet molehill.
I said nothing of the sort. Of course he’s allowed to care about the economy. He’s supposed to care about the economy. My only point was that to laugh about the plummeting economy while you personally are set for life isn’t gallows humor, it’s being a jerk.
If you want to take issue with my understanding of what constitutes gallows humor, fine. Don’t try putting words in my mouth (or on my screen, as the case may be).
I’m glad you found this Chap, cause Glibbs works for me. I do think also he is a lot like the “What Me Worry” guy from MAD Magazine. He know he cannot defend many of Obama’s actions and he is very good at quiping something to brush it off, redirect, or just stand there and say, Uhhhh Uhhhh. I think saying Uhhh is probably highly contagious. Got it from President Campaign Forever.
We’re talking about the use of the phrase “gallows humor” and what he meant by it. Was it HIS neck or the neck of American’s in the noose.
Underseige seems to think Obama’s use of the phrase is a reference to his own legacy. My point is that it’s pretty remarkable that would be his concern. Whether it is or not, we may never know.
A. The classic example of gallows humor is doctors’ sometimes morbid sense of humor. Far as I know, doctors most of the time end up alive at the end of their shift, unlike some of the patients they joke about. Doesn’t mean they like death, doesn’t mean they aren’t affected by the deaths. It is a coping mechanism for dealing with very stressful situations.
B. I contend he wasn’t joking about the state of the economy. The actual quote bears that out. So Point A is moot.
Obama may compare himself to the likes of Lincoln or JFK, unfortunately for him, he won’t ever be in the same league.
NJ-Aviator
Sure. You have to have a certain degree of narcissism to try to be “leader of the free world”. So he wants to be great, and judged as great in the future? If that’s the case, that’s great for us, cause we’ll reap the benefits. Whether we’re talking about my point guard, my quarterback, my coach, my mayor, my governor, and particularly my President; I want him/her to have a very large ego and designs on achieving greatness.
Of course the opposing political hardliners will disagree on greatness just like lefties hate Reagan’s legacy and the far right hates FDR’s. That’s just politics, but unbiased objective analyists know greatness when they can see it,or look back on it. That’s what Obama is striving for.
Hell yes he cares about how this crisis turns out, and how his legacy turns out.
Well, uh, um, is Helen um Thomas, uh, in the room…uh..I’d like HER to uh, ask, uh, one of her, uh, bright and, uh, insightful questions…uh…hmmmadjlkdka
chapoutier,
Jake Tapper puts his transcript of his Q & A’s at the WH presser up at ABC’s Political Punch. You can read all of the ways Gibbs evades and refuses to give a straight answer. A Republican press secretary like that would have already been run out of town.
Absolutely. I don’t necessarily mean he’s sitting there in front of the reporter thinking, “legacy, legacy” in a conscious way, which I sense Chap is taking issue with. But I whole heartedly think that it’s what drives him. I think “gallows humor” is the appropriate term because he has a stake in this thing. I agree with Felix that the “stake” may not be financial, but I wholly believe that that he has a “stake” due to his commitment to his legacy and achieving greatness. As I’ve stated, I’m okay with that. I’m feelin redundant, so I’m gonna split, but you get my point. Peace out.
later
Gallows humor is just what it says. Something so bad you have to joke to maintain sanity.
If Obama wants a legacy He had better pray (oops), that the historians are not educated in truth as opposed to liberlism.
Two months in is not the time to worry about that. Look at Bill, He didn’t want one until he left office. Then the rewrites were in full left Modis.
Obama is staying above any fight. Just letting everyone else do it. Thus we have the teleprompter. The Glibbs do it for him.
I think you may have missed the part here where I did not defend Gibbs.
Snip snip and Gibbs is a gelding, he acts like one anyway. Clip his ears while you are at it.
Here Mr. Gibbs, THIS is for you: “Tri-Band” Bander
The too, sissy boy.
I was replying to this comment:
I would guess that April Ryan might have seen Obama laughing his way through discussing economic woes and was irked at more of the same from Gibbs.
Yes, I was incensed at Obama’s laughter. CWinNY is right. Gallows humor is told by the guy who’s about to be hanged. This laughter is coming from the guy who is kicking the chair out from under the economy.
Transcript There’s a video at Hot Air.
His laughter was inappropriate and offensive.
ArizonaNeanderthal,
I was the youngest of three boys on my Dad’s ranch. As such, I was the knifeman while my brothers held the calves down, and my Dad branded and inoculated the poor things. I had no idea ranchers have gravitated to using rubber bands rather than the old pocketknife and crimpers. But using rubber bands is a poor way of harvesting “rocky mountain oysters”.
He looks like a kid that got shoved into lockers in junior high. Could be why he’s so snarky?
There is nothing evident in the least to like about Beltway Bob. His so-called press briefings are an outright joke. The very few times any of the press have asked questions of any import he either stutters, acts like a jr. high kid or says he’ll get back to them–which he never does. Useless is the best term to describe him. Given that two of his previous jobs were with “Flip-Flop” Kerry and bigoted racist Fritz Hollings I can see why this no talent guy is working for BHO.
Agreed and nice job.
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over there?” When the bartender said “Yes,” the Republican sent over a
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Finally, Jesus came to the Democrat. He thanked him for the fries and
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NotaSlickFan
Thank you.
tamarah180
So true!
If “rocky mountain oysters” is what you want a knife is what you use. Less bleed outs with the bands. We even have GPS locater collars and scannable ear tags–lots of changes.
While Im standing here, the news is on in the other room, but I just realized something:
The economy is broken
The government is broken
Healthcare is broken
Immigration is broken
Foreign Policy is broken
Everything else seems to be broken
But we’re still the greatest country in the world.
So why do we need to fix ANYTHING? Congress is just dorking up my vibe.
Only thing needing fixing is Congress itself. The more it does to fix things, the more broken the the things get.
Gibbs can’t last much longer. He doesn’t seem to be cut out for this work now that they aren’t on the campaign trail.
I would rather listen to Al Franken read a Stuart Smalley book-on-tape during my commute than continue to sit through daily press briefings with this guy.
Man, do I miss Dana Perino.
We should start a pool on who will be the first sacrifice of the Obama administration. (Unvetted nominees that withdraw from consideration do NOT count.)
My picks, in order:
1) Gibbs
2) Geithner (sp?)
3) Gates (only because he’ll be the most successful cabinet member after the “historic first 100 days,” so they’ll have to dump him, right?)
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
I just want to say that– the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
STEVE KROFT:
Are you punch drunk?
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
No man, I’m just really funny. I mean, I kill myself. Did you hear the one about the Special Olympics? There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You guys do realize the title of this thread is “Snippy Time”, don’t you?
tamarah180, how true…humorous and truthful. thanx
Hey, newsies…you get what you pay for!
“Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk…”
Hey, Gibbs, you wanna learn yourself to engage in witty, appropriate comebacks and smackdowns? Dig up some old Tony Snow press conferences, watch them, study them, learn from them. A little caveat: there’s now way you’ll ever come close to matching that level of intelligent riposte. So don’t be too disappointed at your failure to be able to emulate his virtuosity, just do the best you can. Just keep saying to yourself: “I’m no daisy, I’m no daisy…”
and that is what I am proposing for Gibbs-calm the lad right down. CWinNY just uses another technique that’s all.
Robert Gibbs is the perfect poster child for the Obama administration – an inarticulate, babbling buffoon that can’t be taken seriously on anything.
“Stop being flip?”
I thought I had seen everything.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I think GLIBS should be asked about an interesting STAT: $116,000.00 per family of four is now the cost of the National Debt. Oh, I should say Tax payers also. I do believe that number is rising.
No they were too busy reporting on a “pop culture rock star” and “feelings” were more important than facts and the news or journalism,…. oops…. wait isn’t journalism their job?
I think they should change it from the the White House Daily Briefing, to the White House Daily Whine, cause everytime I hear Gibbs he sounds like he is whining.
I actually wish they used Andrew Dice Clay for the press.
But also because I heard him tell off Babs Striesand one time that had me on the floor.
tamarah180:
My wife is what is called (in a mixture of envy & awe) a “Molly Mormon” inside the LDS Culture. Indeed, after I’d stopped attending Church and had been inactive for about a decade, it was a chance meeting with her that brought me back to the Church.
Why am I telling you this? My wife’s sense of propriety is highly keen in religious matters…
When I read her your joke, she laughed so long and hard she couldn’t get her breath & she wet herself.
Thanks! And well done!!
And on her behalf & at her direction I write: Thank you! Great joke, well done!!
OT & aside:
Am I the only guy who has wondered *why* loss of bladder control during laughter is unique to women?
Listening to women talk (they’re quite frank about it…) among themselves, (it seems) its happened to every woman at one point or another. Do women simply feel laughter/humor more strongly than men?
I know certain other emotions run more strongly in women than men, and the reverse, too. But while I can see the reasons for the difference in the strength of the other emotions, I always thought laughter/humor would be similar between the sexes. What purpose would it serve to have the difference?
Women, any insight into this?
Yes; women’s urethras are much shorter than mens.
Which is why women are always lined up at the loo–they cannot hold it as long as men. And some men can hold it a loonnng time…
Also, women can lose the strength of the muscles in that area through childbirth, age etc.
oh, I would also like to ask tamarah–how is it that the Democrat recognized Jesus?
Worst Press Secretary ever, worst President since Carter. It’s amazing to me that the skinny butt community organizing clown fearing teleprompter reading son of a gun would choose such a snarky weasel as a press secretary, or not.