Posted on 09/11/2009 9:38:02 AM PDT by bamahead
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs chastised CNN Friday morning for its reporting on a Coast Guard training exercise on ...
... the Potomac River, which suggested a security incident was in progress in the nation's capital.
"Before we report things like this, checking would be good," Gibbs said.
Responding directly to a CNN reporter's question about whether the public should have been notified about a training exercise, Gibbs was harshly sarcastic: "If anybody was unnecessarily alarmed based on erroneous reporting that denoted that shots had been fired, I think everybody is apologetic about that."
When another journalist noted that the Coast Guard was holding a news conference to take questions on the morning's events, Gibbs jabbed: "Hopefully CNN will go."
The president's spokesman also said the White House had not been notified in advance about any Coast Guard training exercise, but dismissed comparisons to the notoriously botched Air Force One flyover of Lower Manhattan earlier this year.
"I tend not to question law enforcement," Gibbs said, explaining the scheduling of the exercise was "a decision that was made by the Coast Guard."
Biting the hand that feeds him, isn’t he?
“Gibbs was harshly sarcastic:”
Somebody should really go off on this twerp...
This is the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION gaff, not CNN.
Naa I’m sure he knows CNN will still lick his master’s boots once they all kiss and make up.
Bwahahahahahhahaha
CNNnot following the script
..."a decision that was made by the Coast Guard."I find it very difficult to imagine that anyone in the Coast Guard would have scheduled a sure-to-be-misinterpreted training exercise on 9/11. As far as I'm concerned, that just defies belief.
Why would the Coast Guard schedule an exercise on 9/11? A day when everyone would be jittery to begin with!!!
Your boss doesn't...
The press will eventually take him down, they just have to finally realize he is their enemy.
Hell he is Americas enemy.
You got that right. Nobody at the USCG would schedule someting like this without notifying everyone and their mother. They are afraid of their own shadows politically.
standing by my contention that a rift will develop and many in the media WILL turn on the chosen one...
The Coast Guard “acted stupidly.”
MSNBC is the official ‘Boma network. CNN is deeply saddened.
Training is scheduled everyday and I am sure the secret service would not broadcast the presidents schedule.
Maybe the CIA lied to the speaker
This government, our government is simply falling down all over its inept self.
There seems to be a lack of leadership in Bambi's G'mintWhy wasn't the US Coast Guard,
as part the Department of Homeland Security
working to protect the POTUS in the area ?
Shouldn't that have been you. Freudian slip ? :-)
That doesn't make him CNN's enemy.
The problem with Baghdad Bobby is that he doesn't question ANYTHING.
HAH! In the words of the great pretender: "The Cambridge Police uh acted... stupidly".
Negabama has picked out for attack all the conservatives and all their smears have failed and even backfired, now its clinton news net’s turn in the barrel.
Drip, drip, drip. Great ploy, pissoff your makers and supporters.
CNN will just bow down and accept its lashes.
Shouldn’t slap the monkey thats feeding out of your hand. It could bite back.
I’m with you Bob. It is starting to look like both the flyover and now this was done on purpose. Much like poking us with a stick on 911.
I can’t believe that anyone thought that this type of exercise occurring where it did on this date was a good idea. I keep picturing someone laughing their *ss off.
The alternative is that we have quite a few dumb clucks in positions they have no business being in. Then let’s clean some house. Once again, the people are told to basically sit down, shut up and stop asking questions.
“I tend not to question law enforcement,”
Unless your name happens to be Sgt. James Crowley...,
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“I tend not to question law enforcement,”
Let’s hear him say that when the house of cards falls and close associates are indicted.
Obama = Amateur Hour.
Flaming obvious he has never run a thing in his life.
CNN = a failure in investigative journalism
Just a modicum of good taste let alone common sense might have prevented the USCG from staging this exercise on the Potomac on this day.
Put this together with AF1's buzzover of Manhattan & you've really got to wonder if these people are deliberately re-terrorizing the people of those 2 communities to try to desensitize the rest of the country in an effort to minimize what happened.
Bizarre.
First class FUBAR. We Navy and Coastie vets are still laughing at Gibby the Hamster.
Amen!
This entire administration is a joke. Chicago hoodlum kids that don’t have a clue are running this country. It’s a mess, out of control, we are ripe for attacks. Be afraid and pray for America.
Hey Gibbs...how about checking on that ACORN bunch you seem to like so much...to the tune of 8.5 BILLION IN TAXPAYER dollars. Gibbs, you are such a dunce, it is doubtful if you even know what ACORN is nationwide. THey lie, cheat and add numbers to the vote count for starters...14 states and counting.
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