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Gibbs Takes Off Gloves to Challenge Reporters, Hosts Who Cross Obama
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Posted on 03/04/2009 10:11:46 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Gibbs Takes Off Gloves to Challenge Reporters, Hosts Who Cross Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has singled out media personalities Jim Cramer, Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santelli in the course of less than two weeks.

FOXNews.com

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Jim Cramer. Rush Limbaugh. Rick Santelli.

What do they all have in common? Most likely, none of them is getting invited to the White House Christmas party.

All three media personalities have been singled out by President Obama's press shop in the course of less than two weeks. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, in doing so, has shown an unusual willingness to spar with cable and radio hosts who take shots at his boss.

The rebuttals have ranged from playful ribbing to disdainful scolding.

Talk show host Limbaugh has drawn the most ire from the White House. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called him out on Sunday for saying he wants Obama to fail, after Obama told Republican lawmakers not to listen to people like Limbaugh several weeks ago.

Gibbs followed up Monday, calling on conservative pundits to challenge Limbaugh on air.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Sub-Driver

Gibbs suffers haunting nightmares over the wedgies he got in school.


21 posted on 03/04/2009 10:20:51 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Welcome2thejungle
"Gibbs=Goebbels"

Gibbs=Bagdad Bob"

22 posted on 03/04/2009 10:20:55 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: Sub-Driver

I am sure the Dems will be standing in line to debate Rush. They are all master debaters you know?


23 posted on 03/04/2009 10:20:58 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is a good thing.


24 posted on 03/04/2009 10:22:08 AM PST by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Sub-Driver

25 posted on 03/04/2009 10:22:32 AM PST by IrishPennant
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To: mmichaels1970

“I also see it as an impromptu signal to the minions to press on and step up the attacks on those who may dare to be in opposition.”

Here’s my answer to the minions:

Who Dares Wins


26 posted on 03/04/2009 10:23:42 AM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: Sub-Driver

I think Cramer’s just trying to get on the ratings bandwagon. The thing Cramer, Rush, Santelli have in common is that they’ve garnered massive attention. Cramer saw Santelli, and then Rush, getting all this attention, and figured he better grab a slice of that pie for himself. It worked.


27 posted on 03/04/2009 10:25:28 AM PST by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: madinmadtown

He’s “scary creepy”.

You mean in a plastic veneer, brain-washed, automaton, all too “pleasant” kind of way? Gee, do you think he is being used to create another phony stereotype in O’s minions’ collective mind?


28 posted on 03/04/2009 10:25:39 AM PST by Melinda
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To: Sub-Driver

Very presidential.


29 posted on 03/04/2009 10:25:41 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("0bama talks, tanking stocks!"--WakeUpAndVote)
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To: Sub-Driver
This is so embarrassing.

A president singling out civilians. What will he do next? single out school children?
Doesn't he have more important things to fill his empty brain with?

The popularity contest is over. He won. Why can't he accept that himself?

He has proven that he is not suited for the office he sits in. Too childish. Immature. A disgrace.

30 posted on 03/04/2009 10:26:06 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: txnativegop

While they could be described as an attack on 1st amendment they are not unusual, even in more recent history. My dad related to me the many attacks by Harry Truman on commentators like H.V Kaltenborn. They ranged from anger to sarcastic mimicry. Of course Kaltenborn never responded directly to these attacks, but simply carried on with his criticisms. That would be a course folks like Santelli, Rush, and Cramer should emulate.


31 posted on 03/04/2009 10:27:10 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: madinmadtown

He’s like a little pissant who was likely teased incessantly as a child. Where I’m from, males like Gibbs are referred to as ‘p-—y a— mamas’ boys.


32 posted on 03/04/2009 10:27:58 AM PST by constitutiongirl ("Duty is ours. l - General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Didn’t Nixon do the same thing? The media hated that, I wonder what the difference is now?


33 posted on 03/04/2009 10:29:11 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: xkaydet65

Maybe, but since Obama has a demonstrated inability to handle criticism, I think we should pile on and make Obama crack up.


34 posted on 03/04/2009 10:29:19 AM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: Huck

I like that- a nice and appropriate ring to that.


35 posted on 03/04/2009 10:29:56 AM PST by Welcome2thejungle
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To: April Lexington
Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel!

Or even worse, electrons by the megawatt-hour.

36 posted on 03/04/2009 10:30:22 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("0bama talks, tanking stocks!"--WakeUpAndVote)
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To: Sub-Driver
Actions speak louder than words.....

GANGPLANK GIBBS

BAGHDAD BOB


37 posted on 03/04/2009 10:33:39 AM PST by BossLady ("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Say hello to Beltway Bob.
________________________________

LOL! Perfect!


38 posted on 03/04/2009 10:36:10 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“MOMMIEEEEEEEE” is what I’m hearing!


39 posted on 03/04/2009 10:40:11 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: txnativegop

This reminds me of a time when, as a hoops coach, I had to deal with a very sensitive ref. My ass’t had already been DQed and now the ref was telling me he’d forfeit the game because two parents of kids on my team were harassing him. He was aterrible ref having an awful game. i went to the parents and asked them to stop being personal and confine their jeers to criticising the ref’s performance not his antecedents. When the ref threatened me again I told him that the spectators had every right to criticize his performance and were doing so without making any untoward attacks. He walked awawy flummoxed and we lost anyway, but i had made my point and so had the parents.


40 posted on 03/04/2009 10:40:27 AM PST by xkaydet65
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