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The long hard hours required to work in a new administration must be getting to poor ole Baghdad Bob Gibbs. The alternative explanation for this face-palm video clip is that the man is seriously off his meds and doesn't have a clue what words actually come out of his mouth. If this is a multiple choice exam, I choose D. All of the Above. Though Gibbs has long been an absurd spokesmen for this rather absurd administration, he is becoming increasingly belligerent and bizarre as he tries to rationalize the policy positions of this administration. Perhaps that is a job...

ON THE ATTACK: Gibbs slammed Gallup's daily tracking poll that showed Obama's approval at the lowest point at this stage of any presidency since Truman's. "I'm sure a six-year old with a crayon" could do the same thing, he said of Gallup, labeling it "the EKG that is the Gallup trend" and calling it "meaningless." And that's the news. (10:04 a.m.)

Contentious exchanges between White House press secretaries and members of the media have been fairly commonplace during the past few presidential administrations. However, the one that took place Wednesday between White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and April Ryan of American Urban Radio, in which Gibbs essentially compared Ryan to a petulant child, is among the most heated (and entertaining) in recent memory. The testy exchange was sparked by Ryan's insistent questioning of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers' role at the recent state dinner, which has been in the headlines because of the fallout from Tareq and Michaele Salahi's...

Contentious exchanges between White House press secretaries and members of the media have been fairly commonplace during the past few presidential administrations. However, the one that took place Wednesday between White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and April Ryan of American Urban Radio, in which Gibbs essentially compared Ryan to a petulant child, is among the most heated (and entertaining) in recent memory. The testy exchange was sparked by Ryan's insistent questioning of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers' role at the recent state dinner, which has been in the headlines because of the fallout from Tareq and Michaele Salahi's...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs set the rumor mills a-grinding with a statement earlier today that may be a preemptive strike against any surprise "uptick" in unemployment. WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The White House has seen evidence that the U.S. November unemployment rate might creep upward from October's level of 10.2 percent, spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Thursday. Gibbs told reporters that he did not know what the November payrolls data, to be released on Friday, would show. But citing a recent data signal on payroll perfomance, he said that the White House would not be surprised if...

Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs this morning saying he does not know what would qualify former Vice-President Dick Cheney to render an opinion on Afghanistan. Gibbs was responding to remarks by Cheney in an interview Cheney did with Politico.

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A White House spokesman on Wednesday condemned a decision by the Israeli government to proceed with settlement expansion in Jerusalem. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration is “dismayed” by the Jerusalem Planning Committee’s decision that moved “forward on the approval process for the expansion of Gilo in Jerusalem.” Gilo is a neighborhood in Eastern Jerusalem. Gibbs said the move would hamper future peace negotiations in the Middle East the administration is trying to move forward. “At a time when we are working to re-launch negotiations, these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed,” Gibbs...

You know what? I think I can.

Asked about the several thousand protestors who gathered on Capitol Hill today to protest Democratic health care reform legislation, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs joked about one of the actors who was a featured speaker at the rally, saying, “I'm sure there's a Jon Voight joke in here somewhere, given he was one of the featured speakers, but…my father always told me my mouth would get me in trouble, and I have a feeling if I acted on the line that I'd like to give you, I'm almost positive that it would.” Voight spoke at the rally, decrying the...

For the second time in two weeks, Obama's Minister of Propaganda, Robert Gibbs, was asked about the Constitutionality of the Democrat proposal to force American citizens to buy a specific product, health insurance. As would be expected from the Marxist Obama administration, Gibbs dismissed the validity of the question.

Here is video of CNN's Wolf Blitzer interviewing Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, and Anita Dunn. Blitzer asked if there was anything they wish they had done "a little different." Axelrod answered "by in large things have gone as we intended." Axelrod said that Obama "does about two hours of homework every night and then he reads books and magazines after he's done with that." (Video)

Gibbs Says He Doesn’t Know if White House Has Reviewed Constitutionality of Forcing People to Buy Health Insurance Monday, November 02, 2009 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) - White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that he does not know if White House lawyers have reviewed whether it is constitutional for the federal government to order individuals to buy health insurance and said that the White House is not seriously considering the concerns of people such as Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) who believe the mandate is not constitutionally justified. This was the second time in two weeks that Gibbs...

ABC News fields at least one real reporter. He’s White House correspondent Jake Tapper. Most AT readers, like many Americans, are thoroughly convinced that the legacy media reports with a bias toward Obama and the policies of his administration. So, when a notable exception surfaces, it’s only right that he or she be acknowledged. Jake Tapper has a front row seat at the White House (WH) briefings. He shows all the signs of being a for-real reporter. Here’s visual evidence of that. Remember the cell phone irruption episode back on May 19th during one of Robert Gibbs’ press conferences before...

Is fuzzy math a new math? Fox’s Major Garrett, among others, tried to hold WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs feet to the fire on the “jobs saved or created” fuzzy math coming from the White House. Garret wonders, when you have 500,000 people filing for unemployment each week, how can you crow about 600,000 jobs? Gibbs answer is classic.

Charlston, SC- Doctors in South Carolina are reporting that all has gone well with Lindsay Graham’s recent surgery and that the long time Democrat Senator is resting comfortably and expected to make a full recovery. Graham, who early yesterday morning became the second person to undergo a complete personality transplant and the first individual to survive the procedure, is also reported to be in good spirits and eager to find out what it is like to make friends. Graham is well known for his work in the Senate. What is less well known is the fact that he suffered from...

Caption photo: Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defending policy on giving tickets to press events to special donors

If you didn’t notice it, Bret Baier of Fox News added a little zinger when he signed off tonight. Instead of “Fair and Balanced,” it was “Fair, Balanced and Unafraid.” It was an obvious reference to the threats coming from the White House.

If Obama and his Chicago thugs simply focused on the country's real enemies rather than American citizens and institutions which provide constructive criticism and honest discourse on the policies emanating from the White House, effective policy might be put in place which would advance an agenda supported by a true majority of citizens. But rather, we see an administration so focused on what, in its paranoid state, it perceives as enemies, that all of its energies are centered on discrediting Bush and Cheney, Fox News, talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, town hall attendees, tea party organizers, health insurance companies, Wall Street...

Here is video of Robert Gibbs on "Morning Joe" talking about Afghanistan. Gibbs was asked when he thinks Obama will make a decision on Afghanistan. He answered "I think in the coming weeks, I think in the next several weeks the President will make a decision and announce that decision and talk to the American people." Gibbs was also asked "does the President still consider Afghanistan a war of necessity?" He answered "absolutely." (Video)

One shouldn’t underestimate the significance of the pushback by the members of the White House news pool over the exclusion of Fox News from the interview process with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. The unanimous decision of members of the pool (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CNN) to refuse any interviews without Fox’s presence had the White House quickly and dramatically reversing course... That the pliable media, so long in the bag for Obama, saw a bigger issue: the freedom of the press. And they stood firm.... All of this was not only to marginalize Fox, but to set the stage...

Oh, this is going to be jolly good fun.

Here is a video report on ABC's Jake Tapper confronting White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the White House's decision to attack Fox News as not being a real news organization. Tapper asked Gibbs why they were doing that and what gave them the right to do so. Gibbs eventually said, "That's our opinion." Gibbs made the comment in an "off-camera" White House briefing yesterday. "It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of...

From this morning’s gaggle in White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ office: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one – (Crosstalk) Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage....

Here is video of Karl Rove reacting to accusations by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who claimed virtually nothing has been done in Afghanistan in eight years of U.S. presence there. Emanuel claimed they were having to start from scratch in Afghanistan. Rove pointed out in a picture of Obama's "War Council," that David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are present at the meeting. Rove said that is "highly unusual." In his years in the Bush White House, he said he never attended a war cabinet meeting. He also said it is unwise to put your press secretary in a...

Here is video of Helen Thomas pressing White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday over whether President Obama still supports a "Public Option" for Health Care, and whether he will "fight for it." Gibbs customarily dodged the question, and Thomas called him on it, saying she continues to ask about it because "I want your conscience to bother you." . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of the snarky and unprofessional White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs making sarcastic remarks about RNC Chairman Michael Steele yesterday, because Steele dared to question Obama's decision to go to Copenhagen, Denmark to lobby for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympic Games. Steele had commented that Obama might have other more important matters to see about - like the economy and jobs. Gibbs is asked about Steele's comments, and says "Who's he rooting for?" "Is he hoping to hop a plane to Brazil and catch the Olympics in Rio? Maybe it's Madrid." Some of the press laughed...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to quiet speculation about a possible falling out between President ... ... Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown by taking aim at one of his favorite targets: the British media. "I think this is media generated," Gibbs told reporters on Air Force One. "Stop reading those London tabloids."

With friends like ACORN, Pelosi, and Carter...

Gibbs blasts CNN for reporting on the Coast Guard's training exercise. But what really stands out is at the bottom of the article. Gibbs said "I tend not to question law enforcement". But didn't Obama say that cops acted stupidly regarding the Gates incident? Didn't Obama basically praise Gates for "questioning authority?"

Pity the poor viewer whose television doesn’t pick up CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FNC, or MSNBC and is forced to choose between spending the evening huddled over a radio or watching “So You Think You Can Dance.” Anyone doubt that Fox is going to win the time slot easily, incidentally, and reap a nice advertising windfall in the process? Money may grow on trees in ObamaWorld but the Murdoch empire still has a bottom line to worry about. Although Gibbs is right that it’s a sad

President Barack Obama will "draw some lines in the sand" on his priorities for healthcare reform, but issue no veto threats on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday. Administration officials, making the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, pledged that the president will detail his health reform initiative during a speech before a joint session of Congress this week, but were coy as to whether Obama would continue to vocally back a public (or "government-run") option for consumers. "I doubt we're going to get into heavy veto threats on Wednesday," Gibbs said during an appearance on...

Here is a video report by Fox News' Major Garrett saying White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters today that embattled "Gree Jobs" Czar Van Jones "continues to work in this administration." Gibbs also said as to those who sign onto the 9/11 "Truther" nonsense, it's "not something the President agrees with." Garrett said they pressed Gibbs for more on Van Jones, but Gibbs would not say more. . . . (Watch Video)

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may have slipped in yesterday's daily briefing when he referred to "our war on terror" in response to a question about the current situation in Afghanistan. This morning he was asked why he used the Bush-era term, since the Obama White House quickly abandoned it after the president took office. Mr. Gibbs simply responded, "We're focused on getting the strategy right." The phrase -- coined by President Obama's predecessor after the September 11th attacks -- has not been used at all by the current White House, whose budget referred instead to funding for "Overseas...

THE White House on Monday dismissed former vice president Dick Cheney's attacks on a probe into alleged CIA abuses of 'war on terrorism' detainees and sharply questioned his foreign policy judgment. 'This is the same song and dance we've heard since literally the first day of our administration,' spokesman Robert Gibbs said after Mr Cheney blasted the investigation as politically driven and harmful to national security. Mr Gibbs said Mr Cheney 'clearly had his facts on a number of things wrong' and highlighted Republican Senator John McCain's denunciation of CIA use of interrogation techniques widely seen as torture. 'I would...

The White House on Monday fired back after former Vice President Dick Cheney called the Obama administration's decision to open a probe into alleged CIA abuses an "outrageous political act." White House Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs broadly dismissed Cheney's comments on "FOX News Sunday" as typical and unfounded. "This is the same song and dance we've heard since literally the first day of our administration," Gibbs said. "The vice president ... clearly had his facts on a number of things wrong." Gibbs did not call out Cheney on specific misstatements, but suggested the former vice president's criticism about a newly...

Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today going back to using the phrase "War on Terror" in answer to a question as to why things are getting worse in Afghanistan. Gibbs was very defensive, launching into a response that essentially blamed it all on George W. Bush, saying it won't be turned around in a few months "after years of neglect." He then went on to say: "You can't under-resource the most important part of our War on Terror - you can't under-resource that for five, or six, or seven years.....and hope to snap your fingers...

Whitehouse Damage Control on Cheney Statements now on Fox www.foxnews.com

Earlier we discussed favorite episodes. Today, who is your favorite character and why? Tony? Ziva? Gibbs? McGee(k)?? Ducky? Palmer? Kate? Jen? You're not limited to these but can have characters that have appeared only once, twice, whatever..

President Barack Obama puzzled people when he said Washington "gets all wee-weed up." The White House offered a translation Friday: Folks are wetting the bed over the healthcare debate. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked during his daily on-camera briefing what Obama meant on Thursday when he decried the way his push for an ambitious healthcare overhaul had been played in the media. "There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up," Obama told an audience at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. "I don't know what it is. But that's what happens."...

Here is video of Robert Gibbs being asked if President Obama is willing to be a one term president if it meant getting health care reform passed....(Watch Video)

Here is video of Robert Gibbs trying to explain what President Obama meant when he said "wee wee'd up." . . .(Watch Video)

President Barack Obama has told lawmakers that he would give up a second term in office if it meant he could pass healthcare. At Friday's daily briefing at the White House, a reporter for The New York Times said that Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) was told by the president that he would that he was willing to be a one-term president if that meant getting health care reform through. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he was unclear if the president meant that specific to healthcare, but Gibbs said he has heard the president say that "if making tough...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs conceded Wednesday that the Obama administration has made some missteps while promoting its healthcare overhaul, but warned doubters that the legislative debate is far from over. "I don't think anybody here believes we've pitched a no-hit game, or a perfect game," said Gibbs, who was bombarded again with questions about whether President Barack Obama will attempt to strip a public insurance option from the final bill or move the overhaul without Republican votes. "I think we just have to continue to be out there," he said. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on...

Here is the link to hear Gibbs live at the press briefing. Starts in a minute or 3. http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

Here is video of Fox News Reporter Major Garrett talking about the White House responding to his questions concerning unsolicited emails citizens have been receiving from the White House. Garrett asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about it on Thursday, who would not answer Garrett's questions and treated Garrett rudely. Garrett reports that the White House released a statement saying that the White House does not send emails to people who have not requested that they receive messages. But they did blame "third party" organizations for sending emails to the White House which may have been added to the White House...

White House Reviews Names of Recipients of Unsolicited E-Mail on Health Care After a testy exchange between FOX News and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs over an e-mail list, the White House says it will review names of recipients who received unsolicited information to determine how they ended up on a distribution list sent out by the East Wing. FOXNews.com Friday, August 14, 2009 The White House on Friday was looking over a list of names submitted by FOX News of people who say they received unsolicited e-mails on health care from the White House, Barack Obama's presidential campaign or...

Major Garrett of Fox News asked Robert Gibbs White House spokesperson a very simple straightforward Health Care slash illegal email question yesterday. How did people who never had any communications with the White House receive unsolicited emails concerning Health Care from the White House.(see story) Gibbs’ inability to give a coherent answer left egg on his face as well as questions about the Obama White House violating the American people’s personal privacy not to mention the violating of the 2004 United States CAN-SPAM Act. Watch in horror (or delight) as Gibbs begins to look and sound like a fox biting...

The press secretary for Barack Obama, who first laughed at a question about the president's constitutional eligibility and later said there are 10,000 things more important, now is stumbling over the explanation. "I can't tell you why somebody believes, despite all preponderance of the evidence, that the president was born … uhm … in … uhh, uhh … was born here and not somewhere else. I've stopped trying to explain that," Robert Gibbs said in a recent news briefing. The response, in which he apparently meant, "I can't tell you why somebody believes that the president was born somewhere else...