You are correct. Dead on right!
Gibbs is all diversion, the creep-factor is all a part of the gig, which is like jangling car keys and other shinny objects in front of a basically brain-dead press corp. These guys know the press personalities in the White House Press closet are all ego, just as you know "the danger has passed when the press starts turning their cameras on one another."
Those morons actually think they matter, or they are afraid they don't matter, or they think that they should matter. They can't divorce themselves from "the story."
In this situation, there is no story. It's all make-believe dreamed up by Carvell and his plumbers to insure the press is not paying attention to stories that DO matter, like the economy and the diplomacy game, just shy of war, all over the globe.
They would rather we were talking about Gibbs, and being creeped out, than looking at our bank balance.
Compared to Tony Snow Robert Gibbs is a ignorant fat assed idiot. Geez I miss the class Tony brought to the position.