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Gibbs Takes Off Gloves to Challenge Reporters, Hosts Who Cross Obama
Fox ^ | 3/5/2009 | Fox

Posted on 03/05/2009 6:20:56 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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1 posted on 03/05/2009 6:20:56 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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Memo to White House Press Corps: Unless you are on Robert Gibbs’ Enemies List, you ain’t sh!t.


2 posted on 03/05/2009 6:22:43 AM PST by gridlock (BTW, Mods... It might be time to add "Barack" and "Obama" to spellcheck)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Maybe these attackes will wake these liberal journalists up to the fact that Obama’s arrogance has no bounds.


3 posted on 03/05/2009 6:23:36 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Red in Blue PA

Also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199121/posts


4 posted on 03/05/2009 6:24:24 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Geez.

The 54,000,000 “voters” put Barak Hussein Nixon in the White House.

Zero is Nixon redux.


5 posted on 03/05/2009 6:27:40 AM PST by OpusatFR (We can give up any pretense of having a government for and by the people after Coronation Day.)
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Being attacked by Robert Gibbs is like having a Chihuahua gnaw on your shoe....................


6 posted on 03/05/2009 6:28:05 AM PST by Red Badger (The Zero has more Chicago Bull than Michael Jordan...................)
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Gibbs is an intellectual lightweight.


7 posted on 03/05/2009 6:28:13 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: Red in Blue PA

I see this backfiring on the idiots in the WH in a big way!


8 posted on 03/05/2009 6:28:17 AM PST by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Bring it on Gibby Baby!


9 posted on 03/05/2009 6:28:23 AM PST by WellyP (obama must go!)
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Pres__ent Obama: "Execution of my critics will begin in five minutes."


10 posted on 03/05/2009 6:30:47 AM PST by Diogenesis ("All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities." - Mission)
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scary how the obama administration seems obsessed at attacking individual commentators


11 posted on 03/05/2009 6:33:25 AM PST by babubabu
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I know it shouldn’t surprise me anymore, but I’m always shocked at how liberals are, at heart, fascists who routinely seek to “educate”, demonize, and attempt to silence critics of their arrogant, yet incredibly naive, Utopian plans.


12 posted on 03/05/2009 6:35:31 AM PST by rockprof
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I think that eventually it will be considered a badge of honor to be called out by Gibbs. Imagine some one sniffing, “Gregory can’t be that objective, Gibbs hasn’t dissed him yet.”


13 posted on 03/05/2009 6:36:05 AM PST by PrincessB (The change he's peddling isn't something I believe in.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Contrast that to President Bush who was never bothered by the critics.


14 posted on 03/05/2009 6:36:27 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: FlashBack

I think it has already started.


15 posted on 03/05/2009 6:39:31 AM PST by Piquaboy
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To: Red in Blue PA

What a complete douche this guy is. I sense the reporters don’t even like him.


16 posted on 03/05/2009 6:39:38 AM PST by Darkwolf377
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But ONLY if his supporters in the MSM NOTICE. THEY are the ones promoting the attacks by THEIR stories.

Stories written without the background information we have.


17 posted on 03/05/2009 6:39:39 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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Looks as if they are telling the men in the white jackets to stay away.


18 posted on 03/05/2009 6:41:29 AM PST by Piquaboy
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Contrast that to President Bush who was never bothered by the critics.

Bush never really had anyone with any balls to go after any critic, whether an individual or organization, and I think that's one of his biggest failures. He let the media run right up one side, and down the other, and rarely ever got the good word out.

19 posted on 03/05/2009 6:46:10 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Gibbs is going to put on the boxing gloves and hit himself in the head.


20 posted on 03/05/2009 6:47:14 AM PST by popdonnelly (I don't live my life to gain the approval of liberals and leftists.)
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