Posted on 03/07/2009 4:56:17 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Somewhere, William Safire is smiling. The nattering nabobs of negativism ride again!
On this evening’s Fox News Watch, panelist Jim Pinkerton cast White House press secretary Robert Gibbs as the Spiro Agnew of the Obama administration. It was Nixon VP Agnew who famously used speechwriter Safire’s archetype of alliteration to condemn media critics. Now it’s Gibbs striking out at Obama critics, from Rush Limbaugh to Rick Santelli to Jim Cramer.
JIM PINKERTON: Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, takes a shot at somebody in the media all the time now. Spiro Agnew did it for the right 40 years ago, and now the left is doing it.
There was another remarkable moment in this evening’s show . . .
View video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at finkelblog.com ...
Nattering nabobs ride again ping to Today show list.
The four horseman of the Apocalypse?
How does Mary do it?
Lots of 'D' batteries.
Lots of vodka
Kirsten wouldn’t budge tonight on her “Rush wants Barry to fail” talking point until Rich set her straight. Wonder why they didn’t cover the fact that the UK press is buzzing about the Brown visit and Barry and Michelle’s tacky trinkets while the drive-bys remain silent.
gaggle of four
I suspect her eyes are shut tight and she breathes through her mouth.
The Twittering Tyrants of Transcendentalism
Gibbs an Agnew? No way! Are there any good Agnew videos out there?
Quotes:
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
You forgot one of Agnew’s most famous phrases:
“Nolo contendere.”
Gibbs is like Scott McClellan, except not as smart.
This looks like a typical police lineup of hoods and con men.
As bad as Gibbs is, how would you like to explain this administration’s policies? Having to make the most corrupt incompetent gummit in history as the second coming?
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
I think gibbs talks super slow and pauses a lot to kill time. The more time he kills the fewer questions ha has to take.
I derive much pleasure from watching those reporters, whoc used to have lovely and sharp Dana Perino, now listen to bunches of nothing from the loathesome Gibbs.
Twinkle toes the ballerina and the three little gay pigs. All four want revenge against real men for the years of torment they suffered on the playground. They spent their entire adult lives with their noses planted squarely up the asses of men who were headed up the political ladder. Now that they are there they will go after every man who is not a limpwristed wimp like them.
I have insomnia
maybe his press conferences could put me to sleep
damn, maybe I found the cure.
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