VIDEO: CBS, Helen Thomas Challenge Gibbs On "Controlled" Town Hall

Real Clear Politics ^ | July 1, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

[ianschwartz]

CBS' Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the "tightly controlled" town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of "controlling the press." She said almost all White House/Obama events are "prepackaged." She accused the White House of not "having any answers."

[seanmerc]

You got it, Skink!

[seanmerc]

Courtesy ping for the Helen Thomas ping list. FReepmail me if you'd like to be added. Thanks for the tip, Skink!

[seanmerc]

...and what would an HT thread be without...

[seanmerc]

Boy, THERE’S an image I could’ve lived without...

[seanmerc]

She should know. I think she got there during the Lincoln Administration.

[seanmerc]

Yet ANOTHER image I could’ve lived without...

[machogirl]

Thank goodness it’s not Friday. My weekend would be ruined.

[RetSignman]

Helen, Helen, Helen, you poor, ugly old soul, now that you and your comrades have helped to install this commie in the white house, don’t you know you are now a Useful Idiot?

Do you know what Communist’s do with Useful Idiots? You and all your “Free Press” companions are now going to find out.

HINT: Shhhhhh.

[freedomlover]

I (heart) Helen bump.

[reagan_fanatic]

On a side note, Gibbs looks and acts more and more like Peter Griffin at each press conference

Yes he does.

[MaggieCarta]

Helen, Zero and TOTUS.

[seanmerc]

Great pic! Thanks.

[MaggieCarta]

You are very welcome. TOTUS is always very photogenic.

[Earthdweller]

"Well, now it’s clear she’s senile. They’ll have her out of the press corps by Friday at the latest."

I never thought I would say this but I hope Helen has some sort of protection. This admin is serious as a heart attack about this commie totalitarian regime thing. Everyone is a peon but the 500 people on the inside.

People are being unconstitutionally fired and crooked cronies are being rewarded.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“...she didn’t have an opportunity to hog the cameras.”

There’s a scary thought.

[the OlLine Rebel]

You know it’s pretty bad when 2 separate people each refer to Gibbs as the same kind of cartoon character.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Well, even if you don’t count Mays (RIP), there was:

-Ed McMahon
-Farrah Fawcett
-Michael Jackson (same day)

and now there is Karl Malden.

[the OlLine Rebel]

You are in the Twilight Zone.

Now, if only it would go full force and we’d back to full freedom in this country. That would be a great Twilight Zone.

[the OlLine Rebel]

What is Siberia in the US?

Oh, I guess way north in Palin’s Alaska.

[the OlLine Rebel]

ROFL