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VIDEO: CBS, Helen Thomas Challenge Gibbs On "Controlled" Town Hall
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 1, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

Posted on 07/01/2009 10:10:10 AM PDT by 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."

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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhohealthcare; bhopress; bhotownhalls; cbs; chipreid; dims; dumbocrats; helenthomas; liberalmeathead; petergriffin; rats
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To: seanmerc

Hmmm. This may be the first probing question a reporter has asked Obama. Ever.

I doubt they would have asked him had they not felt slighted. They’ve been licking his boots for a year; I’m sure they think they deserve all the limelight in press conferences.

(Sorry about using the word “probing” in a post about Hellen.)


121 posted on 07/01/2009 7:08:54 PM PDT by Melian ("Now, Y'all without sin can cast the first stone." ~H.I. McDunnough)
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To: Melian

It was actually pretty cool to watch a couple of reporters dance on Gibbs’ head. Classic!


122 posted on 07/01/2009 7:19:10 PM PDT by seanmerc
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To: nascarnation

Helen Thomas is way pass the age of having any ‘HOTS’


123 posted on 07/01/2009 8:26:27 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: seanmerc
*DANG!*
everytime I see that image.
I wonder, Is this enough?

IS THIS ENOUGH EYE WASH?

124 posted on 07/02/2009 7:27:04 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0Bambi to the poor voter: Welcome to 0bamacare (Peasant Care ®) You Sucker... Now Die! :^)
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