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As White House Briefings Get Hotter, Gibbs and Press Play Game of Piñata
FoxNews ^ | Wednesday, September 02, 2009 | Judson Berger

Posted on 09/04/2009 9:42:32 AM PDT by Joiseydude

If the president's mouthpiece is a human pinata, as one former press secretary put it, then Robert Gibbs is a papier mache tiger.

And the White House press secretary is feeling the hits more and more, as the daily briefings get more contentious and he faces an increasingly prying press corps.

Pinata may not be a role Gibbs is comfortable playing. His tendency is toward levity, and he's kept that trademark sense, injecting humor into the situation to keep tensions from flaring too much -- a joke here, a playful metaphor there, a little bit of physical comedy.

But in response to rising pressure, analysts say Gibbs is showing a thin skin, quick to punch back and take a dig at a reporter rather than absorb it and move on

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1 posted on 09/04/2009 9:42:32 AM PDT by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude

But is he full of candy and other treats?


2 posted on 09/04/2009 9:44:23 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Joiseydude

My guess is even the liberal media is starting to wake up and tired of being constantly lied to.

If the media ever does wake up and start telling the truth themselves the defecation will really hit the rotating device.


3 posted on 09/04/2009 9:45:12 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Joiseydude

Gibbs cannot defend his own ideology let alone the activities of this government.


4 posted on 09/04/2009 9:45:25 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: La Lydia

He’s full of something...


5 posted on 09/04/2009 9:46:34 AM PDT by AnglePark
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To: Joiseydude
Gibbs' liberal allies in State Media are all too happy to laugh and sneer right on que!

It is very disgusting to watch.

6 posted on 09/04/2009 9:46:59 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: AnglePark

La piñata tiene caca.


7 posted on 09/04/2009 9:47:28 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Joiseydude

Gibbs is an idiot. If he was a pubbie press secretary spouting such BS and nonsence, the presstitutes would rip him to pieces.


8 posted on 09/04/2009 9:49:00 AM PDT by wny
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To: Joiseydude
Beltway Bob and Baghdad Bob

The sad sordid story of two brothers separated at birth, but each doomed hold jobs spinning the lies of evil despots.

9 posted on 09/04/2009 9:49:13 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: TexasCajun

And when Gibbsy accepted the job he expected the toughest thing he would face would be catching all of those soft balls tossed his way for the next four years.

He is a microcosm of this entire Admin........fragile and wilting to all but the easiest of challenges.


10 posted on 09/04/2009 9:50:31 AM PDT by JoenTX (do it lo)
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To: Joiseydude
I believe the absolute latest Gibbs will last is February.
11 posted on 09/04/2009 9:51:07 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party.)
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To: Joiseydude
Pinata disasters
12 posted on 09/04/2009 9:51:07 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Joiseydude

This really puts into perspective for me how far we have fallen as a nation. (I just put this on another post as well, comparing the two makes me sick in the stomach)

13 posted on 09/04/2009 9:56:39 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: La Lydia

Do you have a stick to find out? This reminds I will have to look for that YouTube with Kathy Lee beating up the pinata with no mercy.


14 posted on 09/04/2009 9:57:29 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Joiseydude

I’d hit it.


15 posted on 09/04/2009 9:59:22 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: Joiseydude

I’ve predicted before that once support for Zero falls to a tipping point, his media allies will turn on him. Didn’t expect it this early, though.


16 posted on 09/04/2009 10:01:14 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Martha's Vineyard is great! Hey, honey, let's take a drive . . . .)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Gibbs employes circular reasoning as his primary approach. I don’t see why the attending “reporters” (I use the word loosely) have put up with him so far, given he treats them like school children. I find Gibbs to be intolerable.

In his typical whinny voice, Gibbs says: “It’s good because I like it and I say it is. I like it because it’s good, which is why I say it. You got that?”


17 posted on 09/04/2009 10:02:00 AM PDT by downtownconservative (As Obama lies, liberty dies!)
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To: GnuHere

I just did a search for it. It seems to have been taken down everywhere for a “terms of use violation.” I guess we’ll just have to imagine it.


18 posted on 09/04/2009 10:03:45 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Same results here - it was very funny - she was channeling something else besides Cinco de Mayo.


19 posted on 09/04/2009 10:05:45 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Joiseydude

Nothing very funny about Gibb’s jokes. Every one of them is an insult of some kind: attacks on Bush, Palin, or the reporter who dares ask a real question. Sometimes the whole Washington Press Corps is insulted.

It beats me how they can just stand there and take it, day after day, like good little whack-a-moles.


20 posted on 09/04/2009 10:06:12 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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