Posted on 11/08/2010 7:35:10 AM PST by edpc
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is known for sparring with White House reporters, making for what often seems like an antagonistic mood in the briefing room.
But during President Obama's trip to India, Gibbs assumed the role of press advocate and threatened to pull Obama out of bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmoham Singh because three U.S. reporters were blocked from covering the meeting.
Indian officials would only let in five reporters into Hyderabad House in New Delhi instead of the agreed-upon eight.
The Washington Post's Scott Wilson—who was on White House pool duty today and filed the report for the White House press corps—wrote that "Gibbs announced loudly and persistently on steps of Hyderabad House that he would pull" President Obama out of the meeting "unless 'the White House 8' as we've come to be known, were all allowed in."
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Pretty nimble. He usually has it in his mouth.
they’re worried that their lies and B/S is not getting out enough so they need more of their sidekicks in this biased media to get the info out
The Democrats and the Press - thick as thieves they are.
Seriously now. WTH does Gibbs think he IS? Apparently he thinks he has the power to tell the president which meetings he can and cannot attend.
Amateurs. All of them.
Too bad somebody didn’t break Gibbs foot in the closing door.
I’ll caption it, “What do you mean my job has been outsourced?!”
For heavens sake, the world is already laughing at us, and now this ? this whole Administration is making a mockery of our Nation.
“For heavens sake, the world is already laughing at us, and now this ? this whole Administration is making a mockery of our Nation.”
Ah yes, the lost art of diplomacy.
Poor paranoid victimized liberals so close to the center of power.
They just look more and more petty every day
I wonder who the “White House 8” are? I hope it doesn’t include someone from the Huffington Post.
Check out the pic of Gibbs at this link. I heard he put his foot in the door and wouldn’t let Indian officials close it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/08/gibbs-threatens-pull-obama-meeting-press-dispute/
... or his head and teeth.
LLS
Maybe he does have that power...obama is a puppet...Who knows who or how many pull his strings.....
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