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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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,,,,,,,,,, who’s in charge of Dumbo today ? ,,,, check the duty roster ,,,,, Oh !!! ,,,, it’s Gibbs today .
,,,,,,,,,, who’s in charge of Dumbo today ? ,,,, check the duty roster ,,,,, Oh !!! ,,,, it’s Gibbs today .
Certainly no fan of this administration but I’ve spent enough time in India to know they pull this crap all the time. I can’t fault Gibbs. You have to get like that to get things done with those people. Indians take British bureaucracy to a whole new level. It’s why almost nothing works correctly there—except the trains, amazingly, and the Indians didn’t build that.
All Aboard!
He’s really pissing the Indians off. Along with his disgusting master.
I hope American Indians...get pissed off too!!
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