Converely, those who refuse to pose a hard question to you can remain butt-ugly.
Posted on 04/18/2010 8:58:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gibbs: W.H. press posing for cameras By: Dianna Heitz April 18, 2010 11:09 AM EDT
Press secretary Robert Gibbs chided the White House press corps Sunday, saying that some of its members are more interested in camera time than reporting.
“I wonder at times what it would be like” at his daily briefings “if we turned the cameras off, and we could just have a discussion,” Gibbs said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” likening the events to a “cable TV show.”
“I sometimes joke that I know when somebody thinks they have a good question, because when I walk in they've already got their makeup on.”
Responding to repeated questions from host Howard Kurtz about why Obama has held no press conferences since July 2009, Gibbs seemed to dismiss their relevance, calling it “an arbitrary Washington measure” of the president’s accessibility. “This president has taken questions through countless interviews through – answering questions directly from the media,” Gibbs said.
While more broadly expressing frustration with press coverage, Gibbs singled out Fox, saying that while the administration understands the need to “play the game” by giving the network access, it has a definitive “slant” in its coverage, including its news programs, and that it caters to a viewership that’s already made up its mind.
“I don't think many people have to watch Fox to understand the—the political slant that they have,” Gibbs said. “They're feeding an audience that they know want to see and hear a certain side of that argument.”
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Converely, those who refuse to pose a hard question to you can remain butt-ugly.
Agree. . .and 'Amen'.
Do wish Fox News had 'bumper stickers'/ whereby we could show 'support'. (Do have a 'Fox Nation' one...but prefer a 'real message'.)
They WARNED you - NOW DARE TO GO! - FOX NEWS.COM /lol
No question - it is the 'best address' for News. . .
Take that Gibbs - you lose!
“Converely, those who refuse to pose a hard question to you can remain butt-ugly.”
You may have cause and effect reversed here. Isn’t it at least possible that Helen Thomas’s appearance is a little cosmic joke played by God on those who shamelessly promote the Devil’s agenda by refusing to pose hard questions?
This photo has to be doctored. No way can you see Obama’s reflection in a mirror...
No press conference since July 2009? That should be a headline in itself.
What has he got to hide? Why is he afraid of even a sympathetic press? They all love him, so he knows he wouldn’t get any hostile questions (unlike the “essay questions” Bush used to get...questions prefaced by a verbal essay stating the reporter’s anti-Bush personal opinions on whatever the “question” was about).
Bambi performs very badly in public, particularly in situations that are unscripted or are supposed to appear so. IIRC, at the last press conference he had, all the questions had to be submitted in advance and pre-approved. But even that didn’t succeed in preventing him from giving stammering, stumbling, mispronounced and completely off-topic “answers.” And even his friends in the press were forced to make them public.
Gibbs and the gang have obviously decided it’s safer to keep him out of such situations as much as possible. Heck, they didn’t even allow the press at this latest “nuclear summit,” which is certainly a first - and yet the press isn’t even complaining. Strange, no?
This poser had a kiss and make-up session(Press airs grievances to Gibbs [rarely have I sensed such a level of anger...... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2495089/posts] with the press the other day after the Poser in Chief seriously breeched protocol by ditching the press for a D.C. outing. Now that the lap dog press has quietly lain back down under the table, he can say what he really thinks of them again.
LOL!! Post of the day! LOLOL!! :-)
Ayup! He’s one of our best weapons against this administrations.
Well, that's not what he's getting paid to do. He get's paid to say something to make the President look good, no matter what the circumstance, and to keep the President from having to answer any questions.
And he's not real good at that, either.
If a fiscal republican’s, if there are anymore, press secretary called out CNNNBAABAAPCBS ect... for promoting big government, more entitlement spending, would you have a problem with that?
We need a Machiavellian “Prince” running the country, not deficit whores who spend to garner votes or a get along by any means necessary, spineless politician posed as a “conservative” republican who is afraid to take on the press/members of the opposite side of the aisle.
If nothing at all, Gibbs should be commended for fearlessly taking on democrats ideological enemies without impunity. My hope is that some leader for limited government would be as fearless as the Obama machine, instead of “compromisers”.
“I don’t think many people have to watch Fox to understand the—the political slant that they have,” Gibbs said. “They’re feeding an audience that they know want to see and hear a certain side of that argument.”
The Obama Administration: the pettiest, most vindictive, and most childish “administration” in history.
Or watermelons on the side of the road even if he had the Highway Patrol to flag down cars.
Hmmmm ..?? Of course those who watch FOX do so with an already made up mind - this admin is the worst ever.
Is this why NBC, ABC, CBS, the NYT and the WP - HAVE ALL LOST VIEWERSHIP since FOX came on the scene. Guess the public got smart a lot sooner than Gibbs.
Yes, and based on their ratings, that would be most of America.
Even the Obama loving WH press corpse is getting fed up with Gibbs.
Oh, yes. . .while there are others, of course; 'Jerry' is Fox News' unequivical proof of balance.
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