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Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s press secretary, told reporters on Tuesday that he hopes the Comedy Central host can persuade enough Republican senators to vote for a 9/11 health bill so it can head to the president’s desk. Stewart has dedicated lengthy segments on “The Daily Show” to the legislation that would help the first responders on Sept. 11.

Gibbs clarifies Biden's forecast By MATT NEGRIN | 12/20/10 1:38 PM Updated: 12/20/10 1:59 PM White House press secretary Robert Gibbs sought to clear up Vice President Biden’s comments on U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan on Monday, arguing that the rebuilding nation will follow a similar path that Iraq did. Biden said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “we’re going to be totally out of there come hell or high water by 2014.” What Biden meant to say, Gibbs argued, was that the “combat role” in Afghanistan would end by 2014. “I would point you to what was decided...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday blasted Republican opposition to the New START Treaty, calling it a "new low in putting political stunts ahead of our national security." Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) call to read the entire treaty on the Senate floor in an effort to delay the ratification was described by Gibbs as "the height of hypocrisy." "While some express concern that the Senate doesn’t have time to debate the treaty, Sen. DeMint wants to waste 12 hours to read the text of a treaty that has been available to every member of the Senate and the...

The White House says it disagrees with a Virginia judge's ruling declaring a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law unconstitutional. But officials say it does not create uncertainty about the implementation of the law's provisions. "Our belief is that when all the legal wrangling is done, this is something that will be upheld," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle said that while the Virginia judge ruled against the law, the administration is encouraged by two other federal judges that have upheld the law. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson rejected...

Oh, I’ll bet they were. Say what you will about Axe, Gibbsy, and the rest of the crew, but I’d like to think they have the basic political common sense to avoid photo ops where the president has to skip out after a minute or two to go eat gingerbread cookies. I’d like to think The One had the same basic political common sense, but … we learn something new every day, don’t we? The leader of the free world and the ex-leader wandered a deserted hallway, past the offices of the senior advisers, only to discover the door...

President Obama has all but quit smoking, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday after the surgeon general issued a report on the health risks of tobacco as part of the administration’s anti-smoking campaign.

If White House press secretaries are windows to the presidential mindset, Robert Gibbs continues to reflect President Obama in an unpresidential light. Here the entire nation is in an uproar over the release of stolen U.S. State Department documents by WikiLeaks bad boy Julian Assange, and how does the White House respond? Well, it does not respond through President Obama himself, who prefers to reserve his bully pulpit for weightier matters, such as the arrest of his friend Henry Gates by Cambridge, Mass., police. Instead, he trots out the ever-snarky Gibbs to present the administration's position. Or maybe Gibbs trotted...

Greg Hengler scoffs at the explanation given by Robert Gibbs as to why Barack Obama has not yet personally responded to the Wikileaks exposure, but I think Obama may be playing it smart by keeping his mouth shut. Put aside, for the moment, the trouble Obama generated for himself when wading into law enforcement matters without informing himself of the salient facts. This is a question of punching below the weight of POTUS, and the legitimacy it lends to Julian Assange:

President Obama's spokesman is labeling as "ridiculous" an assertion by the founder of WikiLeaks that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should resign if she was involved in asking U.S. diplomats to gather intelligence at the United Nations. In an online interview with Time magazine from an undisclosed location, founder Julian Assange on Tuesday called on Mrs. Clinton to resign "if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering U.S. diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United Nations" in violation of international agreements. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Mr. Assange's statements "are...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has scaled back his on-camera daily briefing schedule compared to last year and also has only given 10 of them in October and November combined. His last and only on-camera briefing at the White House this month was November 4. Gibbs had one briefing in front of cameras on the president's recent Asia trip that included a couple of other senior advisers also answering questions.

According to the U.S. reporter who witnessed Gibbs' fight on behalf of what is being called the "White House 8" said the press secretary, at one point, literally had his foot in the door as the Indian security official tried hard to close it. Gibbs angrily asked if the official was trying to break his foot. It was only after Gibbs threatened to pull Obama from the meeting did the Indian officials relent. (This is not the first time Gibbs has made such a threat on a foreign trip.)

Speaking at the daily White House press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested that Americans do not want to repeal health care legislation, and said he thinks Republican attempts to do so won’t make it out of Congress.

Washington – No one should “read anything into" the fact that President Barack Obama repeatedly left out the word “Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence, nor should they read anything into the fact that he began using the word after the White House was questioned about the omission, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Gibbs did not say whether press reports about the omission prompted Obama to start using the term. The Declaration of Independence says “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed

Washington (CNSNews.com) – No one should “read anything into" the fact that President Barack Obama repeatedly left out the word “Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence, nor should they read anything into the fact that he began using the word after the White House was questioned about the omission, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Gibbs did not say whether press reports about the omission prompted Obama to start using the term. The Declaration of Independence says “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...

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One way in which press secretary Robert Gibbs resembles his boss, the president, is that the weaker the case they have, the more petulant and smug they both become. We saw that behavior play out again yesterday, when Gibbs was asked about the recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees approximately one third of all health-care spending in the United States.Dr. Berwick is controversial because he has spoken as a besotted lover of the British health-care system. “I am romantic about the National Health Service,” he said in 2008, referring to...

Reporter Reveals: Gibbs Privately Scolded Press for Asking Too Many BP Questions http://www.breitbart.tv/reporter-reveals-gibbs-privately-scolded-press-for-asking-too-many-bp-questions/ Naked Emperor News

As a Fox reporter brings up criticism likening the administration's response to [the Gulf oil spill] to President Bush's reaction to Hurricane Katrina, Gibbs launches into a tirade on Fox News for bringing former FEMA Director Michael Brown on the air to discuss the accusation that the Obama White House purposefully leaked the oil to walk back environmental and offshore drilling policies. "You should call headquarters, my friend," Gibbs says to the Fox reporter, asking him to talk with the person who decides which guests to book. "Your network put on the former FEMA director to make an accusation that...

BREAKING -- Gibbs: Obama cancels his trip to Indonesia White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said President Obama will postpone his trip to Indonesia until June.

Simple questions about how they plan to pass health care reform gets filibustered by Robert Gibbs, "There's going to be a vote on health-care reform this week. You're going to know where people are on health-care reform." he said repeatedly..(Video)