Tag Archive 'Robert Gibbs'

The great Tony Snow and the awful Helen Thomas

The following, from 2006, is a perfect video.  First, it shows what a horrible person Helen Thomas has always been.  Second, it highlights the Bush White House attitudes towards Israel as well as the late, great Tony Snow’s intelligence, wit and charm.  That’s as good a contrast as you can get to the anti-Israel White [...]

The Left and the Right come together to oppose the Senate’s health care bill

The Heritage Foundation has an excellent summary of the way in which the Left has finally caught on to something the Right figured out long ago; namely, that it’s unconscionable (and probably unconstitutional) for the government to force citizens to buy a product from a private purveyor: Explaining why he would vote against the Senate [...]

Press Secretary Gibbs perfectly exemplifies nanny state thinking

At first, when I watched White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I thought he was a buffoon. I then began to think that his gibberish was a rather clever approach to hiding unpalatable news. I’ve now realized that Gibbs is, above all, the perfect symbol of the Nanny State:  he believes that he and his [...]

The incoherence emanating from the White House *UPDATE*

One of the best things George Bush did during his presidency was to appoint the late, great Tony Snow as his press secretary.  Snow was a dream press secretary, straight out of central casting:  handsome, intelligent, erudite, informed, charming and witty.  Even the savagely anti-Bush press appeared to enjoy his statements and, once he was [...]

Gibbs emerges from cave after 8 years to make indescribably stupid comment

I’m rather enjoying Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who is proving himself to be an idiot without any savant attached.  When questioned about the tea party protests, Gibbs logically focused on the handful of signs that liked the current administration to a Nazi regime (logical because he is trying to discredit tea partiers).  He then voiced [...]

Objection, your honor! Non-responsive

If you are a young lawyer, struggling to learn what a non-responsive answer really looks like, you can’t do better than this question-and-answer session between Jake Tapper and Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs.  If Gibbs were any slicker, he’d just ooze right out of the room: TAPPER:  Robert, in terms of what Geithner and Summers [...]