You remember the in the movies how either the bride or groom gets left at the altar? Well, the groom in this case is Obama and the bride is the dominant liberal mass media (aka the White House Press Corps). The gloves have come off between the press secretary Robert Gibbs and the press who have their digs in the basement levels of the White House who grill him every day.
Needless to say, Robert Gibbs has a very real tendency to come into the press briefings completely unprepared for what he’s going to be asked about. I’m actually quite pleased with this little scene. It tells me a couple of things:
1) The actual press hounds who live, eat, and breath the White House press life are no more married to Obama’s administration than I am; and
2) Sooner or later, Gibbs is really going to screw up; and
3) The dominant liberal mass media (Rush calls them “drive by media”) are eventually going to tire of not getting a straight answer from Obama’s lackey, Robert Gibbs.
I can say all this with complete confidence because I have been going to www.whitehouse.gov and reviewing the daily press briefings. It’s pretty sad stuff to see. Mr. Gibbs has had an obvious lack of public speaking; has difficulty speaking to large groups (let alone small groups); cannot complete a sentence without stumbling and re-tracing what he said then starting over; gets miffed when a press hound pursues a line of questioning; and obviously has no clue what’s really going on in the White House because he’s not getting the information he needs to be well-enough informed to entertain any question put to him.
His favorite response seems to be, “I’ll look into that and get back to you”; however, I have yet to read where he has actually followed up on anything and reported back to the press corps in the White House. If he is following up, he is not being the “transparent” press secretary that he is supposed to be. There are no follow-ups to anything put to him in the transcripts of the press briefings, nor in subsequent press briefings. So, either he’s avoiding coming up with an answer or he simply doesn’t want to admit that he is so totally not worth spit when it comes to being a press secretary. A press secretary is supposed to be able to entertain any question put to him/her. His predecessors certainly were.
If the dominant liberal mass media doesn’t start getting real answers concerning this lie of a “stimulus” bill; the escalation of conflict in Afghanistan; the shifting of military priorities; the tax scandals that seem to be now plaguing all of the nominees and still dogging Geithner (yes – the press is continuing to pursue this one!), they will turn on Obama like a great white shark on a bee-line for the new seal pups that are the White House cabinet members.
Picture it now – the great white is circling, coming in closer and closer, but deep down in the ocean and it sees this dark form near the surface of the water – it’s a seal pup named Obama (or maybe Gibbs). The shark shifts into high speed and comes up from beneath the form and launches itself and the seal pup out of the water all the while cutting death strikes into the sides of the baby seal. Nature will take its course. The press is already becoming disenchanted with Obama’s people and, before long, they will go after the ‘One’ himself.
Maybe then they’ll decide to finally vett this person whom they have so lovingly placed upon a pedestal and proclaimed to be the governmental equivalent of the Messiah. Even Jesus was flailed and ridiculed (and eventually crucified).
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