White House Press Briefing 1:35pm ET - cnn stream live:

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http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream2

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1. watch reporters make funny faces not realizing they're on live... nt

[Kittycat]

2. Searching the crowd for the nose picker

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3. they switched to the stage - not as much fun as reporters primping and asking

"are we on?"

[Ian David]

4. I don't like our press secretary. He seems uncomfortable and insecure.

Even when he's talking about mundane things, he seems nearly as uncomfortable as Scotty when he knew he was lying.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. I disagree. Would you rather have one of Bush's talking point robots?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/magazine/21Gibbs-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1


ONE WAY THAT THE OBAMA MODEL in the White House would diverge sharply from the Bush model is that Gibbs knows his principal intimately — Obama’s mind, his history, his rhythms. In addition to his podium duties, Gibbs said he plans to continue to spend a great deal of time advising Obama. “That’s part of the role that the president-elect wants me to be taking on,” he told me.

Obama praises Gibbs’s intuitive sense of “what is on the minds of the American people,” and his ear for “how things play” in the media. “He’s honest, sometimes to a fault,” Obama said. “And he’s passionate about folks getting a fair shake.” Gibbs, he added, is “invaluable in any discussion we’re having about policy or politics. And beyond that, I trust him completely.”

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ON A TEAM known for its cerebral, even-tempered approach, Gibbs is something of a scrappy populist. “Because he has a Southern accent, I often think that he is underestimated by people,” Dunn said of Gibbs, who tends to be playfully chauvinistic about his Southern heritage. He counts himself a member of an organization called Rednecks for Obama, started by two old guys from Missouri operating out of a pick-up truck. He is a proud owner of a Rednecks for Obama T-shirt, button, bumper sticker and sign, all of which he says he will take to his office at the White House.

Called “Bobby” as a kid, Gibbs spent his formative years in the college town of Auburn, Ala. The son of two librarians, Gibbs hated to read as a child and, sure enough, grew up to make his living as a talker. His parents were liberal Democrats, part of the 10 percent of white Alabamans who voted for Obama over McCain, the lowest proportion in the country.

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Another recurring episode during the campaign was for Obama and his advisers to be debating something while Gibbs sat off to the side staring into his BlackBerry. Without looking up, Gibbs would utter some random thought that would stop the discussion cold.

“Well, there’s Gibbs’s one good idea for the day,” Obama would quip, according to Jim Margolis, a campaign ad man and media adviser.

Dunn tells the story of a tense practice session before the third debate in which Obama, sitting at a table, kept looking up intently at Gibbs across the room. They were sending urgent-looking BlackBerry messages back and forth, and Dunn became concerned that some crisis had arisen. When the session ended, the men ran over to each other. It was a Sunday afternoon, and they had been following the fortunes of Obama’s fantasy football team.

[Ian David]

10. Maybe I'll get used to him. n/t

[question everything]

5. Not on MSNBC. Is it over? (nt)

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6. just started. nt

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7. brief comments about Obama calls to governors, now Daschle ?s nt

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8. asking about the other nominees. nt

[Parker CA]

11. Man, they're like ridiculously rabid dogs today. Worse than most other days.

Gibbs is holding strong, but I bet he walks out of that room and into his office and lets a few f-er-bombs fly.

[leftynyc]

13. I can't watch these things

Seems the white house press corps found their balls at the same moment Obama was sworn in.

[jenmito]

15. Have you noticed that Jonathan Martin always looks like he wants to punch someone

in the face? He's the one who kept trying to ask Obama a question when he went down to the briefing room just to meet the reporters, he wouldn't back down and looked like he wanted to fight Obama.

[jenmito]

12. He was asked if Daschle was pressured or asked by Obama to withdraw...

and Gibbs replied, "Daschle went to Obama and requested his name be withdrawn..." and then the reporter said, "You still haven't answered the question-can you just give me a yes or no-did Obama ask Daschle to withdraw?" Gibbs answered, "no." Even THAT wasn't good enough for the guy. He THEN asked if anyone ELSE in the admin. asked Daschle to withdraw. :eyes:

[Parker CA]

14. This magically reborn tenacity is frustrating. Where the hell was this for the past 8 years???

Gibbs is though getting much better at moving onto the next question.

Be prepared for the beginning of the planned attack against Obama et al for their war and military policies. Since Betrayus made his appearance at the Super Bowl, hints have begun to emerge that there will be some forceful public opposition to his policies in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be very interesting to see how much of this line the MSM tows for the mutinous bastards in our Gvmnt that are going to try to pull off this crap.

[Elwood P Dowd]

16. Amazing how they have suddenly gone from lapdogs to bulldogs.

:banghead:

[Parker CA]

17. Half-brained bulldogs.

And now the puke f-ers are right back up on camera spouting off their total BS. WHY doesn't the MSM give ANY face-time to the Dem's????

THESE BASTARDS LOST!!! LIVE WITH IT.

[ellacott]

18. So true

It makes me mad. They are such hypocrites and we know we can't trust most of the reporting they do.

I sent an email to CNN to complain about Ed Henry.

[WinkyDink]

19. They know they won't be punished by Democrats (Cf, "Thomas, Helen").