A Tardy Gibbs Enrages WH Press Corps

[tishaLA]

Robert Gibbs was a couple minutes late to the daily White House press briefing, and the whiny kids who make up the press corps were furious. And they were getting along so well!

Gibbs was 20 minutes late because he was, you know, talking to the president, but that is no excuse! Someone—Tapper?—opened things by sounding typically annoying and entitled: he doesn't want "a big showdown" but "it irritates everybody here," when Gibbs is late. Did you know one reporter was forced to skip lunch? It's true and also GROW UP. Gawker

(see video of idiot Tapper at link)

[MadBadger]

1. I wish we could see the end of Gibbs sneaking up on Chuck Todd.

That looked hilarious in the making.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

27. Just lost my train of thought

looking at this picture of Jindal. How on earth did this guy get elected? Oh me oh my.

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Were any of them being forced to stay there against their will? eom

[firedupdem]

3. Aww...Jeez...these jerks are acting like spoiled children. What

the hell else do they have to do but sit there and wait? They've already written their hit pieces. Fuck off Tapper!

[tishaLA]

4. Tapper is a specific genus of the jerk species

he's one of the most obnoxious reporters I have ever seen.

[Jennicut]

19. firedup, they have been babies for years! I remember how they treated Al Gore during his

campaign and essentially made fun of him and constantly picked on him. That is when I truly woke up to how there is no liberal or conservative press, just a corporate spoiled one.

[firedupdem]

22. You got it. They are horrible. n/t

[CJCRANE]

5. Maybe Gibbs

likes to know what he's talking about before he speaks...

[jenmito]

9. Good one!

I wish he would've said that to the reporters! :D

[bbinacan]

15. Gibbs had plenty

of time to do his homework. He needs to demonstrate some professionalism and be on time or announce that he will be late.

[Bunny]

18. Yes.

20 minutes late is not a "couple of minutes" late. He should have had someone make an announcement.

[Baltoman991]

20. Not surprising

that you'd defend the press seeing as how you're constantly going after all things Obama.

Fuck the press. No one twists their arms to make them stay there. And so what they had to wait 20 extra minutes to ask bullshit questions that they'd never dream to ask anyone in the Bush administration.

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[depakid]

6. I'd say keep 'em waiting EVERY day for a couple of weeks

until they get it in their heads that they're not that important.

[vaberella]

7. Did Bush EVER have DAILY press briefings? Just once?!

Yet, Gibbs is late because of some unforeseen drama and instead of being adults they whinge? Remove their passes and kick them out.

[jenmito]

10. His spokesperson usually DID have a daily briefing...

imagine how many lies they had to tell!

[vaberella]

23. Really? I never saw 1 of them. Where were they shown?

Could you ask questions? I never heard of them before.

[AZ Criminal JD]

24. All recent presidents have had daily press briefings

All are shown depending on what cable channel may be picking them up.

[jenmito]

25. The spokesperson (Scott McClellan, Ari Fleisher, etc.) gave daily

press briefings. They usually showed them on C-Span.

[vaberella]

26. Ahh...understood. Hmmm...I've just recently gotten into C-span.

I used to only watch Parliament stuff on stream. My bad. ^_^ Thanks Jen and others for the help.

[jenmito]

28. No problem...

sometimes it's on C-Span 2 or 3, but I always watched Bush's spokespeople lying their butts off every day. Believe it or not, David Gregory was just about the only one who was TOUGH on them. Now he acts like a RWer.

[Thrill]

8. I want to punch Tapper in his face so hard. His arrogance drives me nuts

[janx]

11. Forced to skip lunch?

Because of my job, I'm usually "forced to skip lunch" at least twice a week! There are many people who are "forced to skip lunch" and dinner, and breakfast a lot more often than that.

[Cha]

12. jake tapper is an overgrown

bullybrat with the gravitas of a pissant.

[bigwillq]

13. Did anyone tell the press

that Gibbs was going to be late?
Did Gibbs? :shrug:

It is not uncommon at some of the press conferences I have been at for work that an announcement is made about what time the conference is. If that person was going to be late, they made an announcement to say the conference will now be at such-and-such a time.

[hvn_nbr_2]

14. The White House press corpse is 8 years late in rising from their corpsitude. nt

[lunatica]

16. Did they have anything else to do, like some other vital journalism?

:sarcasm:

[PopSixSquish]

17. Jake Tapper Needs to be Extraordinarily Renditioned Off the Planet.

[jbnow]

29. "Enrages"? Really? "Irritates" would make sense, especially if

he didn't get word to them...
but enrages?
They are too caught up in the rage fad