[Sub-Driver]

what nonsense...

[Flightdeck]

Please let Gibbs stay right where he is all the way through the 2012 elections.

Amen

[Psycho_Bunny]

This loser couldn’t sell road apples to flies.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

This is just an extension of Obama's condescension toward the American people. Gibbs should know better than to insult the very people he has to work with.

This administration's antagonism toward ANYONE who questions them is boundless...and in very poor taste.

[Country Eagle]

I can’t believe how thin skinned this administration is. Everyone has to love “the one”

[bahblahbah]

[cricket]

yes, that certain 'slant'. . .where the 'Left' is righted; to vertical. . .

[Sax]

Does Gibbs think the general population is naive enough to accept his implied notion that the majority of the MSM represents impartial unbiased reporting, and FOX alone sticks out as a biased entity? They need to ask him what, if any, bias exists that leans to the left since he seems interested in addressing specific news outlets by name and force him into doing a go-nowhere question avoidance tap dance or tell an outright fib.

Is he really obtuse enough, or believes the American people are obtuse enough to not recognize that the reason Fox sticks out to him because it’s a contrast of extremes, not a contrast between and outlier and a neutral position.

[Thane_Banquo]

Gibbs and the WH do not like being questioned on anything.

[lonestar]

“I don't think many people have to watch Fox to understand the—the political slant that they have,” Gibbs said. “They're feeding an audience that they know want to see and hear a certain side of that argument.”

I watch Fox News to hear the other side of the story as the one reported by ABCNBCCBSCNN.

[arkady_renko]

He needs to keep this up so that he provides manure for someone who has just the seedlings of journalistic testicles to grow a real pair and ask, "Just who IS Barack Obama and how did become President?"

Keep that 'honey wagon' rolling Gibbs...

[meyer]

“I don't think many people have to watch Fox to understand the—the political slant that they have,” Gibbs said. “They're feeding an audience that they know want to see and hear a certain side of that argument.”

Why yes, Mr. Gibbs, we do want to see and hear a certain side of the argument. And that side is the TRUE side - something that your state-run media outlets like CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and the AP do not presently provide.

[Sax]

If Gibbs had any balls whatsoever, he could man it up, and speak some truth. There are more MSM outlets that have a left leaning bias than there are with a right leaning bias. The left leaning biased organizations benefit the current administration and the right leaning biased organizations hamper the administration. So, they'll pretend the left leaning bias does not exist and represents a neutral/unbiased position, and will attempt to devalue and vilify the right leaning bias. It's condensentively insulting and is a clear example that the administration is not comfortable dealing in the truth and operating in the sunshine.

[hsalaw]

Gibbs and the WH have already lost one fight with Fox. Why are they trying to pick another fight?

[RichInOC]

Because as everybody knows, the networks spend a lot of time running the daily briefings.

Uh, no, they don’t.

And of course the transcripts traditionally don’t identify the questioners, unless Bobby or whoever names them.

What is he babbling about?

[martin_fierro]

“I sometimes joke that I know when somebody thinks they have a good question, because when I walk in they've already got their makeup on.”

Converely, those who refuse to pose a hard question to you can remain butt-ugly.

[pillut48]

Let's try an imaginary slant on this issue:

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GibbsPerino: W.H. press posing for cameras

Press secretary Robert Gibbs Dana Perino chided the White House press corps Sunday, saying that some of its members are more interested in camera time than reporting.

“I wonder at times what it would be like” at his her daily briefings “if we turned the cameras off, and we could just have a discussion,” Gibbs Perino said on CNN’s FOX's “Reliable Sources,”"FOX News Sunday," likening the events to a “cable TV show.”

“I sometimes joke that I know when somebody thinks they have a good question, because when I walk in they've already got their makeup on.”

Responding to repeated questions from host Howard Kurtz Chris Wallace about why Obama Bush has held no press conferences since July 2009, Gibbs Perino seemed to dismiss their relevance, calling it “an arbitrary Washington measure” of the president’s accessibility. “This president has taken questions through countless interviews through – answering questions directly from the media,” Gibbs Perino said.

While more broadly expressing frustration with press coverage, Gibbs Perino singled out Fox MSNBC, saying that while the administration understands the need to “play the game” by giving the network access, it has a definitive “slant” in its coverage, including its news programs, and that it caters to a viewership that’s already made up its mind.

“I don't think many people have to watch Fox MSNBC to understand the—the political slant that they have,” Gibbs Perino said. “They're feeding an audience that they know want to see and hear a certain side of that argument.”

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(waits for liberal heads to stop exploding noisily across the land if this had truly occurred during the previous administration)

Yeah. That's what I thought.

[livius]

No press conference since July 2009? That should be a headline in itself.

What has he got to hide? Why is he afraid of even a sympathetic press? They all love him, so he knows he wouldn’t get any hostile questions (unlike the “essay questions” Bush used to get...questions prefaced by a verbal essay stating the reporter’s anti-Bush personal opinions on whatever the “question” was about).

Bambi performs very badly in public, particularly in situations that are unscripted or are supposed to appear so. IIRC, at the last press conference he had, all the questions had to be submitted in advance and pre-approved. But even that didn’t succeed in preventing him from giving stammering, stumbling, mispronounced and completely off-topic “answers.” And even his friends in the press were forced to make them public.

Gibbs and the gang have obviously decided it’s safer to keep him out of such situations as much as possible. Heck, they didn’t even allow the press at this latest “nuclear summit,” which is certainly a first - and yet the press isn’t even complaining. Strange, no?

[gusopol3]

This poser had a kiss and make-up session(Press airs grievances to Gibbs [rarely have I sensed such a level of anger...... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2495089/posts] with the press the other day after the Poser in Chief seriously breeched protocol by ditching the press for a D.C. outing. Now that the lap dog press has quietly lain back down under the table, he can say what he really thinks of them again.

[DennisR]

“I don’t think many people have to watch Fox to understand the—the political slant that they have,” Gibbs said. “They’re feeding an audience that they know want to see and hear a certain side of that argument.”

The Obama Administration: the pettiest, most vindictive, and most childish “administration” in history.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm ..?? Of course those who watch FOX do so with an already made up mind - this admin is the worst ever.

Is this why NBC, ABC, CBS, the NYT and the WP - HAVE ALL LOST VIEWERSHIP since FOX came on the scene. Guess the public got smart a lot sooner than Gibbs.