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The White House announced that the frequency of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ on-camera media briefings is being scaled back. “He was getting more ‘face time’ with the media than the President,” said David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Obama. “No one should be getting more face time than the President.” There is also some speculation that the Administration will be deemphasizing communications in the context of the intent to govern by Executive Order. “It’s not as if the President is under any obligation to answer questions either personally or through his Press Secretary,” said John Podesta, former Chief of Staff...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has scaled back his on-camera daily briefing schedule compared to last year and also has only given 10 of them in October and November combined. His last and only on-camera briefing at the White House this month was November 4. Gibbs had one briefing in front of cameras on the president's recent Asia trip that included a couple of other senior advisers also answering questions. "I think they may just want to lay low with him," says Pulitzer Prize winner and media critic Dorothy Rabinowitz, who is also is a member of the editorial...

Obama defends Gibbs’ bullying and intimidating of Indian security officials. On Air Force One on his return trip back to the States after a four-country swing through India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan, Obama told reporters that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ antics (read: bullying and strong-arming) against Indian security officials were for a "good cause." People will remember the decidedly undiplomatic and aggressive photo of Gibbs which appeared in the media last week: He aggressively pointing his finger in the face of an Indian official while childishly insisting that the Obama Administration get their way with regards to...

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is known for sparring with White House reporters, making for what often seems an antagonistic mood in the press briefing room. But during President Obama's trip to India, Gibbs assumed the role of press advocate and threatened to pull Obama out of bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh because three U.S. reporters were blocked from covering the meeting. Indian officials would let only five reporters into Hyderabad House in New Delhi instead of the agreed-upon eight. The Washington Post's Scott Wilson—who was on White House pool duty Monday and filed the report for the...

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is known for sparring with White House reporters, making for what often seems like an antagonistic mood in the briefing room. But during President Obama's trip to India, Gibbs assumed the role of press advocate and threatened to pull Obama out of bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmoham Singh because three U.S. reporters were blocked from covering the meeting. Indian officials would only let in five reporters into Hyderabad House in New Delhi instead of the agreed-upon eight. The Washington Post's Scott Wilson—who was on White House pool duty today and filed the report for...

TAPPER: You have said and the president also suggested that the message of Tuesday's elections is that the American people want the parties to work together. Where do you get that from? GIBBS: I think Washington writ large was not held in high regard, and I think people disapproved of, according to those polls, the way Congress worked. TAPPER: A majority of the American people think that the president's policies will do long-term harm to the nation. It would seem that the message from Tuesday is they don't like what this administration is doing and therefore when the Republicans say...

The White House does not think President Obama will have to veto legislation repealing his signature legislative accomplishments. Though Republicans are rattling their sabers with threats to repeal the new healthcare and financial regulatory laws, the White House feels safe with its buffer in the Democratic Senate. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday he does not think repeal legislation would make it out of both houses of Congress. “I honestly don't think it will come to that,” Gibbs said at his daily briefing on Thursday in response to a question about whether Obama would veto any attempts at...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters on Thursday that the “new math” in the parties’ makeup in Congress will force the administration to work more closely with Republicans.

Robert Gibbs must think he’s not taking enough questions. The White House press secretary announced a new idea on Thursday: routine responses to questions submitted on Twitter. Gibbs solicited followers of his Twitter account to send him a prompt for the “first questions” feature.

Alternate headline: “Confirmed: White House actually trying to lose now.” We don’t know the make or model of the car President Obama and Democrats say they’ve been trying to push out of the ditch, but at least we know what’s on the bumper. “Look, there’s, there’s an Obama bumper sticker on the car. We get that,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs in response to a question from CNN. Gibbs was attempting to illustrate that President Obama is taking responsibility for fixing the economy. That new addition to a metaphor President Obama has repeated over and over again on the...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) political shots at President Obama should stop after Election Day unless McConnell is running for president. Seizing on McConnell’s remarks this week about making Obama a one-term president, Gibbs said Obama will continue to reach out to Republicans even as GOP leaders signal they will bring gridlock to Washington if they win congressional majorities. Outlining the White House message in coming days, Gibbs said Obama “will reach out as he did and try as best as he can to work with the Republican Party.” In...

The president, most assuredly, believes in the Declaration of Independence. That's the word today from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who was asked why in recent weeks President Obama twice has edited out "by their Creator" when quoting from the founding document. The issue was raised by Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, who is second in seniority among reporters on the beat.

Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men Who persist to query me on matters that they know I must ignore. As I parry, neatly jinking, Tapper stares at me, unblinking; No doubt he is thinking, thinking Robert Gibbs is short one oar. “Jake the Malcontent,” I mumble, “never one to seek rapport.” Of them all, him I abhor.

Hey where’s everyone going? Defense secretary Robert Gates, and senior adviser David Axelrod, The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, national security advisor General James Jones, the entire economics team, of whom Peter Orszag and Christina Romer have already gone, they’re all leaving. Then there’s Larry Summers, the director of the National Economic Council and the dead fish himself, White house chief of staff Rahm Emanuel who also doubled as political strategist to president Barry Hussein Soetoro, all high level advisers all jumping ship. But don’t worry it’s all good! I’m sure the spin that media and Democrats will put...

Many television pundits, newspapers columnists and ordinary Americans have spent the last few days wondering why President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats have chosen donor disclosure as their last stand issue in the upcoming mid-term elections. Their accusations of foreign money influencing American elections have been proven baseless and their insinuations about 'shadowy third-party groups' have only served as a reminder that protecting donors' privacy is not only perfectly legal, it has been practiced by Team Obama for years. So why is the administration still barreling forward with an attack plan that should have been quickly abandoned once it...

Just months after NASA Administrator Charles Bolden drew public attention for claiming his “foremost” directive from the Obama White House was increased outreach to the Muslim world, he’s embarked on a trip this weekend to Saudi Arabia. In early July, Bolden told Al Jazeera network that one of President Obama’s directives for him was “to reach out to the Muslim world and engage with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering.” Days later, the White House contradicted Bolden’s remarks; Press secretary Robert Gibbs reported that such activities were not among Mr....

The ineptitude with which the White House and the Democratic party is handling the political crisis it finds itself in is utterly baffling. Politico’s Mike Allen has the scoop here that Robert Gibbs, Obama’s mouthpiece, is being considered as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. This is utterly bonkers for the following reasons: 1. The mid-term elections have not yet been held. Why on earth is a new name – and such a controversial one – being floated now when the whole Democratic focus should be on November 2nd? This is doubly so after the premature departure of Rahm Emanuel....

Exclusive: Gibbs eyed for DNC chair By: Mike Allen October 2, 2010 09:41 AM EDT Democratic insiders are taking the temperature of some top party donors about the possibility of naming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs as chairman of the Democratic National Committee heading into President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, senior officials tell POLITICO. Under the scenario being tested, Tim Kaine, the current DNC chairman and former governor of Virginia, would be named to a top administration post, perhaps in the Cabinet, the officials said. Donors’ response has been positive, according to people who have been consulted....

Why anyone falls for this nonsense anymore is beyond me.

The National Rifle Association last week endorsed "A plus"-rated Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover, over "A"-rated GOP challenger Bob Gibbs. Space's campaign was quick last week to tout the NRA nod - and for understandable reasons. Eastern and southern Ohio's18th Congressional District is fertile turf for gun-rights issues.