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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ interview with The Hill published yesterday in which he expressed the White House’s growing frustration with criticism it has received from what he called the “professional left” only angered a group that was key to his victory in 2008.
Gibbs who was scheduled to give the White House press briefing yesterday suddenly came down with a cold and sent his deputy Bill Burton to face the media where he tried to soften what Gibbs had said.
From The Hill
Burton said he is not backing off what Gibbs said, but that frustrations at the White House, while real, are “minimal” compared to the focus aides bring to solving the larger issues of the day.
“I would just say that our focus today isn’t one article in a Hill publication, it’s what the president’s doing to strengthen the economy,” Burton said.
He noted: “I think what Gibbs was doing was having one conversation with one reporter, and in response to some questions about frustration, just answered honestly. I don’t think that it should be read as anything more than that.”
Burton added that Obama still believes liberals and others should hold him accountable, “and to a very high standard.”
He said that “every single person in [the White House], including the one that lives here,” can become frustrated with the chatter on cable TV. That comment was in reference to Gibbs’s defense of his remarks, in which he said he’s guilty of watching “too much cable.”
Burton dismissed calls for Gibbs’s resignation.
“I don’t think there’s any danger of that,” Burton said.
Maybe some in the press thought the term “professional left” was funny but MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann wasn’t laughing.
When Olbermann names Gibbs or any other liberal for that matter to his Worst Person in the World list then maybe, just maybe I’ll believe that he isn’t a member of the “professional left”.
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3 Comments for Olbermann: ‘W.H. Is More Like the Amateur Left’
The only way that you can use professional and Olbermann in the same sentence is if you are talking about asses.
Correct me if I’m wrong,,but isn’t Olbermann a cardcarrying member of the “Professional LEFT”???
In My Opinion,,The people that surround BHO,,,the EX-Weathermen,the mentors of BHO & Val Jarrett,,the Cass Sunstein’s of the world of RADICAL Left-Wing Politics,,,who have ,,in my opinion,,SET UP this Manchurian POTUS
to be THEIR puppet ,,while THEY pull the strings,,,are without a doubt are
Card-Carrying members of the “Professional LEFT”,,,of this I have no doubt.
They set BHO up in such a way that if you disagree,,they brand YOU a Racist
,,a typical LEFT Tactic.They call you names & DARE you to prove them wrong,
since THEY have the M S media in their pockets.They believe that they KNOW better than the rest of us,,why,,because WE DID NOT go to Harvard???
Think about some of the ideas BHO’s Czars have come up with & ask yourself if they sound Moderate to Conservative,,,such as Sterilants in the drinking water,so people CANNOT re-produce. Animals can SUE their owners.
The list of WHACKO ideas by Pro-lefties who have the ear (& soul) of the
POTUS just goes on & on. The reason that the “Pro-left” are upset with the
WH doughboy,Gibbs is that Gibbs actually had the Chutzpah to EXPOSE them for what they are. I believe that they HATE the USA,,but still want all of the rights & privileges of a Capitalistic society,,they just will NOT say so in public,,or else lose face with the Marxists & Commies they worship so much out loud,,and try their best to BEAT the system so as to pay as little ,,if any taxes at all,,& then scream AGAINST the same system,,another Left tactic. Think about it.
NOT RACIST,,,NOT VIOLENT,,,just NOT SILENT !!!
But what if he went all the way and named himself as the “Worst Person in the World.” He’d get one right.