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Shortly after it was revealed the Obama administration is engaging in a coordinated media attack on Rush Limbaugh, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs admitted that he's having fun battling the conservative talk radio host.

Gibbs is apparently also enjoying the sparring with CNBC's Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli.

Anything to distract the nation from a deteriorating economy and the obvious lack of a plan to do anything about it I guess.

As reported by the Hill Thursday:

President Obama’s spokesman and confidant simply characterizes his battles with Limbaugh and CNBC commentators Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer as “fun.”

He adds that the rationale behind engaging those critics from the podium of the White House briefing room is to correct the record on Obama’s policies during times of severe economic uncertainty.

“There’s a certain amount of theater to it that might make it more fun, but it’s important that people understand the policy,” Gibbs said in his West Wing office.

Actually, Bob, I think people do understand the policy. That's why the market is down 20 percent since Inauguration Day, and why stocks plummet virtually every time you or any member of the Adminstration talks about the economy.


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Bush Derangement Syndrome Mutated

And is now Rush Derangement Syndrome. 

Isn't Gibbs the same idiot...

Isn't Gibbs the same idiot who just a few months ago accused Sean Hannity of being an anti-Semite on Hannity and Colmes, even prompting the obnoxious Alan Colmes to say that Hannity isn't anti-Semtic? As if that wasn't obvious already. Colmes himself is Jewish and Sean wouldn't have allowed him as his co-host if he was anti-Semtic.

DJ... LOL...yep, I'm

DJ...

LOL...yep, I'm pretty sure that is the same guy...

He belongs on The Andy Griffith Show playing Gomer's little helper at the gas station or some-such.

Unethical

How does this administration get away with using government resources to attack a private citizen? Isn't this one of the charges against Nixon? There are administration employees in our White House, and you and I are paying their salaries, using government computers and telecommunications to attack a private citizen. This is highly unethical and possibly illegal.

We have seen Congressmen under ethics charges for simply using government letterhead for fundraising, or making campaign calls from their government telephones. Why is there no concern over what Dear Leader is doing?

So people can't laugh a little until the DJIA rebounds?

Laughter is good for the soul. Besides, its helping the economy. Rush himself has said they are expanding his base. The Washington Post says Rush's ratings have doubled with this war. Don't you see how the administration is helping private enterprise and having fun?

They're also inspiring new production. There's the anti Rush bumper stickers. There are the anti Rush television productions that are being put together at this very moment. It is making it easier for comedy writers to remain employed. And this new product I'm thinking about. Yup, this is an exclusive! The Limbo ( have to consult a few lawyers before I call it Limbaugh) Crying Towel - A simple white towel with a cartoon of this heavy set character weeping and saying "I'm a privath citithen!"

This can help the economy and be fun. Multitasking at its finest. :)

 

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

Somebody really loves his "Rush is crying" schtick

  I wonder who that might be.

  nwahs

Needlessly Whining About Her Spam

Nonstop Whining Against Her Superiors

Nelly Wants A Huge Socialist 

Nauseated, Wobbly, Anemic, Haggard, & Spineless

Nasty Watery Afflicted Horrid Stool

Necrotic Weeping Asymptomatic Hapless Sore

Neverending Worship & Adulation for Hamas Silly

Nonsensical Weasels Appreciate His Schtick

Nasally Wimps Always Heart Socialists

Nagging Womens About His Socks

I can't wait to get my

I can't wait to get my President Crackhead T-Shirt.

In a battle of wits with

In a battle of wits with Rush Limbaugh, Gibbs is virtually unarmed.

-Dave

This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.

Nothing to laugh about

nwah:So people can't laugh a little...   Apparently you operate with the same blissful ignorace as Obama does.  People are losing their 401ks, jobs, I don't see anything to laugh about concerning this.  The community rablerouser turned president is clearly in over his head.  He's tanking the economy and I see nothing to laugh about.

Pull yourself up by the bootstraps

And smile a little. When cel phones, video games, and car stereo systems stop selling, then I'll worry about how awful the economy is. Until then, thank God you aren't looking out over emaciated Americans as was the case in the 30's.

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

You know Shawn,

The reason why cell phones, video games, and car stereo systems (?) are still selling is because our Main Stream Media Cheerleaders are really workin' it to convince Americans that everything is peachy, and Obama's going to save us all from "desperation".

If the MSM would stop cheering Obama on, and begin to objectivally report the facts, the sheeple of this country would be shocked to find out the "change" Obama always had in mind for them.

Keep smirking, Shawn. 

→ In other words

Gibbs: "I may as well try out my comedy routine while my boss is selling your kids into slavery"

Hey, have you guys read "Uncle Mao's Plantation"?  ba-dump.

That Gibbs!  He's a real hoot.

Obama - Change you can bereave in

Well shawn, all of what you

Well shawn, all of what you wrote may make sense excpt that that big eared poser in the White House is one of the thinnest skinned fellas I have ever seen.  He's just a big cry baby that has his toadys do his dirty work.

Rush can handle this cretin, no problem there.  But see if you can get Obami to stop crying for five minutes and accomplish one single thing that is in the benefit of the United States.  He is turning out to be the worst president in at least 100 years, just based on the stock market alone much less everything else.  And I survived the Carter term.

"Baghdad Bob" Gibbs

I guess every great socialist leader needs a good propaganda man...

Robert

Can you say----"I am a loser"?

You are participating in a game played by targeting a US citizen. The lies and twists and turns you are using are PROPAGANDA!

This is not the proper way for The Office of The President to be functioning!

They're doing it for the sake of clarity

Everybody knew what Rush Limbaugh meant, even if (as I argue) he expressed it awkwardly. The White House has been hammering Limbaugh, using a misinterpretation as its bludgeon. They've been going out of their way to spread the idea that the "leader of the Republican party" wants the president to fail.

And now Gibbs says that they're just doing it for fun (trying to destroy a private citizen is fun?) and to make sure that people understand their policy (what policy? their deliberate misinterpretation?).

What does that tell you? I'd say it proves that the White House is being criticized for wasting their time on this crap when there's other work to be done. They're trying to find a less-damaging way to back out of it. It was all a joke, they'll say.

I guess we have four years of this adolescent nonsense to look forward to, instead of real leadership.

→ It's so funny

Obama declares he doesn't pay attention to the Stock Market, but he's keenly aware of Rush Limbaugh.

He's got some serious priority issues.

Obama - Change you can bereave in

And let's not forget

They don't have time to work on a $410 billion package, and they don't have time to staff the Treasury Department. They don't even have time to research a gift.

Exactly what are they doing?

Fiddling

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

LOL!

I think you're right ...

I was going to read your post

But Blonde one word tagged it as a troll, so now I know "we" don't approve of your post.....

Oh shhhhhhh- lets live a little...

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

Once again

The humour sails six feet over your head.

Never mind.

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

We understood it. Nero fiddled.

   He is not off limits I hope.

  Never Will Apprehend Humourous Situations 

Poster 1:

Poster1: I bow to the vacancy sign on your forehead.

Dittohead: Ha! You can't even read, you dumb liberal. I looked in the mirror. It says "ycnacav."

 

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

~Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf!!!!

Hope and Change=
Despair and Socialism

Happy Saturday

Hiya choose! Nothing like the warm sun on your back as you stroll atop a fence :)

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

~Funny you should say that...

I don't know where your fence is, but here in NC it's a warm, sunny 73 degrees. My cat is out here rolling in the catnip patch.

Hope and Change=
Despair and Socialism

LOL

Blonde expounded on KC's point quite nicely too...

i think you missed it

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts

Speaking of

fiddling...

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

Wait!

Didn't Obama, in his coronation address, say "it is time to put away childish things", or words to that effect?

Oh, right....that applies to everyone else, not to The One himself.

Check.

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Adolescent leadership

Just like every other adolescent, they think they know more than the adults. If only they could explain it to us ...

Not only did we know what he meant, we agreed.

  I hope he fails too.

It was more than mere awkwardness, KC.

It was more than mere awkwardness, KC.  Maybe the following example will be helpful in understanding my position.

When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 and was faced with a miserable economy and continued challenges from a Soviet Union that still constituted a grave threat to our national security, I disagreed with the domestic and foreign policies which he appeared poised to implement.  I honestly thought his actions might fail and make things substantially worse in both areas.  Even so, I wasn't hoping for failure just to be proved correct, or because his lack of success would no doubt inure to the benefit of Democrats in subsequent elections.  And I would have been absolutely stunned if a major liberal media figure or politician had "welcomed" Reagan into office with the statement "I hope you fail".  Rush was obviously unconstrained by such niceties.  Fine, but if he is going to dish out that kind of rhetoric, he should be prepared for the backlash.  Not surprisingly, he plays the victim card, whines about imaginary attempts at muzzling his message, confers Republican martyrdom upon himself, and implicitly threatens "RINOs" who dare step out of line to co-operate with the administration. 

Jer

Please, Jer

That post was completely beneath you. I know you are smarter than that. 

 

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke

Sorry, tbdi, but

I'm not.  That's as smart as I can be.

Jer

I understand that part of it

Well then, let's be clear. What do you think Rush meant by that comment? Let me offer some options - you're not limited to these (I wouldn't insult you so), but these are some of the possibilities:

  1. Suppose Rush Limbaugh, through a magic crystal ball, discovered that Obama's economic policies would actually work and bring prosperity. Do you think that Rush would oppose them anyway?
  2. Does Rush Limbaugh hope that Obama's economic policies won't work because he wants to discredit Obama's social policies?
  3. Or, does he oppose the policies precisely because he thinks they won't work, and will damage the country in the process?

After all, you have to ask the question, are we open-minded enough to accept success, even if it violates our ideology? The "want him to fail" premise is that Rush is so close-minded that he'd rather people go hungry because he's took proud to admit he's wrong. (I think that accusation is insane.)  What if, despite all evidence to the contrary, the liberal economic agenda really works? What if we discover that a massive tax hike, and massive spending, will actually work? Would I support Obama?

Damned right I would. Look, I have a family to feed. If I knew that Obama's agenda would work and conservatives' wouldn't, hell, I'm not going to go hungry because my pride is hurt.

But that's the problem. They won't work. When you want people to start doing business, you don't help by taxing them. At the very moment when we need people to spend, we've undermined their incentive.

I'll put it to you this way, Jer. Liberal government can't exist unless the conservative business world makes the money in the first place. No business, no taxes, and no taxes, no liberalism. Everything begins with people making money in a market-oriented world. But markets are free. They go up and down. The market moderates the fluctuations through the simple penalty of failure. (I know you know this, but I need to set up my point.)

Obama's agenda, expressed coldly through the idea that you don't waste a crisis, is to replace the market-oriented necessity of failure. Instead, he's going to spend trillions of dollars to make government spread the cost of failure to everyone. The stimulus only keeps people going, hoping that a solution comes along in the meantime. But he isn't addressing the central problem. He's doing nothing about the toxic liabilities that are stopping the lenders, but he's spending trillions to keep people going in the meantime. That's great, we all need help to get through the hard times ... but we'd rather you start fixing the hard times directly.

He's like a doctor who gives you drugs to mollify the pain, but he won't perform the surgery that will fix the injury. That's a treatment plan that won't help, and can only waste the money we'll need to recover.

KC...

KC...

It's very late.  Right now, I only have time to answer your first three questions:

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Yes

More later, Jer

LOL!  I'm so glad they're

LOL!  I'm so glad they're having fun up there!  LOL

I can feel the mirth bubbling up already!  LOL

Ah me...LOL

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Gibbs must be a masochist.

Gibbs must be a masochist.

Straw man

Article about this straw man Obama wants to distract us with.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Imagine that

 A strawman in politics??? NO!!

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

Please continue with your "fun"

Gibbs said himself that these barbs are counter-productive. I say please continue having your “fun” and keep up these petty, amateurish spats with the media. They make you look immature, unprofessional to the citizens. It, also, infuriates all of the media, not just Rush or Cramer, that they are being personally attacked from the bully pulpit. These attacks will empower the media to attack back for their professional survival. These attacks on the media undermine the White House ability to lead and empower the media. So, keep it up, guys.

 http://franklinslocke.blogspot.com/

I originaly thought that as well

But now I am not so sure, most of the media seems to just fine with this type of bulling, they seem fine with the censor doctrine, and all of the policies that will render them irrelivent? 

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Oh, this is rich!

A month later, Obama responds to Eric Holder's comment about us being a "Nation of Cowards."

The only coward in this article is Obama.  What a wuss!

 

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

this totally reminds me of

this totally reminds me of Tony Snow's Olbermann bashing ---- oh wait........

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts

lol

Thats good... :) seriously. You have a room full of dittoheads wondering whether to agree or flame you :)

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

how did you become a lib?

you seem totally devoid of nuance

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts

Well I'm glad somebody is

Well I'm glad somebody is having fun as citizens' lives are being ruined daily.

KAKISTOCRACY -- rule by the very worst amongst us. 

Obama Amends The Constitution
Check out the poster @ Hollycrud checker-outers

distraction.

Its not working.  We're still paying attention to the man behind the curtain.

DO NOT QUESTION GIBBS SENSE

DO NOT QUESTION GIBBS SENSE OF HUMOR!!!!!!

He does a great job of reciting imporant propaganda.

Ignorance is Strength

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

 

Four legs good,

two legs better.

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

MizFlame

 No, no, no. It's three legs now. As in a three-legged stool. That's the strategy for getting us out of the recession. I know because all of Obama's minions have been going on t.v. for 2 weeks now and repeating that same tripe, with the exact same talking points. You just didn't get the memo. Even Schecky Gibbs knows that joke.

 

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke

~Wow

What a lame@ss, juvenile line of defense. "I was just kidding around" says the dirtbag when he's caught behaving badly. Is this guy in the fourth grade, or what?

While I have no doubt that Rush can handle himself, (and is even enjoying the whole thing) it just isn't right for the WH to attack private citizens for expressing their opinions. That's just downright creepy.

Hope and Change=
Despair and Socialism

Court Jester Gibbs

Nothing like 'having fun' with opposing viewpoints while the nation  crumbles. Nice to know that this administration has its priorities in line.

 

 

President Obama is nothing more than a empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
 

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

Shawn

"When cel phones, video games, and car stereo systems stop selling, then I'll worry about how awful the economy is."

 So stealing electronics is how you supplement your income as a paid poster for Soros inc?

He's having fun my

He's having fun my arse...he's lying through his teeth.

Which he does everyday...not very well either...but he's a lefist, what do would you expect.

Now I've heard here

Leftist lie very well! But I do think he likes this and that is probably the only similarity there is, but it is similar to Tony Snow. He actually enjoys the engagement. Tony's eyes would beam as well, when someone threw red meat. A poster made a profound post earlier comparing ( I thought anyway) Gibbs to Snow. There was a time the left was angry at the way Snow engaged reporters. I think both appreciate the thrill of the fight. Just my opinion of course!

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

nw... There is NO

nw...

There is NO comparison to the two of them, in any way, shape or form.

Snow was honest and was pure first class all the way...unlike the ahhh...ummm...uhhhh...stuttering full of BS Gibbs.

JMO of course...

Snow

A couple of days ago I commented on how Snow and Gibbs are like night and day and that Obammy would never hire someone as talented as Snow because it would make him look bad. Just as Obammy won't share a press conference with another world leader, he doesn't want anyone in his administration that can come close to his speaking skills. If there's one thing a narcissist can't stand, it's competition.

With Gibbs, Obammy always knows that when he gives his own press conference, it will be warmly received by the sycophantic old media.

slick... So right you are

slick...

So right you are about the real reason O wouldn't have a real Presser side by side with Brown....same thing I was talking about with my husband...it is so obvious, even Clinton wasn't that stupid and I didn't think I would ever see anybody more narcissistic than him in what I have left of my life-time...

I was WRONG!

The problem is they DO

The problem is they DO understand the policy, Obama doesn't understand the marketplace.

Stupid people like Gibbs are why demos think Obama is brilliant.  My dog looks brilliant next to Gibbs.

 

Rush Limbaugh is Called a BUFFOON By "Father of the Year"

That's correct. Father of the Year Alec Baldwin, in a heartfelt and caring piece at the Huffington Post wrote this:

"Rush Limbaugh is an uneducated, marginally talented, overbearing, recovering drug addict who was, at least according to Wikipedia, ineligible for the draft because he had cysts on his ass."

Baldwin further went on to write:

"Until Limbaugh gets real, weans himself off the big salary and runs for office, he will always be nothing more than a poorly educated, marginally talented buffoon who has developed a real talent for manipulating the G-spot of the neocon consciousness and massaging the hate gland of so many economically displaced white voters in America."

Now you have to keep Baldwin's "buffoon" comment in perspective. Remember that it was Good Daddy Baldwin who left a message on the answering machine of  his 11-year-old daughter that said in part: " You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being."  Later in the message to his young daughter Daddy Baldwin said: " So I'm going to let you know just how I feel about what a rude little pig you really are. You are a rude, thoughtless little pig, OK?"

When you are as popular as Rush Limbaugh, those who crave the attention and public notoriety will seek out a small piece of Rush's spotlight, from leftist Robert Gibbs, Alec Baldwin and the MSM, to those on the right such as neo-conservative David Frum.

------------------------------------------------------

“The left -- you people, you Democrats -- you are creating a monster that you will not be able to control forever.  You will ultimately regret what you are doing just like the media will ultimately regret its sacrifice of reason, its abandonment of its primary purpose.” ~ Rush Limbaugh

Respectfully, who cares what Alec Baldwin thinks?

And you know he's on the downhill slope when he starts criticizing anyone for being "marginally talented."

As for Rush being uneducated?

The myth of college continues. Clinton, Gore, Obama and others are poster children for how truly worthless a piece of parchment can be.

FWIW: If Rush needs any college degrees, he can have both of mine and even credits for post-Masters work I did.

Oh, yeah: As for being educated. Baldwin surely is holding forth his BFA from NYU as an example of how well educated he is, is he? 

Is that where they educated him so well that he later, through superior intellect and insight, called Vice President Dick Cheney "a terrorist" or Sean Hannity a "no-talent whore"?

Baldwin's an embarrasment, but a prime example of the wrong type of education, and way, way too much self-absorption and worthless opination.

 

Oh please! I have two degees. One in English,

 and one in Performance Arts. I can't write to save my life, and I can't act my way out of a wet paper bag. I run a steel business. Wish I'd have taken BUSINESS courses. I suffer daily from my ignorance in the maths and business management. College is NOT for everyone, and I wish to goodness that myth would die. The world does not need for everyone to have a college degree. Are you listening, Mr. President??

 

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke

Baldwin is very intelligent,

Baldwin is very intelligent, but occasionally suffers from foot-in-mouth disease.

Jer

Yeah,

like when he called his own daughter a pig.  Stay classy Alec. 

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

Smart people can do bad

Smart people can do bad things.

Jer

Oh, sure, he's "intelligent" . . .

So are Obama and all the Democrats, liberals and leftists who voted for Obama, apologize for Obama, worship Obama and make asinine, slanderous, ignorant and stupid remarks about Republicans and conservatives.

I don't think so.

Baldwin's an ass, a perfect liberal and Obamabot.

Baldwin may be an ass, a

Baldwin may be an ass, a perfect liberal and an Obambot but he is also very intelligent.

Jer

→ Jer

Prove it. 

Obama - Change you can bereave in

Why?  Do you

Why?  Do you disagree?  Shall I insert the phrase "in my opinion" etc.?  Okay, consider it done.

Jer

Press Sucretary Gibbs

check out my blog for the latest news conference in which Mr. Gibbs participated.

 edwardcropper.blogspot.com/

Gibbs battling Limbuaugh? Right, just like a mouse biting ...

...the hind leg of an elephant.

 

CKA... Aw heck, let's

CKA...

Aw heck, let's up-grade it to a rat for Gibbs.

See, if I'd have

If I'd have called him an elephant, you'd have called me a liberal!

Beware of a crazy woman throwing a hash pipe.

I'm embarassed that Gibbs and I are from

the same state. Of course, we are natural enemies as I am a grad of Univ of Alabama, and he went to Auburn. Probably in the Ag. Department. Like his buddy Olbermann. We always did call the Auburn guys goat-flockers.

 

All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden?  P.J. O' Rourke

Gibbs

Jessie R. Hamby                  It proves they are using Rush to distract the country...........................Give them enough rope & they will hang themselves..........................................A country united can not fall- A country divided is socialism....

No matter who they use for distractions . . .

. . . does it matter?

Who would report the truth so that the majority of Americans would know what the Obama administration was and is really doing?

The print and broadcast advocacy/adversary media?

That said, I agree with you. They are using Bush to distract.

But that dog's not going to hunt much longer.

It's just that the Democrats, liberals and leftists are too dimwitted and full of themselves to understand that.

They will hang themselves.

That's OK with me.

But I resent that the rest of us have to be dragged along in the mud because of their insanity.

 

Alec Baldwin....Father of the Year - NOT!

Alec Baldwin...this is the same washed up has-been obese loser that said:

"They voted on one article of impeachment already. And I come back from Africa to stained dresses and cigars and this and impeachment. I am thinking to myself, in other countries they are laughing at us 24 hours a day and I’m thinking to myself, if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families. [stands up, yelling] What is happening in this country? What is happening? UGHHH!"

Hey Alec...I will have to ask the same question; "What is happening in this country?"  Barack HUSSEIN Obama is single handedly destroying America's wealth with his socialistic policies!  This "president" has targeted a private citizen (Rush Limbaugh) as a distraction of his stupid ass policies, but Wall Street "ain't" buyin' it.  The wealth producers of this country can see the screwing that's coming!  Hey byt the way, how's your little girl?  You fat washed up talentless freak!

 

 

 

Obama is a gay coke head