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Robert Gibbs’ First Press Briefing Involves Every Reporter Shouting His Name, Simultaneously

Here’s a comical highlight reel of new White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ first briefing, compiled by Fishbowl DC. The White House press corps, perhaps the most frustrated group of reporters, anywhere, only get a “virgin” every few years, so they were hoping to extract as much off-the-cuff, out-of-context quote action as possible before Gibbs realized how much they all sucked and that he should ignore them entirely, forever. This only led to an onslaught of white noise, however, and we do not know why anyone would ever accept the position of White House press secretary. Speaking of which, what’s Dana up to these days? [Fishbowl DC]


5:12 PM on Thu January 22 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. NoWireHangers says at 5:16 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    It’s like he’s bidding on a showcase on The Price is Right. Just say $1000 and be done with it, Gibbs!

  2. chascates says at 5:18 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    I guess we’re back to opening with Helen Thomas?

  3. It’s like listening to turkeys.

  4. sati demise says at 5:26 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Packed the room without using White House interns!

    thats change anyway.

  5. Gregory_of_Nazianzus says at 5:26 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    This reminds me of Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles.

    RABBLE RABBLE!
    http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/saddles/sounds/gibbersh.wav

  6. El Pinche says at 5:28 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    It’s like the first day of class! It’s time to determine the alpha males (sexist!) in WH press corp for the O admin.

  7. InsidiousTuna says at 5:29 pm, January 22nd, 2009

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  8. InsidiousTuna says at 5:30 pm, January 22nd, 2009
  9. Bein’ pretty.

  10. InsidiousTuna says at 5:32 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    InsidiousTuna: Crap. Ignore my shitty blog in the title.

  11. tunamelt says at 5:32 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Speaking of which, what’s Dana up to these days?

    She is playing Mall Madness and Pretty Pretty Princess with me.

  12. I miss the Bubbled-Headed Bleach Blonde already . . . .

  13. Gregory_of_Nazianzus says at 5:33 pm, January 22nd, 2009
  14. La-la-la, can’t HEAR you. Looks like somebody needs a ‘Hot cup of STFU’ sign-on-stick.

  15. That wasn’t a press conference. Robert was picking out puppies for the Obama girls.

  16. You call this a smokin’ little blonde ice-goddess? Oh, that was last week.

  17. bitchincamaro says at 5:40 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Fools. If they wanted guaranteed attention they would have called him by his fraternity name: BIG $ALE ON TRUCKNUTZ!

  18. InsidiousTuna: You stole my comment, damn you!

    PS - “Robert”

  19. Robble, robble!

    It was a Hamburglar convention.

  20. thefrontpage says at 6:09 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    What a huge, stinking load of crap this is.

    Get off your asses and go out and report some real news!

    Gibbs: Be a whole lot tougher with these guys, and make them work for a living.

  21. druranium says at 6:09 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    I’d be willing to wager that the Obama press secretaries won’t burn out on the job as much as the Bush ones did because they wont have to lie incessantly and constantly invent new doublespeak

  22. thefrontpage says at 6:16 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    By the way, in the earlier post: That was directed at the White House reporters, not anyone here! We meant to say: White House reporters: Stop lobbing softball, goofy, stupid questions to a new press secretary who’s been on the job, oh, three days into a new presidency, and go out and talk to new appointees and new offcials and report back to the public some real news! These White House press conferences are so lame and dumb, it makes the White House reporters and the press secretary look just pathetic! Ugh.

  23. loquaciousmusic says at 6:17 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    He looks way too nice to be married to Dracula Cunt.

    Oh, wait. He’s not? Whoops. I should totally do some research every so often.

  24. loquaciousmusic says at 6:18 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Also, I don’t mean to be a “Grammar Obama-nazi,” but you all can TOTES make the plural of “Gibbs” by adding an apostrophe-s. Because, you know, “Gibbs” is one syllable and all. So “Gibbs’s” is absolutely acceptable. Or “Gibbzzz.” Also.

  25. magic titty says at 6:37 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Fuck that job.

  26. hockeymom says at 6:46 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    AxmxZ: Can we feed them headfirst into the shredder?

  27. My sincere hope is that Dana is currently at a detox spa, sloughing away the evil and rediscovering the hot.

  28. Heywood Floyd says at 7:23 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    RobertRobertRobertRobertRabbleRabbleRobertRobertRobertRobertRobertRobertRobertRobertRobertRobert

    Robert: Steve?

  29. Scandalabra says at 7:26 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    As Bush ended up with the undeniably hot Dana P as his mouth(ass)piece, how appropriate that the coolest prez in history has a dorky chub as his mouth(ass)piece. I love him!

  30. One Yield Regular says at 7:33 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    At least he’s not using “Bob” - because then the room would sound like a flight attendant during deplaning.

  31. Snozberries says at 8:00 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Yo, Bob! Where the fuck is my salvia, dude? It’s been weeks, man! Bobert!

    Fuck this, I’m buying off Ari.

  32. The entire press corps has been replaced by Schnitzel(s)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZZvLCycgOs

  33. oh, just…like, WOW. It’s like…

    “Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich. Malkovich! Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich.”

    Being Robert Gibbs. Opening this Spring.

  34. hobospacejungle says at 10:50 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Sad fucking thing is these doucheturds will soon turn on Hopey and ask Robert questions they wouldn’t have dreamed of asking Bush’s asspiece in a thousand years. Like “why are you doing this?” And “could you explain this policy, please?”

    Fucking hypocrites. Feed ‘em all to the wolves. Or lions. Whatever, so long as they are starving.

  35. Mr Blifil says at 11:21 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    Did Fox send the same nameless black guy?

  36. heathenish says at 11:24 pm, January 22nd, 2009

    If Hopey starts acting like Bush or Cheney I hope to christ SOMEONE from the fucking press corps will ask some hard questions.( It would be better if Hopey NEVER acted like either of those bastards, but…if he does questions should be asked!)

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