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White House reporters! Don’t you just want to feed ‘em special peanuts? [YouTube]
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Gibbs doesn’t remember the previous occupants having a seven-year-old or a ten-year-old? Then explain Doug Feith and Scooter Libby.
Yes, but the last occupant had the mentality of a seven year old and the penis size of a ten year old.
Can’t the Obama kids just bunk with the new Portuguese Water Dog? They’d be happy, and Barry would set a good example regarding cost cutting for the rest of us.
I don’t think Obama girls want to live in rooms that smell like Pot and Vomit.
How dare he hire somebody to clean out all the empty liquor bottles and coke mirrors left behind by the last child-occupants of the White House! Sasha and Malia should just crawl in among the rubble and be grateful, damn it.
I expect the same kind of dedication and investigative know how when the Obama’s finally purchase their Hopey Puppy– who paid for the dog? Did taxpayers buy the dog house? Are chewy toys earmarks? How can we cut the budget if we’re spending money on dog food?
I WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!
PUT THEM GIRLS TO WORK IN THE FIELDS!!!
First the helicopters that cost more than Jesus, and now the bedrooms, hennnngh?!?!?
Aren’t all decorators homosexuals? This is a liberal plot to give your tax dollars to the ungodly!
Does she think the decorator/foundation statement was LITERAL? Or is she just guilty of the stupidest transition ever? (”hm, let’s take a metaphor about building up our country that uses “decorator”, and ask about AN ACTUAL DECORATOR! Am I not soooo clever?!”)
SayItWithWookies:
OMFG, you rule!!!
I’m thinking there are plenty of White House reporters who routinely snack on “special peanuts”.
She took the redecoration rhetoric literally?
My head hurts.
See, I didn’t go to journalism school, so I didn’t know that the real object of journalism is to pick out a random phrase from a politician’s speech and then look for some apparent inconsistency in that politician’s life and work it up into a stupid, but hard-seeming question. I had thought that the object of journalism was to get to the substance of important policy matters and press politicians on the substance. Or at least to do some research.
For example, if Obama is really trying to covertly fund the homosexual Muslin agenda, a measly few thousand in decorating fees is never going to get the job done. Does he not know how expensive gay life is? How are gay people supposed to manifest our threat to Western Civilization if we only get to do over a few rooms at the White House? These are the hard questions he needs to be asked.
Reminds me of an episode of the West Wing (I know…I KNOW) when CJ berated a reporter for wasting his ONE question on something that stupid. You’re in the big leagues, Princess, and you now look like an idiot before the whole world. But then again, so does Gibbs for trying to answer it, with a straight face, no less, so I guess we have to call it a tie. My mom and I have a running bet on when he’s going to step down “to spend more time with his family.” My mom praying it will be closer to Memorial Day, I’m thinking he’s going to hang in until Thanksgiving. Any takers?
She’s either really stupid or really mean-spirited & petty. (It’s not like Barry & the Mrs. couldn’t afford a decorator out of their own pocket, anyway.)
Well, I hope she enjoyed her moment in the sun–the next we’ll hear from her will be some backhand whining in the Politico about how Gibbs never calls on her anymore, and how that’s so unfair.
score one for SNL: i believe they predicted a couple of weeks ago that folks would go after the kids and their fancy decorating and sleepovers.
but seriously, this woman should use the google; it’s been talked about quite a bit that so far the obamas basically haven’t changed a thing decor wise, she should also read people magazine, from that great publication i learned that michelle’s office still has all of laura’s tacky old furniture. one thing the obamas are not, is crazy; they know they are seen as uppity blacks for whatever they do, plus they saw what the press did to lily white old nancy reagan; they’ll hang onto bush’s crappy stuff for now.
Gayer Than Thou: Notice she could barely get the question out of her mouth, almost as if she knew this was the most ridiculously irrelevant question ever asked in the history of the White House press.
Ah, yes the White House press corps. How did that war in Iraq ever slip past them? How did they ever fail to not uncover the lies in the lead up to the war? Just amazing such sharp people were duped.
The Cold Sea: You are cold — not that the White House press corps doesn’t deserve a beating.
Possible responses:
1. Now that we don’t have to spend all that fucking money in Louisiana, we can gold-plate the kids’ bedrooms.
2. Rick Santelli is paying for it.
3. Haha, you should see the dungeon for Christians we’re building in the foundation of the White House.
4. Sasha and Malia will be selling their blood plasma to pay for it.
Texan Bulldoggette: I assumed the Edward R. Morrow of her generation was the tool from Fox/Clear Channel/WashTimes.
“If we live in a so-called “Land Of The Free,” then why do we have to pay money for things Mr. Gibbs?”
Someone escort this brainiac to the “other” White House Press Room, the one where a friendly, brightly colored muppet is behind the podium explaining things with flash cards and cartoons to the people with double-digit IQ’s.
This question made me want to stab my brain with a fork.
TheMac: Even more than the previous winner, WaPo’s A-rod question, and the one before that, Chuck Todd’s genius consumers-caused-the-collapse query.
Chuck Todd just always stone cold feeds these questions to the reporters sitting next to him. He does this because he’s cruel.
All these yutzes whining about every dollar anyone spends “when ordinary Americans are struggling to make ends meet” are so annoying. It reminds me of my sister when we were kids. We had a dryer which eventually broke down, and instead of replacing them we just hung stuff up to dry (or used the laundromat, once the washer broke too). Seemed fine to everyone else, but she was always nagging our father every time we spent money on anything that wasn’t a new washer & dryer. New TV, new armchairs, new fridge, even just taking the family out to dinner… HOW IRRESPONSIBlE was he for spending money on this when we didn’t have a working washer & dryer!!
These clowns are exactly the same. Nobody can spend even a cent on anything until Prosperity has returned! Anyone who dares to actually, you know, conduct business and stimulate the economy is clearly a corrupt plutocrat.
They never let you get too sentimental about the first amendment, do they? P.S.- Chuck Todd is SEXY!
Hard hitting journalism right there. Obama, you’ve been put on notice!
But seriously, how much is some pink paint and a Hello Kitty poster really going to set us back? Let the girls have a new room!
I’ve been expecting a question like this, but I thought it would be part of a Limbaugh/Hannity/O’Reilly/Beck/Savage/Coulter rant along lines of “How many nails have those kids pounded into the very walls touched by Our Lord Reagan, and how dare they do so at all?”
Atheist Nun: Win.
Media training 101: Gibbs, avoid bodily noises & keep your hands off your face.
That chick from the Associated Press (which has it in for Obama, doncha know?) — cheated on her husband with a hottie photographer during the early years of the Bush administration.
Which is how she missed the Iraq War and all, doncha know.