Reporter Asks Gibbs About Question Selection And Teleprompter, Gibbs Goes Insane

Hey does anyone know what thehellis going on with the media? Did all professional journalistic reporters catch idiot cancer overnight? Here we have theWashington Post's Lois Romano, a fine reporter usually (we guess?), landing an interview with Robert Gibbs. A GOOD JOURNALISTIC OPPORTUNITY. And the two questions she asks immediately... well you know what those are going to be, don't you?

First this Washington Post reporter asks why Obama did not call on any "major newspapers" during his press conference, GAHHH! Wait. No! She says, "President Obama turned the longstanding press conference tradition on its head last night by, uh, bypassing the major newspapers. What do you think about the reaction to that?"

Just no self-awareness at all, no idea how this looks, no idea that no one, except the political reporters for four newspapers in the United States, in any way cares about this. And this is just going to get so, so much more grating over the next few years as more people stop reading 24-hour-old news physically printed on oversized sheets of tree pulp.

(Although ha ha isn't it funny that the Washington Times was actually cursed by getting to ask a question, because now everyone just says that "no major newspapers" or "no newspapers" were called on? The Reverend must be FURIOUS! His reputation COMPROMISED!)

Anyway, Gibbs more or less tells her that no one cares, fine.

Then, Romano's second question, actual quote: "The teleprompter changed last night. What was that about? It's a big Jumbotron now."

WELL LOIS THERE USED TO BE TWO SMALLER SCREENS ON EITHER OF HIS SIDES, AND THEN ON TUESDAY THERE WAS JUST ONE BIG ONE STRAIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. HE WANTED TO LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD INSTEAD OF SIDE-TO-SIDE. WE KNOW IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND BUT THAT IS WHY.

Robert Gibbs also yells at her, for asking stupid questions. This teleprompter stuff, and the fact that every level of reporter is talking about it... really, just how does that happen? There is no more controversy in the use of a teleprompter than there is in the use of a microphone. "Did you hear that Obama uses a microphone , because his supposedly 'great speaking voice' isn't LOUD enough, like an IDIOT?" That's going to be a New York Times front-pager in a few months at this rate, just you watch. Even believing the chain e-mail Muslim conspiracy rumors is more valid than finding controversy in a teleprompter. Really!

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