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You know what the White House press corps loves more than anything? Naked abuse of power and ritual humiliation. Here, Robert Gibbs has HAD IT with these motherfucking phones in this motherfucking briefing room, so he forcibly takes the mobile from this poor old guy, who was probably just twittering or getting an emergency call from a loved one, on their death bed.
And the reporters love it! So funny! It would be cool if, next time, Gibbs just stomped out with a flamethrower and started letting people have it. “Ohhh ho ho ha, burned,” some typist from Gannett or whatever would bleat, before having the fire-device turned on himself. [C-SPAN/YouTube]
It was Gibbs’ wife calling. He knows what’s up.
Were they saying “owned”? America must be destroyed.
My friends, today we are all reporters-who-have-their-phones-taken-away-by-Robert-Gibbs-gians.
Hitler would have done the same
I am taking him to the movies with me next time I go. He can go around and grab the phones from the rude mofos who are texting and talking on the phone DURING the movie.
Way to maintain order in the classroom! Skoold!
My my. Who needs to take his Xanax?
This was part of Gibbs covering for his boss wrt the Whitehouse not releasing photographs of detainee abuse. David Kurtz at TPM compares the WH press corps: “like crows to shiny objects” for getting off track on this.
Some fool accused Gibbs’ taking the phone away as an ‘enhanced interrogation method’. Ha ha joking about torture because it’s so funny–ass wipes, all of them!
Alright, who’s chewing gum back there? Did you bring enough for everybody?
why does robert gibbs hate press freedom?
This single event makes Obama the most loved or hated president ever, depending on if I’m at a movie theater or brothel.
Who’s in charge here?
I think we know who’s in charge here.
Fuck you Gibbs - I really needed to talk to that guy.
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Doglessliberal: Hey, wave to me next time- you must go to the Majestic in Silver Spring, too.
qwerty42: Doesn’t take much, does it. Imagine what Nobama could get away with if Gibbs friends these losers on Facebook.
I was at a funeral Sunday and TWO friggin’ cells went off. A lightening bolt should have come down on them as an example. I suggest Bo be trained to pee on offenders’ legs.
We need to supply Gibbs with either a pile of chalkboard erasers or an arsenal of Nerf weapons to give him some ranged firepower vis-a-vis the press.
jagorev: Don’t knock Hitler— he made his Press Conferences run on time.
Careful, Gibbs. Riled up journalists are known to throw shoes. Or poos, or something.
Obvious solution to Gibbs stealing everyone’s phones:
1) Have Chuck Todd sneakily call Helen Thomas from the back of the room.
2) Wait until Gibbs goes all “10th grade Spanish teacher” and demands Helen’s phone.
3) Then, Helen will hand Gibbs a giant-ass Zach Morris phone and scream NOW WHO’S BURNED MOTHERFUCKER?
Custerwolf: MayB wi shud tch them jrnalizts 2 use Tweets& den its B Kwiat n der. ttyl,$ BrB
chascates: I feel that anyone who doesn’t know how to put a cell phone on vibrate before entering the WH press room for a briefing does not belong there in the first place. To be fair to the asshole who walked out, however, that was actually me calling to remind him to turn his ringer off.
TGY: …or maybe just a big-ass heavy ring with which to back-hand pimp-slap these
FAILink-stained wretches…I hope he brought enough for the whole class.
A judge once took my phone away when I was on jury duty. I had it set to vibrate and kept giggling when it went of. Some people are just sooooo touchy.
Who was the asshole who walked out at the end and for whom does he report? Anyone?
Oh man! This should happen to every moron who does this! The jag who actually went ahead and answered his call is making me rethink my opposition to torture.
qwerty42: Maybe they’re saving them for the International Criminal Court session? Nah, the US was never a party to its establishment.
Bearbloke: True. Pimp-slappin’ ain’t easy.
seriously, folks… what’s the big problem here? It sounds good to have laughter from the press corps, that isn’t directed at the President’s speech style, or his fucked-up judgments, or his fake Texas cornponery. I almost expect Gibbs to swing into high, throw a punchline, and end the briefing with “Enjoy the buffet! Tip your waitress.”
finallyhappy: actually, haven’t been there, but I am afraid it is a rampant disease. We were at Batman at Hoffman Center in Alexandria and the dickhead next to us was talking on the fucking phone during Batman’s big “I need to be the bad guy” speech after Two Face died. (he had been on the phone a few times before during the movie, too) We missed half the dialogue. My husband nicely asked him to stop, and the dude rose up halfway out of his chair aggressively as if to attack. My husband is a big guy, all muscle, so this dickhead was not just a dickhead, he was a moron dickhead. Luckily, he sat back down. I mean WTF? You are AT THE MOVIES. Go somewhere else if you want to talk.
Why do old people have the worst ringtones, like some Nokia default shit, or whatever?
Is it because they can’t figure out how to PUT IT ON VIBRATE even when an Obama apparatchik tells them to?
Also, did you see the look on Jake Tapper’s face? NOT AMUSED. He is SO PURE, he is the only reporter left in Washington.
I don’t know what’s wrong with these staffers. The answer is simple. Cell phone abusers will be taken and shot, a la <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHBF8EKt-zc”Saddam. The press room will still laugh just as hard, and we will all still get to have that moment of “yeah, sometimes I forget to turn my phone to vibrate, too…wait I don’t even KNOW how to put it on vibrate, which is a gay thing to do anyway…”
Faculty are worse than students and reporters are worse than that.
Who was the guy who walked out? He looked familiar but I can’t place him. Let’s get his name so someone here can hack his number, and then we can call him. Like, all the time, 3:00am, and so on.
Mr Blifil: Try the end tag fuckhead shit-for-brains loser.
THANK GOD FOR CNN AND OUR IMPORTANT NEWSPAPERS!!!!! Imagine a world where you didn’t know this DUMB SHIT was happening and had to make due with just knowing that Obama was now declining to release more photos of our soldiers torturing people.
“IS THIS SOMETHING YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE REST OF US, AMAZING LARRY???!!!” -Pee Wee Herman, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
qwerty42: Not to be all unsnarky, but judging by the comments here, I think it’s more than just the journalist in that room who can fairly be compared to crows to shiny objects. Obama can’t sweep the torture shit under the rug, no matter how much he thinks people care more about the economy. Oh, and this bailout - Geithner’s going to jail eventually. Also.
ChernobylSoup: I would assume CBS since he had a notebook or clipboard with their logo on it.
Doglessliberal: Me, too.
The guy who walked out at the end is Bill Plante of CBS. Obviously a well groomed terrorist.
A couple of Navy SEALS on the fan tail would put an end to that bullshit PRONTO!
Put your shit vibrate OR PAY THE PRICE bitches!
slithytoves:
“Who was the guy who walked out? He looked familiar but I can’t place him.”
‘Twas Bill Plante, nicely botoxed hack from cbs news circa 1652 A.D.(he knew Edward R. Murrow)
Those damn Democrats & commie journalists are always clowning around & making jokes about enhanced interrogation techniques & banks, & drinking, smoking weed & whoring around during serious press conferences, when that torture saved lives damn nabbit, just like the Dark Lord says! ~Secessionist, Teabagger
This is the Patriarch of the Cheney Klan: T.(Torture) Boone Cheney. Oh those Cheney Men!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_NhnXMCKw
chascates: I was at the Xmas Eve service at church and the cell phone of some asshat redneck who didn’t bother taking his fucking cowboy hat off rang 6 or 7 times before this idiot figured out it was his. He turned it off, then the damn thing started ringing again. This time, the moron couldn’t find it for 5 or 6 reings. You just want to lean over and whisper, “You’re not that important, dipshit. Turn the fucking phone off.”
Then again, it was Christ’s birthday and all that, so I didn’t. Because the old man physically restrained me.
Best cell phone put down I ever saw was on CSPAN at a senate hearing chaired by Sen. Leahy. The room was packed and someone’s phone went off. Leahy said, “I’m assuming that is a really important call, so we’ll let you leave the room to take it,’ in that snarky voice of his. A red-faced guy stood up and walked past everyone and left.
It’s like my principal said, back when I was a teacher, “the only way to get true discipline in a classroom is to shoot dead the first student who acts up on the first day of school.” Sorry, Robert, once you’ve let the kids get the upper hand, it is almost impossible to restore order. Didn’t Hopey tell you not to smile till Christmas?
dijetlo: I thought Gibbs’ response was great, but your idea is MUCH better!
DustBowlBlues: On the contrary - I think this event would’ve been the PERFECT time & place to berate that asshat for defiling the sanctity of such a HOLY commemoration in the House of God with his sinful pride of thinking that he’s more important that Our Lord and Savior… yeah, girl, lay it on thick!
If the government takes away cell phones then only criminals and the government will have cell phones.
sanantonerose: At least most faculty know how to turn their phones off or set to vibrate, unlike the chowderhead students I’ve had over the last few years. Next dumbass who conducts a conversation on the cellie in my class will utter these closing words: “Don’t taze me, bro!” And then, the little electrodes will go to work. Pwned! show me a college student with a cell phone and I will show you a student who has absolutely nothing to say, and a pressing need to call someone to say it. Same thing is true of the WH stenographers’ corps.
Advocatus_Diaboli: Here’s my take on that. Why release the photographs? If they piss you off, how do you think they’ll make an enemy comabtant feel? I don’t need to see photos of the abuse to understand that it was wrong and the people responsible should be punished to the full extent. Maybe you can change my mind with one good reason for showing them. And freedom of speech doesn’t count.
Is Bobby Gibbs gonna have to choke a bitch?
Gibbs was too easy on ‘em. I was in court last week and the other attorney’s cell phone went off. Then the judge went off on her. Chewed her up one side and down the other. Not a pretty sight. Suffice it to say I’ve learned to leave my phone in the car.
DangerousLiberal: they know, they just don’t give a shit. They also think flip flops and shorts are OK to wear to all occasions.
Yah, I know I sound like Grandpa Simpson.
I love the Walnuts banner ad. Sure beats SarahPAC.
Regarding the reporter whose cell phone Gibbs actually took — isn’t it a Federal crime to use “La Cucaracha” as a ring tone? If it isn’t a crime, it should be. But since Sen. Graham thinks torture works, I doubt a Republican filibuster of the Democrat Socialist Party’s Anti-La Cucaracha Ring Tone Act of 2009 could be broken.
Not a Country Bumpkin: They have banned them from several courthouses around here recently. Judges have just given up.
Custerwolf: neither does the way I butchered the word “combatant.”
Why did Gibbs take that man’s vibrator? Doesn’t the White House already have enough vibrators? And who is on the other side of that double-air lock door and what are they doing with the reporter’s vibrator? The hard-working Murkin people deserve answers!!!
Nerdalicious: And here is some of Bill Plante’s hard hitting WH journalism, a piece that ranks right up there with WMD’s
Eastern Uropeen Pan Flute Terrorism in the White House Press Office!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3994140n
I went to Star Trek on Saturday afternoon and there was a teenage girl in the row below me and to the left (stadium seating) who kept checking her cell phone for texts. It was right in the lower left of my field of vision and very bright. I should have waited for the DVD; people suck.
Rosalindavenue: I could have told you that and saved you the cost of a ticket.
Rosalindavenue: Live lng & prspr.
Bearbloke: Well, yeah, but I might have said it differently.
Doglessliberal: And Crocs. Oh Jesus, the Crocs.
Custerwolf: David Kurtz at TPM sees it as …a sign of how long and hard they think the slog is ahead in Afghanistan — and how crucial the outcome there will be for the future success of this Administration…..
Sullivan has commented here and here.
None of this is good. He has a sordid, stupid situation that is not of his making, with multiple serious problems in other areas. but this is not good.
Custerwolf: So right wing ass hats on TV can’t say that it was just like getting made fun of on Wonkette not real torture.
Maybe.
zenferret: That’s still letting the right wing dictate the decisions - and that’s always a bad idea.
Rosalindavenue: I really bright-red laser pen takes care of that - everytime she looks at her phone, laser the little bitch…
I remember going to see “Brokeback”, and some couple was letting their kid jangle a ring of keys - I had my (old) extra-brite cellphone, and every time the kid jingled, I opened my cell and pointed the light at them… they got the message…
It was Taylor Negron on the phone
Woodwards Friend: First they came for the cells phones, but I was not a cell phone, etc.
Custerwolf: Completely agree, those photos would just incite more of those nuts to sign up, which is not what we need.
The cell phone thing was pretty funny though. Gibbs would have made a great nun teaching in Catholic school. Except the nun would have smacked the guy’s hand really hard with the cell phone after he gave it to her.
Edywin:
“Eastern Uropeen Pan Flute Terrorism in the White House Press Office!”
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa! Zamfir the Pan Flute Player! Bill Plante is so new agey.
First they came for the Old Man in the Press Corps Cell Phone, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an Old Man;
And then they came for Glen Beck’s Sanity, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t insane;
And then they forced Notre Dame to give Obama a degree, And I didn’t speak up because I already had a degree;
And then… they taxed my soda… And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
Which of those idiots is the homoprostitute?This administration has one planted already right?
I don’t have a comment about Gibbs.
But do we need any further proof that the WHPC is a bunch of moutbreathing, 2.5 GPA-having, fraternity-belonging retards? These are the people that watch every Adam Sandler movie.
Paco: You gotta problem with Adam Sandler?
Doglessliberal: You Virginians are hooligans! That gets you passive-aggressively castrated in parts of LA and Seattle.
Doglessliberal: Me too. When I was their age, we wore socks, with shoes, also. And if we wanted a portable phone we had to get a really long cord. Dopes.
But in my day we wore short basketball shorts too, which proves that gangsta-driven fashion innovation is not all bad.
ChernobylSoup: Bill Plante looks really old lately. That’s why you didn’t recognize him. And I’ll bet he didn’t pull those stunts when Reagan was president. Oh, yeah, when Reagan was president, cell phones were as big as my house.
BlueStateLibtard: Bruce Springsteen says when he was a kid a nun picked him up, stuffed him in a garbage can, and said that’s where he belonged because he was nothing but trash. I think Gibbs should go that route. Starting with Ed Henry.
TGY: My jr high drafting teacher used a “beanbag” that was supposed to be a paperweight for drawings. It was filled with lead shot and a lot of it. When you were hit with it, it had your undivided attention. “Don’t beanbag me, bro!” Erasers and kind words are for pussies.
Advocatus_Diaboli: Custerwolf: Plus, the press should be held to a slightly higher standard than the internet, which really is where people should go to add to the conversation of cell phone etiquette.
A worn-out professor’s payback for never turning in homework and trying his patience with dumb questions off topic.
This is so unfunny. If it had happened in some high school class, everyone who laughed would be serving a week’s detention.
Plus the teacher would use the phone for various 1-900 numbers to use up the credit.
When a student’s cell phone goes off in my class, I answer it. That fixes the problem really fast.
that ring tone was so gay.
he’s fucking lucky it wasn’t fucking rahm rather than gibbs. otherwise his fucking proctologist would be fucking looking for the phone.
slinkimalinki: You have one of those usernames that makes me feel like I’m rolling around a ben-wah ball in my mouth whenever I pronounce it.
el_burrito: One of my colleagues has that policy. One day HIS cell phone went off in class and in the name of fairness, he let a student answer it. I think he got a teaching award that year.