Today is a rather slow news day. Sure, we could post about Chris Christie and Mike Bloomberg not personally plowing snow out of people’s streets. There’s always a Palin thing. Today: The people of Alaska officially hate her, and the state governor’s office still won’t release her e-mails. But let’s just do an old-fashioned Wonk’d. (Was this supposed to be a play on the teevee show Punk’d? Your editor has no idea.) So here you go, straight and alleged from our tipline: “I just saw Robert Gibbs drop and break his child’s tower of Lego at the National Building Museum.”
Is Gibbs’ kid a member of the professional left? Was he criticizing the administration for a lack of action on infrastructure improvements? We don’t know.
But Gibbs is right to do this. That kid is not a professional architect, much less one of such renown to have work featured in the National Building Museum. Gibbs simply was protecting our nation from embarrassment in showcasing such amateurism in a building that is supposed to honor our greatest buildings. [thanks to Wonkette operative "Simon B."]
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Hang Gibbs from the gibbet!
Or in keeping with the Holidays, from the giblets.
Or drinking vodka gimlets.
Or work in a Lord of the Rings reference to Gimli the Dwarf.
Obama and his staff are apparently both morally AND physically weak.
Just before he did it, he said "let's roll."
Too soon?
just in time.
Shit. We spent $4.5 million of the stimulus package constructing that tower.
That's why he took it down – so we can spend $4.5 million more rebuilding it. Worked for W right?
Yeah. I guess this means it's a tiny-plastic-shovel ready project again. That ought to knock three, maybe three and a half thousand people off next month's jobless numbers. So, yay?
This is good news for all the unemployed lego people. It's time to snap those hard hats back into place America!
Are you saying that Dubya did 9/11? Hengh?
Nah….I have it on good authority that we were building schools in Iraq (contractor) and that contractor would then pay someone from the Al Quaida in Iraq to blow it up so they could get repaid to rebuild it. Gotta love those multi-nationals.
Ironic since I just helped my son build a 200-piece crap of Lego pile…and if anyone broke it, I'd have to kick him in the 'nads.
But why does Gibbs' kid get to have his Lego creation in the National Building Museum? Nepotism much? Next up he'll get to answer the red phone at 3 a.m.
This is how a child can develop an Ediface Complex.
More like Edifice Wrecks. (Good thing Gibbs didn't eat the blocks, or it would have ended up Edifice At Colonic)
Oh, the Antigone of it all.
I hate you all.
That's not Wright! If you axed Frank Lloyd's late companion, Mamah, what she thought, she would almost certainly say, "I.M. appalled!"
Consider the implications, if any, of the fact that the National Building Museum was also the site of Hillary's 2008 concession/withdrawal speech , with its many "cracks in the glass ceiling". Probably this is what Gibbs was trying to say by smashing his child's proudest accomplishment.
From Sarah Palin's Twitter account: Obama is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own kid's Lego creation.
He wants to destroy our Lego nation's Capitol and our Lego Pentagon.
He's shredding the Lego Constitution! I don't recognize my Legoland anymore.
Gibbs apparently has been watching too many Godzilla movies.
Minds that think alike are great, or something.
Yoo briaN dammage to?
needs more assfucking (get that child out of the room first! raus! schnell!)
"What is the name of this monster?"
"Gibbzilla."
"You hear that? Gibbzilla."
"So, they believe that this Gibbzilla is responsible for all the Lincoln Log disasters?
"They're certain of it! "
I hear if you say his name 3 times you will summon the beast.
Gibbzilla Gibbzilla GIBBZILLA!
Bwahahahah etc.
Threat Assessment Level Gibbzilla!
Isn't lego French for the accelerator pedal in a car?
For the poor child, it's "Never Forget" and tomorrow he begins his 12/28 crusade against spokespeoples disguised as a rally to bring museum-goers together.
Among the things I hate about the District of Columbia is the flagrant presumptuousness in naming every single thing the "National" whatever-it-is. There's the National Cathedral, the National Mall, the National Building Museum,…National Biscuit Company, National Car Rental company….
National Pest Control, National Drain Cleaning, National Salad Tossers, etc. Couldn't agree more.
National Socialism.
Oh, wait, we're calling that Obamacare now, right? It's so hard to keep up…
we're calling national socialism "the tea party." we're calling obamacare "the new snafu."
I hate Lego. Robert Gibbs is almost back in my good books.
I'll be interested to hear how Gibbs will blame all of this on the Left.
That's sanctimonious, professional left to you, bub.
The kid said right before Gibbs dropped it, "lego of my fucking masterpiece!"
I heard some Muslin kid tried to build a Lego mosque near Gibb's tower, but the other kids protested.
I'll bet Obama's brother-in-law was in charge of security and some non-christian had a billion dollar insurance policy on the POS..
The terrorists have won.
Hang or shoot or stab the Gibbs for treason. His actions were treason! I am not sure how it is treason but it is. Just like that Julian Assange is guilty of treason. Pitchforks and torches people. Now is the time to take to the streets and start marauding or something.
Gibbs is responsible for 12/28 (NEVAH FORGET!) which means Obama must immediately fire some other member of his administration.
I knew it was you, Shirley Sherrod, all along.
Wonkette Operative SimonB here. I wonder if the White House Press Corps will leave loose Lego blocks around his podium at the next White House press conference?
From the Sarah Palin story at Slate:
Damn, that's refreshingly harsh writing from Slate. Well done sirs and madams.
I shall read the rest of this piece, now, to know if Slate is following in the footsteps of The Atlantic or The Nation (the latter, maybe, with a side of Taibbi).
“I just saw Robert Gibbs drop and break his child’s tower of Lego at the National Building Museum.”
Sounds like someone needs drug testing.
So, Sarah, how's that scrubby, e:maily thing workin' out for ye?
28/12 Never Forget
Fucking columns of architectural dichotomy.
I.M. giving you extra Pei points for those cutting remarks about Ms. Cheney.
(Not to mention the Pyramid scheme at the Louvre, or that great old song about Gehry Indiana…)
God. All of you fucking nerds, go plan and design a room.
+1 boys band
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