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It's Grow-Up Time, with Robert Gibbs

By J.P. Freire on 2.5.09 @ 4:00PM

Robert Gibbs, whose idea of seducing the press is making snide remarks and then ignoring questions out of sheer pettiness, is off to a great start so far. Here's a video where Jake Tapper blows the lid on Obama's supposed pledge to transparency, and only gets a fist full of eye-rolling in response.

It's a hard accomplishment, but he's coming in a close second to Scott McClellan as "Presidential Press Secretary The White House Press Corps Wants To Punch."

ALSO: Does Tapper almost drop the f-bomb in there?

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Sebastian B. O. Buniontow, esq| 2.5.09 @ 4:30PM

I give Gibbs less than 2 months. Death watch in effect.

WendyG| 2.5.09 @ 6:07PM

Comedy gold!

Kat| 2.5.09 @ 10:15PM

Liberals are even nasty to each other! Immature brats.

JJ JR| 2.6.09 @ 9:58AM

Y'all,

Don't be fooled by Gibb's down-home, polite mannerisms. It is all an act--and by the video of the Tapper-Gibbs exchange--the varnish is already wearing thin.

Just recall the exchanges he had with various Fox News anchors when he was one of Barackus Ceasar Obamus' campaign spokesman--I used to think that the nothing could be as ill-tempered, disingenuous, dishonest, and downright hateful than the troika of Carville/Begala/Stephanopolous--until I was able to take the full measure of this chap Gibbs. He's an abosolute knife fighter. This is going to be fun to watch Gibbs if Barackus continues to stumble.