Robert Gibbs says left-wing criticizers need drug testing

[Kramer]

XO I guess Poor Robert Gibbs is  having a bad day just like the fag stewardess on Jet Blue yesterday! I hope all you drug-dazed lefties forgive Mr. Gibbs for slipping out the truth.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/aug/10/robert-gibbs-crazy-liberal-critics-obama

Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested'
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama's critics on the left are 'crazy' - and then tries to apologise

The Obama administration's most public face, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, has tried to climbed down from angry remarks he aimed at leftwing critics, calling them "crazy".

In an interview with The Hill newspaper in Washington DC, Gibbs revealed frustration at attacks on the administration from liberal Democrats and others on the left, in terms likely to make relations even worse:

    "I hear these people saying he's like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it's crazy."

    The press secretary dismissed the "professional left" in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, "They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we've eliminated the Pentagon. That's not reality."

Within hours of the interview being published, Gibbs tried to walk back his remarks, calling them "inartful". He told the Huffington Post:

    I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

Gibbs went on to say: "So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies".

His remarks reflect the White House's sensitivity at criticism from the left of the Democratic party, who are unhappy that Obama has too often appeared to compromise on domestic policy while continuing Bush administration policies on Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as a continued failure to close Guantanamo prison.

Gibbs's remarks were quickly taken up and dissected on liberal blogs.

Glenn Greenwald at Salon described Gibbs's remarks as "one of the most petulant, self-pitying outbursts seen from a top political official in recent memory, half derived from a paranoid Richard Nixon rant and the other half from a Sean Hannity/Sarah Palin caricature of The Far Left". Chris Bowers of the OpenLeft blog responded in a post headlined "Dear swing voters, you suck. Love, The White House":

    If the White House really doesn't think it has any problems among self-identified liberals or progressives, and that all the complaints are coming from a grasstop elite, it needs to look at the data again.

[sirs]

So, we can now expect former Senator, now S0S Hillary Clinton to come out with a passionate plea that its wholly patriotic to disagree with an administration.

quote: "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, 'WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!'"

Or does she need drug testing?

[BT]

Jokers to the left of me      jokers to the right

[Michael Tee]

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

[BT]

to the left of me
to the right

[sirs]

Don't you mean

to the left of me

to the right of me

??

Because of the course the prior pic is obviously racist, because......well, because Tee & Xo say so, the 2 sets of pics being so obviously & completely different than each other

[Kramer]

The Honeymoon is just about over!

[Xavier_Onassis]

Leave it to sirs, whose density approximates that of a red dwarf, to not see the difference between a white actor in makeup for a specific role to a Black Obama in whiteface.

[Kramer]

Leave it to sirs, whose density approximates that of a red dwarf, to not see the difference between a white actor in makeup for a specific role to a Black Obama in whiteface.

The guy that made it was Arab and a liberal. Get up to speed Mr. Know-it-all!

XO you are a SHALLOW-MINDED loser, and the only thing that spews from you claptrap is accusations of racism. I swear, anybody so single-minded as you has to be the thing that you constantly call people. Clearly you are the racist here.

[sirs]

Leave it to sirs, whose density approximates that of a red dwarf, to not see the difference between a white actor in makeup for a specific role to a Black Obama in whiteface.

Leave it to Xo to note the extreme similarity, yet still rationalize how they are supposedly worlds apart.  I realize that common sense doesn't come easy to the hard core left, but jeeezus guys, your efforts are beyond transparent.  We could give you a laundry list of Obama examples that would be very "joker-like", irrational, irresponsible, even wreckless, and NOTHING to do with race, but quite analgous, in a hyperbolic way, to Heath Ledger's character, the joker.