Old-School Reporter Asks Robert Gibbs Why it’s So Cold Outside

World Net Daily correspondent and conservative radio host Lester Kinsolving, with an assist from NBC’s Mike Viqueira, threw more hilariously loaded questions at Robert Gibbs from behind his signature shotgun mic. He touched on some subjects sure to tickle the sensibilities of the birther/global warming denier/dittohead set when he asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs why it was so cold out, did the President visit the hospital that Rush Limbaugh stayed in in Hawaii, and…just what hospital was the President born in?

A lot of people make the assumption that questions asked by reporters are automatically reflective of that reporter’s beliefs, or the credibility they give them. In Viqueira’s case, at least, it was tongue-in-cheek:

Lester: Just two questions. Considering — considering the continuing reports of record worldwide cold, how does the President believe that there was justification for the millions spent on that conference to try to promote acceptance of global warming?

MR. GIBBS: Well, I think one only has to step outside here or visit where I used to work in Chicago to understand that climate change is — and the record temperatures that climate change is likely causing is with us.

Lester: Thank you. While he was in Hawaii, did the President visit the hospital where he was reportedly born, which is which one? (Laughter.)

MR. GIBBS: I don’t believe I saw any pool reports of hospital visits.

Mike: Robert, you attribute today’s weather to climate change?

MR. GIBBS: I don’t know what specifically causes today’s snowfall —

Mike: Or the cold that’s gripping the nation you attribute —

MR. GIBBS: I would say that there are, even in places that are used to getting very cold weather, record cold. I think scientists will tell you that whether it’s in and around this country or throughout the world that our weather patterns have been affected by our change in our climate, yes.