Rahm Emanuel’s White House Goodbye Present: Dead Fish

by Frances Martel | 9:27 am, October 2nd, 2010

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Former White House Chief of Staff (and soon-to-be Chicago mayoral candidate) Rahm Emanuel learned the hard way that a reputation for being the “dead fish guy” at work is not easy to shake off. During one of his final senior staff meetings at the White House, his colleagues presented him with a dead Asian carp as a going away present as “something to show how we feel about you.”

Economic adviser Austan Goolsbee did the honors, and, according to CNN, he played up the elusive nature of the carp in light of Emanuel’s new venture for the top spot in Chicago:

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Goolsbee recounted how he had “talked to the policy team and we wanted to give you a going away present – something to show how we feel about you but also shows we understand your new possibilities… to most people, it looks like a dead fish. But to a future mayor of Chicago, it looks like a dead Asian carp. And you’ll be happy to know that it wasn’t easy to find one of these.”

Emanuel took the warm, slightly smelly gesture in stride, according to reports. Meanwhile, Jake Tapper over at ABC News’ Political Punch produced photographic evidence of the carp, as seen below:

fish

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Big Eddie

Mayor Deadfish wants to bring his gang in to take over ? Ain’t gonna happen . We got all the crooks we need here . Take a powder , kid .
Azarkhan

” “I want to thank you for being the toughest leader any country could ask for in the toughest times any president has ever faced.” Rahm Emmanuel

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
JimBob

I had not noticed until yesterday when Emanuel was standing
next to the P:resident at the podium, that Emanual is only about 3 and a half
feet tall. That ‘splains lots of things, like you know “Short Man Syndrome”
symptoms!
Arkansas Steve

On another matter: MEDIAITE, what the hell is wrong with you?
The best interview in a decade was last night as Greta Van Susteren demolished & humiliated Gloria Allred.
You have NO DECENT EXCUSE WHATSOEVER for not running this story.
Are you incompetent or in bed with Gloria?
TCinAZ

“As he listed the names of those he saw as traitors, he grabbed a steak knife, stood up and began plunging the knife into the table and shouting “Dead! Dead! Dead!” after each name. “When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape,” one witness recalled.

“It was like something out of The Godfather. But that’s Rahm for you.”

Yeah, uh-Huh, it sure Was. As long as he had his Heezy’ Security Detail or his Union Thugs in Tow, Because Otherwise? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUsb_VrpdYc http://www.texemarrs.com/images/rahm_ballet_01.jpg

“You never want a serious pirouette…err, Crisis to go to waste,”

So, where Was I? Oh, right. DEAD!
shootfromthehip

Hey “ArkansasSteve” — start your own damn website and stop spamming Mediaite if they don’t post your fave Fox segment.

If it was interesting they would have posted it.

No one gives a fuck about Gretta or Gloria Allred.
Arkansas Steve

shootfromthehip said:
Hey “ArkansasSteve” — start your own damn website and stop spamming Mediaite if they don’t post your fave Fox segment. If it was interesting they would have posted it. No one gives a fuck about Gretta or Gloria Allred.

I understand your point shooter. But I’m not spamming, just critisizing. I actually love Mediaite.
Shooter, if you watched the person you “despise” as much as anyone on television make a fool of themselves on cable news, and if Mediaite totally ignored this, I’m betting you wouldn’t like it either. Come on, you know I’m right.
http://none pyrope

shootfromthehip said:
No liberals give a fuck about Gretta or Gloria Allred.

Isn’t this more accurate?