WH Deputy Press Secretary Explains Robert Gibbs Comment On ‘Professional Left’

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by Colby Hall | 4:00 pm, August 10th, 2010

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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a shot at what he called the “professional left” in an interview published today with The Hill’s Sam Youngman causing a bit of dust-up within beltway media insiders. So it was great anticipation that the White House press corps looked towards today briefing to ask Gibbs what exactly he meant by those comments. Alas, Deputy Secretary Bill Burton was at the podium in lieu of an ailing Gibbs, but that didn’t keep reporters from asking questions.

The interview with Youngman, Gibbs takes a blunt view of the administration’s critics from the left:

“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.”

Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”

In remarks later made to Huffington Post‘s Sam Stein, Gibbs later qualified the remarks as “inartful” and Burton clarified that Gibbs defined the “professional left,” as cable TV commentators.

Mediaite’s own White House reporter Tommy Christopher asked Burton about criticism that, with regard to the “professional left,” with issues like Shirley Sherrod, Van Jones and ACORN, that the Obama administration seems to be more to the “professional right” in terms of the both response and rhetorical effort. In other words, the White House communications efforts might be guilty of taking the left for granted.

Burton showed that he is adept at that “no-answer-answer” by pushing back on Tommy, dismissing his line of thinking as sort of an “existential question,” then following with the banal kicker of “the President is concerned about what’s best for this country.”

Bill Burton, Professional Left, Robert Gibbs, Tommy Christopher

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Robert Gibbs does not like Tom Christopher(professional left), who would have thunk it. Obama, it is too late for a move to the center.
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The question poor Tommy asked assumes that Obama threw those folks under the bus because they were badgered by the right wing media. Only someone that believes that would ask that question that way. Of course it could not be because those folks should have been dumped? They screwed up on Sherrod all by theirselves, no help from the right was needed. The others should have been dumped and in the case of Van Jones he should have never been anywhere near the White House. ACORN was a bunch of crooks and Obama should have never been near Rev. Wright.
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gordonbloyershow said:
The question poor Tommy asked assumes that Obama threw those folks under the bus because they were badgered by the right wing media. Only someone that believes that would ask that question that way. Of course it could not be because those folks should have been dumped? They screwed up on Sherrod all by theirselves, no help from the right was needed. The others should have been dumped and in the case of Van Jones he should have never been anywhere near the White House. ACORN was a bunch of crooks and Obama should have never been near Rev. Wright.

shhhhhhhh….gordon…..they are doing just great! Let’s hope to hear more from good folks like Tommy who see nothing at all to be concerned about with those ‘issues’ he cited. They’re just a little bit hurt and disappointed that this WH isn’t being as sweet to them as they had hoped but…. I’m quite sure they won’t let that get in the way of their journOlistic standards.

WE SHOULD APPLAUDE THE LEFT-WINGERS FOR DOING WHAT THEY DO!!

Keep up the good work por favor!!
MichelleF

Top Leftie Blogger: Obama Campaign Asked Me to Do ‘Dirty Work’ in 2008, and I Did

Leading gay blogger John Aravosis, writing today at his Americablog about White House spokesman Robert Gibbs attacking inside the beltway progressive critics of Barack Obama, like Aravosis, let slip that he performed surreptitious “dirty work” for Obama at the behest of his 2008 presidential campaign:

Joe and I are upset with Obama, and we, for example, raised nearly $43,000 for the man, According to the White House, our money now doesn’t count. Great, would they like to give it back? I for one, would love the $1000 back that I personally donated to the Obama campaign. Joe gave even more. I suspect a lot of our readers wouldn’t mind their contributions back too, since apparently they’re not appreciated.

Then there’s all that work we did for the campaign, all the dirty work they asked us to do – and we did it, gladly, and quietly – none of that counted either, apparently.

Presumably, the “Joe” who Aravosis mentions his Americablog’s deputy editor Joe Sudbay.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/08/top-leftie-blogger-obama-campaign-asked-me-to-do-dirty-work-in-2008-and-i-did/
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Seems to me, Gibbs and the administration may have been bantering around conversation, privately, that the fringe left was more trouble than they are worth. Gibbs isn’t likely to make any public statement, unless he knows Obama’s stance is in line with those statements, if he wants to keep his job. Most of the Independents flew from Obama, when the fringe left activists from MSNBC, Huffington Post, and other fringe left media outlets, began to portray themselves as an extension of the administration. As I mentioned earlier, Obama has to distance himself from that fringe left, if he hopes to have any chance of a second term. The fringe left consists of approximately 19% of the voting population, which means, who cares what they think or want? I don’t usually agree with Gibbs, however, he’s right in kicking the fringe left to the curb. The Independents will never come back for Obama, unless the fringe left is exterminated, like the roaches they are. Btw, for the record, I was never, or never will be, an Obama or McCain supporter. It ain’t happening…ever.
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