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White House Doesn’t Compare Tea Party Protest to ‘Deliverance’

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by Tommy Christopher | 11:13 am, November 6th, 2009

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gibbs_voight At yesterday’s White House Briefing, Jake Tapper asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about the Tea Party protest that was occurring on Capitol Hill yesterday. Gibbs responded by saying that he was tempted to make a joke about Tea Party speaker Jon Voight. Despite cajoling, he resisted. Despite that, we couldn’t resist an attempt to get him to clarify.

Here’s Tapper’s exchange with Gibbs:

Voight, an outspoken (if not rabid), critic of President Obama, has starred in a over 70 movies and TV shows. Since Gibbs said he was sure that what he was thinking would get him in trouble, I took a shot in the dark:

And here, I was hoping he’d hum a few bars of “Dueling Banjos.”

I guess I’ll take his word for it, although I’d hate to think what kind of “Midnight Cowboy” joke he could have made.

He also asked me if my questions were in order of importance. For the record, I don’t believe that this was a declaration of war on Mediaite.

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Sunnyr

Gibbs is a smarmy little freak with a room temperature IQ. A**hole!
Nachi

Ah, the Tea Partiers. The very essence of the intellectual/ethical/moral fiber of Republiscumism. Stand proud. These are our heroes, our patriots. Hatred filtered thru Jeessusss. Yup.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rex-Mundi/649934808 Rex Mundi

Gibbs reminds me of a banker I used to know. I intellectually/ethically/morally AND physically
punched him in the face and stood proud as a hero and patriot. Bite me Nachi.
BethDonovan

Robert Gibbs has no class at all. Every rude remarks, every frat-boy sounding reference that Gibbs makes is an insult to America and to the Presidency.

I think back to Tony Snow and what a class act he was.

If this is the best Obama can do so far as finding a decent man or woman to be press secretary, well, God help us when it comes to all his other appointees. We are in for a rotten few years with this administration.
Nachi

Little Rexy: There not enough of you to bite. No substance. Empty. Hatred and jealousy exist in your wee little mind – hard to grab on to. But I WOULD love to try that pansy punch you vomit about. Get a life – even if you must steal someone else’s.
Magister

Now see, when I think of Jon Voight, I think of Angelina Jolie, the Midnight Cowboy, followed by his stint on last season’s 24 and the multitude of similar roles that he’s played and I didn’t even realize that he was in Deliverance. While Ned Beatty on the other hand, the old Burt Reynolds movie would be pretty high on the list. bat with him too, I don’t think I’d put it at the top.

Plus, I hate to say it because congrats should be in order for getting a White House briefing, but Midnight Cowboy, the neo-con blackmail stuff from 24 and the things his daughter has said over the years seem like more appropriate fodder for a Tea Party frontman joke than “squeal like a pig”.