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MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell: White House Staffers Are Having Nightmares Of ‘Gushing Oil’

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It’s not hard to believe that some people inside the White House are taking the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico very seriously, but on Morning Joe this morning, Norah O’Donnell may have exaggerated that pressure when she suggested she knew people in the White House who couldn’t get to sleep because they kept seeing the gushing oil in their nightmares.

Discussing how much White House staffers have been working to figure out how to handle the oil spill, O’Donnell told her fellow panelists on Morning Joe that the oil was now gushing straight into their subconscious:

“I’ve spoken with White House staffers who tell me that they wake up in the middle of the night with nightmares of the gushing oil. It’s consuming to be in the White House with all of these different problems, and then this oil that eclipses everything.”

Everyone experiences seemingly insurmountable challenges that somehow seep into dreams, and nightmares of the disgusting goo covering the Gulf right now sounds horrible– just horrible enough to produce sympathy for a White House that has not had it easy in handling the media response to their actions in the Gulf.

The Morning Joe segment below:

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  • ImNotBlue

    “…just horrible enough to produce sympathy for a White House that has not had it easy in handling the media response to their actions in the Gulf.”

    You know, I had never thought of it like that.

    Oooh! Oh, poor White House staffers. Oh, poor people who are losing a little bit of sleep, and are afraid that their bungling of the response to this spill might somehow impact their political aspirations. Please… please… a little sympathy for the ones watching the spill from miles away, wondering if the oil that is killing animal and plant life, ruining the coast of the country, and leaving thousands out of work and possibly forced from their homes… a little sympathy because they too might have to eventually get jobs somewhere outside the White House.

    Please folks… the fisherman, the famers, the generations of people living in our southern-most states… their pain can wait. Let’s think about the staffers, and those tough questions from reporters they’ve been getting. Their the real victims.

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    What a load.

  • ImNotBlue

    They’re the real victims… not “their.” Duh.

  • Rogue-Comic

    Norah O’Donnell: a reason why the right laughs to itself when the left talks up a weird Sarah Palin comment.

  • BowenIsland

    Maybe sometimes gushing oil , is just gushing oil .

  • rushyoungberg

    “Seeping” into the subconscious. I bet they are having nightmares that their ineptness will kick Obama in the a**.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    While I don’t doubt that a White House staffer may have said something about the spill being a nightmare or maybe causing nightmares, I don’t think they were serious.

    Of course this is not to say that they’re not taking the matter seriously and perhaps one or two have dreamed about making a presentation on an issue only to have it eclipsed by an event in the Gulf, but I sincerely doubt the imagery of gushing oil has made its way into their dreams.

    Perhaps Miss O’Donnell should work on her conversational skills because it sounds to me, she is misinterpreting.

  • me1ranger

    Nora is a hottie..it’s a shame that she is still able to speak even with her fore-brain removed. Michellef was first to bring this to mediaites’ attention..she should take frances job. Frances left off the part where Nora was choking back tears..

  • http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

    LOL . You have to be kidding me. This is a Story? Frances you will never cease to amaze me.

    Here is a real story for ya kiddo… http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/08/afghanistan.deaths/ Wake up in the morning and think about that.

  • MichelleF

    me1ranger says:
    June 9, 2010 at 6:56 am
    Nora is a hottie..it’s a shame that she is still able to speak even with her fore-brain removed. Michellef was first to bring this to mediaites’ attention..she should take frances job. Frances left off the part where Nora was choking back tears..

    Thanks, but I’m pretty sure you have to think the BO is the messiah to work here and I think that job is already taken by someone far superior, so I don’t think they’d want me.

  • jeremiah.nanderson

    Saw the video of the Norah O’Donnell interesting one to watch out but i thinks personally its just fake nothing else.
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  • Rescuedog

    Oh yes, those poor staffers in the White House. They’re so preoccupied with the oil spill they took time out on Sunday to play beer pong at a Washington bar. (They want their lives back!!) Check this out:

    http://famousdc.com/2010/06/07/white-house-gone-wild-shirtless-favreau-and-vietors-sundayfunday-beer-pong-match/

    Included in the picture are Obama’s speechwriter Jon Favreau and Assistant Press Secretary Tommy Vietor, who is probably the one who fed Norah O’Donnell this stupid anecdote as she greedily lapped it up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    Norah O’Donnell might be the dumbest anchor on TV. There are no depths to which she will not stoop to shill for this White House — much like the rest of MSNBC. She looked like a fool getting choked up talking about WH staffers having oil nightmares. This is the same dunce who tried to say Newt Gingrich was making “racially charged” comments by referring to Barack Obama’s frequent basketball games.

  • ex political-media hack

    those poor staffers just want their dream-lives back…

  • smack

    I have nightmares about the white house and all the incompetence gushing out of it.

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