Neil Cavuto Responds To Robert Gibbs’ Criticism With An Invitation To Your World

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by Frances Martel | 8:18 pm, May 5th, 2010

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Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had some advice for Neil Cavuto, channeled through Fox News’ Washington correspondent Wendell Goler: don’t let former Bush administration officials propagate conspiracy theories on your show. Except Gibbs didn’t quite get the theory right, which Cavuto took him to task for on today’s program, along with extending Gibbs an invitation to come on the show himself.

Gibbs accused former FEMA director during Hurricane Katrina Michael Brown of suggesting that the White House deliberately set off the oil spill to impact energy policy. As our own Tommy Christopher pointed out yesterday, this wasn’t quite right. “No, no, he didn’t say that, Robert,” Cavuto corrected him. “Michael Brown never said the administration deliberately set off the leak. Not once, not ever.” He then played the clip from his program yesterday where Brown suggested a deliberate delay in the response to the disaster, not direct involvement with creating it.

Cavuto also answered a question that many– including we here at Mediaite– had upon seeing Brown on TV again after half a decade: why? In response to Gibbs’ version of Brown’s argument, Cavuto said:

“That is beyond laughable. Here is what is not: dismissing what Mr. Brown did say about a president who may have botched a lot since that Gulf spill, just as Mr. Brown argued the last president did in the immediate aftermath of that Gulf hurricane. He was criticizing his old boss. Mr. Brown says he has become an expert on botched responses: that is why I had Michael Brown on. Robert Gibbs seems to have done the same for botched White House pressers– that is why I invite him on.”

Those are fighting words, though as amazing as it would be to watch Cavuto and Gibbs go at it in person, this prospect seems to have little viability.We’ll have to wait to see how Gibbs responds, if he does.

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timzank

Nice job Cavuto!
Grammie

Frances, I sent a tip in over an hour ago that Johnny Dollar had this.

Thanks.
badr

Gibbs is a little punk, he talks to talk a lot when he thinks he’s top dawg but he’s definitely going to back down.
MichelleF

Thannks for the follow-up, Frances. It’s nice when the media and the whitehouse get called out. Didn’t they learn the first time around that starting a war with FOX isn’t a good idea. But hey, it was fun for us, so go for it!
valkyrie101

I love Cavuto’s red tie, black suit, white shirt, hair back, a little slick, with a puff, and that “v” thing on his forehead like a mishievious Eddie Munster. My parents love Neil, but he has this kind of whining tone, kind of nasal thing going, and it distracts me. He’s an Ailes man.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Van-Veen/617590041 Chris Van Veen

Gibbs is such a child-like character; easy to mock and laugh at. That’s turned into outright ridicule, which Gibbs thoroughly deserves for his condescending tone (always, seemingly, embedded within a snarky chuckle). This little man will be a public school administrator by later this year.
Newsjunky

Neil who? Gibbs shouldn’t even bother with that lightweight.
timzank

Newsjunky says:
May 5, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Neil who? Gibbs shouldn’t even bother with that lightweight.
maybe he shouldn’t but he did….

backfire again for gibbsy..
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Big_F-ing_Deal

Yeah, after someone tries to rape you in the ass you should definitely accept an invitation to their house.
Glenn.Bovine.Merrill

Dumbsh*ts, that all of you wingnutz and Mark Koldys’s lovers:

Why in the f)uck did Crapputo invite Brownie to his s*h house? For his “professional opinion”?

If anything, they, Fuks, are accepting both Brownie and the Chimperor fked up big time, and THEY fuks defended them at the time.

NOBODY owes the Fox gNOpig propaganda network ANYTHING.

mucking forons at FUX believe they can generate news? FUKC THEM.
PureFreedom

Neil is one of the smartest guys out there. He would school the idiots in the white house about the economy.
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

“Robert Gibbs seems to have done the same for botched White House pressers– that is why I invite him on.”

LOL I love Niel! Ya Robert come by so I can watch Neil ride yer Arse to the stables, Bwaaa ha ha ha ha ha!
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

Neil is SO SMART!!1 I remember a few years ago when he was telling us that the ECONOMY was going to be JUST FINE and all this talk of “subprime mortgages” and “housing bubbles” was just a bunch of DOOM AND GLOOM being spread by the anti-business SOCIOFASCISTS!!1 And of course, EVERYTHING turned out FINE!!1 Another FOX NEWS VICTORY!!1
timzank

Karl I usually just skip your gibberish, but in the case of your last comment, I just can’t. Could you please cite for us ANY case of what you alledge about Cavuto?

I’ve been watching him for a long long time and I don’t recall what you alledge. Please clarify if you can tear yourself away from the electronic equivalent of a seltzer bottle and bicycle horn.
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

If you weren’t aware of FOX NEWS’s (The Most Powerful Name in News’s) assurances in the run up to the “recession” that all the doom and gloom talk about the economy were just NONSENSE, then you must have not been watching FOX NEWS (The Most Powerful Name in News) at ALL during 2008!!1 And thus, you are a BAD AMERICAN!!1 Everyone from Cavuto to Credit Report Expert Ben Stein was telling us that EVERYTHING was going to be okay, and that if something bad DID happen it was all going to be the fault of the business-hating COMMIES!!1

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MichelleF

Big_F-ing_Deal says:
May 5, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Yeah, after someone tries to rape you in the ass you should definitely accept an invitation to their house.

You obviously didn’t watch the clip. I hadn’t actually seen the original show, but was watching when Neil responded and replayed it and he’s right. Brown DIDN’T say Obama caused the accident, he just wondered if he wasn’t as quick to respond for political reasons. I’m not saying I agree, BFD, but please explain to me how that’s any different than saying Bush blew up the levies because he wanted to kill black people. I mean I’m sure if I did some research I would find SEVERAL guests on MSNBC. Heck, I’ll bet I could even find a couple hosts that agreed. Let me know if you’d like that.
Bania

Thats’s GOLD karl !!!!!!2 GOLD !!!!!!2
MichelleF

Karl Spensen says:
May 6, 2010 at 8:25 am
Neil is SO SMART!!1 I remember a few years ago when he was telling us that the ECONOMY was going to be JUST FINE and all this talk of “subprime mortgages” and “housing bubbles” was just a bunch of DOOM AND GLOOM being spread by the anti-business SOCIOFASCISTS!!1 And of course, EVERYTHING turned out FINE!!1 Another FOX NEWS VICTORY!!1

Karl,
I think you are confusing him with Barney Frank.
ImNotBlue

Karl Spensen says:
May 6, 2010 at 9:07 am

Hmmm… did you read the piece, Karl? Because it doesn’t say what you obnoxiously (par for the course) say it does. And of course, it was from 2005.

Funny how the haters love to take things like this out of context, or misrepresent the facts. But when it comes to someone saying on camera, “Fannie and Freddy are fine,” (a la Barney Frank)… well, that’s not that important. Apparently, FNC can’t be trusted and needs to be called out when they’re “wrong,”… but the guys actually making the decisions, well, we don’t REALLY need t hold them accountable, do we?
MichelleF

Exactly right, INB.
ashmorrow

Cavuto is just dumb. Hurricane Katrina was a terrorist attack. Just check out the book Katrina Nights. Or go to http://hurricanekatrinakaif.com