The whole thrust of left wing ideology nowadays is personal attacks against the right. But I guess Gibbs doesn’t have much of choice. The alternative would be to defend Obama’s policies — the disastrous stimulus (LOL!) bill, the unpopular Obamacare bill, the pork-filled budget, and (coming next) the ugly cap-and-tax bill. And those programs can’t be defended. So we get these constant character attacks.

Case in point, the whole MSNBC network.

Case in point, Glen(n) Beck.

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Hey, Tommy, good comment as usual. When is someone going to pick up on:

(1) The Arizona regulation that teachers who speak English with an accent are subject to enhanced review and evaluation and re-assignment to non-teaching duties?

(2) The GOP candidate for governor in South Carolina, a saucy little tart, it would seem?

This makes me laugh.

Tommy says this with a straight face: “…but to suggest that campaign contributions played a part is an irresponsible suggestion to make without something to back it up.” The “irresponsible suggestion” part just makes me double over; this site has been so “irresponsible” in pushing garbage with no facts, that to criticize anyone for doing same is just flat out laughable.

At least Tommy is readily admitting that only FNC is doing the job of reporting on Obama’s slow response. Good for FNC. The only network to give the American public a look at something outside the Obama talking points.

Hold the phone, didn’t Chris Matthew, James Carville, and Bill Maher also accuse the regime of acting slow?

These press conferences Gibbs gives are a complete joke , the majority of the questions these press corps hacks, ask are ” How do you respond to so and so”.

If asked a policy question or a question challenging Obama’s decisons,Gibbs tap dances.
Pathetic.

Gibbs responded by pointing out that, while you need a license to drive a car,”

But an illegal doesn’t, does he Gibbs?

Sarah should be ignored. Just opening one’s mouth and spreading misinformation does no good to the people suffering.

Hard for me understand comments linking Glenn Beck to hate speech. I hear him talking about Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, the Federalist Papers, etc. And when he focuses attention on a member of the Obama clique, he usually just plays clips of what that person said. The Van Jones, Reverend Wrights, etc. make fools of themselves with their remarks. Beck hardly needs to add anything

The whole thrust of left wing ideology nowadays is personal attacks against the right.

Guess they watched the right doing it for decades.

James, the tea party attendees want to have a discussion on the role of government in our day-to-day life. It is the Left that is incapable of having a dialogue on this issue — as was demonstrated in countless town hall meetings over the last two years. The right has plenty of real issues they want to discuss, that the left tries to avoid with their smear campaigns and character attacks.

For a start, there is the unemployment situation, the spiraling national debt, the trampling of state’s rights, the Obama administration’s push for higher taxes, the stagnant economy, the huge unfunded future government liabilities, the nuclear threat from Iran, the failed Obama foreign policy initiatives, etc. etc.

But your friends at MSNBC would rather talk about Sarah Palin’s right palm, a map on a Facebook page and a sign at a tea party.

Hey, Tommy, you missed your chance to make the very obvious naturally flowing additional point that bloogers and commenters on their blogs don’t need a license either.

After all, where else can someone so egregiously misstate a lregulation as to virtually lie about it with relative impunity as happened here tonight.

“The Arizona Department of Education recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English.

The Arizona Department of Education recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English.
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The education department has dispatched evaluators to audit teachers across the state on things such as comprehensible pronunciation, correct grammar and good writing.

Teachers that don’t pass muster may take classes or other steps to improve their English; if fluency continues to be a problem, Ms. Santa Cruz said, it is up to school districts to decide whether to fire teachers or reassign them to mainstream classes not designated for students still learning to speak English.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575213883276427528.html

With many of these unlicensed commenters we are treated to the spectacle of our very own self described loving sophisticated man who strives to live by his lofty values and religious tenets descending to the gutter (the “?” is a smokescreen) when describing a female GOP candidate.

Maybe we should be licensed. :)

James, the tea party attendees want to have a discussion on the role of government in our day-to-day life. It is the Left that is incapable of having a dialogue on this issue

Ever think that is because the Tea Party is too busy running around comparing the President to Hitler. The whole Tea Party movement is based on unreality to begin with. Taxed Enough Already??? Taxes in this country are at a 60 year low. The only country in the Northern Hemisphere with a lower tax burden is Mexico.

as was demonstrated in countless town hall meetings over the last two years.

If I recall it wasn’t the left that was disrupting town hall meetings preventing serious dialogue from taking place.

The right has plenty of real issues they want to discuss, that the left tries to avoid with their smear campaigns and character attacks.

Felix, you hypocrisy is incredible. Instead of discussing any real issues or engaging in a constructive dialogue, all you’re doing is smearing the left. Exactly what you are accusing them of doing.

For a start, there is the unemployment situation, the spiraling national debt, the trampling of state’s rights, the Obama administration’s push for higher taxes, the stagnant economy, the huge unfunded future government liabilities, the nuclear threat from Iran, the failed Obama foreign policy initiatives, etc. etc.

Yes and both the unemployment situation, the national debt and stagnant economy were problems that were inherited from Bush and the Republicans. But rather than work to help solve these problems they rather obstruct and lay blame as if all these problems began suddenly on January 20th, 2009. Yet every reputable economist will tell you that the Obama administration prevented the economy from sliding into another great depression. I would love to see someone from the right acknowledge that simple fact.

And what push for higher taxes? The Obama administration has lowered taxes for 95% of Americans not raised them. If you’re refering to the Bush tax cuts, they were always set to expire. John McCain himself refused to vote for those cuts because he thought they were too weighted to the rich. So if Donald Trump and Paris Hilton have to pay a little more in taxes to give relief to working families making $50-60,000 year than I’m all for it. Why aren’t you?

As far as huge unfunded government liabilites, let talk about the Medicare Prescription Drug plan that was pushed through by Bush and the GOP or the two wars that weren’t paid for. Or how about the Deficit Reduction comission that the right was for until the President said he supported it and then they decided they were against it.

The nuclear threat from Iran was also something inherited from Bush. What’s your solution? Invade a third Middle Eastern country? Do you have a plan to pay for that?

And what failed Obama foreign policy initiatives??? Is it a failure that foreign countries now respect us more than they did just 2 years ago? You seem to be good at throwing out accusations but not any facts to back them up.

But your friends at MSNBC would rather talk about Sarah Palin’s right palm, a map on a Facebook page and a sign at a tea party.

Well I don’t have any friends at MSNBC but would be proud if I did. But in the meantime, why don’t you take your own advice and say something constructive rather than just broad stroke smears and attacks.

And this smarmy BOZO proves you don’t need any brains either. “I can see NOVEMBER from my house!!”

Well Gibbs is right about that.

I’m kind of wondering what kind of license you need to get into a press briefing these days (and I use the term press lightly). Seems like any old leftist blogger can get a seat on the front row with this admin.

Gibbs is living proof that you don’t need a license to spew stupidity on TV, and that you can get paid for it.

James, you are a perfect example of what I am saying. Tea partiers raise real issues and you respond with smears.

James doesn’t know a LaRouchenik from…uh…any other Democrat.

Yeah, James. Everyone loves us now. Calderon criticizes our immigration policies, China thinks we aren’t up on our human rights, and Ahmadinejad is still telling us to kiss his ass.

So people you don’t agree with should need a license to speak?
Sounds like Gibbs should be a spokesman for the Chinese leaders. They’d love him.

The headline should read “GiBBS SUPPORTS COMMUNISTIC STYLE GRIP ON MEDIA AND POLITICAL SPEECH”

“…but to suggest that campaign contributions played a part is an irresponsible suggestion to make without something to back it up.”

Please, Tommy. You’ve recaptured your virginity? This type of stuff – charges that contributions lead to favorable policies – is made all the time. From the left, from the right and everywhere in between.

You do know that Matthews and Olbermann and Maddow and Schultz have been blaming Cheney (through Halliburton) for this disaster without a word of criticism about lack of evidence or irresponsible accusations.

This administration is spending an incredible amount of time running against Palin and Bush. It’s pretty pathetic.

Gibbs has another snide comment to make. Ho hum, just another day. Anyway, who cares what Flounder has to say about anything, even if he is the WH press secretary. His job is to spin, deflect, & to keep the press off Obama. With all the MSM love for Obama out there, that just makes Flounder’s job all the easier.

The administration is sinking, the economy is sinking, Obama’s poll numbers are sinking and Tommy Christopher has already sunk.

Gibbs is simply the pulsating manifestation of leftist nastiness. The only real weapon they have against truth and free speech is a never- ending, perpetual smear campaign. Alinskyism in all of its glory. Gibbs should have a license just to use up perfectly good air since when he’s through with it , it isn’t worth breathing.

Poor Mr. Gibberish has his nose out of joint again. The liberal democrats are always so willing to talk trash and try to destroy anyone who disagrees but Gibberish is not grown up enough to take a smack on the hand without pouting. Grow up pouty pants!

Ahhh, the epitome of the Repug mindset.

James, you are a perfect example of what I am saying. Tea partiers raise real issues and you respond with smears.

What smears? Please point out the smears. Rather than refute me on a point by point basis, which I guess you couldn’t do, you just call it all smears. You’ve just exposed your own hypocrisy and that it is you who engage in smears when you can’t many an intelligent arguement.

James doesn’t know a LaRouchenik from…uh…any other Democrat.

Really? How so? Please explain.

Yeah, James. Everyone loves us now. Calderon criticizes our immigration policies, China thinks we aren’t up on our human rights, and Ahmadinejad is still telling us to kiss his ass.

Never said everyone loves us so please don’t dishonestly put words in my mouth. I said that the US was more respected than it was just 2 years ago. That is a fact you can’t deny.

Whatever floats your boat. I think that everyone who liked us, it didn’t change, and those who hate us, it didn’t change.

Whatever floats your boat. I think that everyone who liked us, it didn’t change, and those who hate us, it didn’t change.

I never said it did and again you dishonestly try to put words in my mouth.

I’m pretty sure the only factual comments on this page were made by James. The only problem I have with this whole situation is the fact that we make stories out of the Half-Gov. Palin. The fact that people actually listen to her is mind boggling. Tea Partiers have issues, yes. But for the most part they are ideological issues that don’t work in the real world, like communism. I would actually like someone to go over all of the actual, real world arguments that the Tea Party Movement has with society today. I would actually like someone to bullet point how we are losing civil liberties and how government intrusion is hurting us as a people. I am pretty sure that if the Founding Fathers had that big of a problem with government as a whole we wouldn’t have a functioning representative democracy. As a matter of fact for the most part many of the actual beliefs of the founding fathers are rather outdated considering we are long past a small “r” republican model that Jefferson believed in. But feel free to go back to living off the fruits of your own labor, farming your food, and so on and so forth.

I mean you can make many arguments against the current administration but most of them aren’t too well informed. Like yes unemployment is high, and has slightly increased with the job growth, due in part to optimism and people rejoining the work force. I don’t mind that much.

Obviously the spill has brought much criticism, but implications of the government causing it is ridiculous. Slow to action, quite possibly, but it’s easy to make that statement but not look and see that the cleanup is not completely the government’s job, it’s the job of the company that causes it. Yet and still there were help efforts as soon as it happened. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, if you want less government interference, you can’t make the argument that the government should have been there sooner. Another reason why Tea Party politics don’t work in real life….

I have never commented on a single thing from Mediaite, but now I feel impelled by all these people spitting pointless garbage on a pointless story. You’re really going to argue your cable news-driven beliefs on a site like this? On a totally inconsequential clip about character jabs? If half the blindly militant, political commenters screaming across the internet could channel their energy into something productive (I don’t know, reading a book?), this whole country would be in a much better place.

“I’m not a (Licensed) lawyer and I’m not very Bright either, but I Do play a Lousy one on TV when they let me off my Leash, and the lawyers in the White House and others have looked into conversations that were had with Congressman Sestak. And nothing inappropriate happened,” Gibbs told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Uh, I’ll take that as a, Oh YES, something inappropriate most Certainly DID happen, Gibbsy.

As I was Born and Raised in Payola Illinois, you D’bag. Spent 30 of my 45 years to date there. Ergo, I know How things “work” in the “City That Works” and Now, we’ve got Chicago On Da’ Potomac. YES WE DO…So I HOPE you got keys to da’ Bunker Too, Bob.

“Never said everyone loves us so please don’t dishonestly put words in my mouth. I said that the US was more respected than it was just 2 years ago. That is a fact you can’t deny.”

Huh? How to you qualify that? Bowing to every Head of State doesn’t garner respect.

Dubya did it…