Robert Gibbs: Transparently Toolish, Mocks Palin with Palm Note
From Lori Ziganto’s latest article at iowntheworld.
Oh, so hilarious,Robert Gibbs ! Stay classy, Press Secretary to the President of the United States!
Imagine: He thought this joke was so good, he actually prepared it before the presser. MKH is calling him the Dane Cook of politics for ripping off a goof that’s already been done three times by national figures, including Palin herself, but it’s worse than that. The Daily Show did a double hit on it last night, first with Stewart reading off his hand and then Wyatt Cenac reading off his belly, so that’s five times at least.
Too bad you are actually like the tenth media person/public figure to make that joke, Gibbs. The only time that it was funny was when Palin herself did it, writing the words “Hi, Mom” on her palm while making a campaign stop with Governor Rick Perry.
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Gibbsy, you are way behind the curve, as always. Even the buffoonish, and creepily obsessed, Andrea Mitchell beat you to it!
Plus, a joke no longer works when the butt of the joke has already poked fun of herself. Although, I can see how you wouldn’t be used to that; the Obama administration does not seem to know about a little thing called self-deprecating humor.
See, not thinking that you are a perfect being, beyond reproach, is how most people behave. It’s one of those “little people” skills. You should look into it. I bet you expected Palin to act like your boss and start crying and bemoaning the big meany pantsers. I am going to be a “decider” now. My decision? Palin rocks. You stink. I also have a note on my hand and it says “Sorry, Gibbs. But she’s just not that into you.”
She’s getting to you, isn’t she, White House? She’s really getting under your super-thin skin. Now that is really hope-y, change-y.
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Gee..let's recap. U.S. unemployment is at 10% (effective number more lke 20%), Iran is about to go nuclear (a tragic development however pronounced), terrorists are still actively trying to kill us and our children, and the nation's debt is upon our children like a Puritan stone pressing….but our president's press secretary has time for sophomoric and un-funny political jokes about a citizen who is neither a government employee nor a candidate for government office. Hopefully we'll all be able to yuke it up in the near future, but for now let's try to elect some adults to government – Brown in MA was a good start, let's accelerate things before it doesn't even matter.
Dear Lori:
Love your article. I was just thinking after I saw David on the Glenn Beck show that it would be wildly wonderful if a bunch of us Constitutionally-believing right-wing non-progressive conservatives who believe in individualism and small government print “Palin Rocks” on our hands and put out a U-Tube video of same…then I read your article!
Let freedom ring! How exactly a few notes written on a hand compares to the constant reading of a tele-prompter I do not understand. How someone who cannot even pronounce Corpsman can be a Commander-In-Chief is difficult to believe. Keep up the good work!
thank you!
Thank YOU, Judith! And I'll try!
As someone who *does* jot notes down on her hand all the time and who does, in fact, think Palin rocks, I can totally get on board with the youtube video idea
Hey I love the idea of the U-tube. Let's have a contest and everybody get your friends together and make a video with stuff written on our hands and post it, what fun!
How much can you write on your middle finger?
I look at it as maybe Mr. Gibbs is learing about a trick that has been in use in football for a long time. What other method his administration is using sure ain't working out too well. I thought he read that grocery list off pretty succinctly, didn't you?.
The ONLY way tht this Jr. High style slam is funny is if Gibbs hand reads "I'm a tool."
Palin's hand job just shows all of us what kind of dullard we are up against. WOW and some call her a leader….please.
As noted above in another entry, three general topics in comparison with BO reading things verbatim, even when he doesn't have the slightest idea what it means…"corps-man," for one. Ever watch BO speak without the teleprompters? When he speaks his standard meaningless pap he does okay. Especially when attacking anyone who doesn't fall in with his adoring creepies. Off the cuff? "The…uh…but…and I mean…what.. you…er…I mean…ad nauseum!" Totally lost. So much for his glib intelligence!
*sarc on*Yeah! She's so dumb. If she was as smart as Barack, she would get someone else to type something and then read it. That's how I passed all of my tests at Harvard Law. I'm so smart. *sarc off*
I look at this as a Robert Gibbs attempt to use the progressive's Saul Alinsky Power Tactics Rule 5, "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counter ridicule. It also infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to advantage."
And, it was a poor use since, IMHO, he only succeeded in ridiculing himself.
pure pownange by Gibbs. so humiliating to Palin that Drudge had to de-link from it. ever hear of notecards?
on that note, Palin uses written notes at her speech and gets a pass, but Obama uses a teleprompter (incidentally, like Reagan did constantly), and teabaggers pretend there's a difference?
There is a difference, actually, as Obama can engage in an extemporaneous debate with House Repubs, no notes/teleprompter, and win, while Palin needs to scrawl on her hand to get through a friendly interview. The retarded apple clearly didn't fall far from the retarded tree.*
*NOTE: this sentence is made "as satire," and thus immune to all criticism.
Hey FatJerk,
I thought you libs said Reagan used 3×5 cards all the time. So which is it? 3×5 cards or teleprompter?
Didn't you get the latest lib memo when you picked up the check for that $12/hour job at your local Democratic Branch? I mean your job is pretty simple: pick up your talking points from your masters, then copy and paste on blogs all day long. How complicated can that be?
Tell me, what's the difference between writing notes on a card that you put down on a lectern and writing down a few main topics you want to insist on on your hand?
And you dare comparing a few words with WHOLE ENTIRE speeches uploaded onto a teleprompter every time your Alexrod-created product opens his mouth?
Keep it up, loser!
Before the advent of guys like you in our society I never, EVER, EVER, thought a Republican would EVER win a state election in Massachusetts. You guys DID it. You're amazing! Nobody could have done it. Not even Ronald Reagan at the height of his popularity – when he was reelected with 60% of the popular vote and 49 states out of 50 in 1984 – could do it. But the fraud you sent to the White House did it.
THANK YOU!
Oh FATRABBIT, FATRABBIT, your opinions are so simply meaningless and shallow. Please just keep your thoughts to yourself?
I'll give BO this much; he's quick with the lie. He said he was willing to work with the "other side of the aisle," then has used every opportunity to let it be known that what he meant was "as long as you go along with my ideas (read ideologue). Don't bother adding anything else."
FATRABBIT Who are you to tell us what is satire and what is immune to criticism? You can not comment without creating a mean spirited sentence that is offensive to those who understand what is and is not "socially" off limits? I am sure you dwell at a level should you want to join the human race you will need a ladder.
Careful, Honey, he might charge you with a "Hate" crime!
Check it out Davidson…FATRABBIT dumb enough to come back to explain the 'caveat"…Could it be a White House employee who wants to explain "the process" to all us peasants?
SEE BELOW!!!
My caveat is an example of another rhetorical device, similar to satire, called "irony."
Specifically, by cruelly slandering Trig as a "retarded apple" and then attempting to shield myself from criticism by calling my slander "satire," I draw a….wait for it….IRONIC parallel to Palin's half-witted defense of Limbaugh's insults against actual developmentally disadvantaged persons, insults he nominally spewed out as satire. Of course, Emanuel was talking about ideas, not persons, but asking Palin to keep different concepts discrete is like herding cats – just ask McCain's election team.
Hey Gibbs, Who would use 2 telepromters to speak to 6th grade children?? Hint, not the teacher.
wait… Obama uses the Teleprompter to talk to Gibblets, too?!?!?
This WH would due well to find some mature respectable people to represent and advise it. Sara is at least likable. Even try "likable" for the next WH applicant. Sheeesshhhhh
Yet, Obama needs two scripted teleprompters to talk to a sixth grade class. I don;t see Where Gibbs has room to make jokes.
Actually, he (Obama) didn't – those teleprompters were used to speak with reporters afterwards. He spoke with the children informally with nary a note on his hand to keep him on message. Pretty much everyone acknowledges this, as this article makes clear:
http://www.aolnews.com/the-point/article/what-the...
…except, of course, those persons who prefer to sustain their fantasy world with comforting illusions and self-trickery.
He's good with children, I reckon, but adults, we know there is no Santa Claus. There's a few exceptions, sir…
Is that supposed to be a retort? He used them to talk to the press? Seriously?
He doesn't. That wasn't the point. It was pure Alinsky. jemc50's comment was a direct hit.
What does every feminist dream of?….A great job, a helpful understanding husband who will not stand in the way of her career, and children…..Let’s see now….Sarah Palen has been among other things, Gov. of the state of Alaska, has a handsome helpful husband who has encouraged and supported
her in all her aspirations…..She has a lovely family, including a cherished challenged child…..Only one problem, She is a (gasp) Republican which no doubt sticks in many feminist Democrat’s craws…..As for the writing on his palm listing food staples, Mr. Gibbs shows a streak of male contempt for women….AF
I think he has a bigger problem if he's buying groceries. You know them Libs seem to stray from the norm.
anyone who has had psy 101 knows that you don't look at the posturing of the top of a pyramid to know what's really going on inside.
the true thoughts of the inner circle is always portrayed by the actions and speech of those occupying the bottom trying to gain purchase to the next level by exhibiting the behaviors that the top will recognize as in line with their ideology.
so if one really wants to know what the President thinks and feels and what's important to him…don't listen to what he says but, those that speak for him and there is no true bipartisan desires there.
He is a fool. I do not like him and I do not trust him with his silly cocky attitude. Let him leture the news media, that is more amusing.