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Welcome to the new Media paradigm, Mister Gibbs.

It’s one where you get interrupted when you try to spin the stupid things that your candidates say.

For those without video, it shows: George Stephanopoulos (!) playing a clip of Joe Biden’s infamous ‘buried’ gaffe*; asking Robert Gibbs whether gaffes like this will hurt the Vice President in his upcoming debate with Paul Ryan**; and stopping Gibbs cold when Gibbs tried to claim that Biden was talking about the last eight years*** when Biden clearly said four. Pure entertainment, in other words: oh, I’m sure that there were plenty of softballs and whatnot. It’s Stephanopoulos, after all. But perhaps the Media is figuring out that smacking the Democrats around a bit promises to be good for the ratings…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*ProTip: Never talk about how the last four years have been awful for a particular demographic when you’re one of the people who’s been in charge for the last four years.

**I am not trying to be cute, here: but we – and more importantly, Paul Ryan – need to be prepared to deal with the fact that Joe Biden can and will lie with a straight face in public. It kept him from being President; but apparently the Media doesn’t mind a habitual liar in the VP slot.

***Which is interesting, all on its own. Apparently the habits of 2008 are still strong in 2012; and while I agree that it would be more fun for Obama to run against Bush he’s, well, not.

COMMENTS

  • Olovely

    The other thing is, Romney’s campaign needs to grab snippets from Paul (a=hole) Krugman saying the economy is not growing fast enough, he’s a great tv ad as are the other apologies, including axelrod and gibson, who were saying the economy is not good. I also think they need to pull the picture of Obama during the debate with big starry eyes at Lehrer, trying to get him to stop Romney from finishing his answer. I can’t believe nobody has brought that up, he looked possessed.

  • JoshINHB

    The Left and Obama’s problem is that they believe that their bs strawmen are reality.

  • guardianb

    To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, it’s not that Joe lies; it’s that he knows so much that just isn’t so! Biden can say all these things so effectively and with a straight face because he believes them. The fact that others think them gaffes, in his mind only reveals the intellectual inferiorityof others. As the left and the MSM accept him as one of their own, advancing their causes, they write it off as a series of understandable mistakes: a “false but true” interpretation of his comments. Joe Biden has effectively turned himself into his own Manchurian Candidate; believing as truth everything he speaks. It is this man that Ryan needs to be prepared to debate.

    Secondly, this particular gaffe reveals something else. This administration has never transitioned from campaign mode. It is obvious that in this administration’s own mind, they have only recently assumed the office of president-elect and are still running against the presumed failures of the last 4 years. As both he and Obama are prone to do, he dusted off an old speech or slogan that seemed to play well and ran with it from there. The trouble for them is the curtain is slowly being pulled away and voters are beginning to believe them again: we need a change from the (most recent!) “last 4 years”.

  • spinoneone

    Along with this same crap, Letterman called Romney a felon on his Friday show. Said he had never paid taxes. Romney’s tax preparation company, Pricewaterhouse Cooper, begs to differ. http://www.mittromney.com/disclosure/letter-from-pwc

    Since Letterman is a “public” figure I presume he can’t be sued for liable and slander. He is, without a doubt, guilt.

  • Milton Friedman

    2010 was just a sampler appetizer for the Democrats. You don’t get it. You still don’t get it. The progressive liberals are going to be recognized as a simple dictionary term after 2012. The citizens who believe in freedom, liberty, smaller government is everybody. We are going to crush the Democrats in November.

  • smorrow66

    Did you watch Krugman this morning? They are in panic mode over this. The pros in the campaign know that economics and history are against them, hence the interruptions and the flat out lies about the economy.

    I also think that the pros in the campaign, whose livelihood depends on successful campaigns understand that Obama is only half heartedly campaigning and truly wants to be done with it.

  • Ausonius

    Oh come on now! Krugman has a…(drum roll)…NOBEL PRIZE!!! (And we do not, so what could we or anyone else know about anything?) Yes, arrogance in the face of evidence becomes a tragic obstinance. The Orwellian language of the leftists has been absolutely fascinating in the last decades…fascinating in the sense of a coroner examining the remains of a body and deducing what killed the person. In our case the not-yet dead body is something called the American Republic and the disease is Rampant Blinkered Leftism.

  • http://lvjohnston.blogspot.com/ lvjohnston

    All leftists scream ‘lies’
    when faced with the truths,
    but they *will* see justice
    from our polling booths.

    The Obama express
    has run out of steam
    and nothing but nothing
    can further their dream!

    The problem is simply
    that freedom can’t stand
    lies coming from those
    who would pillige our land.

    Free people we are –
    free people we’ll be.
    Just wait til the 6th of
    November and see!

    So get out and vote -
    it’s your duty, you see;
    for freedom in chains
    is not freedom to me!

    (I may be biased, but I like mine better…)

  • ctredstater

    Huge moment for Ryan, but one he has been prepping for for years. I fear that “likable Joe” will show up with some folksy sayings and come off well. He did surprisingly well in his speech at the DNC.
    But Ryan does not need a teleprompter or a cheat sheet on what he believes. these ideas – reform-minded Constitutional conservatism, is in his blood stream. And I believe he will defeat his two opponents – Biden and Stephanopolous.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Bellissimo!

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Poor Alfred Nobel: with all the folks who have won Nobel prizes in the past four decades, that poor man is spinning so fast in his grave, we could attach a generator to him and power the entire planet for a century.

  • belcatar

    Since we seem to be waxing poetic…

    There once was a man named Barack
    A pathetic political hack,
    He faced off with Mitt,
    And he wanted to quit;
    In debate, he hadn’t the knack.

    Our Illustrious Leader Obama
    Bragged that he took out Osama
    If only the slob
    Had thought more about jobs
    And the upcoming debt-clock time bomb-a.

    For the poor man Obama is there,
    Brought us Dodd-Frank and Obamacare.
    But there’ll come a day,
    When he’ll ask us to pay,
    And we’ll find we were sold vaporware.

  • bglick4

    Give one to a mathematician and we’ll have to deal with his zombie.

  • http://www.redstate.com/wp-admin/user/profile.php docfreeman

    I really have no clue why anyone would want to talk with
    Gibbs. He was the most inept White House
    Press secretary there ever was, well at least till Carney showed up. Both of them sound like they do not have clue
    as to what is happening or any straight or clear answers. It is as if they are making something up as
    they go along.