Doesn’t this put it in an even worse light?
I don’t see video of it posted yet, but the Corner reports that Baghdad Bob Gibbs admits that he helped prep Obama for the question which he “miscalibratedly” answered.
On today’s Fox News Sunday, presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs admitted President Obama had been prepared to answer questions about the Henry Louis Gates arrest at his press conference last week. Bret Baier, filling in for regular host Chris Wallace, asked Gibbs, “Before Wednesday’s news conference, did you prepare [the president] for a question about Henry Gates’s arrest in Cambridge?”
“Well, look,” said Gibbs, “Let’s just say it’s safe to say we went over a whole lot of topics that we thought might come up, and certainly this was a topic that was, has been in the news . . .” He then went on to try to un-ring the bell by repeating the line that the president “hadn’t calibrated his words well,” and blah, blah, blah, beer at the White House, blah, blah, blah.
Yikes! This seems to make it much more than an innocent little slip of the tongue (not that I believed that for a second anyway). He certainly wasn’t caught off guard by the question, and we know now much “words matter”. Maybe in the future, all questions have to be submitted 48 hours in advance so that the answers can be prepared, reviewed, focus group tested, and put on a teleprompter.
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Oh, so his race-baiting commentary was intentional. nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 4:41PM EDT (link)REC.....didn't we all suspect this?....
speciallist (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 6:19PM EDT (link)every time so-called black leaders open their mouths, they set race relations back 10 years…
so very sad…..And….another f’n lie from Barry, what a Jerk…..
If that is the case
izoneguy (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 5:07PM EDT (link)then the President acted “stupidly”.
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
He often does that and with malice.
penguin2 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 5:36PM EDT (link)The malice stems from his deeply held beliefs that America is a “bad” nation. One he has to reform, fix, one he has to apologize for. In an arrogant, condescending manner he thinks we are broken.
We on the other hand, believe that our country is a wonderful nation and a beacon to the world. We believe in the individual and their own ability to dream, aspire and achieve-given the freedom to do so.
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Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 6:10PM EDT (link)This was actuallyu out there, but no one was paying attention.
There are so many levels of jackassery to this, that its taking a while to unwrap. The Dems, including reporters, thought this:
Race Questions + Obama = Free Ride
But nope, truth crushed to earth has risen.
One half of the equation has been exposed. Now, its the other half. This lie and slander was no accident. Like I’ve repeated this is radical Harvard elites at their core. This is how they operate.
They overstepped. They will pay.
Gates and Obama acted like the racists here. Let the world know.
This was not a hard question to answer.
David123 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 6:28PM EDT (link)When the police investigate a suspected burglary at your house you should be polite and cooperative.
Seems a Harvard professor and a Harvard Law School graduate couldn’t figure that one out. Sheesh!
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Never..... The current President and staff of The White House would NEVER do such a thing.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 7:02PM EDT (link)Not possible…… Nope…….. I don’t believe a word of it.
Why would they set up something like this ?
Sssssssssssnark.
America's First Black President would have done it better,
blooch Sunday, July 26th at 8:14PM EDT (link)with no prep and no calibration:
“Look, y’all…all I know is what I’ve seen in the newspapers. It would be unfair to both parties for me to comment right now.”
That’s how it is done, Barry. Sometimes, when you know all of the facts, you pretend that you don’t…and when you don’t know all of the facts, NEVER pretend that you do. This is starting to become a problem. You don’t strain like Horschak to blurt out the answer that you think everyone wants to hear from you, especially if your whole shtick is coolness.
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speciallist (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 8:24PM EDT (link)5
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Common_Cents (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 4:57PM EDT (link)“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government
that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured…. but not everyone
must prove they are a citizen.” -Ben Stein
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”[especially in DC] – Friedrich Nietzsche
Man I've run out of popcorn
djemi (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 8:35PM EDT (link)And by the sounds of it this story may have legs and just run and run.
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Obama was also undoubtedly prepped on the IBD question, as well.
SoFiMil (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 10:04PM EDT (link)Despite Obama’s claim, that he didn’t know what the liberal blogger was referring to.
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What was the IBD question? nt
David123 (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 10:37PM EDT (link)David123
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SoFiMil (Diary) Sunday, July 26th at 11:59PM EDT (link)Not only had liberals read this article, but so had conservatives and independents. The reason why Obama feigned ignorance is that the White House hadn’t come up with a way to talk their way around the question.
Obama hosted a conference call with leftist bloggers urging them to pressure Congress to pass his health plan as soon as possible. During the call, a blogger from Maine said he kept running into an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”
IBD Article: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=482329
Source: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/21/morning-bell-obama-admits-hes-not-familiar-with-house-bill/?CFID=70700788&CFTOKEN=93821690
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One small problem,though.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Monday, July 27th at 2:43AM EDT (link)GIBBS = = OBAMA.
If push comes to shove, Gibbs will take the blame of “inconsistency”.. not the Lying President.
oops
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Monday, July 27th at 2:44AM EDT (link)GIBBS != OBAMA.
I assumed this from the get-go
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 1:07AM EDT (link)You know how Bambi sounds when he’s improv – stumbling, bumbling, and talking in circles. This answer sounded prepared and rehearsed.
My feeling, then and now, is that this was planned as the fallback question: if the presser just totally fell flat, which it did, this would be his (a) triumph answer, where he gets to beat up on the conservative racist straw man, and (b) change the subject, light off a smoke bomb so big that nobody remembers the presser was a rotten egg.
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JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 2:44AM EDT (link)It was a set-up from the get-go by the Racist-in-Chief.
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson
He was prepped for it and it was the most animated...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 12:58PM EDT (link)he had been ALL NIGHT because this kind of race baiting EXCITES him. He is the racist in Chief and his whole background got him to that moment as President to tell all of America and the world what a racist country America is! He disgusts me.
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David123 (Diary) Tuesday, July 28th at 6:27PM EDT (link)For Obama and his staff to plan to call Cambridge police “stupid” over this does not transcend race. People did not get what they were voting for when they pulled the lever for Obama. Hopefully a lot of people are seeing that they aren’t getting what they were promised on race relations … and healthcare and taxes as well.
David123
Something which ought to be reiterated...
OccamsRazor (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 1:18AM EDT (link)Is that this was about the presidential power against the blue collars. The aristocracy against the rest of us.
Not as it should, but as it is. When the president ‘pardoned’ his pal on primetime, it was the economic elite against the working class.
Class transcends race, resonates and is broader, yet less obvious, spectrum. People are financially in pain right now. And yet this _arrogant_ elitist, which was Constitutionally hired by the People, tried to part seas for a friend.
Obama's statement spoke volumes about what he really cares about
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 1:27AM EDT (link)and it is inextricable tied to his 20-yr pew-parked butt at Rev Wright’s Hate Whitey-America Church. This is an aspect of Obama that separates him from his second most passionate core belief in marxism and his white and many black liberal friends.
This incident is very damaging to an already weakened by non-stimulus Obama.
What this incident also shows is the diminishing returns of white guilt that his election marks the end of…
column pending…
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False White Guilt...
OccamsRazor (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 1:35AM EDT (link)Took a HUGE hit last week.
amen sort of - I actually think that it took the huge hit on
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 1:39AM EDT (link)Inauguration Day and that this was the first public, press-covered incident that revealed the reality.
more later on column tomorrow
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Agreed.
OccamsRazor (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 1:41AM EDT (link)Look forward to it. Out.
Here it is O'Razor - the road back from Gates of PC hell - LINK
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, July 30th at 9:26AM EDT (link)http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/07/29/the-road-away-from-obamagates-hell-was-paved-by-obamas-election/
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That means even his "prep staff" is racist.....
antisocial (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 1:56AM EDT (link)…
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
amen - dem libs are functionally racist - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, July 29th at 2:01AM EDT (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
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