Gibbs isn't fit to be in the same room with Helen Thomas.

[Webster Green]

Fuck that piece of maggot shit!

Dissing the only actual journalist on the WH press corpse?

This guys speaks for the White House? Well, they can kiss my ass in 2012.

I'm over it. Fuck 'em!

[donheld]

1. Who is?

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Gibbs should NEVER be a part of any Democratic administration.

He proved how much contempt he has for Democrats in December 2003.

And anybody who doesn't know what I mean by that, look it up yourself. Let's just say that the Bush Crime Family is forever in his debt, because they got four more years to fuck up this country, thanks to Gibbs and his DLC funded partners.

[chill_wind]

12. I did just that. Looked it up. Foul and vile.

I didn't know.

[sabrina 1]

25. I just looked it up also. I knew nothing about him and always

thought he was very weak as a press secretary. But I never knew about his Rovian tactics against Howard Dean. That would have made Rove envious. Despicable. Just when you think you cannot be more disgusted. That does it for me also. He is not fit to wipe Helen Thomas' shoes.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. What did he say?

[sandnsea]

4. Text

"Tommy, I think those remarks were offensive and reprehensible. I think she should and has apologized, because -- obviously those remarks do not reflect certainly the opinion of I assume most of the people in here, and certainly not of the administration."

I guess the horror is that he's got a different opinion than the OP, because, well, you know, everybody is entitled to their own opinion, until, well, they're not.

And I didn't find anything much wrong with Helen's remarks, in full. I would imagine we could find reporters in that room who have said more offensive things in public.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. He's a maggot because he thought her words were reprehensible?

Call me a maggot I guess. I also thought her words were pretty bad.

Jon Stewart took her to task for her comments. Is he a maggot?

[proteus_lives]

6. I guess the next tirade with against Stewart for daring not to support her or her vile comments.

[sandnsea]

7. She didn't say "Jew Go Home"

She said she thinks they're occupying land that isn't theirs and they need to get the hell out of Palestine.

Where should they go? Well to their home. Poland, Germany, America, wherever they came from before they began taking land that wasn't theirs.

Kind of stupid, considering the way countries are sliced and diced. But I don't think she meant it in as quite a hateful way as a bigoted "Jews Go Home" would be taken.

[tblue]

9. Thank you. Agreed.

This issue is way too volatile. And it's almost impossible to change anyone's mind about it. Helen has done a lot of good sitting in that press room and I will miss her pointed questions and her guts. I hate to think of a press corps without her.

[Webster Green]

8. Nah, Gibbs dissing Helen Thomas is just the last straw for me.

This administration is a bunch of hapless fucking idiots. They campaign pretty well, but they govern like shit.

Rahm dissing progressives as retarded.
Snuggling up to BP.
Snuggling up to repuke mutherfuckers.
Passing legislation that is so weak it's damn near useless.
Lackluster response to the Gulf of Cheney disaster, resulting in a huge clusterfuck.

I've also disagreed with Jon Stewart on occasion. Whatever. It's irrelevant because he doesn't need to work for my vote. I don't even have a TeeVee.

I didn't find Helen's comment to be vile. More like unfortunate, but not that big of a deal. Israel is out of control, after all.

[tblue]

10. Oh Webster Green....

That list of things you posted nag at me like something stuck between my teeth. I can't stop thinking about it but oh how I wish I could.

[malaise]

23. Gibbs pissed me off

Helen deserved better treatment.

[4lbs]

11. I fail to see the "dissing" that he did.

What exactly was the "diss" ?

Should Gibbs have just told everyone that Helen Thomas can say whatever she feels like without accountability?

[saracat]

13. Why not? Everyone else does!

[Webster Green]

20. Pantload.

[sabrina 1]

26. Bush managed to not diss her when she was being

accused of being Anti-American. I think we could expect a democratic WH spokesperson to take the fifth if he couldn't find a way to deal with the question without destroying her. He certainly has taken it on far more important issues. Such as the far more serious issue of the killing of nine peace activists, one of them an American Citizen. The only country in the world who failed to show appropriate disgust at those killings. But Helen was fair game to him. Did she kill anyone? He sure seems to find an angry, frustrated comment more serious than the deaths of nine human beings.

But then having learned what I just learned about him, what he did to Howard Dean, I would not expect anything better.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Fuck Helen Thomas.

If you want to see a maggot piece of shit, look no further than her.

[Webster Green]

21. Huge pantload

[spoony]

27. Fuck immortal DU trolls. nt

[JI7]

15. you are very senstive

there was nothing wrong with what he said. he acknowledged her apology also. he wasn't really harsh on her at all

[HughMoran]

19. I agree

a bit of overreaction

[Webster Green]

22. tuh

[O is 44]

16. Gibbs was answering a question, I'm not sure

why you are lashing out at him for stating his opinion? He did not question her many years of work as a journalist, he responded to a direct question.

[Johonny]

17. I agree

Politically speaking that's the "correct" answer to the question.

[Webster Green]

24. He's a fucking dickhead.

[Mari333]

18. he isnt fit to be in the same universe, the little condom.