Flashback: WH Press Sec'y Gibbs calls Howard Dean "IRRATIONAL"

[Bluebear]

Irrational, on drugs, professional leftists who want to abandon the Pentagon...That's what this administration thinks of us but hey, Dr. Dean still speaks for me.

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On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs strongly hit back at former DNC Chairman Howard Dean for criticizing the Senate health care bill, suggesting, at one point, that Dean was being irrational and didn't understand the contents of the legislation.

"I don't know what piece of legislation he is reading," said Gibbs.

"I would ask Dr. Dean, how better do you address those who don't have insurance: passing a bill that will cover 30 million who don't currently have it or killing the bill?" he added. "I don't think any rational person would say killing the bill makes a whole lot of sense at this point."

Asked if Dean was acting irrationally, Gibbs replied: "I can't tell what his motives are, to be honest with you."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/gibbs-lashes-back-at-dean_n_394596.html

[derby378]

1. Once more - with feeling!

The ad slowly moved in on a Time Magazine cover featuring bin Laden, zooming in on a close-up of Osama's eyes, while saying that Howard Dean was an unqualified Democratic candidate because of his lack of military or foreign experience.

Tricia Enright, who was the spokeswoman for Howard Dean at the time, summed the ad up best, saying: "Whoever is behind this should crawl out from underneath their rock and have the courage to say who they are." But Robert Gibbs, who was the spokesman for the group, embraced the slime ad against Dean, and refused to say who had funded the ad. Now sure, you can say that Gibbs was just doing his job. But Gibbs wasn't just aligned with the group, he was in the leadership. The group took seed money from crooked former Senator Robert Torricelli to get off the ground, and then went out and raised over a million to run the ad. Gibbs was one of three people that made that ad happen.

http://mydd.com/2007/2/22/robert-gibbs-the-drag-on-obama

Based upon his previous hit job on Dean back in 2004, no wonder Gibbs would say something like that.

Hails and props to madfloridian for unearthing this inconvenient truth.

[EFerrari]

2. I know what Howard Dean's motives are. To build the Democrat Party.

How scary is that? :sarcasm:

[derby378]

4. Uh...

That's "Democratic." Don't let Frank Luntz sucker you into this.

[EFerrari]

7. Omg. Now I'm dong it, too!

Cr2p.

[yowzayowzayowza]

5. Guess thatz why he ended up supporting HCR. n/t

[Forkboy]

3. Dean is 10x the Dem Gibbs...and Obama...will ever be.

[mod mom]

8. + 1!

[laughingliberal]

6. K & R nt

[Catherina]

9. Thanks. I didn't know this n/t

[mike r]

10. Yep. That's one of the crazies he was referring to