Gibbs calls Cheney ‘the next most popular member of the Republican cabal’ after Limbaugh.
Gibbs calls Cheney ‘the next most popular member of the Republican cabal’ after Limbaugh.
Yesterday on CNN, former Vice President Cheney said Obama was making Americans less safe. Today, when CNN’s Ed Henry asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for his reaction to Cheney’s criticisms, Gibbs said that CNN invited Cheney because “Rush Limbaugh was busy,” and called Cheney “the next most popular member of the Republican cabal.” Addressing Cheney’s critique, Gibbs pointed out that under Obama, terrorist suspects “would finally be brought to justice,” unlike under Cheney’s regime:
I think the American people will, in this administration, see those actors brought to the swift and certain justice that was not brought to them in the previous administration.
Watch it:
Henry also asked for Gibbs’ reaction to Cheney’s criticisms of Obama’s handling of the economic crisis. “I think not taking economic advice from Dick Cheney would be maybe the best possible outcome of yesterday’s interview,” Gibbs said.
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I dunno Bob,
Looking over my shoulder all the time avaoidin’ that assassin’s bullet Cheney’s put out there makes him #1 in my book. I’m not sure (R)ush has THAT much influence.
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March 16th, 2009 at 4:10 pmSMACKDOWN!
March 16th, 2009 at 4:12 pmGibbs is just being honest and frank. That’s his job. The only ones being coy are the MSM, and the only ones they are fooling now are the 23 percenters. The MSM ’see no evil’ game is over for the vast majority. Thanks Mr. Gibbs!
March 16th, 2009 at 4:13 pmYea, but those aren’t the “actors” I’d like to see brought to swift and certain justice.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:20 pmRefreshing to listen to Gibbs’ directness, calling Cheney & Rushbo members of the Repub cabal. More of that, plz.
Why in hell are we subjected to CNN interviews with “the former VP” at all at this point? At least GWB is pretty much keeping his mouth shut since he left office. Darth needs to do the same. You’re not being supportive of our President in a time of war there, Dick- isn’t that what the Repub cabal was always shrieking about during the Bush years?
March 16th, 2009 at 4:24 pmGibbs calls Cheney ‘the next most popular member of the Republican cabal’ after Limbaugh.
– - In the Internetty Spherical Blogos we can rip the Right all we want. But for Gibbs to do it at a podium with the White House seal behind him is at best petty and serves no useful purpose.
Move on, Mr. Gibbs….
March 16th, 2009 at 4:25 pmApe-Man Says:
Gibbs is just being honest and frank. That’s his job.
– - No, Gibbs’ job is top speak on behalf of President Obama. Would Obama be that snarky? Biden did it with Justice Roberts and Obama chastised him. This is childish of Gibbs and demeans the President.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:28 pmWow. When the former vice president speaks in the most derogatory terms of the current administration, Archie B. has no problem.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:33 pmSorry, I don’t feed trolls.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:34 pmYeah..but Badmoodman,
Cheney as much as Accused Obama of Not protecting the country.
Pretty strong accusation.
I’d say Mr. Gibbs was just firing a warning shot across Cheney’S Bow. He’s letting the GOP Know that two can play that game.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:35 pmPlease keep talking Deadeye Dick, because it reminds us how bad it was when you were there, and how sick your opinions are. On the other hand, you and yours wouldn’t speak when you were in power so don’t speak now. You’re still not a part of the administration. Go away.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:35 pmI can handle “snark” a lot better than the LIES from the last three or four press secretaries.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:37 pmArchie B Says:
…It actually is a lie.
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To what does the “[i]t” refer?
March 16th, 2009 at 4:40 pmTroll on Archie
March 16th, 2009 at 4:41 pmCheney’s vitriolic public attacks represent a substantial breach of decorum which calls for the outgoing administration to leave the stage for a suitable period of time, usually a year, for the new administration to settle in. Bush to his credit has done so. The Dick not so much. I have no problem with Gibbs going on the attack, especially when CNN gives The Dick free reign by sending one of its Freepers to lob softball questions. Answering the charges of the former vice president is one of the things a press secretary is supposed to do — or do you really want to go back to the days when Dems just stood there and took it assuming the voters would reward them for their tact and diplomacy?
March 16th, 2009 at 4:43 pmArchie B Says:
When you can’t refute, resort to ad homs.
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Refute WHAT moron? Your baseless assertion and stupid lie that shows only what a brainwashed FOOL you are? hat doesnt call for a refutation only for calling you out for being an ignorant braiwashed troll.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:43 pmWhen you can’t refute, resort to ad homs.
It’s hard to refute stupidity.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:44 pm.
So Archie B.,
Is it morally repugnant to defend TORTURE?
How about defending the President’s ability to LIE TO THE SENATE?
Or say, defending the OUTING OF A COVERT CIA AGENT?
I didn’t know defrauding America is defensable…
… Please explain.
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March 16th, 2009 at 4:46 pmHi Archie.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:47 pmWanna me to walk all over you and and show everyone how you are too frightened to do anything about it?
Ok,Robert Gibbs is a really cool and smooth person.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:47 pmCheney/Limbaugh 2012!!!
One will die of heartless failure while the other will either stroke out or his spine will snap under the weight of his gargantuan ego.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:47 pm.
Dear Archie B.,
WMD’s…
… Yellow Cake Uranium from Africa.
LIES!!!
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March 16th, 2009 at 4:48 pmHabib
March 16th, 2009 at 4:49 pmSo who do you think is the leader of the GOP? I ask all around but no one seems to know. Do you?
So who’s this retard Archie B?
March 16th, 2009 at 4:50 pmHabib Says:
And Yet… Says:
Sorry, I don’t feed trolls.
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How long have you been on your hunger strike?
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I see your confusion. You being so stupid you simply misread it. I am sure a moron like you does that all the time. Let me help you out. He hopes to deny cretins like YOU from sustenance. Try to keep up
March 16th, 2009 at 4:50 pmLooking round at other blogs, plus the Yglesias link, seems Gibbs really hit a nerve. Think he might have meant to, which would be even more interesting…
March 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pmrocks911 Says:
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So who’s this retard Archie B?
— Just some clown that couldn’t handle it and flamed out some crap about coks in asses the other night and has been dodging ever sine. Total loser pussy material…
March 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pmAnybody hear about this???
Investigative journalist Sy Hersh dropped a bombshell revelation on Monday about international killings ordered under Bush.
At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota [Monday] legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”
…the Joint Special Operations Command — JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. …
Go Get’em Seymour
March 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pmrocks911 Says:
So who’s this retard Archie B?
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If I may, I’d request we not disparage those with a medical condition over which they have no control.
Folks like Archie B, on the other hand, refuse to educate themselves, clinging instead to the wisdom of Fox news.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pm.
#10 Archie B Says:
#16 Archie B Says:
Take your own pill!
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March 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pmrocks911 Says:
So who’s this retard Archie B?
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Just an ignorant troll with no game
March 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pmImagine six months with Limbo and cheney, or any other republican at the wheel. The government would be so screwed it would have to be scrapped and totally re-tooled. Thank god voters got them out of the white house before it was too late.
BTW – i see the Republican pundits are still milling around the set and acting out – I guess someone will need to get out the Hook and drag them off the stage kicking and whining…
March 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pmWhen you can’t refute, resort to ad homs.
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March 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pmWould you prefer that we just claim that you like cocks in your ass like you did? Atleast I can spell it
Badger,
That’s exatly what I was refering to at post #1.
Bullets kill, lies smear.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pmIs this the part where the “Dick” says “let them eat cake”….
March 16th, 2009 at 5:00 pm………..would that be yellow cake from Africa, DICK ?
Once we put Cheney and Boosh before the war tribunals in the Hague, trolls like Archie B. will disappear. They are nothing but bottom feeding, knuckle dragging, trolodytes anyway. Trolls are scum.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pmGibbs better watch it or he will get an Anthax letter.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pmWhen “those actors” are brought to justice, it might, just might come out in court, that “those actors” were tortured. Wouldn’t it be unfortunate if the judge rendered justice to “actors” other than the accused.
7 Badmoodman Says:
I can think of several useful purposes just off the top of my head. It sure made a lot of progressives happy. I bet Obama and the Democrats gain a point or two in popularity just because he said what progressives want him to say.
It could also be an indicator that justice will be coming for Cheney too. That might be reading a bit to much into it, but it would be useful to punish a publicly confessed war criminal, especially if you want to have the trial going on when it’s time to elections.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:07 pmthey both punk.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:13 pmI see where Gibbs left room for some critique,
BUT
There’s still a lot of box to build, to make sure R’s don’t ooze back into polite society. Gibbs’ press-fencing is a good reminder that some of us are not going to give equal airing to pure garbage, and it maintains and adds to a very necessary box.
Righties thought they had populist anti-media folks all to themselves. They were wrong. Team Obama is harnessing everyone’s ambivalence toward infotainment, irreality programming, and shock-jocking, and leveraging it to their advantage.
Brilliant.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pmDoes “punk” mean to hurl silly insulting comments then run away? If so, that is not surprising. All there posts were within from 4:25pm through 4:31pm. They probably wrote them together, and after they post here, they post the same stupidity elsewhere. Who knows, these trolls could be paid to troll dozens of sites a day, trying to spread the fascism.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:19 pmCorrection, “all THIER posts”.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pmI Should have known :)
Kucinich has called for a congressional investigation of the allegation by Sy Hersch that there existed an “assassination squad” that answered only to Cheney.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:27 pm“Who knows, these trolls could be paid to troll dozens of sites a day, trying to spread the fascism”
Something is driving them to it, and it isn’t logic, and it isn’t legitimate concern for the nation, or they could and would discuss such concerns. Are they poor loosers, or is it something they are unwilling to reveal, like personal gain, greed, deep seated fear, or hate. Maybe they just invested so much emotional baggage in BushedCo that they can’t let go. I guess each troll has it’s story…
March 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pmTo Nettles at 5:33 p.m.:
Rather than thinking that Limbaugh has gotten in the president’s head, I believe the president is rightly holding up a mirror for the Republicans to view themselves — with Rush’s lovely image blocking out the rest of the GOP crowd.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pmNettles, who IS the face of the Republican party?
March 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pmGibbs is fighting back from the podium – were he not doing so, we would demand he be fired.
Gibbs is representing Democrats and liberals as well as the President – go Gibbs!!
Remember some of the threats we heard from Ari when he was there? Gibbs isn’t threatening anyone, he is merely making use of sarcasm.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:39 pmMarie, Republicans don’t get sarcasm.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:41 pmDon’t waste your time on Archie, he’s so studpid he thinks Archie Bunker was the one who was right on All in The Family, and not the butt of the joke. How stupid do you have to be? Really.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:41 pmJohn King, whose adoration for Dick Cheney knows no bounds, asked and received this interview — he used a rightwing rag (HumanEvents) headline to ask one of his more inflammatory and leading questions of Cheney.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:41 pmWrite to CNN and tell them how John King disgraced the channel with his blatantly partisan interview. Fox news couldn’t have done more in support of Dick the Prick.
WAY in under those righty hides….
…makin’em look like they just got pantsed in the jr high co-ed gym class – daily.
makes the old administration look more cloddish and amateur by the day.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:44 pmGibbs is likely quite correct- Republicans continue to prove they worship/listen to liars, smearers, hate-mongers, war-mongers, and bigots. Limbaugh & Cheney are certainly right at the top of that list.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:45 pmWill do, Marie @ 58. Already made a couple calls, too.
Enough of this.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:46 pm“This dude Gibbs just can’t stop yappin about Rush Limbaugh”
Journalists get to ask the questions. A journalist made the mistake of asking Mr. Gibbs to comment about other comments mummbled by cheney on a republican TV show. Gibbs was drawing a comparison between Limba and Cheney that they are both full of hot air, and for now they both represent the face of the republicans.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:47 pmSince Cheney was carrying on that there would be a terrorist attack (blah, blah, blah) due to Obama’s policies, I think Gibbs was right to blow off the messenger. Cheney is not in a position to be commenting on the national security as if he were in the loop—he’s a has been.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:54 pm.
Dear Nettles,
“I HOPE HE FAILS!”
Below who…?
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March 16th, 2009 at 5:59 pmI can’t recall any time that the former Prez or V.P. went on news shows and criticized the new administration before 6 months had passed. This continual line of crap coming from little Dick just shows the total lack of class and respect Bushco has for this country. I would love to see some kissass in the news pool ask Gibbs’ opinion of the latest Cheney colon output and have Gibbs respond by asking, “just what position does Cheney hold in this administration? And, why should anybody bother to care about his gaseous emissions?” THAT would be something for the news shows to report!
March 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pmNettles Says:
livelongandprosper Says:
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Nettles, who IS the face of the Republican party?
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Fair question, LL &P. Personally I defer to voices like McCain, but i’m in the minority.
It’s probably smart politics to demonize Limbaugh, Coulter, Savage, etc. but in the end, those people are just entertainers, no different than Bill Maher or Jon Stewart. My point was I thought that Obama was supposed to be above all of this.
I understand who the entertainers are, but I don’t think your party does. Keynote address by Rush? Don’t dare speak ill of Rush if your republican or face making a public apology? You may defer to McCain (whole other topic), but it seems the bottom of Republican spectrum (Rush’s listeners) and the top (Steele, CPAC et al) are deferring to Rush!
Obama has shown that he is above all this type of crap. Gibb’s answered a question and I wouldn’t doubt that Obama will talk to him about his response.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pmLimbaugh is the face of Rupuglican CRAZY, Cheney the face of Repug EVIL, Bush of Stupid. Of course all have substantial quantities of these traits, plus other malevolent attributes.
Governor Sarah, Bill Oriley, Glen Cracked and many many others are Variations On A Theme.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:01 pmNettles,
McCain has gotten LOTS of Air Time to express his views.
Answer me this…If it’s probably smart politics to demonize Limbaugh,…
Would you say it’s probably Dumb Politics to choose Mr. Limbaugh as the KeyNote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Committee CPAC…and then show the speech on C-Span and other Networks…letting the Voters hear the Wildly Enthusiastic Audience Cheer Mr. Limbaughs every point????
March 16th, 2009 at 6:04 pmApe-Man, your question about what drives trolls is a good one. I often wonder in all seriousness what kind of person would sit here and invite abuse day-in and day-out. It would make a good subject for some graduate student’s thesis.
I think that they are little persons, insecure in their view of the world and desperate for an authority figure. They feel like their defense of their leaders will be noticed someday. Like the zit-faced sycophants who fawn over the high school jocks.
More to be pitied than censured.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:16 pmHabib
March 16th, 2009 at 6:34 pmIs G Gordon Liddy running the sideshow? Come on who is in charge of the GOP? Please tell me it isn’t that annoying kid…
What drives Trolls? I think that they are like the medieval flagellants. They love to inflict torture on themselves in order to prove their devotion to the cause.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:39 pm“Death Squad Dick” should have been in jail ages ago…
…a country ruled by laws my butt.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:50 pmNettles Says:
LL&P:
Personally, I believe the Republican party platform to be way too ambitious. As the platform currently stands, there are way too many social issues that one must conform to be considered wholly conservative. Me? I’m a Republican who’s anti 2nd amendment, pro stem cell, pro gay rights, but im also anti-union, anti-big government. The true conservatives have no place for a voice like me. they can float out one African American man after the next and call him the Party Chairman and it still won’t make the party any more inclusive.
I definitely would call myself liberal but I’m for small government. But then defining small or large government becomes a Con-Lib argument. The Republican party as it stands does have a long way to go to be considered inclusive – by my standards anyway.
So, Nettles, it comes down to being put into a slot – Conservative or Liberal. Politically those are the only choices. The reality is that two choices does not give a good representation of the peoples views.
I like to have politicians behave with integrity and accountability. I will call out any that don’t show these values. I guess I don’t like many then. LOL The last administration showed very little integrity and accountability and so far, this new one is doing better. I don’t expect President Obama himself to participate in this entertainer/politician crap and he has shown that he won’t. I do expect President Obama to put the brakes on his people doing too much of that as well. We will see. I really do wish more people in the MSM would tell Cheney to STFU.
Have a great evening Nettles.
March 16th, 2009 at 7:14 pmPut the Criminal Cheney in prison for treason and war crimes.
March 16th, 2009 at 7:40 pmMr. Gibbs was rather more polite than I would be. Translated into my way of putting things, his response would sound something more like this:
“We won the election. We didn’t like what he had to say before and we certainly don’t give a sh*t what Mr. Cheney thinks today. He remains entitled to his views and we remain equally entitled to ignore or mock them.”
March 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pmArchie B Says:
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“I think the American people will, in this administration, see those actors brought to the swift and certain justice that was not brought to them in the previous administration.”
Dream on, hack.
We’ll see about that Archie B, you hack, we’ll see. Can’t wait until Darth Cheney and Impy Bush try to leave the country.
March 16th, 2009 at 10:06 pmSorry OT, but not really…
Kucinich requests investigation into ‘executive assassination ring’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_requests_investigation_into_executive_assassination_0316.html
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March 16th, 2009 at 10:11 pmCheney on Rush, Rush giving marching orders to senior Republican senitors (and they jump to his voice). I can see how this joke is too irrestible for Gibbs to pass up.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:07 pmIt does bring home the point that these clowns were watching the store for eight years, and that is not much of a joke.
Chaney in a love fest with Rush, I wondered if Rush was smittened!!!
Speaking of Cheney:
Cheney attended Yale University, but he flunked out. Cheney was twice prosecuted for and convicted of drunk driving. Cheney lied to former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey about the grounds for going to war in Iraq. Cheney is a pathological liar. Cheney is incompetent. Cheney would like to think that he is above the law. However, Cheney must pay for crimes against the United States and the world.
Maybe God is judging and punishing Cheney in afflicting Cheney with further heart problems in the here and now (15 October 2008) notwithstanding God’s fiery judgment against Cheney in the afterlife.
Maybe God is also judging and punishing Cheney in having placed Cheney in a wheelchair for whatever period of time.
Cheney should be locked up.
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March 17th, 2009 at 2:31 amB.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
I think Gibbs was dead on in expressing that Rush Limbaugh must have been busy that they brought out Cheney.
BUT!,
The “Cabal” statement was over the top and Gibbs stating that from the podium of the White House press Secretary was over the top.
Until Cheney is brought up on charges , most of America already knows what charges to prosecute. Cheney on. But untill Cheney is prosecuted, the Cabal statement is over the top.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:53 amPoor Karl Rove! He thought HE was the second most popular member of the republican cabal!
March 17th, 2009 at 4:27 amRobert Gibbs is fantastic. Calling a spade a spade is needed right now. Republican Cabal is correct, Robert! Bravo!
March 17th, 2009 at 8:32 amfergus Says:
“What drives Trolls?”
Usually their mothers. Ba-dum-pum!
March 17th, 2009 at 8:36 amThis is what Gibbs and any Democrat should be doing. Name the worst offenders as the Leaders of the Republican Party and keep driving that message. That would include Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and Glenn Beck in media. Add Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Sarah Palin in government, and keep them front and center. If they want to keep calling the new administration socialist, start calling them fascists. If it’s war they want, give it to them.
March 17th, 2009 at 11:56 amNot really, Larry Wilkerson, former aide to Colin Powell used it in regard to Cheney a long while back.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:33 pm