Obama Press Secretary Gibbs Off to Rough Start

I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but a friend tells me that Robert Gibbs had a rough briefing today. As soon as I have a chance, I'll check it out, but in the meantime, Jon Stewart made use of his research lackeys to come up with this critique of Gibbs:



I've said, for a long time, that the Obama press apparatus is annoyingly on-message. Annoying to reporters, but good for the campaign. I think what's happening here is that Gibbs and company need to tweak their approach for a non-campaign footing. What gets overlooked as SOP during a campaign seems unresponsive, or even evasive, coming from a White House press office.

Much of Barack Obama's political clout comes from the tremendous goodwill he has engendered with the press and the American people. It would be a shame to watch that evaporate over a little bit of candor, or rather ,their refusal to use any.

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