This is almost a "dog bites man" story, it's so un-unusual: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs making a clown out of himself. Yes, he brought the Chicago way to New Delhi: "Gibbs threatens to pull Obama from India talks after press dispute."
Reporter Wilson said that "Gibbs convinced them, through high volume and repetition, that he was serious" about pulling Obama. After a few moments the Indians caved and Gibbs got his way. It was barely in time because his next threat would have been to hold his breath until he turned blue.[D]uring President Obama's trip to India, Gibbs assumed the role of press advocate and threatened to pull Obama out of bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh because three U.S. reporters were blocked from covering the meeting.
Indian officials would let only five reporters into Hyderabad House in New Delhi instead of the agreed-upon eight.
The Washington Post's Scott Wilson—who was on White House pool duty Monday and filed the report for the White House press corps—wrote that "Gibbs announced loudly and persistently on steps of Hyderabad House that he would pull" President Obama out of the meeting "unless 'the White House 8,' as we've come to be known, were all allowed in."
Just imagine the idiotic brass of this guy. Imagine that the Indian officials had not relented. Did Gibbs really (I mean, really) think that he would be able to burst into a meeting of the American president with the prime minister of the hosting country, just stomp his foot and bellow, "Barry, I didn't get my way and you gotta leave now"?
And did he really expect the president to stand right up and say, "Primke Minister Singh, because three other reporters are not here, I am breaking off this conversation right now even though we have matters that are literally of world importance"?
Democrat operators are publicly saying that Obama needs to fire the insiders who have steered him to political disaster. He should start with his clown-in-chief, Robert Gibbs.
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