House of Eratosthenes

Think I got Robert Gibbs figured out. At work a few weeks ago, in another context we were discussing people who went to school to figure out how to answer the question you want to answer, rather than the question you were just asked, and make it look like you’re kinda sorta answering the question you were just asked.

Yup, that’s the dude.

Why’s everyone so shocked? Even Obama’s most ardent fans wouldn’t be able to go along with the idea that the candidate was actually inspected, vis a vis policies to be implemented…why start now? (Update: If they do want to insist on such a thing, boy has Boortz got a great mini-essay for them.) The rule of the campaign was that slick packaging is an adequate substitute for worthy contents inside. Why should that change now? Why would anyone be surprised that the presentation of every little thing is controlled? That’s how the President won the campaign…because He is so incredibly good at campaigning.

When ya got a shiny new golden hammer, everything looks like a nail. And so the President continues to campaign because that’s what He is good at. The only thing that needs explaining as far as I’m concerned, is how & why this arrives as news, to anyone.

Legendary reporter Helen Thomas, the source of that grating nails-on-chalkboard voice in the video above, who has been personally present to grill every single President since…uh…Rutherford B. Hayes or something…had some choice remarks about the testy exchange above.

Following a testy exchange during today’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press.

“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try.

“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran.

Not hard to see the culture gap here. The Obama administration thinks that continuing to polish the image, is the job. They’re perfectly justified in thinking this. You might say they have a “mandate” to look good. In fact, given the way the elections went last year, they’d be nuts to think otherwise.

Helen Thomas has just figured out what’s happening, now that it’s begun to impact her job. This is rather disgraceful in a sense. Thomas and crew figured out there was a conflict with what they said they were supposed to be doing for The American People, which is to clock in every day and turn rocks over so we could all see the dark wet slimy things…they figured out there was a conflict between that, and the Obama administration’s ultimate goal of looking good all the time. They figured this out in July of 2009.

Where they been snoozin’?

“I grow weary and fatigued of dealing with these perpetually-cheery, perky, talky, precocious, bubbly talkative people, and their penchant for destroying far more things than they build.” — Morgan K. Freeberg

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