Gibbs on Cheney | 03/17/2009 8:00 am

Gibbs: Cheney Like Limbaugh, Only Less Popular (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs doesn’t have the highest opinion of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Gibbs, the White House press secretary known for bouts of sarcasm, compared Cheney to Rush Limbaugh during a routine question-and-answer session yesterday. The comment came after a reporter reminded Gibbs that Cheney suggested Obama makes the country less safe, to which Gibbs remarked, "Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy … so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal."

Of course, it wasn’t all implicit name calling — Gibbs also highlighted the previous administration’s national security failings. From USA Today:

The president has made quite clear that keeping the American people safe and secure is the job — is the most serious job that he has each and every day. I think the president saw over the past seven-plus years the delay in bringing the very people to justice that committed terrorist acts on this soil and on foreign soil.

That delay in seeking swift and certain justice was what he decided to change through his executive order in changing the legal architecture by which these terrorists would finally be brought to justice.

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.

Gibbs later clarified his tone: "Sometimes I ask forgiveness, rather than for permission … but no, I hope my sarcasm didn’t mask the seriousness of the answer."

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Gibbs is a joke….how many Press Secretaries have gotten up and bashed previous Senators, VP’s and radio commentators? Small mind for small people….the fear has set in!!!

By Libra Lady on 03/17/2009 8:16 am

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Oh yes Darth Cheney, the man who gave us Abu Ghraib, rendition, assassination squads, Gitmo and torture—a fine upstanding fascist if I ever saw one.

By f p on 03/17/2009 8:31 am

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It is not Gibbs job to be a policical columnist! Although admittedly a very difficult job ( Dana Parino even agreed on Hannity last evening)..he intergects to much personal opinion into his answers when grasping for a politically correct answer.

One can tell when he gets nervious as he stutters and stammers and his face gets red!

By S.J. Morgan on 03/17/2009 8:39 am

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SJ…that is so true…too many uh’s when he is asked a question he has no clue about….I really wonder how long he will have this job…

By Libra Lady on 03/17/2009 9:15 am

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When Gibb’s is right, he’s right — most Americans are similarly repulsed by both Chaney and Limbaugh. Chaney is trying to stir the pot in the hopes that his Haliburton pals can weasel their way back into millions of dollars of defense contracts.

By Z **** on 03/17/2009 9:14 am

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Revisionist history in the making by Darth Cheney: We didn’t cause the financial crisis; we didn’t do anything wrong; we’re as innocent and pure as little children.

By f p on 03/17/2009 9:20 am

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Of good grief!!! If we are pulling out of Iraq then there would be no contracts! More Bush/Chaney Derrangement Syndrome Symptoms.

BTW…Tell me one other company with the experience to fulfill those contracts? Are you willing to test one out on our soldiers in a war zone?

By S.J. Morgan on 03/17/2009 9:21 am

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Test one out on our soldiers—oh yes like Rummy who said to the effect: you go to war with the equipment you have? Right! Like Humvees that were no armored? With helmets with no padding that aggravate exponentially brain trauma? Hallibut=rton made gazillions on Cheney’s say so—tell me that wasn’t corruption.

By f p on 03/17/2009 9:35 am

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Beau….and let us not forget those same fine crony no-bid contractors who are about to be tried because soldiers were electrocuted in the shower as a result of the cheap faulty electrical wiring installed by Mr. Cheney’s business associates?

By ~ countrywoman ~ on 03/17/2009 3:43 pm

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The point is — Cheney would like to see us NOT pull out of Iraq. And, had we NOT BEEN in the bogus war in Iraq — there would have been NO NEED for our soldiers to be in a war zone.

By Z **** on 03/17/2009 10:23 am

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Both Chaney and Limbaugh are theatrics-oriented; Chaney did this on the Haliburton board and did was not admired by his board colleagues especially when he first went on that board of directors (that is the extent of my knowledge about him, in the past).

Americans tend to merely respond to a lot of critically important things they have no personal experience with, or have not doubly checked out - personalizing their own answers and impressions, instead, which is what brought us this fateful administration in 1990. Not one of that "team" was critiqued when it should have been, and also expunged from Office.

This trait I term the "DKDCDR" group, and far too often the "DKDCDRDVers" - don’t know, don’t care, don’t read, … don’t vote.

In my experience, as all of you also have, when I watch a new commentator, I look for sincerity, and knowledge, and thus far my personal impression of Gibb’s (feathered by his background that I know of) indicates he is a self-effacing human being, and sincere one at that. It must be terribly difficult for anyone in our present administration to be objective knowing, now, full well what The Cheney-absent_Bush regime did to America, indeed the world.

They are our role models, and appear to be wholeheartedly focused on saving our nation - period, right now. May we be so humble, and supportive.

By C jay on 03/18/2009 11:24 am

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Gibbs is exactly right Limbaugh was out to lunch and Cheney stepped in to take over the spin for a change. Who even cares what Cheney has to say as he still out there trying the same old spin of "fear" now that Obama is in charge. All this from a man who is an out and out liar who couldn’t give a toss about the country or the military and the lives that have been lost due to Bush/Cheney and Rumsfeld when they were in power. Cheney shouldn’t even be given air time he is such divisive character and just wants to keep up the old Rep rule of "fear"…we had enough of that during the Bush years and we don’t need anymore of it. Gibbs can call him and Limbaugh out why shouldn’t he if he sees them as trying to cause trouble for this admin by talking up the old Bush policies based on "fear"?

By caj p on 03/17/2009 9:27 am

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Caj, I caught that yesterday and my first thought was good for you Gibbs. If Cheney wants to put himself out there with his criticisms, then he is fair game. I personally want to hear NOTHING from Cheney for a long time. It seems like every week though here is Cheney blah, blah, blah, spin, spin, spin!

By Mel Berg on 03/17/2009 10:39 am

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Again, to everyone… let’s stay off the personal comments.

By Community Manager on 03/17/2009 10:46 am

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No we don’t want to listen to a liar who has no conscience about sending our troops to a trumped up war while he acts so matter of fact about it as if it’s no big deal!!! It is all about us we are the ones still paying for that war to this day and most of us didn’t want it in the first place but Bush/Cheney and Rumsfeld couldn’t care less they were going no matter what. We speak for ourselves on here and think Cheney needs to just go away and the further the better.

By caj p on 03/17/2009 2:03 pm