Helen Thomas & CBS' Chip Reid pin Robert Gibbs to the wall

July 1st 2009 White House press briefing. CBS news correspondent Chip Reid and Helen Thomas pin Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs over controlling the press and pre-selecting questions. Thomas and Reid refuse to allow Gibbs to avoid the issue. Gibbs is dancing and squirming. Helen Thomas says this has never been done before by any other administration. This is how Obama tries to make himself look good to his liberal followers.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Obama
• Robert Gibbs
• Helen Thomas
• Chip Reid
• Controlling the press
• preselecting questions

[bookhound63]

This administration has depended on Obama's cult of personality . They honestly seem to think the American people will just sit back and accept whatever they do because Obama is so smooth and articulate (as long as he has his teleprompter).

Well, the bloom seems to be fading from the rose. Even the media is starting to see what a sham this whole Obamamania is.

2010 is just around the corner. They had better enjoy the power while they can.

[JH1776Publius]

Robert Gibbs is a walking illustration of Grandmas wise old adage, empty barrels make the most noise,

[YOURINQUIRER]

@Newspeakgeneration There's no proof of that. HuffPo scooped them. The rest is whining.

[Newspeakgeneration]

im not really sure why the video poster had to tell "watch helen thomas respond".. like yea if you hadn't added that 7 second title i would have just watched it.

[Newspeakgeneration]

@YOURINQUIRER if they picked the questions based on what they like.. there is something wrong.. that's what chip is insinuating.

[hookalakah]

Always wondered how Lumpy Rutherford put his life back together after "Leave It To Beaver" went off the air; now we know. When you're the spokeshole for a Democrat White House and HELEN THOMAS is busting your balls, you know you're in trouble.

[am60mo]

Does anyone honestly think that the press is coming to grips with their lack of professional integrity, let alone going to own up to how they never pushed the issues or asked a tough question of Obama during the "entire 2 years" of pre-election questioning?

[hellotommy]

This is nothing more than a marriage spat. The state run media is mad at their masters for picking underlings instead of the usual suspects from the state run media.

[hellotommy]

Helen Thomas better be very careful, she is in the dispensable category of Obamacare.

[YOURINQUIRER]

The Huffington Post threw one of the toughest questions of the press conference at Obama, straight off the lips of Iranians. It's stupid for an educated journalist to insist that EVERY question from the net be taken. That's like every LETTER to be read in public. The old press is scared. Newspapers are shutting down nationwide, network news is all but dead and 24 news is losing ground to the web. Helen Thomas stands as living symbol of the dinosaur media.