Helen Thomas at the White House
I was going to comment about how she put Robert Gibbs in his place but Vanderleun does so in
his usual superlative style. A wonderful read.
Mr. Pecksniff Meets the Press
Peck�sniff�i�an adj. Hypocritically benevolent; sanctimonious.
Is it my imagination or is Robert Gibbs now so out-front arrogant and condescending that even the whores of the White House Press Corps are beginning to feel insulted every time he opens his mouth?
More and more Gibbs, as can certainly be seen here, is proving to be the very model of that modern Obama apparatchik; a model updated for our era into the very glass and form of a Little Hitler reigning secure in the White House Dwarf Cavern.
We all know the contemporary type of "Little Hitlers." We meet them whenever we have to interact with people whose positions do not rest upon doing a good job but upon pleasing some master above them. Most often we see them in Government bureaucracies where rules are not announced to you until you break them. At which point you are instructed, in the patient smarmy tones reserved for pre-schoolers, to "fill out the proper form" or "obtain the proper documents," and then come back to wait in the longer line in the next building.
Wonderful stuff -- this is only the briefest of excerpts. Go and Read.
Posted by DaveH at July 2, 2009 9:23 PM