{"id":9501,"date":"2010-08-10T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:03:07","slug":"robert-gibbs-goes-to-pieces-and-takes-the-language-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/robert-gibbs-goes-to-pieces-and-takes-the-language-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Gibbs goes to pieces and takes the language with him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There must be <em>something<\/em> good about Obama \u2013 although what, exactly eludes me &#8211; since Robert Gibbs tells us the left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2010\/08\/10\/gibbs-left.html?ref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">thinks he is like Bush<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has taken aim at the &#8220;professional left&#8221; for being unnecessarily harsh on U.S. President Barack Obama and pushing for a Canadian-style health-care system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we&#8217;ve eliminated the Pentagon,&#8221; the normally affable Gibbs says in an explosive interview published Tuesday in the congressional newspaper The Hill. &#8220;That&#8217;s not reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those on the left who claim Obama as president isn&#8217;t much different than George W. Bush, he added, &#8220;ought to be drug-tested.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poor Gibbs: this sort of philippic from a professional communicator is a sure sign of his imminent demise. To completely set every right-thinking person\u2019s teeth on edge, he ends by butchering the Queen\u2019s English with <em>&#8220;There&#8217;s 101 things we&#8217;ve done.&#8221; <\/em>. \u00a0There<strong> are,<\/strong> Gibbs, there<strong> are.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be something good about Obama \u2013 although what, exactly eludes me &#8211; since Robert Gibbs tells us the left thinks he is like Bush: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has taken aim at the &#8220;professional left&#8221; for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/robert-gibbs-goes-to-pieces-and-takes-the-language-with-him\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[2215,1364],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","tag-obama","tag-robert-gibbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}