Saturday, March 28, 2009

WH Secretary Gibbs ridicules media's teleprompter obsession.

Washington Post reporter Lois Romano interviews White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:

MS. ROMANO: The teleprompter changed last night.

MR. GIBBS: Mm-hmm.

MS. ROMANO: What was that about that? It's a big jumbotron now.

MR. GIBBS: You know can I tell you this?

MS. ROMANO: Yes.

MR. GIBBS: I am absolutely amazed that anybody in America cares about who the President picks at a news conference or the mechanism by which he reads his prepared remarks. You know, I guess America is a wonderful country.

MS. ROMANO: You're saying this is all Washington Beltway stuff?

MR. GIBBS: I don't even know if it's that. I don't think I should implicate the many people that live in Washington.

MR. GIBBS: No, I you know, I don't think the President let me just say this: My historical research has demonstrated that the President is not the first to use prepared remarks nor the first to use a teleprompter.

Source: Media Matters

2 comments:

markie said...

if the use of a teleprompter is one of the oppostion's biggest concerns, then we be doing good.

airJackie said...

We're in a Recession and hurting while this is the only concern of the Journalist. I'm like Gibbs what can I say to answer a stupid question.