Quote of the day: “we would have put a fancy seal up”

May 9, 2009 by mattie14

Not sure what happened but a bunch of posts never got posted – especially in regards ot this press conference. An ongoing problem that wordpress can’t fix either.

May 1, 2009

barry made a “surprise” appearance at the daily briefing to announce that Justice Souter had called hism to officially announce his retirement.

WH transcript.

MR. GIBBS: Yes. And –

THE PRESIDENT: Hey. I’m sorry, but Gibbs is screwing this thing up. You know, there’s a job to do — please, everybody, have a seat. There’s a job to do, you got to do it yourself. (Laughter.)

MR. GIBBS: See you guys later. Have a good weekend. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: This is kind of cool.

MR. GIBBS: It’s way cooler than it seems. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Absolutely.

The reason I’m interrupting Robert is not because he’s not doing a good job — he’s doing an unbelievable job….

Then he read a prepared statement that happened awfully quick for “just got off the phone”.

THE PRESIDENT: …And with that, I would like you to give Robert a tough time again. (Laughter.)

And then something worth laughter. After barry left a someone asked Gibbs if he know barry was coming and Gibbs had a truly funny response. I think it reveals how pist Gibbs was when barry took over his playground and all the kids wanted to play with him instead.

Q Did you know he was coming?

MR. GIBBS: Did I know he was coming? No, I didn’t know he was coming.

No, we would have put a fancy seal up and everything.

Highlighting barry’s need to have that sign in front of him whenever he speaks. And of course this ridiculousness.

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