Top Ten Robert Gibbs Moments of 2010 Watch Videos here.
#10 – Don’t Make Gibbs Angry. You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry.
#9 – Gibbs Holds First-Ever Daily Briefing in the Rose Garden
#8 – Giving Sarah Palin a Hand
#7 – A Bet is a Bet
#6 – Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart, Settle Down
#5 – Gibbs Passes on Chance to Apologize to BP’s Tony Hayward
#4 – Nobody Puts the Press Pool in the Corner
#3 – Taming the Twitterverse
#2 – Landing in Hot Water for Giving Democrats a Midterm Reality Check
#1 – Taking on “The Professional Left”
Feel free to drop a link of your most memorable Robert Gibbs moment.
Love this clip:
Happy Tuesday. Go out and make it a great day!
David Shuster: ‘I Never Intended To Humiliate Or Embarrass Anyone At MSNBC’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/28/david-shuster-i-never-int_n_801914.html
After an over six-month “indefinite” suspension from MSNBC, David Shuster’s contract with the network has expired.
A network spokesperson said Tuesday that Shuster, who was suspended indefinitely in April over reports that he filmed a CNN pilot, is “no longer with MSNBC.”
Shuster, reached by phone in Washington, confirmed that he has officially left the network.
“I had a great eight-and-a-half years with MSNBC and I have many lifelong friends that I made there,” he told the Huffington Post.
Shuster would not discuss the specifics of his suspension from the network, merely saying, “I never intended to humiliate or embarrass anyone at MSNBC, and I harbor no ill-will or bad feelings towards anybody over there.”
In the six months since his suspension — during which MSNBC paid him through the end of his contract, which expired earlier this month — Shuster has kept busy, finishing a Masters in Public Policy at Georgetown, traveling and volunteering.
Shuster’s next step involves investigative journalism, and while he won’t go into details he promises it will have a big impact on DC politics.
“I’m thrilled and excited with the awesome responsbilities in journalism that I have lined up for 2011 and look forward to providing more detail in the new year,” he said.
GO EAGLES! Sorry, Vikings. It’s Philadelphia all the way live tonight!
Vikings up 17- Eagles 7
After an over six-month “indefinite” suspension from MSNBC, David Shuster’s contract with the network has expired. A network spokesperson said Tuesday that Shuster, who was suspended indefinitely in April over reports that he filmed a CNN pilot, is “no longer with MSNBC.”
Shuster, reached by phone in Washington, confirmed that he has officially left the network. “I had a great eight-and-a-half years with MSNBC and I have many lifelong friends that I made there,” he told the Huffington Post.
Shuster would not discuss the specifics of his suspension from the network, merely saying, “I never intended to humiliate or embarrass anyone at MSNBC, and I harbor no ill-will or bad feelings towards anybody over there.”
In the six months since his suspension — during which MSNBC paid him through the end of his contract, which expired earlier this month — Shuster has kept busy, finishing a Masters in Public Policy at Georgetown, traveling and volunteering. Shuster’s next step involves investigative journalism, and while he won’t go into details he promises it will have a big impact on DC politics.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/28/david-shuster-…
Go for it, David. Good riddance to MSNBC.
MSNBC and Chris Matthews are full of SHIT. They know damn well PBO did not call Eagles coach just the discuss Michael Vick pick and second chances. Tell the whole truth, BITHCES! and to get that weave-wearing Michelle Bernard to give an analyzes of this story is soooo transparent.
Cable networks SUCK!!!!!
Social conservatives back out of CPAC given the inclusion of gay conservative group GOProud
Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America announce they will skip the next conference
By Luke Johnson | 12.28.10 | 3:27 pm
WorldNetDaily reports that the inclusion of GOProud, a gay Republican — or, in WND parlance, a “homosexual activist” — organization, in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has caused the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America to announce they will skip the next conference, which will be held in Washington in February.
“We’ve been very involved in CPAC for over a decade and have managed a couple of popular sessions. However, we will no longer be involved with CPAC because of the organization’s financial mismanagement and movement away from conservative principles,” said Tom McClusky, senior vice president for FRC Action.
“CWA has decided not to participate in part because of GOProud,” CWA President Penny Nance told WND.
The genesis of this disagreement was a letter signed by GOProud and several local tea party groups asking conservatives to focus on economic issues as opposed to social issues. As Dave Weigel reported, that’s pretty much what Republicans plan to do anyway.
http://washingtonindependent.com/104726/social-conservatives-back-out-of-cpac-given-the-inclusion-of-gay-conservative-group-goproud
HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUE NOTES MEMBER BERNIE WILSON HAS DIED
PHILADELPHIA – Bernie Wilson, baritone vocalist in the classic lineup of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, died early yesterday from undisclosed medical complications at Kresson View Center in Voorhees, NJ, Philadelphia International Records has announced.
Wilson joined Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Lawrence Brown and Lloyd Parks in the world-renowned lineup that was signed to Philadelphia International Records in 1972, the beginning of a four-year string of hits for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes that were integral in defining the Sound of Philadelphia. They became one of the most popular groups in R&B during that era, with recordings that ranged from sweeping, extended proto-disco dance tracks to silky, smoldering ballads, all wrapped up in the lushly orchestrated production that had become the legendary signature of Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff. The group made their chart debut with “I Miss You,” then continued with a Grammy nomination for their first #1 R&B hit, “If You Don’t Know Me By Now.” More #1 hits followed, with “The Love I Lost,” and “Wake Up Everybody.” Other Blues Notes classics during that time include “Bad Luck” (#4 R&B; #1 Dance) and “Don’t Leave Me This Way.”
The passing of Wilson leaves Lloyd Parks as the sole surviving member of the classic lineup of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Philadelphia International Records sends its condolences to the Wilson family.�
http://radiofacts.com/2010/12/27/harold-melvin-and-the-blue-notes-member-bernie-wilson-has-died/
Yes, I’m quite sure that PBO wants advice from the guy who wants to cut off his balls.
Jessie needs to give advice to JJJ. Like keeping his dick and his balls in his pants on lockdown for his wife.
Jesse Jackson: Obama Should Advocate For A “Radical Reordering Of The Economy”
by Matt Schneider | 12:31 pm, December 28th, 2010
Jesse Jackson appeared on MSNBC yesterday and let it be known that President Obama better enjoy his vacation now, because come January, Jackson expects a lot from the President. Not only does he want a renewed commitment to the war on poverty, but he also wants the President to go right to Congress and to stick up for the women and children Jackson meets in homeless shelters who apparently are working every day and still can’t afford the rent.
Jackson has seen enough and calls for “a radical reordering of our economy, bottom up, because those, the very top are drowning in wealth. It’s paper-driven not even productivity-driven.” Given Jackson’s unique and mangled pronunciation of so many words in the brief clip, it sounds like Jackson is actually the one under water and drowning.
Yet even on the substance Jackson seems out of his depth, since even though the growing gap between the richest and poorest Americans is a legitimate and worrisome issue, dismissing the wealthiest and their success as not productive doesn’t do much to advance his cause. Furthermore, arguing for radical income redistribution seems to be a war that tax-comprising and 2012-thinking Obama is no longer interested in waging. Overall it’s debatable which is crazier: the radical rearrangement of the economy or the idea that Obama wants economic advice from Jackson.
Watch the clip from The Ed Show below:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jesse-jackson-obama-should-advocate-for-a-radical-reordering-of-the-economy/
CBS, FCC Still Fighting Over Janet Jackson’s “Wardrobe Malfunction”
by Mark Joyella | 12:00 pm, December 28th, 2010
Odds are the only thing you remember about the 2004 Super Bowl is what happened during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s halftime performance. As Broadcasting & Cable reports today, the FCC’s not over it, and CBS hasn’t given up the fight.
CBS has been relentlessly fighting the FCC’s initial fine–$550,000–for the “wardrobe malfunction” that exposed Jackson’s breast.
The fine was found to be “arbitrary and capricious” by an appeals court, but that ruling’s being reviewed by the court amid questions over whether CBS knew ahead of time about the cleavage reveal. As B&C reports, the fine has now taken a back seat to an even bigger battle: the First Amendment.
The Third Circuit had sought input on whether, if CBS was found to have knowledge of the “reveal,” the FCC should be applying the criminal or civil recklessness standard. The FCC argues it should be the latter, which would mean CBS could be culpable even if it was not aware of what Jackson and Justin Timberlake were going to do, so long as it should have been aware. The criminal recklessness standard applies only if CBS had been aware of the risk and chose to disregard it.
CBS argued that the First Amendment implications of content regulations on speech requires a heightened scrutiny comparable to the criminal liability standard, but the FCC said no. “Although broadcasters engage in speech, they are not like other speakers. A broadcast licensee is ‘granted the free and exclusive use of a limited and valuable part of the public domain,’ in exchange for which it agrees to be ‘burdened by enforceable public obligations,’ including the obligation not to broadcast indecent material,” the commission said, quoting language from previous court decisions.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-fcc-still-fighting-over-janet-jacksons-wardrobe-malfunction/
Obama steps out in Hawaii for shave ice tre
Associated Press | Posted: Monday, December 27, 2010 8:17 pm
President Barack Obama made the first public appearance of his vacation Monday, stopping by one of his favorite local shops for a Hawaiian snow cone known as “shave ice.”
The president, dressed casually in a black polo shirt, khaki shorts and flip-flops, ordered a flavor combination of melon, lemon-lime and cherry at Island Snow, a store Obama has frequented during past trips to Hawaii. The president chatted with excited workers and asked them about their holidays as he placed about a dozen more orders for his family and friends.
The president stood outside under cloudy, threatening skies to enjoy his shave ice with daughters Malia and Sasha, and several of the family friends from Hawaii and Chicago who have joined Obama here.
Monday afternoon’s outing was the first time the president has been spotted outside his rented oceanfront home or the nearby Marine base since he arrived here late Wednesday. After a frenzied legislative session that forced the president to delay the start of his trip, aides say rest and relaxation is at the top of Obama’s agenda during his almost two-week vacation.
The president spent much of the cloudy, drizzly Hawaiian day indoors at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, bowling with his daughters and playing basketball with friends.
The base has become a sanctuary for the president on his Hawaiian vacations. The president golfs on the base course, the first couple uses its gym for morning workouts and the first family often visits a secluded beach here.
But Obamas haven’t had much in the way of beach weather since the president arrived here. Clouds hung over the island of Oahu on Monday, and more rain is forecast throughout the week.
The Obamas are expected to stay in Hawaii through Jan. 2.
http://www.mtstandard.com/news/national/article_47c68cf9-2321-553c-aaba-b45d6d44a144.html
DeMint challenger Alvin Greene to run for S.C. state house
By Jordan Fabian – 12/27/10 05:23 PM ET
Alvin Greene, the unemployed military veteran who won the Democratic nomination to face Sen. Jim DeMint (R) this fall, has filed to run for South Carolina’s state house.
Greene, who lost to Demint by over 30 percentage points, paid the $165 entry fee five minutes after the filing period opened on Christmas Eve to run in a special election to replace the late state Rep. Cathy Harvin (D), according to the Associated Press.
His surprise primary victory over presumptive nominee Vic Rawls prompted calls from Democrats to investigate the election results, but he remained on the ticket through the general election.
During the midst of the campaign in August, Greene was indicted by a South Carolina jury for allegedly showing pornography to a college student. He declined to drop out of the race and one of his first campaign speeches lasted a mere 23 seconds.
Greene got into trouble again when a companion of his got into a restaurant altercation with officials from a local Democratic group, resulting in the ejection of Greene and his associates.
The candidate was also known for more lighthearted moments, such as his suggestion that manufacturing action figures of himself could create jobs.
A primary for the state House race will be held Feb. 15 and the special election will take place on Apr. 5.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/135229-demint-challenger-alvin-greene-to-run-for-sc-state-house
THE CHANGED COURT
Will states consider new tests for ‘Roe’?
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
LINCOLN, NEB. – Mike Flood, the 35-year-old speaker of Nebraska’s legislature, had a problem: He wanted to stop the state’s well-known abortion provider from offering late-term abortions.
A long line of Supreme Court precedents seemed to stand in his way. But Flood believes that a 2007 decision offers hope for him and other state legislators looking for ways to restrict abortion.
Using that decision as a road map, this spring Flood wrote and won passage of legislation that bans abortions after 20 weeks. Introducing into law the concept of “fetal pain,” it marked the first time that a state has outlawed the procedure so early in a pregnancy without an exception for the health of the woman.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/27/AR2010122704454.html?wpisrc=nl_fed
Posted at 1:11 PM ET, 12/27/2010
Needed: more church outings for the Obamas in 2011
By Jonathan Capehart
President Obama is looking for a New Year’s resolution might I suggest he do in Washington with more regularity in 2011 what he did yesterday in Hawaii. Go to church. He can be discreet about it. No need to be all flashy about his devotion to God. Not that he would anyway.
But the upside of more pictures like the one here is that it would obliterate that other never-say-die conspiracy theory about Obama; that he’s a closet Muslim. As an old editor of mine used to say (he’s probably still saying it), “Don’t tell, show.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/12/needed_more_church_outings_for.html?wprss=postpartisan
Jonathan Capehart, how about you put on your Sunday’s best, hat included and take your black ass to church. Sitting up in a church does not a good Christian make, not ALWAYS.
Intresting that the WaPo approves the black gay guy to write this nonsense to keep the meme alive. GTFOH. and that’s the Gospel according to Ametia.
Jonathan Capehart= Nerdy ass clown!
LOL These fools must not feel secure in their jobs, having to write this nonsense.
Good Morning, Everybody!:-)
Sending prayers to SG2’s family member.
Amen
Hi Vette. Thanks.
Hi Vette. Thank you! Trust you had a joyful Christmas. :-)
Thank you all for your prayers. All is well. And God is good!
Praise GOD! Merciful & Good