Gibbs Shifts Anger Over Obama ‘Rage’ Article to Forbes
- Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:37pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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After Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Vice President Joe Biden attacked Dinesh D‘Souza’s article explaining the origins of what he calls Obama’s “anti-colonialism,” the administration is now shifting its anger to the publisher of the article — Forbes.
The Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz quoted Gibbs as saying: “It’s a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist’s office, so lacking in truth and fact. I think it represents a new low.”
According to Kurtz, Gibbs is meeting with Forbes’s Washington bureau chief Brian Wingfield this afternoon to discuss his objections. “Did they not fact-check this at all, or did they fact-check it and just willfully ignore it?” Gibbs asks.
Forbes shows no sign of backing down from the story. In a statement released by the magazine, it said, “Dinesh D‘Souza’s cover story was presented as an analysis of how the president thinks. No facts are in contention. Forbes stands by the story.”
D’Souza did admit one error to Kurtz. While he claimed in the article that Obama “spent his formative years–the first 17 years of his life–off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa,” he realizes now that Obama first visited Pakistan as a college student, when he was older than 17.
Not to be outdone by the White House, Columbia Journalism Review gave its opinion of the article: “[It] is a gross piece of innuendo — a fact-twisting, error-laden piece of paranoia. This is the worst kind of smear journalism — a singularly disgusting work.”
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Comments (179)
BoilitDown
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:16pmI viewed the D‘Souza article as yet another attempt to understand Obama’s thought processes which seem so alien to most American’s. I didn‘t read any accusations into D’Souza’s analysis. Why then, did Obama find it accusing?
Report Post »Obama’s reaction, not the article, gives credence to his detractors. The defensive nature of the response makes people think there is reason to believe Obama’s motives are not in line with our country.
Contrarianthinker
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:13pmI think that Constitutionalists are held to and should be held to a higher standard than progressives. We are asking for the trust of the American people. We are mostly a movement driven by people of faith.
I hope no one plays with truth to make a point. I certainly Denish didn’t. As Glenn has said so many times, show me my errors and I will correct them. That’s a great rule to follow.
Report Post »CoFX
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:07pmFact check? Seriously? It seems as if everyone in your administration could care less about actual facts. Actually, I’m guessing you want to keep facts hidden as much as possible around the Capitol… still waiting on that so-called “transparency” we were promised. Run out of “white out” trying to get all those documents ready for release to the public?
Ah dangit, caught me in a typical conservative racist remark. I’m sorry, let me try to make ammends… my choosing of “white out” was in no way intended to infer that I have any animosity towards any other colors of type-correction office products. “Out’s” of all colors should be treated with respect and celebrated for thier differences.
Report Post »bellerd
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:30pmLMAO!!! Thank you for reminding me to be respectful of office products, of ALL colors ;)
Report Post »billsezs
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:06pmjoe and robert maybe together they have one brain
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:01pmAhhh, finally!!! Now THEY know how it feels.
Report Post »tuffenough
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:01pmAnd are we really supposed to think the illegals in the Whitehouse speak the truth — or even are able to know it when they see it ? It seems clear that the only info that the thugs in D.C. think should be released is what passes their smell test – and I think we all know what that scent represents
Report Post »pgrossjr
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:01pmColumbia has long since forgotten what constitutes real “journalism”. to begin with D‘Souza’s piece is an opinion article. Rather‘s hit piece on Bush’s National Guard duty was supposed to be “journalism”. Doubt they commented on that.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:01pm“It’s a stunning thing, to see a (news source) you would see in a dentist’s office, so lacking in truth and fact. I think it represents a new low.” – You mean like CNN or MSNBC, Gibsy?
Report Post »tnw71
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:00pmGibbs should go pound sand up his butt. The fact is the man hasn’t come up with a birth certificate showing that he was born in the USA. His mother was American, so I can believe that he is a citizen. That’s not the issue. The issue is whether or not he was born in America. I have three girls that were born overseas. They are American citizens, but were not born in America and therefore will never be able to run for President. Obama, in his heart, is a Muslim plain and simple. Don’t look at what he says, you have to judge a person by their actions. His actions are against the best interest of this country at every turn. He is nothing more than a big time pimp for Muslims.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 5:03pmTrue. Words don’t mean anything. It’s a persons actions that shows their true character.
Report Post »msnbciscomedy
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 6:27pmOMG give up the birth certificate…..dont be like the left. Thats like a lib talking about Bush blowing up the levies….just sounds silly. These people are gooing to destroy themselves with their moutains of lies. Its only a matter of time. I think they are starting to figure out ” Oh crap barry-boy, we aint in chicaco anymore!”
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 10:27pmWell said!
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:58pmAnd now with tomorrow’s headlines…..“White house says Forbes Magazine is not a magazine”.
Report Post »Stepaheaded
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:53pmOn a Special Edition of “The Globe” ?
Report Post »Mattangels00
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:57pmI really hope they don’t get rid of Gibbs. He is such a perfect mouthpiece for this administration. Somebody with some class and eloquence might get some of the mind-wipes out there to believe the drivel the White House spews. So long as Gibbs is there we can be sure that not a single red-blooded American accepts anything they say. Oooh, I said “red-blooded,” that makes me a racist right?
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 5:01pmAs much as I CANNOT stand the guy, I hope they keep him as well. He’s such an imbecile and everyone but he can see it.
Report Post »American Dad
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:53pmWhen you have an administration spending so much time attempting to rewrite history, convolute facts and ignore reality something has to give. Someone has to come up with a theory based on available information.
Our transparent President has so much of his past legally hidden due to the lack of “legal standing” of anyone on the planet (Many court cases denied or in process). If the White House (Gibbs) has any spine and wishes the truth to be told all of Soetoro AKA Obama’s records would be opened for the world to see, if not they really have nothing to say.
Report Post »solaveritas
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:53pmFact check THIS Gibbs. Obama is guilty of SOCIAL IMPERIALISM! Yes, when Obama took office he tried to “reach out” to Muslims. But, being an ideological idiot, his state department shortly thereafter sponsored a “gay pride” party at the US Embassy in Baghdad, and invited local Muslim officials. FRIGGIN BRILLIANT!! “Reach out” and export homosexuality, which is more anathema to Muslims than it is other faiths!!! And Gibbs is complaining about COLONIALISM?
Report Post »TattooQ
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:53pmAnd another thing. Given what passes for journalism in many cases today, I’m skeptical that the Columbia School of Journalism or any J – School is an authority on quality .
toco0109
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:50pmObama made sure that all of his “dirty laundry” was burned before he took office
Report Post »Moonage Daydreamer
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:49pmForbes and Brian Wingfield, STAND TALL!!
The TEA Party and Conservatives are smeared daily by the print media and LSM at EVERY opportunity,
I am so sick of it…what do we have to do to get the truth out there?
Anyone who stands up against Obama and his ‘machine’ gets kicked in the ‘head’…I think we need and have to fight back…in a non-violent way naturally.
This NOvember, take along one person or more to help VOTE THESE BUMS OUT!!
((Freak out in the moonage daydream…))
Report Post »Mattangels00
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:59pmAnybody who quotes Bowie AND is a Tea Party affiliate is alright in my book!
Report Post »KEA
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:22amWelcome to Chicago style politics.
Report Post »oljw00
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:49pmForbes just made the WH Enemies List…
This admin just makes itself more and more irrelevant with this petty, thin-skinned attempt to control the message. Almost as if free thought (and press) is a foreign concept to them..
It would be laughable were it not so sad.
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:00pm“Gibbs is meeting with Forbes’s Washington bureau chief Brian Wingfield…”
Gibbs is meeting with them? To discuss what they printed?
Report Post »What an outrage!!!!
This group needs to be reeled in quickly. They are out of control. They would have a national news service in a heartbeat if they could. It‘s what they’re aiming for.
No More
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:18pmYea, enemies list….Reminds me of Tricky Dick all over again times 10
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 5:00pmAnnimouse, absurd isn’t it?
Report Post »I’m so tired of the WH feeling like they need to be babysitters to everyone and everything.
Back off!!
TexasHillsPatriot
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:10amIsn’t this the same sort of thing that happened with the CBO when they produced some numbers the WH did not like regarding the health care cost? obama had a meeting the the head of the “independent” CBO and showed him the “errors of his ways”.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:47pmSuddenly the libs ( this administration LOL LOL LOL )are concerned about facts in reporting ,what a friggin joke!
Report Post »HM-IL
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:46pmThe truth hurts! Barry & Co don’t encounter truth very often!
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:59pmThe truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 10:00amOr you get Mediamatters to completely debunk that nonsense, whatever comes first.
Report Post »sweetbees
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 12:47pmOh yes, right……Where do I go for all of the “correct” information on what is going on in the world? Media Matters of course. They are sooooo unbiased and factual !!!!! Your name STUPID, says it all !!!
Report Post »BeadGirl
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:46pmWhy should everybody else fact check when Gibbs doesn’t know the meaning of the concept?
Report Post »TattooQ
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:45pmTime for the Left to close ranks and change the conversation . Speaking of rank , anyone see the latest Presidential approval rating ?
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:45pmOh…. But it is certainly just fine when a national magazine or news article rips apart a republican or TEA Party candidate using smear tactics…. But how DARE someone print an article that is not a fluff piece for Obama!
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 8:44pmSeriously, they will probably be dragged before congress for an “investigation of mis-information”
Report Post »Disgusted 2
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 6:35pmThanks Max Your the first one iv’e heard say its about world financial collapse. I’ve believed that for a long time. All i ever get is The Annointed One would never do that. Thats exactly what he’s doing from the inside out. He wants this global governace so bad he can taste it. And he wants to be the Supreme Leader. God help us all!!!!!!!
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:44pmJust what I was thinking at the dentist office yesterday when all I could find was Newsweek, time, Mother Jones, Denver Post, Washington Post, and all other lame publications from the media. It is not truth they are interested in….it is THEIR TRUTH the are interested in. It’s all propoganda to me.
Report Post »Debrabate
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:48pmdo what I do… I bring my own magazines to the Dr office then “accidentally” leave it on the magazine table when I go back for my appointment.
Report Post »BorderCollieFeeder
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:00pmMother Jones in a dentist’s office?? YIKES! :)
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:07pmDEBRABATE, you have a subversive mind. I like it!
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:28pmall this crap that goes on and on…R vs.D, right vs. left, tea party, naacp, health bill, tarp bailouts, AAALLL of it is just a distraction. Even the Obama travesty is just a distraction. This is a puppet show. The real work is being done wwwaaayyy behind the scene. The puppet masters are puppets,too. The immediate goal is global financial collapse, and then dependence upon global governance. It won’t work,but, It is going to hurt…bad. Evil…pure evil.
Report Post »ironcowboy
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:47pmThe truth is not what you are told it is, the truth is what you believe of to be.
There is a Santa Clause, you believe it?
Report Post »e-merlin
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 7:06pmWhat? No High Times? :)
I’m sort of sorry Glenn swore off name-calling. I used to love it when he called Gibbs the Pillsbury Spokesboy.
Report Post »amusetec
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 7:20pmDebrabate, I do that all the time with my gun magazines we call it Operation Mag Drop.
Report Post »but it is funny how at some Dr. Office when I go back for a follow up a couple of days later the mag is gone.
I wonder does the office staff throw it away or does some other patient take it.
I would suggest everyone does this.
OPERATION MAG DROP.
avengingannie
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 9:03pmI hate going to the dentist.
Report Post »Alydia
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:44pmOh my gosh, he says someone didn’t fact check something?? Got news for you Gibbs, every time you open your mouth a lie pops out! Fact check that!!!! How long can our government stand with liars, thieves and propagandist running the place?? Gibbs, the whole damn White House and all the rats involved just willfully ignores “we the people”.
Report Post »Do us all a favor and stay the hell off television…you a lot of people sick!!
Onward2Victory
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:09pm“Got news for you Gibbs, every time you open your mouth a lie pops out! Fact check that!!!!”
Hmmm, I just looked this one up… and it’s true!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:56pmLOL Onward!!
Report Post »msnbciscomedy
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 6:18pmGibbs should fact check his reason for being so arrogant……I think I used to beat him up in highschool. Come to think of it, I bet Rhom gives him a swirrley before class everyday. Then Axelrod takes his lunch money.
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 2:42pmGibbs is such a Dunce! How can anyone “fact check” this Marxist Moron when he has had ALL HIS RECORDS SEALED? Is it 2012 yet?
Report Post »warriorcop
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:11pmI love how they are all “Outraged” and that this represents a “new low”. But it was perfectl ok when they were bashing GW all over the planet side. Liberals are the party of Hypocricy
Is it 2012 yet??
Report Post »sd1776
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:16pmNot DUNCE… DOUCHE, and completely unqualified. I guess that good for the opposition, but have you ever seen a worse press secretary.
He’s usually incoherent and, at best, simply doesn’t answer questions.
It just shows the level of arrogance in the Nixon… oops, Obama administration.
Report Post »quickone
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:19pmIs it 2012 yet? LOL
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:51pmFor the last 18 months, there has been absolutely no correlation between what Obama says and what he does! That fact makes Obama’s rhetoric irrelevant.
People keep talking about boycotts; let’s start a boycott that doesn’t punish the innocent.
Let’s boycott Obama.
How do we do boycott Obama? Just hold the Remote while watching TV and whenever Obama is flashed on the screen (news or commercial), change stations!
One click provides a great feeling of accomplishment and power!
TRY IT YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!!!!!
http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:14pmI ask Mister Obama to defend himself. Get all the documents pertinent to the accusations unsealed and published for all to see. Only a scoundrel works in shadows.
It won’t happen, of course. Methinks the man doth protest too much.
Report Post »Intrepid333
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:33pmEver dance with devil with the blue dress on…..Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
Report Post »cinders1313
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:40pmGibbs looks like Elmer Fudd. He is probably out hunting wabbits!
Report Post »w4jle
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 4:58pmEvery time I listen to Gibbs I am reminded of the information minister for the other Husein claiming there were no Americans in Baghdad.
Report Post »Phildawg
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 5:00pmThat’s Bagdad Bob Gibbs for ya!
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 5:05pmWhy should anyone care what Obama or Gibbs thinks, they dont give a damn what We the People think! you can google the article and the book is for sale in 2-3 weeks..I am gonna buy it.
Report Post »jfhunt
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 5:26pmWere they outraged when fake documents were produced by Dan Rather to smear GWB just before the election?
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 5:41pmThis one is for SD1776 and the Nixon Administration…oops. You crawled out from under your rock again and scurried right back. The only oops that tops this piece of work now faking a Presidency is your guy, Jimmy Carter. You’ll find Clinton was scraped from the bottom of the barrel, Gore came from under it, Kerry was found under his wife’s rock, and Obama happened to walk by and was grabbed. “Hey, you wannabe…” and he said, “me?” They didn’t care what country he came from.
Report Post »I am 'We the People
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 6:20pmI love the comments…
We the people don’t care what “poeple” “think”, so long as the truth is given, sound economic choices are made, and “they” stay the HECK out of our lives!
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 7:06pmWhere are Gibbs’s facts to dispute the book. They throw out their attacks but never produce their version of the facts. We’ll Bobby we are waiting for the facts. You report and we’ll decide.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 7:41pmFacts are not part of the agenda but some bomb throwing always works. It was Bush’s fault that the writer of the article got a pencil.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 7:43pmYour close to the target when you take much flack. Sounds like they are confirming that this one may hurt a little???
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 8:48pmTobywil2… I do that all the time, it does feel great!! Not just because the lies that come out of his mouth are too painful to listen to, but also because I can’t stand to look up his nostrels as he is always looking down his nose at us.
Report Post »FSM_47
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 9:04pmSo true
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 10:06pmtobywil2 LOL I do.. and it does.. I thought I was the only one who did that.. I can be asleep and wake up IMMEDIATELY when he or GIBBS comes on and I just turn off the t.v. or change the channel.. even when he’s on FOX.. I hope those little black boxes you have to have to watch t.v. are equipped with a monitoring devise so they can track when we do that..
Report Post »NotWaiting4Godot
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 2:30amHey critics! Can we get some details? What exactly is false? I don’t think Gibbs actually wants to debate the details.
How did Obama sell so many books, yet few seem to have read it? Maybe it’s cynical to ask, but… does anyone suspect that Soros and fellow travelers cornered the ‘Dreams From My Father’ market? I know a few liberals who put unread copies on their coffee tables.
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