Robert Gibbs doesn’t merely evoke chuckles among the White House press corps (an average of ten a day, if we’re going to be precise about it). He also indulges in them himself:
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A compliant press?
Whatever happened to "Speaking Truth to Power?" or does that phrase expire during Democratic Administrations and Congress'?
How many Newspapers are in the Black today?
#1 Posted by JSF, CJR on Sat 30 May 2009 at 12:53 AM