Robert Gibbs gets served by Helen Thomas

If you haven't already, you MUST watch this video clip of Chip Reid and Helen Thomas tearing in to press secretary /slash/ head propagandist Robert Gibbs. While normally complacent and inline with administration policy, the ultra-liberal Thomas was very quick to pull out her talons in defense of the 1st Amendment. Watch it in it's entirety, it's GREAT! I watched it three times already....hilarious!

I've witnessed this manipulation since last years campaign. It always looked obvious Obama's public persona is completely, 100% scripted and fabricated. I don' think most people even really know who he is, myself included. But what is becoming clear is that the White House press corps is no longer tolerating scripted dialog. I believe they are beginning to understand that his presidency is only a show. One big, long, scripted show.

I'm not convinced that the leftist media will continue this agitation, as presidential access and ideology may muffle any outcry of the now obviously staged media machine. They may just well shrug their shoulders and say, "Oh well.." However, we'll take this as a small victory in what is a normally lapdog press corps, and chalk this one in to the history books as more proof that they can fool some people some of the time, but they can't fool them all forever. They can't, can they?