Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary startled the press corps this week when he opened his remarks by saying, "Evil triumphs when good men spank the monkey!" Chairs scraped the floor, mouths fell open, and several of the "professional left" media gasped in disbelief.
Gibbs continued with his trademark smile. "What do you people want? We should all call each other, Tavarich?! You want Kucinich in the White House? You want Rachel Maddow to take Hillary's place? If you can't be captain, you won't play? What the hell do you want?" and his face grew dark. "Questions?"
"Mr. Gibbs," said a reporter from PBS, "do you think these remarks will turn of your base and hurt your efforts in the fall?" Gibbs replied, Look," he said, "the other side salutes, marches in straight lines, and will jump our of a plane without a parachute if Limbaugh tells them to. You people will argue all day over what number lead pencil to use! Ever heard of the book, What's the Matter With Kansas? I'll tell you what it said. It said the when the right gets organized; they don't stop until they drop, and when they drop, they don't stop. That is what we are up against and the professional left goes WAh Wah Wah all the way home."
As news of the press conference hit the airwaves, the professional left media, immediately hit back at Gibbs. "Wah, Wah, Wah," the media screamed all day long. On Hardball, Chris Matthews spoke ex-Cathedra.
Media Matters is reporting that the other side of the political spectrum, right wing radio and TV are ecstatic, gleeful, and smug. On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume, while always looking bilious, actually gave a crooked smile, Juan Williams accused Bill Kristol of having a "shit eating grin," and Liz Cheney jumped up, pumped her right fist in the air, and grabbed her cod piece.
Chris Wallace grinned sheepishly and closed the program by suggesting Liz's cod piece should be the "Power Player of the Week!"
