Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Gibbs: Conservatives are mean, but I can't explain how their efforts are different from ours.

Tapper asked the White House Press Secretary, Gibbs how the backlash Congressmen and the President have been experiencing is different from their own "grassroots" type efforts. To which Gibbs had no answer, except to say they are really CEO out there.
TAPPER: A couple questions. One, is it your contention -- is it the White House contention that the anger that some members of Congress are experiencing at town hall meetings, especially over health care reform, is manufactured?

GIBBS: I think some of it is, yes. In fact, I think you've had groups today, Conservatives for Patients Rights, that have bragged about organizing and manufacturing that anger.

TAPPER: How is their organizing and getting people to come to town hall meetings and express their feelings any different from a liberal group doing the same thing?

GIBBS: Well, I think what you've seen is they have -- they have bragged about -- about manufacturing, to some degree, that anger. I think you've got somebody who's very involved, a leader of that group that's very involved in -- in the status quo, a CEO that used to run a health care company that was fined by the federal government $1.7 billion for fraud. I think that's a lot of what you need to know about the motives of that group.

Tapper is so my favorite journalist right now.

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