On Morning Joe this morning, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs sure had an impressive performance.
Interviewed in the last hour, Gibbs held firm aganist the usual badgering and stubborness of Scarborough's questions, especially when the GOP talking head pressured him on John McCain's pathetic assertion that Obama had skipped visiting the troops in Germany and used the troops in Kuwait for political advantage.
Scarborough tried to get Gibbs to mess up his words in explaining why Obama didn't visit the troops in Berlin.
In a short synopsis of Gibbs' brilliance, he told Scarborough, "The reason why Senator Obama didn't go is because the Pentagon had labeled it a campaign event, and Senator Obama did not want to have the troops seemed to be used for a campaign event."
Scarborough, as usual, was adamant in trying to force a double talk by asking "Why is Kuwait different than Berlin?" Gibbs was so good, he even kind of chastised good ol' Joey boy, waving his hands at Scarborough to basically tell him to pay attention and stop repeating the same bulls----by reiterating again, "That the Pentagon said that it would be a politicial move."
Gibbs made an example again of Scarborough when the latter tried to make the issue of his basketball footage in Kuwait being taped, asking why where cameras there. Gibbs simple but terrific (and true) reply: "Joe, once again, the Armed Forces taped the footage of Senator Obama playing basketball, not anyone else."
Gibbs interview was the perfect display of being steady, sound, and making your agenda-influenced interviewer look foolish and untrustworthy.
Gibbs' display even impressed Scarborough at show's end, that it made even the notoriously smug host utter " He did real good job."
"The story may be true or not, but that's what you do," said Scarborough. "You stick to a story and you stay with it."
Only people the likes of Scarborough will call it "a story" to place the possibility of a typical politician's spin in an uninformed person's head. But really, he was trying to save face after Gibbs smacked away his insanity and bullying.
Because Joe Scarborough got smacked down, once again in this campaign season.
(The video will be up later, pending MSNBC's website, as well as some of the transcript, along with the Andrea Mitchell "jab.")
Refreshed: While Gibbs' video still hasn't been put up, here's Bob Scrum getting a shot of Scarborough himself, with Scarborough, as expected, taking some offense.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
As usual, the MSNBC Embedded didn't work (though it works in the preview, weirdly). So here's the link above.
Refreshed 2: Finally, the Smackdown Video from Gibbs.