Reply #18: A shorter summary [View All]

[zipplewrath]

It still isn't clear exactly who Gibbs was talking about. It is almost assuredly a vastly larger crowd than his supporters have tried to claim, although probably a much smaller crowd than took personal offense. That, in and of itself is continuing evidence that Gibbs should go, because his one job is to be clear and informative.

But once you get past all the kerfluffle what is telling is that, despite Gibbs' implication to the opposite, the administration does care and they do feel they are being "damaged" by the criticism. And to some extent they know their critics are correct. Otherwise, they wouldn't be representing what they did as "good enough" or "as good as we could do". They would be representing it as "the better alternative". But all we get is "the GOP would be worse" and "it's all we could do". They are projecting the very disappointment to which they object. And on some level they know this, and are blaming the messenger.