Gibbs gets into a heated exchange with Fox and Friends hosts

[TeamJordan23]

Obama communications director Robert Gibbs dukes it out with the hosts of “Fox and Friends” in a heated exchange over the bracelet Obama highlighted during Friday’s debate, given to him by the mother of a fallen solider.

Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade suggested the soldier’s family had asked Obama not to wear the bracelet, which Gibbs denied.

Gibbs: “Let’s get the facts right before we start making stuff up on the news.”

Kilmeade: “Don’t say we’re making stuff up!… Unbelievable… Goodbye.”

Followed by an awkward toss to commercial.

Video at http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/29/pow-zap-boom/

[lamp_shade]

1. I'm sure Gibbs sent the email. I hope FOX responds, though I doubt it.

[ErinBerin84]

2. Fox and Friends making stuff up?

Unbelievable....never!

[Pirate Smile]

3. Faux wants to go with the McCain supporting ex-husband instead of the actual person

that gave Obama the bracelet.

[Supersedeas]

7. McFox and Friends and their catapults of propoganda

[SuperTrouper]

4. LOL!! Brian Kilmeade was pissed because Gibbs called him on making things up

They are pissed that McCain is sinking fsater than the Lusitania. Stupid jock sports reporter Kilmeade and loser Doocy just look like clowns there.

[tsuki]

5. Good for Gibbs! Democrats have always acted afraid of Rupert

Murdock's product. Call a lie, a lie. You can only call for someone to cut his mike so often. Then the watchers begin to wonder.

[doc03]

6. I have passed by Faux for a few seconds

twice in the last week. The first time Hannity was talking about Rev. Wright the second time Huckabee was talking about Rev. Wright. I took Faux off my channel line up.

[Mike Daniels]

8. So Huckabee changed his tune on Wright?

When the Wright comments first came out Huckabee said that Wright's comments needed to be understood within the context of the time period that he grew up in. In effect, he was stating that Wright's comments were not that inflammatory when you looked at them within a certain light.

I guess now that he has his own show on FOX that he's changed his tune?

[doc03]

9. You know I never spent enough time there to say

where he stood on the issue. I saw him and a guest and then they played the Rev. Wright goddamn America clip that's when I moved on.

[blogslut]

10. Those pinheads were so lying

link: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdsm_ntfH32sDoi1u_H9HYCDeaHAD93G1RBG0

Soldier's mother 'ecstatic' about Obama's bracelet

By DINESH RAMDE – 15 hours ago

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The mother of a Wisconsin soldier who died in Iraq says she was "ecstatic" when Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama mentioned during Friday's debate the bracelet she gave him in honor of her son.

Tracy Jopek of Merrill told The Associated Press on Sunday she was honored that Obama remembered Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, who was killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb.

Jopek criticized Internet reports suggesting Obama, D-Ill., exploited her son for political purposes.

"I don't understand how people can take that and turn it into some garbage on the Internet," she said.

Jopek acknowledged e-mailing the Obama campaign in February asking that the presidential candidate not mention her son in speeches or debates. But she said Obama's mention on Friday was appropriate because he was responding after Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, said a soldier's mother gave him a bracelet...

[chupacabranation]

11. I'm sorry but, wasn't the Mom ecstatic that he wore/mentioned the bracelet?

I thought I read that somewhere.

As an aside, I love Gibbs. He is great.