Kicking Villagers In Their Junk

Man you have to just LOVE this pushback against the mainstream media by Robert Gibbs and David Axlerod. The Villagers have been put on notice. If you won't ask good questions, the President will go past you straight to the people and let them drive the conversation!

Here’s an interesting dynamic: The yawning gap between what the pundits say about who’s winning the stimulus war and what the polls
say the public thinks has created an opening for the Obama team to reclaim Obama’s campaign outsider mantle, which had slipped away during the transition to governing.

Case in point: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, on the
presidential plane today, directly targeted cable news as out of touch with America when asked about polling on the stim package. From the White House transcript:

I think it’s illuminating because it may not necessarily be where cable television is on all of this. But, you know, we’re sort of used to that. We lost on cable television virtually every day last year. So, you know, there’s a conventional wisdom to what’s going on in America via Washington, and there’s the reality of what’s happening in America.

That’s not all. In response to another question about Obama’s scheduled rally today in Elkhart, Indiana, Gibbs directly attacked the White House press corps. “We’ll get to measure whose questions were better over the course of the day — the voters of Elkhart or the reporters of Washington,” Gibbs says.

There’s still more. According to the pool report, senior Obama adviser David Axelrod ran with this ball on the campaign plane, too, saying that the new Gallup poll proves how out of touch Beltway insiders are.

“If I had listened to the conversation in Washington during the
campaign for president, I would have jumped off a building about a year and a half ago,” Axelrod said.

When President Obama takes the gloves off, he REALLY takes the gloves off. Thats what you call a MAGNIFICENT MIDDLE FINGER salute. And I for one am loving it!