ICYMI: Robert Gibbs smacks Fox reporter with Brownie’s tinfoil hat

By Joy-Ann “Joy” Reid’s

Yesterday during the midday briefing, President Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs had a keeper of an exchange with Fox “News” reporter Wendell Goler, who wanted to know, surprise! … whether the Gulf oil gusher is “Obama’s Katrina.” Gibbs took the opportunity to dress down Goler’s network over its decision to give a platform to Michael “heckuva job” Brown, Dubya’s former failure of a FEMA director, who botched the response to Hurricane Katrina, but who seems to have developed a special knowledge about how that massive offshore leak began.



For more on the right’s out of this world Gulf spill conspiracy theories, and how they’re discrediting conservatism, read David Corn’s excellent piece at Politics Daily.