This one originated on a site called bibireport.com, which, I'm guessing, is a place where rightwing Likud groupies go to drool over the latest Netanyahu warmongering.
The post was titled: "Shock:Robbert Gibbs - Obama's press secretary on Netanyahu"
and read as follows:
"Robbert Gibbs - Obama's press secretary on Netanyahu (the Likud candidate in Israel)
in a interview with Hannity in Colmes: HANNITY: Benjamin Netanyahu blurbed my book.
GIBBS: Let me tell you — I don’t think — I don’t think your Jewish viewers are going to take it very well when you had someone like that on your show.
HANNITY: Excuse me. Excuse me. I am the biggest supporter of Israel –
GIBBS: I think it’s bad that you gave him a platform."
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Well, needless to say Freerepublic was in shock. I mean, how could he say that about BiBi?!?
a few select responses:
"Gibbs is a first class ass and not the brightest bulb on the tree...but this sounds like he doesn’t know who Netanyahu is. “Someone like that”? Jewish viewers would find it bad that Hannity gave him a platform? Huh?
10 posted on November 22, 2008 10:53:18 PM EST by Eroteme"
"Never Again, is just a slogon of bygone days. Sad.
Warm up the showers.
12 posted on November 22, 2008 10:56:15 PM EST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136770/posts----------
It's funny what you get when you see the real transcript. Gibbs was actually pressing Hannity on why he prominantly featured anti-semite Andy Martin on his program, "Hannity's America," in a pre-election Smear Obama edition. Hannity tried cite his beloved Bibi to negate his palling around with a bigot, but Gibbs wouldn't let him change the subject and play that game.
Here are some lengthier excerpts:
GIBBS: Now let me ask you one question.
HANNITY: All right, you ask me a question.
GIBBS: OK. Are you anti-Semitic?
HANNITY: Not at all.
GIBBS: OK. On your show on Sunday --
HANNITY: Mm-hmm.
GIBBS: -- you, the show that's named after you --
HANNITY: Uh-huh.
GIBBS: -- right? The centerpiece of that show was a guy named Andy Martin.
HANNITY: I know you're reading your talking points you brought in.
GIBBS: No, no. I don't have talking points --
HANNITY: When I interview, when I interview -- hang on, I'm going to answer your question. When I interviewed Malik Shabazz, when I interviewed Al Sharpton, when I interviewed all these controversial figures -- you see, on Fox, we actually interview people of all points of view, whether we agree or disagree.
GIBBS: So --
HANNITY: I -- the statement that you're about to read, I --
GIBBS: Andy Martin called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew" --
HANNITY: I -- I totally, completely --
GIBBS: -- "who has a history of lying and thieving common to members" --
HANNITY: Here's my answer to you --
GIBBS: -- of his race." Martin went on to write that he understood better why the Holocaust took place "given that Jew survivors are operating as a wolfpack to steal my property."
HANNITY: Here's my answer to you: I find those comments despicable. But wait a minute --
GIBBS: You put him on your show. It's the Hannity --
(...)
GIBBS: Why am I not to believe that you agree with each and every thing that Andy Martin says?
HANNITY: Listen, Barack Obama the president sat in the pew of Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, a guy who hates America. Barack Obama is friends with William Pfleger. I have one last question: Did Barack Obama ever sit and meet with Louis Farrakhan? Has he ever met with Louis Farrakhan?
GIBBS: I don't -- I don't know the answer to that.
HANNITY: Will you give us an answer by tomorrow?
GIBBS: Will you get back to me on whether you're anti-Semitic, or whether you're --
HANNITY: Oh, oh -- I'm not anti-Semitic. I'm the biggest supporter of Israel -- Benjamin Netanyahu blurbed my book.
GIBBS: Let me say I don't think you're Jewish viewers are going to take it very well --
HANNITY: Excuse me -- excuse me --
GIBBS: -- that you put somebody like that on your show --
HANNITY: I am the biggest supporter of Israel, and I've got a 30-year history on the record of it.
GIBBS: Well, ask some of their friends what Andy Martin said. Here, you take this -- you take that --"
You can read the rest at:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080029?f=s_search------
Amazingly, one Freeper actually had the intellectual honesty to set the record straight:
"Gibbs is talking about a guy named Andy Martin who appeared on Hannity and Colmes show, not Netanyahu. Listen again. It is Andy Martin being given a platform on Sean’s show that Gibbs is complaining about. Towards the end of the debate, Netanyahu’s name is brought up by Sean, but that is not who Gibbs is speaking about. So the headline on this thread is not correct.
14 posted on November 22, 2008 11:02:25 PM EST by flaglady47 (Four years of captivity, no relief in sight)"
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The original post seems to be missing now from bibireport.com. I may be overlooking it (I don't see a retraction, either).
It never fails to amaze me the lengths to which these people will go to blatantly lie and manufacture a controversy. And it never fails to amaze me how stupid they are to think they can get away with it in the Internet age, where a simple Google search will disprove them. Still, one has to wonder just how many dumbasses this got forwarded to via chain e-mails.
Team Obama handed their asses to them on Election Day. This stuff doesn't play anymore.
They have nothing left and they know it.
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