Is Chip on the RNC payroll? What a positively stupid question to ask. Whatever happened to the tradition of not criticizing the current Administration from the previous occupants?

Yeah...thought not. So Chipster should STFU with stupid questions and stop being so dense: Gibbs didn't attack that Cheney--he responded in kind.

Remember: anything goes, as long as it's a Republican we're talking about.

The fact that Cheney's attack is unprecedented is irrelevant. The fact that Cheney repeatedly contradicted himself in that interview is irrelevant.

THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS THAT ROBERT GIBBS SAID SOMETHING REPUBLICANS PERCEIVED AS SNOTTY.

Still waiting for Cheney to earn that respect.

It is something that these so called journalists can miss the lies leading to the Iraq War and the greatest financial mess since the Depression but they are able to hear every nuance of "tone".

I guess CBS hiring the top GOP & pro-rightwing settler extremist as Senior VP is now showing its affects.

Geez. Chip Reid is about as much of a tool as Chip Diller.

Infuriating. Self-righteous indignation fits best on hypocrites.

Penis Cheney is clearly a dick. However, what I would prefer that the spokesperson for Obama use the language of someone who is ACTUALLY changing the tone in Washington. I think that Gibbs could have responded as follows:

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The Bush administration did not begin on 9/12. It began 9 months earlier. It is important that we not forget this fact. Concerning the Vice President's comments on the economy, he and President Bush were at the helm of the economic ship of state for eight years. Here is where we are today. We are following a different course.
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There is no direct "blame game" which is code for "don't hold people to account". However, it is clear who is in fact TO BLAME for where we are. The American people can figure this stuff out all by themselves. You don't have to hit them over the head with the obvious. But you do have to allude to the obvious.

Big Dick Cheney is no longer VP and he should know his role, get on his knees, defer to and shine the shoes of new President.

Umm....Is this the same Chip Reid who told John Oliver of the Daily Show that "people have the attention span of gnats these days", apparently his "official tone" towards his listeners?

Who the frack is Dick Cheney? The former King of the United States? No one had an ounce of respect for him when he was in office and no once owes him anything now.

Seems to me that people are missing the essential hypocrisy here. At this point in the Bush administration, Cheney and Bush still had five and a half months in which to identify and protect us from the attack on September 11. They failed utterly. whether or not their actions since kept further attacks from occurring is immaterial. THEY FAILED TO PROTECT US. A day late, a dollar short, slamming the barn door after the horse ran off. Gibbs does make the secondary point that they failed to catch the perpetrators, but their initial failure should be front and center in any discussion of Cheney's comments.

This is the impact of the new right slant on news at CBS. However, the news editors did not have to work too hard to bend Chip Reid...

At NBC he always tried to belittle Dems while spinning Republican interviews and airtime.

He's the perfect foil for CBS, they are so desperate for ratings, if they didn't have CSI and all of its franchises, they would not have programming...Survivor 24!!

Now they are slicing up low information consumers with the bias slant from Reid...the sad thing is he has company in the WH Press Corp...Call them out!!!

Hasn't anyone informed Chip Reid et al that no one -- including former president George W Bush -- sees Dick Cheney as anything other than a nasty, nutty old crank?

Chip Reid : Why don't you ask Cheney about his torture program and his death squads ?

Chip Reid : are you scared of the ex-VP ? Will he do something to you, get you fired, get you sent to a remote local affiliate, if you ask him about his death squads and torture ?

Chip Reid : Why don't you ask Cheney how come 'Bin Laden' is STILL running around uncaught and undead ?

Chip Reid : it is 2009, not 2002 any more. It's OK to not cheerlead for Cheney and his incompetent bumbling.

JHC these guys are pathetic.

Contra Kleefeld, Cheney didn't "go out of his way" to attack the Obama administration. He answered the questions presented to him directly. E.g., When asked by CNN's correspondent if Obama's policies would make us less safe, he said, "I do." Then when asked to elaborate, he elaborated.

Obama's mouthpiece did not answer substantively, but engaged in a juvenile personal attack. That is what Obama is, and that is what his people are. They don't know how to govern. They don't know how to even argue intelligently (note Obama's clinical dependence on the Teleprompter, and the series on non-sequiturs, arbitrary assertions, and straw men deployed in Obama's press conference.) All they can do is campaign. But the supply of idiots getting excited by Hope & Change is running low.

Little character, and little active intelligence. Worthless individuals.

Some one needs take a sledgehammer to this unreliable machine that has become the voice of the right and breakup the conglomerates that rule the news. When politicians kowtow to the likes of Blimpbaugh, Hearsay News, Rupedirt Murdererdoc and the other propagandists they are denying their oath of office.

GW, Dick and the rest have committed crimes against this Nation and the World they must be brought to justice for us to really be able raise our heads inn the World community. The Media is the vehicle that historically exposed wrong doing by our leaders but if they are still in the pocket of the Fascists that just left power we won't get far.

Remake the Fourth Estate and free thinking investigators will ferret the crimes and prepatraitors(sic) out!

Hey losers Bush and Cheney are gone cant you focus on anything else or are you part of the lefty loon attack squads that go after any one that does not agree with ya. Number one liar obumma has destroyed this country in two years along with your bosses the dnc and nancy p. What a disgrace you all are. I feel real bad for you. Let it go Bush is gone. its ok man really get off the ledge lefties.

The Villagers Still Love Them Some Bush!

Since they never, don't, won't, can't intellectually think anything negative about W, they don't understand anyone else criticizing their Beautiful Leader or his puppet master.

Hey, I'm 52, and I still like using "Skip" better than my given name "Walter" ;*)

But I didn't come here to talk about that, I came here to post this info from Chip's bio:

>>His career in broadcast journalism began at ABC News as a field producer in Washington (1988-89).

Previously, Reid practiced law, first as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (1982-86) and then as a litigation and lobbying specialist at a major Washington, D.C. law firm (1986-88).

which I think doesn't say much for his journalistic credentials.