The primary value of Peter Daou’s piece on liberal bloggers yesterday was that it named names, and it gave outlets like Politico an excuse to link to something. Although journalists won’t say so publicly because they’ve been told such things “off the record,” they well know who gets under the skin of people at the [...]

The White House obsession with criticizing the “professional left” comes from one harsh truth: that the left has been right on major issues from health care to the stimulus.

The Canadian health care system is now on the receiving end of derision and mockery from Robert Gibbs, and White House courtier Roger Simon tells us Gibbs speaks for Obama. Remember when the White House had the JournoList set fan out and tell everyone the Bernie Sanders amendment to the health care bill was the [...]

When White House press secretary Robert Gibbs excoriated government critics (“the professional left”) for being ungrateful SOB’s considering all that this administration has done for them, he wasn’t acting as a lone wolf. It’s a refrain that has oft been uttered by this White House, from Rahm Emanuel’s “f*#@ing r&#tards”  to “top Obama advisors” who [...]

On MSNBC today, I talked about the “professional left” with fellow Robert Gibbs-irritants Glenn Greenwald and Dylan Ratigan. Gibbs, with his contempt for the “Canadian health care system,” is merely reflecting the attitude of a White House that marched into the health care debate committed to giving corporate “stakeholders” everything they wanted in exchange for [...]

I was on ABC’s “Top Line” today with Rick Klein and Yunji de Nies, discussing Robert Gibbs’ comment about the “professional left”: Twolf made up a card for me: Best post I’ve seen on why Gibbs went off is by Chris Bowers.  Also, read Dave Dayen’s post about the 20% turnout in the Connecticut Democratic [...]

President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, decided to attack single payer health care, a system used very effectively in many first world countries, as some wacky, crazy idea.

Spiro Agnew — sorry, Robert Gibbs — says “the professional left is not representative of the progressives who organized, campaigned, raised money and ultimately voted for Obama.” Well, the Obama in the White House is not representative of the Obama who organized, campaigned, raised money and ran for office, so I guess it’s a wash. [...]