This didn't take so very long to come about... the White House press spokesman, Gibbs, acknowledging that for the White House to actively attack an individual American citizen's criticism is not only unprecedented, unprofessional, disgraceful... but also unhelpful...

WHITE HOUSE ADMITS LIMBAUGH ATTACKS UNHELPFUL
Jon Ward
Thursday, March 5, 2009

Washington Times

The White House on Wednesday fessed up to lowering the quality of public discourse and acknowledged that its sniping at radio show host Rush Limbaugh has been "counterproductive," even as Democratic political committees continued to use the issue in a political line of attack approved by the Obama administration itself.

"It may be counterproductive. I'll give you that," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, when asked about his repeated verbal jousting with Mr. Limbaugh and other media personalities who have criticized President Obama.

Mr. Obama himself has regularly employed the term "cable chatter" to dismiss criticisms of his economic agenda that he thinks are uninformed or inaccurate. And his administration has often complained about superficial, back-and-forth debates that substitute for political discourse or journalism.

But Mr. Gibbs said he has been "feeding" the very beast that he and others in the White House have lambasted....

Looking very... smirk there Mr. Gibbs... sort of like the cat that has been caught with the canary in his mouth.

Sounding more and more like a street thug there Mr. Gibbs... pushing policy through intimidation and character assault...

Very small stuff... and as you will see... has greatly diminishing returns...

Let me encourage you to actually keep on "feeding the beast" Mr. Gibbs... yes... keep feeding the beast...

The beast's name...

Conservative Americans... Mr. Gibbs.

You will soon be replaced... count on it.

xtnyoda, shalomed