White House spokesman bashes Brit press for torture reports “I don’t want to speak generally about some reports I’ve seen over the past few years in the British media,” he said. “And, in some ways I’m surprised it filtered down. Let’s just say if I wanted to read - if I wanted to read a write-up of how Manchester United fared in the Champion’s League cup, I might open up a British newspaper.
“If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I am not entirely sure [British papers] would be the first stack of clips I picked up,” deadpanned Gibbs. - Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
I'm doing a lot of headdesking lately.
I think I need to retreat into myself for a while...
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