Obama Publicly Scolds His Own Spokesman for Not Playing Nice

Brian Zick

Markos calls attention to this story by Lynn Sweet for the Chicago Sun-Times, reporting that Obama has repudiated the "hardball tactics" of his own communications chief Robert Gibbs, who apparently acted unilaterally without authorization in firing zingers back at Camp Hillary, when Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson got all whiny and peevish about remarks made by David Geffen.

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