Press secretary Robert Gibbs (pictured) may be having less fun at his briefings than he used to. Could it be that reporters in the pressroom are laughing at him more than laughing with him.
The White House press room was a jovial place to be in the early days of Barack Obama's presidency. But times have changed.
The laughter has been reduced by half in recent months.
Chalk it up to the close of any administration's initial honeymoon — and the Obama administration's tough second half of 2009, as it wrestled with health care and saw the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat filled by a Republican.
"The tone is one reason for less laughter," says American Urban Radio's April Ryan. "There are lots of serious questions begging for serious answers. Those questions do not meld with laughter and light banter."
Serious questions do require serious answers.
In the past Gibbs tried to intermingle comedy along with his stammering way of talking around the subject. Now, in response to many of the questions put forth by the press corps, Gibbs says a lot of words without really saying much of anything.
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