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Robert Gibbs has a special message for Lost fans

by Bob Sassone, posted Jan 8th 2010 3:10PM

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The internet has been worried this week, worried that President Obama's State of the Union speech would be on February 2, which just happens to be the day of the season premiere of Lost. A reporter actually asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if the President was going to speak on that night and disappoint fans of Lost, and Gibbs gave a refreshingly honest and funny response. It's not often you see pop culture discussed at a press briefing, and even rarer that you have a White House spokesman who knows what's going on with something like Lost.

Mediaite has video of the press conference.

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Melanie51

Probably the one and only time Gibbs will be "refreshingly honest." Funny, no.

January 11 2010 at 2:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Arclight

This from tvtattle.com:

White House: Obama's speech won't conflict with the "Lost" season premiere
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the president's State of the Union address won't be on Feb. 2nd.

January 08 2010 at 6:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

My Republican brother and fellow LOST fan had just asked me to get this taken care of with "the guy you voted for" this morning. I just sent him the NY Times blog piece on this story, and told him that all I had to do was "call the Democrat hotline and say I was from ACORN, and they connected me right away". :-D

January 08 2010 at 4:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Arclight

Jeopardy, in the Chicago market has already been pre-empted twice this week for a "presidential news conference", for the crotch bomber that happened 2 weeks ago.

January 08 2010 at 3:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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MCW

I saw that in passing. I guess the president doesn't DVR Jeopardy.

Can I get a vote up for that? :)

January 08 2010 at 11:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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