Sorry, I have to say she had it coming. He tried to answer her question and she felt the need to run roughshod over him with innuendos and hearsay and he had to place her stupid question and snippy attitude in context. American Urban Radio probably just began getting close to meaningful journalism since Obama’s election (never even heard of them before today) and she showed that she can’t tell the difference between discussions/attitudes meant for a book club meeting versus a White House Briefing.

Right on Kyle. The only insult was that he insulted his child by comparing Ryan. Ryan was rude, needlessly confrontational, and wouldn’t shut up long enough for him to respond. Her behavior belied her years of experience, implying that she’s learned nothing during that time about how to be respectful. Instead she acted like a tabloid ‘reporter’, relentlessly trying to make her moronic ‘point.’

She was extremely disrespectful to Gibbs & and the entire room. It was petty, most importantly, she felt like just because it was her question, he had to have it answered NO matter what.
If you seriously think about it, it was pretty childish… That’s just my opinion.

I personally wanted to reach through my tv and smack her. She was acting like a high school reporter, which if she is at the White House briefings she most certainly is not. She could have at the very least stopped talking over him as he tried to answer her questions, which by the way were stupid! Who cares if the social secretary attended the state dinner!?

get over it april, your questions were ridiculous. Gibbs did not want to insult, she gave him no choice. He answered what he could the other innuendos and assertions could not be answered. She would not stop. Not sure if she was jealous of Ms. Rogers or attempting to assert that someone or somepeople were conspiring to hurt the President. Not a good showing by her.

Sorry Michele but as you can see, she gets very little symphaty from the readership here.
That 23 year old veteran “reporter” went on and on trying hard as she could to continue fueling the whole party crasher story. Miss Ryan thinks that tired old tabloid-esque issue is more important than any of the multiple issues this country is suffering from at present. The fact that she thinks that makes her totally irrelevant in my eyes.
Miss Ryan acted like a spoiled child. And she deserved to be treated as such.

I have to agree with most of the respondents here. I too wanted to reach out and dope slap the disrespectful and motor mouth April. Just who did she think she was bringing her ‘Ghetto’ style to the White House. Were I Gibbs and had the authority I’d give April some ‘time out’ to think about her actions.

Oh, he lost his cool.
I heard something about this yesterday afternoon on “Tell Me More:”
“At the end of the day, the Secret Service is responsible for who gets into the White House.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121050987

April Ryan is a joke. I had some respect for the White House staff before today. The idea that they would let idiots like her anywhere close asking questions of the President shows how bad off things are in this country. If the folks in charge of the Urban League had an ounce of sense, they would fire her for incompetency immediately. She is a disgrace to journalism. Honestly, a fourth grader would have done a better job.

This ho need to shut her ghetto mouth.

Gibbs didn’t do anything wrong. She was rude and disrespectful from the beginning, and Gibbs has every right to put her in her place. If she doesn’t want to be compared to a child, she shouldn’t behave like one!
Gibbs was clearly frustrated, and trying to explain to this genius that the investigation is on-going! How many times does he have to explain that to her, before she gets it?
She’s got it out for Rogers, and made herself look unprofessional and ingorant in her attempt to bring Rogers down!

I think she went too far but to call her a ho, ghetto, and the reference to dope slap is just as overboard…she got caught up in the moment maybe these are the questions her audience wanted to know…whatever the case she indeed went overboard as have most of you.
And you wonder why African American’s take everything “racially”; look how easy it is for you to ‘go there’; on a “christian” website…please…I see why cross burning was not a problem!

She must have just come off the street talking like that… did you see the attitude.. “dont go there” easy sister! What kind of journalism is this? If you dont like the answer April, move on. Surely there is someone better they could have sent. They all must have been covering the Tiger story.

She was rude and obnoxious and had it coming to her. I am sure her Mother taught her better. The question was baseless and silly and had nothing to do with anything. She obviously has a personal issue with Ms. Rogers. She was acting like a child so she was treated like one. Mr. Gibbs is a better person than most: I would have sent her out of the room. Between rude and obnoxious reporters and government officials screaming at the President that he is a liar, I wonder what it is about this administration that people feel they can be disrespectful. I am appauled at April Ryan’s attitude and manner – in the White House no less. No polish at all. I for one am putting Urban Radio to the far back burner. Hopefully she will move on and I can bring it back to the front.

I’m black American and I don’t take everything from a racial aspect. This woman was wrong, rude, obnoxious and disrespectful irrespective of her race. Period.
Oh — and crossburning has and always will be a problem Let’s not go there. Let’s not make this racial. The woman was wrong — white\black\pink\green. Color does not make you right or wrong. Behavior is that determining factor.

She acted like a child so she was treated as such. Obviously some things about that dinner were mishandled, but it shouldn’t become a tabloid story. The story is that there were security risks, not that the Social Secretary (or whatever her title is) may or may not have upstaged the First Lady. Ask questions that are relevant and you won’t get such a negative response.
As for the video comment – insulting and degrading? If you insult and degrade, you should most definitely expect some negative response. Gibbs did his best to answer what she was asking, but his being attacked made that difficult apparently.

April’s immature exchange was just as embarrassing as the ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta.’ That moment should be an embarrassment to Urban Radio. Please believe me as I write this all black women do not act like this, really–I’m serious.
Dana

We hear you Dana. I believe that we have begun an era when all black people are not judge by a few black people.

how did this girl get this job ? dont say she is good at what she does!she’s terrible! she has the mentality of a tabloid reporter and nothing more. her boss should not fire her but replace her with someone who is going to ask questions we all care about, economy, war, troops, unemployment,recession social security, medicare and health reform. April is a child in womens clothing AND SHE MUST GROW UP!!!!

I have to agree with what Gibbs did….it was unfortunately demeaning. But what a ridiculous line of questioning she was following and she found herself asking sillier and sillier questions. I know nothing of her qualifications or lack of for that post, but she was not up to the job in that exchange.

I had heard about this exchange–and thought from the coverage that this might be a rare moment of Gibbs losing his cool–but no, he fielded a frivolous question as best he could. This woman should try for a job on TMZ–her coverage of White House briefings makes no sense to me if all she is interested in is imaginary rivalries between Michelle Obama and a member of the White House staff. Maybe FoxNews needs a look at her resume…

April, shut up. If this is what you are chimping out about, you need to either go back to journalism school, or or take some Midol. Your demeanor was childish and insulting. I guess Affirmative Action should be on your Christmas card list, because you should be waiting tables somewhere…

April Ryan is an embarrassment to all of the hard working Journalists out there. April was very disrepectful, tacky and down right silly for asking the line of questions that she did. And what was the deal with the attitude? And lastly, “Don’t Play with Me” ? Speechless… How quickly can they replace her!!

April was not professional at all. Mr. Gibbs did the right thing, I wish he had done it sooner. She should be fired immediately for her actions. She is an embarrassment to all serious journalist. She personifies “TMZ” type journalism. Fire her NOW!

Ms. Ryan kept talking. This continuous speech conveys the message that she thinks that nothing Mr. Gibbs could say could possibly be more important than what she has to say. Thus she demeans Mr. Gibbs. She should apologize to him. She should have had the grace to terminate her speech, to allow Mr. Gibbs to respond, and to listen to the answer. Her comment of “Don’t play with me” was appropriate, in response to Mr. Gibbs’s insult.
Mr. Gibbs should not have insinuated (which he obviously did) that Ms. Ryan was like a child. Ms. Ryan is clearly an adult, and so her behavior is that of an adult. To call her a child is insulting, and he should apologize for that.

No professionalism at all. I dont care how long she been at it.

Ms. Ryan you should of told Robert Gibbs “I am not your son and please answer the question” His behavior to you was very degrading and he needs a lesson in professionalism.

How is this 23 year-old a journalism veteran? Did she arrive from the womb with pad and pencil in hand and an unending list of questions?
Ryan got her 15 minutes. Any publicity is good publicity. I wish her success with her career in the future. It may include the question, “Would you like fries with that?” lol!

What was Ms Rogers thinking?? Gibbs hasn’t answered ANY serious question in almost a year.
Just throw the Secret Service under the Ovomit bus and move on . . . nothing to see here folks.

It’s amazing to see the number of comments backing April Ryan on this matter. This is a textbook example of how people observe the same comments completely differently from one another.
If you want to be truly objective on this matter, take off your Democrat/Republican filter, your gender filter, your race filter and then watch it again. You’ll come to the following conclusions:
1) April Ryan acted inappropriately
2) Robert Gibbs was frustrated
3) Robert Gibbs used inappropriate humor
It doesn’t matter that Robert Gibbs was in the right. In today’s society, it is indirectly defined that he simply can’t operate in that manner.
It will be interesting to see how they react together next time. Hopefully, she’ll down tone the attitude a bit and a mutual respect will be developed.

OK, so we finally get there & then we act stupidly–Why is April hating on the social secretary? Steal her guy or something?

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