Paid up, eh
Robert Gibbs is a jersey boy now.
The White House spokesman came to his daily on-camera briefing on Friday wearing a red-and-white Canadian hockey jersey — the result of not one, but two losing bets on the U.S.-Canadian rivalry at the recent Winter Olympics.
The first wager was on the women’s gold medal game. Canada won.
Then it was the men’s contest, and Gibbs went double-or-nothing with Dimitri Soudas, who’s the spokesman for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Gold again for Canada.
Not to worry, America. Gibbs soon yanked off the Canadian jersey to reveal a “USA” one underneath.
He shoots, he scores: Toronto comedian Frenchie McFarlane, ragging on his city’s NHL team, the Maple Leafs, who alreadyare out of Stanley Cup contention for the 43rd year in a row: “Has there ever been a Leafs player more appropriately named than (Luca) Caputi?”
PARTING SHOT
“I take that to mean half the runners pulled out with fake injuries?”
— Greg Cote
The Miami Herald columnist after a sponsor of the Miami Marathon promoted the event as “the Pro Bowl of running events.”
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