Reporters Grill Gibbs Over Prepackaged Question To Obama

"The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and have controlled..." veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas said Wednesday.

The venerable Helen Thomas was referring to a now-famous preplanned question by Obama to a Huffington Post reporter.

And Mr. Press Secretary laughed at her from the podium. I totally fail to see what was so funny that made him laugh like that.

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