Gibbs threatens to pull Obama from India talks after press dispute?

What??? "Gibbs threatens to pull Obama from India talks after press dispute" That is what the headline reads. Does Robert Gibbs the White House Press Secretary have that kind of authority?

Here is Mr. Gibbs acting like an ass on behalf of the American people.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is known for sparring with White House reporters, making for what often seems an antagonistic mood in the press briefing room.

But during President Obama's trip to India, Gibbs assumed the role of press advocate and threatened to pull Obama out of bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh because three U.S. reporters were blocked from covering the meeting.

Indian officials would let only five reporters into Hyderabad House in New Delhi instead of the agreed-upon eight.

The Washington Post's Scott Wilson—who was on White House pool duty Monday and filed the report for the White House press corps—wrote that "Gibbs announced loudly and persistently on steps of Hyderabad House that he would pull" President Obama out of the meeting "unless 'the White House 8,' as we've come to be known, were all allowed in."

As the discussion continued, Gibbs grew more animated.

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Man just think about if this White House would attack the economic woes with such intensity!!!