Blame the messenger: Why Obama’s press secretary has to go

Phew . Journalist Lee Siegel really has a problem with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. In The Daily Beast , Siegel called Gibbs “perplexingly arrogant and thin-skinned.” He also notes that most press secretaries are chosen for their “contrapuntal statement they make with regard to the president, even as they help project his identity.” For instance, President Nixon had the boyishly handsome Ron Ziegler; the “testosterone-driven” President Clinton had the “es…