Obama Watched HBO Special About Himself Instead of Election Results?

That's the word from Gibbs. Isn't this really just saying: "Those election results really didn't concern the president. They were just of local importance."

But what if it isn't a ploy? Will the President be permanently AWOL if the FCC mandates a 24-hour Obama channel? I mean when the FCC mandates a 24-hour Obama channel.

Yikes! Correction: Newsbusters takes it back:

A tipster contacted NewsBusters questioning that report and after having acquired a transcript of the press gaggle, we have confirmed that the Fox News report was incorrect and Gibbs did not make any such statement.

Gibbs made this statement at the beginning of the untaped discussion with White House reporters:

One thing I should contextualize – the President obviously got updates about the election last night. He did not watch – as I told some of you – did not watch election returns. I wouldn’t read a ton into that since he didn’t actually watch election returns when he was running. If you did watch the movie on HBO – we called him and told him he won Iowa. He did not watch election returns.

Clearly Gibbs was simply referencing the HBO documentary as evidence that the President does not routinely watch election returns.

So Gibbs did not say that. Course, that doesn't mean he wasn't watching it.