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Robert Gibbs: 'Jon Voight joke in here'

by Mark Silva

The White House today was asked for comment on a crowd that assembled on Capitol Hill to protest health-care legislation.

"I'm sure there's a Jon Voight joke in here somewhere, given he was one of the featured speakers,'' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said of the activist actor who had a few choice words for the White House this week.

"You're not even going to try and make it?'' a reporter asked.

"No,'' Gibbs said. "My father always told me my mouth would get me in trouble... And I have a feeling if I acted on the line that (I'd like to give) you, I'm almost positive that it would surely...''

The crowd of protesters, rallied by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, wasn't the massive march that some had anticipated. Americans United for Change, the union-backed group backing health-care reform, said the anti-crowd could have filled Ford's Theater. "Pathetic,'' they gloated.

The Academy Award-winning actor and activist Voight had launched a broadside against the president in Minnesota this week, saying that, "We're becoming a socialist nation, and Obama is causing civil unrest in this country. ... I say that they're taking away God's first gift to man: our free will." He said so at a fundraiser for Gov. Tim Pawlenty's new Freedom First PAC in Minneapolis, part of an exploratory presidential bid.

But Gibbs wasn't biting on his own set-up today.

"Wait a minute, what have you got against Jon Voight?'' the press pressed, with someone volunteering this offer in the press briefing room of the West Wing:

"Off-the-record!''

"Off-the-record,'' mused Gibbs. "I like that.''

(Actor Jon Actor Jon Voight, center above, is pictured at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., last summer. Photo by Chuck Kennedy / MCT. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is pictured waiting his turn as President Barack Obama addressed the press briefing today. Photo by Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)