The $24,000 — er, $73,000 Question

UPDATE: The Washington Times pegs the cost at $250,000.

Gibbs has no idea how to answer this question.

From HotAir:

Reporter to Gibbs: Um, why do taxpayers have to pay for Obama date night?

Because shut up, that’s why. Gibbs happily ducks the question of cost — it was at least $24,000, which admittedly is just one grain of sand in the vast desert of Hopenchange spending…

Update: The Daily Mail estimates total cost to be $73,000.

“He better have liked the play,” one angry passenger supposedly said about Obama. When the ferry passed Pier 11 and people caught a glimpse of one of the presidential helicopters, another traveler was overheard saying, “There’s your tax dollars at work!”