Posted on 02/20/2009 12:17:39 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The White House is lashing out publicly and personally at a CNBC reporter whose attack on President Barack Obama’s anti-foreclosure plan caught fire on the Internet on Thursday.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs jumped at the chance to go after the CNBC journalist, Rick Santelli, when a question about his bracing critique was asked at Friday’s news briefing.
“I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives but the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgages, stay in their jobs, pay their bills, send their kids to school,” Gibbs said. “I think we left a few months ago the adage that if it was good for a derivatives trader that it was good for Main Street. I think the verdict is in on that,” the press secretary said, poking directly at the cable journalist, who reports from the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade.
Gibbs insisted Santelli was misinformed when he said Obama’s program would amount to a transfer of money from prudent taxpayers to those who had taken reckless risks.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Hope Mr. Santelli doesn’t have a mysterious “accident”
Dayum, Baghdad Bob has nothing on Gibbs. This guy lies and propagandizes and obfuscates with every breath.
A station manager’s dream come true. Revenue to hit the transom this afternoon.
The White House AGAIN targeting another private citizen expressing their dislike of Hussein’s policies.
The brownshirts are coming.
“Truth to power, “ Gibbs.
“I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives ...”
I’m sure we will all know soon.
Imagine if a Republican President personally targeted a journalist!
Santelli touched a nerve, didn’t he?
Keep right on attacking the media and broadcasters, fellas. Please. You’re making my life so much fun when you do...
Apparently this WH is going to personally attack anyone who disagrees with them. How childish.
I liked his outburst. He was dead-on the mark. He must have been reading FR this past month. There have been multiple long threads about another Tea Party.
I say again, count me IN!
Woo hoo!!
Santelli’s tea party raises presidential ire!! Draws first blood, as it were!!
Go Santelli!!
Long live Liberty!!
Gibbs will lose his job long before Santelli does.
Gibbs is a stoogie boy. This Chicago Merc. guy working for CNBC punked the WH and Obama. This is funny. Americans do not want to pay the mortgages of the deadbeats out there. This is pure redistributive politics being played by the Chicago thug in Chief.
If you haven’t seen the clip in comment #7, it’s worth a look. (Traders make the best drinking buddies).
“Hope Mr. Santelli doesn’t have a mysterious “accident”
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Guess who is getting a tax aidit this year? Just a coincidence of course/s
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