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.
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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!
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I don’t know...in just 24 hours, Santelli has gathered enormous support.
Rather like Tom Paine and Patrick Henry.
Description of a sociopath—straight from the Diagnostic Manual!
Everyone else was thinking it -
“Why am I, a responsible person, being forced to pay for these people’s irresponsibility?”
The answer, of course, is that that’s what liberals do - always.
No doubt. What is wrong with saying “we respectfully disagree with that opinion, but we recognize his right to express it”. You know, something like the Bush White House said repeatedly when asked stupid questions by the likes of Chip Reid.
I honestly can’t believe Gibbs would answer in this manner. Obama must be tanking in their internal polls and are trying to go back into campaign mode. Either that or they are flat-out communists and will soon be coming after anyone who posts on websites like FR.
Just say when and where.
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bump..........
“That video has hit a nerve and a weak point of Obama.”
These people believe that THEY control the message, not the media.
And if the media doesn’t agree, then Obama will just take thier licenses away!!
If it's in the talking points, it must be so...!
The difference between Hitler’s Germany and Obama’s America: Santelli would as I write this would be in the process of being grilled by the Gestapo, tortured and later be shot.
With Obama, does anybody out there really believe if Santelli’s rights weren’t guaranteed by the Constitution that ACORN’s brown shirts wouldn’t be at his door to whisk away never to be heard from again?
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.
Oh sure Gibbs!...you big sack of crap!
With the left,
if they could get away with it,
they would kill any and all dissenters.
Oh he is dangerous alright....and all of followers as well...and there are a lot of them.
Gibbs “PEACE IN OUR TIME!!!”””
Nevil Chamberlin moment!!!
side by side pictures?
Howard Dean was on CNBC this am.
He was soundly spanked by the CEO of Lowes.
Dean had fear in his eyes and anger in his face as he was ripped appart. see CNBC video it is about 4:30 into the clip.
The democrats are not scared of santelli. The are TERRIFIED of all the people around santelli who have no love or desire for obama’s transparent socialism BS.
These azzclowns sure are a paranoid bunch..what are they trying to hide???hmmmm?
Saved in my Favorites File. Thanks!
Oh please. The media has created a messianic figure who according to Terry Moran (Moron?) of Nightline "had to step down into the Presidency." Obama has done nothing to work the media; the media works for him and supports him.
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