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 ...
This is sort of like "survival of the fittest" in reverse.
“Gibbs brandished a copy of a fact sheet about Obama’s plan.”
Can anyone find this thing on the WH website? I can’t.
A trader who is ‘on the ground’ in the heat of battle is misinformed. That’s like saying that a soldier in ‘no man’s land’ was mistaken that he was caught in a crossfire while struggling to reach the enemy’s wire entanglement.
And if the media doesn’t agree, then Obama will just take thier licenses away!!
Hmmmm... Somewhere I've seen this happen before!!!! Chavez to shut down opposition TV
The brownshirts are coming.
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Let them
They’ll only get one chance to catch people by surprise.
Alinski's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era
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Immediately after the Democratic National Convention in Colorado, the Boston Globe published a letter from David Alinsky. He boasted about how Barack Obama had made effective use of his training in the methods of David's late father, the famous Chicago radical, Saul Alinsky.
David Alinsky gloated: "I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday."
Yep...freedom of speech is great!
Why is the Obambi administration bringing everyone who criticizes them up to the same level as the presidency? Or has the prestige of the presidency sunk to a new low.
You! GIBBS!! Under the bus!!!!
Yep. Case in point. This was a post on Larry Johnson’s blog in October of last year (and you know what side of the road that is):
Gibbs is the court eunach.
“Mr. Santelli “
An Italian like me! Go soul brother....!
I can't help but think about all the info that we had prior to the election and the freepers that refused to vote for McCain and said they'd vote 3rd party or write-in. Dumb dumb dumb!
I forgot, Dr. Sanity also did some great pieces on it:
I wonder if the obama’s are saying anti-itallian things.
Sic’ing the Obama Brownshirts (ACORN) on this guy. They’ll show up on his lawn any day now.
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