"You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people."
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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"You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people."
I will not infringe on YOUR Freedom of Speech, so long as you do not infringe on mine or the publics.
Your economic policy is socialist, fascist, and corporatist. It must be stopped for both the good of the people and the individual.
You promised transparency and all I got was a smoke filled room. It has been only 1 month and the room needs to be cleared.
Threaten Rush, threaten Santelli, threaten your freedom loving citizens...elections hold consequences and so do your choices. You want to control everything, only the government can save us now! YOU ARE WRONG! Only the people can save our country now.
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Santelli may go to Washington!
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CNBC is gonna keep this thing going. They’re making too much money from it to let it go.
He doesn't have to 'work' too hard since they're all in the tank for him.
We have a We Surround Them party scheduled. Joined my state’s grassfire group and invited them as well. Thanks for the tip.
...or at all!
I think we're going to need a LOT of....
...popcorn! Heh-heh!
To live through the next 4 years we may all need tranquilizers.
If Santelli is smart, he'll keep moving from safe house to safe house so he can't be found by the junta.
The Obamaites are in way over their heads. Class warfare will backfire on them. Now renters and good homeowners alike are saying “what - I am bailng out these idiots that bought houses they couldn’t afford”. Main street wants no part of this bailout.
It appears that way,....I am pleased!
Or an extremely wild and inventive sense of humor!...like so many FReepers have!
Or Obama will destroy us.
“...average joes next...”
They already did, BEFORE the election.. —Joe—
So, it’ll happened again..
“...They are permanently in conflict mode; always campaigning and attacking. No critique of them is allowed to go unremarked,...”
They are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, don’t have clue how to handle dissenters (haha) and they don’t know what respect or self-respect means. But the idea of power and socialism gives them tingles. Who the h*ll is really in charge?
you can’t even have an anti bumper sticker without getting pulled over......sad state of affairs. thank goodness for heroes like Joe the Plumber and Sentelli!
I found it a little ironic that they insulted him and then invited him over.
I think Sentelli already accepted too.
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