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 ...
Thanks Ernest at the Beach and null and void.
White House to cable news: Calm down ( and we know where you live )
MarketWatch | 4:39 p.m. EST Feb. 20, 2009 | MarketWatch
Posted on 02/20/2009 2:36:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 02/20/2009 2:44:52 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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“White House Press Secretary Defiles The Office Of The President”
Karl’s spittin’ nail angry these days. Straight up, too.
Could be the first of many "Obamacides".
He was thinking about wacking Mr. Santelli and that slipped.
According to the libs, protecting your fellow citizens from terrorists is a war crime and screwing your fellow citizens is your patriotic duty.
Unfortunately Mr Gibbs would not make a pimple on a warriors ass. He should have been ignored in the first place.
numpy nump bump ;>)
Henceforth, Robert Gibbs should be known as “DC BOB”!!!
Can anyone photoshop DC’s face on Baghdad’s body???
Sheesh. Every day it’s more and more bizarro world from the white house!! (I cease to capitalize the people’s house until a real president is elected again!!)
Does anyone not see this as an implied threat against Mr. Santelli's family? This seems very thuggish to me. What are your thoughts?
If Santelli is like most of us, he “had” a bunch of cash stashed.
Agreed. Ghoulish thing to say. They should leave Santelli's family out of it and discuss issues.
I am in exactly the same shoes... one kid finished with college (entirely paid off) and doing her masters on her own dime, plus 2 kids in college and between their jobs & my portion of their college expenses, we are doing everything to get their college educations completed and also totally paid up. Plus I have never missed a mortgage payment. And my 401K for 28 years is now tanking everytime Oboooombi opens his commie mouth.
I am fed up that rat b@$t@rd socialist-fascist-commie Obooombi and his stooge Gibbs, telling me that I am not doing enough and that we have to cover the deadbeats who would have never qualified for mortgage loan in the first place, if the gubmint had not made it mandatory & criminally liable if mortgage companies did not hand out mortgages loans to inner city deadbeats. I am sure many of the houses quickly turned into crack houses.
Go Tea-Party!!! I hope we throw that skinny a$$ usurper out of office!!!
Rick Santelli Is As Mad As Hell | Chicago Tea Party
Tags: Mad As Hell, Rick Santelli, tea party
Our founders have stopped rolling over in their graves. After months of tossing and turning, we have finally taken back the banner of hope that has been hijacked by the “do-good” saviors.
Statist sympathizers call us cynics; those who complain without answers of our own. They call us “selfish”, implying that funding failure is altruistic. While America was founded on those who do, they ask us to submit to those who can’t.
ENOUGH!
Yes I saw that.. very very scary indeed..
Bush never understood how important it is to keep a good image.
The MSM are bitter, engaged adversaries of any Conservative or Pubbie of any stripe and it would not have mattered one whit had W spent every waking hour working on a nifty PR image or message. Nothing that portrayed the man or his administration's policies in a positive light would have ever been given a platform to make the case.
Obama has good press because the press is viscerally invested in his positive image and policy success.
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